Now available on Edge Jobs are a variety of roles at some of the world's premier game studios.
DICE is looking for a engineer to work on its bleeding edge Frostbite 2 engine, working in its 30-strong team.
Nolan Bushnell has made the boldest claim yet about his Speed To Learn educational project: he says it will mean students can complete high school in less than a year.
Bushnell, founder of Atari, was speaking at the Cloud Gaming Conference USA in San Jose, California. He is still yet to go into detail on his Speed To Learn project, a suite of educational games which he said at E3 would "change the way kids learn, both in and out of school."
It would be hard to improve on Geometry Wars 2, but that doesn't prevent a pang of sadness from the knowledge that Bizarre Creations is no longer around to try. Infinity Field comes close, however, and it does so due to an ace up its sleeve: it has easily the most responsive dual-stick controls of any shooter on iOS thus far, outmanoeuvring the competition so thoroughly that it's not even a contest.
THQ has defended its decision to close a number of internal studios this year, saying it was focusing on reducing costs and increasing profitability in line with its new "fewer, bigger" strategy.
Speaking to investors at the Citi Global Technology Conference today, executive vice-president and chief financial officer Paul Pucino was asked by an investor why no mention was made at THQ's annual meeting of the need to restructure when the publisher announced the closure of three studios less than two weeks later.
What a difference two years make. The original DrawRace created a new style of racing for a new control scheme that offered real precision – but it did so in a bright and cheerful cartoony style. DrawRace 2 makes it look like an amateur effort. Everything from the piano track that plays over its start screen to what lies beyond is comprehensive, exquisitely tuned and polished to a fine shine.
Some of the things people are doing with Grand Theft Auto IV's engine are gorgeous. Here's Gionight's ENB, a realism-based mod that makes Liberty City into NYC. For the Michael Bay approach to GTAIV, see iCEnhancer.
Nintendo is facing patent litigation over the technology used in the Wii.
The suit, brought by ThinkOptic against Nintendo and several other companies, claims that Nintendo has knowingly violated three patents used in the Wavit TV remote.
The initial moments of playing a videogame are pivotal. And a key component of this early gameplay experience is the tutorial, which is intended to progress the player from having the desire to play to having the ability to play. However, tutorials are in most cases terrible.
3DS was the best-selling system in Japan during the week ended September 4, while VanillaWare's Grand Knights History debuted atop the software chart.
Nintendo’s portable has held the top hardware spot since the week of its August 11 price cut, although last week’s sales were down around ten per cent week-over-week to 54,744 units.
Sales of other platforms were largely flat, with second-placed PS3 shifting 33,831 units, PSP 30,192 and Wii 11,606.