Interactive Selection, a global video game recruitment firm, opened a branch in the U.S. that will be headed by Fiona Cherbak. Cherbak is a veteran of the gaming industry,“Cherbak has worked in the games industry as a staffing professional for over 10 years, and previously as senior international recruiter for Disney Feature Animation.She has developed and implemented candidate strategies and recr...
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Orlando, Fla. (January 29, 2013) – Sundog Software has been hard-pressed on releasing a new update for their visual effects software, just releasing version 2.7 of its SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud, and Weather SDK today. It contains the latest visual effects for game developers use worldwide. SilverLining presents a realistic recreation of the sky and atmospheric distribution, with features su...
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Gamers with Personal Computers require a lot of fancy gizmos and gadgets so for those who cannot decide on which type of controller or headset to get; I have a list for that. Starting with the cheaper of the two headsets we have the P33 Genesis Gamepad at £11.99 Features • PC Gamepad • Vibration Feedback • 2 Analogue Mini-Joysticks • ...
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If you’re a fan of retro gaming do we have an Expo for you! Revival is a brand new annual 2-day retro gaming event starting on Saturday May 18 and running through Sunday May 19, 2013 at the Wolverhampton Racecourse. The event promises countless arcade machines, pinball tables, pachinkos, consoles and the chance to meet some gaming celebrities. Revival is being put together and led by both Turnarca...
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If you have been keeping an ear out on gaming industry news lately the destruction of THQ is old news to you, but there are new developments worth paying attention to. Among the fire sale of assets last week Vigil Games out of Austin, Texas was left to die with not a single bid. In this circumstance an unpurchased property would be dissolved leaving all executives and developers without jobs, but ...
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The organisers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2013 have announced new summit talks for its March conference. Topics covered include lectures on the Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn web video series, smarter tactical behaviour in Hitman: Absolution and Lichdom, and the BBC’s challenges in building worldwide game brands. The talks are part of the AI, Localization, and Game Narrative Summi...
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Guinness World Records announced a list of the top 50 gaming villains of all time, and Bowser is at the top of the list. The antagonist from the Mario franchise got 20% of the vote from 5000 readers who were polled. Kevin Lynch, writer for Guinness World Records 2013 Gamer’s Edition said: “It was really interesting for us to put the vote out to our readers and see who their favourite villain was –...
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Microsoft has announced its quarterly revenue ending December 31st 2012. They made a total of $21.46 billion, with 76-cents-a-share. Wall Street estimated a revenue of 77-cents-a-share at 21.53 billion, so quite a bit out if you look carefully at how much a billion actually equates to… Still, it still earned $6.38 billion dollars which isn’t anything to be crying over, even with its no...
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We all enjoy new things, especially if they are free, and that just what Aeria Games has done with their highly anticipated Free-to-Play MMORPG Scarlet Blade. Aeria Games has just opened their new website which is full of awesome details of their FTP massively multiplayer online role-playing game Scarlet Blade. Having been on many gamers’ minds since it was announced last October, Aeria Gam...
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The new release, NRA: Practice Range has angered a number of people who have set up a partition to remove it from the App Store. NRA: Practice Range is a virtual shooting gallery where players fire at targets by tapping the phone or tablet screen. It offers handguns and rifles for free but upgrading will land you an AK-47 assault rile or an MK-11 sniper rifle. The game itself is tame requiring the...
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