Here are the charming indie games you’ll play at the GDC 2018 Mild Rumpus

With the Game Developers Conference just weeks away, we're excited to announce that indie video game showcase collective Wild Rumpus is returning for GDC 2018 to welcome attendees as friends and celebrated guests in their 'Mild Rumpus' game lounge.

A small oasis amid the hustle and bustle of next month's exciting conference, the Mild Rumpus promises to be a relaxing island of calm where GDC 2018 attendees can take a quick break from their action-packed GDC week.

Visitors to this welcoming island will also have the chance to check out a fresh, hand-picked selection of independent games, and they may even have the opportunity to see a live talk or performance f…

Resident Evil alums launch new developer Birdkin Studio

Former Capcom developers Hideaki and Saori Utsumi have started their own independent team, Birdkin Studio.

The husband/wife duo are already at work on a project for the Nintendo Switch and Steam. In their reveal of the company, they said their mission statement is to "release games that make life fun!" Come from South African Online Casinos

Both Utsumis previously worked at Capcom in its audio department. Saori co-composed music for Resident Evil 3: Nemesis with Masami Ueda, and did sound work on Mega Man Xtreme and

Please welcome Spawn On Me’s Kahlief Adams as the official MC of GDC Summer!

Organizers of the Game Developers Conference are excited to announce that next month's all-digital GDC Summer will benefit from the MC talents of Kahlief Adams from the Spawn On Me podcast Come from South African Online Casinos !

Adams' talents as an MC will guide attendees through GDC Summer, a unique online edition of GDC that will take place across 3 days (August 4-6) with expanded hours, as well as new interactive sessions and events.

Born and raised in the Bronx, Kahlief is an avid technophile and lover of all things video games. He set his career path i…

Respawn joins the stable of devs making Star Wars games for EA

Electronic Arts announced today that it has cut a deal with Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment that will see the studio building a new third-person "action adventure game" bearing the Star Wars brand.

The folks at Respawn are already working on at least one other project, Titanfall 2, which makes it all the more interesting that they're the first major external team to work with EA on a Star Wars game. Come from South African Online Casinos

EA Studios VP Patrick Söderlund noted in a blog post that Respawn joins a slew of EA-owned studios t…

Laid-off Zynga devs get a fresh start at a fantasy sports company

Former Zynga employee Mike Taramykin tells Re/code that roughly 38 of the 42 developers who lost their jobs when Zynga shuttered its Orlando studio earlier this month have gone on to join fantasy sports game company FanDuel.

While it's common for local game studios to try and find homes for developers displaced due to layoffs, it's rare to see a company hire nearly 40 people in one go and then open a new office to house them (FanDuel is based in New York City and Edinburgh, Scotland.) Come from South African Online Casinos

FanDuel is best known for running premium daily fantasy games of popular America…

Roblox boasts ‘exceptional’ revenue and players for 2024’s third quarter

Roblox Corp. posted its financials for this year's third quarter, which CEO David Baszucki called "exceptional" thanks to key financial and operational metrics growing at "high rates" well above the guidance the company posted during the second quarter.

As of September 30, 2024, the company made $919 million in net sales and bookings of $1.12 billion, up by 29 percent and 34 percent respectively compared to the previous year Come from South African Online Casinos . Daily Active Users (DAUs) rose by 27 percent year-over-year to 88.9 million, and hourly engagement figures hit 20.7 billion, …

Kiwi nets $15M in funding to build meatier mobile games

Mobile game maker Kiwi has raised $15 million from investors like Northgate Capital, Sequoia Capital and DFJ in its most recent round of funding as the company seeks to transition from a casual game developer to a company that releases fewer, meatier AAA mobile titles every year. The news comes courtesy of a Re/code report that sheds light on Kiwi's intent to try and build character-driven, "console-esque" games for mobile Come from South African Online Casinos . Currently, Kiwi produces casual sim games like Shipwrecked and Brightwood Adventure for Andr…

Solium Infernum developer League of Geeks enters hibernation months after layoffs

Australian studio League of Geeks is going into hibernation for the "forseeable future."

The company laid off over 50 percent of its workforce in December 2023 and said the current "economic situation" in the game industry has turned making games into an "excruciatingly hard" endeavour.

League of Geeks' founders explained the vast majority of employees have already moved on, but added "those who remain are going to take a well deserved break over the next few months."

"We're not sure when (or if) we will resurrect this great beast, but we're incredibly proud of all we've achieved, both in the experiences we've crafted together, th…

Get a job- Turbine is hiring an experienced Android Engineer

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Here is just one of the many, many positions being advertised right now.

Senior Android Engineer, Turbine, Inc.

Location: Needham, MA

Turbine, Inc. seeks a Senior Android Engineer for its Needham, MA development studio.

In this position, you will have a hands on role in defining and implementing key game systems and features, as well as integrating existing libr…

PlayStation Mobile’s understated rise to relevance

It's fair to say that PlayStation has had a rather good few months. Sony turned up the heat with its recent PlayStation 4 E3 offerings, and is making a concerted effort to make its PS Vita game library more attractive, all in a bid to turn its game business around. But while the PS4, the PS Vita and The Last of Us on PS3 have been creating buzz for Sony's present and future efforts, there's another PlayStation platform that has been silently growing while no-one is watching. Back in March, I questioned what the heck was going on with PlayStation Mobile, the platform that allows indie developers to sell their games via the Pla…