game development
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Get A Job: Mighty Kingdom’s Graduate Intake Program Opens Next Week
5South Australian developer Mighty Kingdom will again open its annual graduate intake program in 2022. If you’re a fresh game dev graduate looking to get your foot in the door of the local industry, here’s a golden opportunity. MK will be filling grad positions across Game Design, 3D Art, Tech Art, and Programming disciplines. Successful…
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How The Makers Of Mafia 3 Lost Their Way
In mid-2016, a few months before the release of their first game, Mafia 3, the developers at Hangar 13 in Novato, California gathered for an all-hands meeting. There, according to two people in attendance, Christoph Hartmann, president of the game’s publisher, 2K, told employees that their bonuses would be tied to the game’s aggregate review…
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Former Sony Exec Calls For Shorter Games That Are Cheaper To Make
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Most video games are too long. This common sentiment gets batted around every few months when a new blockbuster launches with dozens of hours of “content.” Shawn Layden, former chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, seems to agree.
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Xenoblade Developer Once Pitched An EarthBound Sequel For GameCube
The EarthBound, or Mother, series took a lengthy hiatus between the releases of Mother 2 and 3, but that didn’t mean Nintendo wasn’t interested in keeping the series going. In fact, at one point, the developer that would eventually create Xenoblade was asked to pitch Nintendo on a sequel to the beloved role-playing game series…