Currently available on Edge Jobs are a variety of roles at some of the world's premier game studios. Crytek is advertising a variety of artist, programmer and technical roles at its UK office, formerly called Free Radical Design.
Codemasters is similarly skilling up, advertising lead artist, level and game designers, producers and programmer posts.
Eidos Montreal, developer of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, has told us that it originally planned for more city hubs in its chart-topping RPG shooter.
In a recent interview, art director Jonathan Jacques-Belletête told us that the team originally planned for Montreal to be a fleshed-out city hub, and lead game designer Frank Lapikas added that there were even initial plans for a fourth.
Eidos Montreal, developer of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, has told us that it originally planned for more city hubs in its chart-topping RPG shooter.
In a recent interview, art director Jonathan Jacques-Belletête told us that the team originally planned for Montreal to be a fleshed-out city hub, and lead game designer Frank Lapikas added that there were even initial plans for a fourth.
If you’re on Steam or Xbox Live anytime soon, you really should think about buying Blocks That Matter, Swing Swing Submarine’s feisty blend of Tetris, Minecraft and Boulder Dash. It’s an elegant, wonderfully infuriating platform-puzzler in which you chew through chunks of wood, sand, metal, crystal and stone and then spit them out again in sets of four in order to navigate devious mazes.
Howard Stringer, president of Sony Corporation, has said that PSN is "better than ever" following its six-week outage earlier this year.
Stringer cut a bullish figure at a Berlin news conference yesterday, in which he said PSN users and purchases were up, Sony was over its bumpy start to 2011, and even argued that it was better positioned than Apple.
It’s refreshing to discover that, once you strip away all the self-consciously weird stuff (the Gilliam-inspired animation, and the veneer of historical slapstick) Rock Of Ages is still pretty strange. ACE Team’s latest is best categorised as a strategy bowling game – and it’s both as unusual and as instinctive as that suggests.
Eidos Montreal's Deus Ex: Human Revolution is the new number one in the Nordic chart, which combines sales data from Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Last week's number one, Cars 2: The Videogame, falls back to second place, and FIFA 11, which had been number one in seven of the preceding 11 weeks, slips to fourth.
It's mostly business as usual elsewhere, though EA's Crysis 2 climbs ten places to number nine, with Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 rising to fifth.
We played Blade Of Baal and failed to even see Baal, let alone defeat him. Then we played Luck's Mace and didn't get near Baphomet, but we did collect three gold icons. After that, we played Flamberge Of Destiny and guess we didn't stop Loki from invading the Twilight. Tiny Hack is Boing Boing's charmingly presented retro RPG generator in which every game is "the most gruelling and challenging game of 1978."
Take-Two has confirmed that it has let go 40 staff at the Brno offices of Mafia II developer 2K Czech.
Develop claims that Take-Two has also engineered a role reduction, affecting less than ten staff, at 2K Czech's office in Prague.
With both sites holding a combined 200 staff before the layoffs, the move means around a quarter of staff have been let go, but parent company Take-Two insists it will not negatively impact the developer's day-to-day operations.
Sometime around the turn of the century, I was sitting in a conference room, watching an earnest sales rep demonstrating a mobile game. Back then, mobile games consisted mostly of rather primitive and often monochrome applications, a port of Snake to Nokia phones being the most widely played, and of text-based games running on WAP mobile browsers or administered through SMS.