Before there was Halo, there was XGirl, apparently. Former Angel Studios Chief Creative Officer Michael Limber lists some interesting design work on his online portfolio, including what he describes as an “interactive girlfriend project” for Microsoft for the launch of …
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“Big data” is everywhere you look these days.
As digital information continues to expand exponentially, this affects everything — how much we pay for health insurance, how we predict the weather, how we play the stock market.
The music industry …
Apple has altered the terms of its iAd agreements in a way that both developers and potential deep-pocket advertisers should find favorable, an Apple spokesperson told VentureBeat today.
iAd is Apple’s mobile advertising network. It places ad spots into iOS …
Japanese newspaper Nikkei is reporting that developers are abandoning PlayStation Vita projects in favor of the Nintendo 3DS. (Nikkei was also the first to break the news that Sony appointed Kazuo Hirai as CEO, which Sony denied and then later …
VideoGameDesignSchools.org has crafted a slick infographic detailing Valve’s conquest of the digital distribution market.
It should come as no surprise that Steam is doing well, but this infographic puts in perspective just how much better Valve’s PC gaming digital storefront …
Saeed Malekpour, an Canadian resident who designed and maintained a photo-sharing web app, may be executed at any moment in Iran.
According to a site about Malekpour’s case, the programmer’s death sentence, which was issued by the Iranian Supreme Court …
In a blog post Wednesday, Mojang noted that they’ll be creating a new game in 60 hours starting Friday, Feb. 17, with the proceeds going to charity. Even more interesting, the development will be streamed live through the Humble Indie …
We’ve been hearing for some time that Microsoft is aiming to make developing apps across Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 dead simple, but it’s another thing entirely to see that in action.
Rick Walrond, developer of the Windows Phone …
If you want to send a nerdy Valentine’s Day e-card with cool HTML5 effects and a porny soundtrack, have we got a treat for you.
This morning, Microsoft is showing off Love Is in the Air, a browser demo intended …
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One way to find out what skills will be in highest demand this year is to look at job posts.
I decided to analyze recent Craigslist San Francisco Bay Area job ads. It’s a good proxy for the local demand. …
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Recently, a 12-year-old Irish boy named Harry Moran wrote a mobile app called PizzaBot. It hit the Mac App Store and within a week, it had surpassed Angry Birds, attracting fans from around the world.
Harry was an instant YouTube …
Sony recently held a Twisted Metal launch event in San Francisco. Developed by Eat Sleep Play, the game heralds the return of the longest-running PlayStation-exclusive franchise and the series’ first outing on the PlayStation 3.
While design director David Jaffe …
Twisted Metal Game Director David Jaffe was one of a few speakers selected to give a presentation at DICE this year. Jaffe’s vulgar language and lack of self-censorship have placed him in the media hotseat many times over the years, …
Local-labor locating service TaskRabbit is opening up its tools and network to developers with a new API (application programming interface), the company announced on its blog Friday. This will allow third-party developers to integrate TaskRabbit features directly into their own …
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“We’ve seen communities ruined by games,” said Google+ engineering director David Glazer to a room full of app developers.
“How do we find that balance between people who are interested in games… without having the problem of more spam?”
Glazer …
Microsoft’s plan to bring Windows to ARM chips has been a curious endeavor, mainly because the company hasn’t offered up many specifics about how the new version of Windows will differ from the traditional x86 and 64-bit versions of the …
The Google+ Platform is still a relatively small collection of read-only APIs, but Google is definitely preparing for a wide and varied set of features for developers.
At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco Thursday, Google+ engineering director …
Update: Swapped in a better version of the video.
Todd Howard, game director at Bethesda Game Studios, gave the opening keynote at the 2012 DICE Summit this evening. Among his slides, he included a number of videos, one of which …
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Facebook product chief Carl Sjogreen gave developers and others a few clues about what to expect from Facebook over the next year.
At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco today, the Facebook executive laid out the three most …
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In just one year from now, we’ll see social technologies disrupt e-commerce the same way they’ve already disrupted online gaming, music and news.
Commerce has always been social. Shopping in the real world is a form of social entertainment, and …
