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On day one of the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference, we caught up with Glen Schofield, vice president of Sledgehammer Games (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3), who spoke to us about the state of the gaming industry, the free-to-play revenue model, mobile gaming, and more. MCV: What made you move …
Read More »Trip Hawkins at NGDC 2012: Apps today, browser tomorrow
Industry legend Trip Hawkins delivered a keynote speech on day 1 of the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference, and he had some interesting predictions for where the games industry is headed next. We live in an era of convenience,” said Hawkins, stating further that just like it has happened with music, …
Read More »NGDC 2012: Top-down stealth title Heera wins BYOG sprint
The three-day Build Your Own Game game development sprint, which was organised by Indie Game Dev India in association with the NASSCOM Gaming Forum, came to a conclusion on day one of the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference today. The finalists assembled at the conference venue, where the game prototype of …
Read More »Glen Schofield at NGDC 2012: Quality is king
Glen Schofield is a man with 22 years of experience in the gaming industry. He’s currently the VP of Sledghammer Games (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3) and he delivered a keynote speech at the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference. The one motto he lives by is Quality is King” and …
Read More »NGDC 2012: Day 1 recap in pictures
It was a busy first day at the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference, and proceedings began with NASSCOM Gaming Forum chair Rajesh Rao announcing that for the first time, the conference had crossed the 1,000 attendees mark. While one of the most anticipated sessions of the day – the Global Indie …
Read More »NGDC 2012: Dissecting 2012’s indie success Huebrix
At the NASSCOM Game Developer Conference, Mumbai-based Yellow Monkey Studios took centre stage to dissect their successful iOS and Android title Huebrix. Studio founder Shailesh Prabhu started the session by talking about how they gathered funds for this project after winning the best original game idea award at hoPlay ‘11 …
Read More »INTERVIEW: Rajesh Rao, Dhruva Interactive
The Indian gaming industry was pretty much non-existant in 1997 when Dhruva Interactive came into existence. One of India’s oldest game companies, Dhruva is the brainchild of Rajesh Rao, who is today also the chairperson of the NASSCOM Gaming Forum, India’s largest game developers’ community. Dhruva has established itself as …
Read More »Paul Joseph Wrider joins DisneyUTV Digital
DisneyUTV Digital has appointed Paul Joseph Wrider its director of game design. Wrider joins Disney with ten years of experience in the industry, having previously worked with FunMobility, Digital Chocolate, Zynga and Storm8. Wrider will be based out of Mumbai and will lead DisneyUTV Digital’s game design team responsible for …
Read More »3 days to go: Register for NGDC today for just Rs 1,700
The NASSCOM Game Developer Conference is just three days away, and if you haven’t registered yet, here’s some incentive. It’s the last day of registrations for NGDC, and those who sign up within the next 15 hours can do so for just Rs 1,700; that’s significantly lower than the standard …
Read More »As few as five devs remain at Silicon Knights, report claims
A damning new report into the work practices at developer Silicon Knights has claimed that as few as five staff remain at the studio. The extensive Kotaku report in which the claim is made investigates the turbulent development of X-Men: Destiny and makes a host of claims about the structure …
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