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This year’s edition of Build Your Own Game (BYOG) will be held during November’s Game Developer Conference, NASSCOM has announced. Organised by NASSCOM and Indie GameDev India and supported by Intel, the three-day sprint will be hosted by the DSK Supinfocom College for Game Design. Last year’s event saw 63 …
Read More »The top five games job vacancies (w/e 07/09/12)
This week we look at a wide range of disciplines in the UK
Read More »SPOTLIGHT: Yellow Monkey Studios
HUEBRIX, the third game from Mumbai-based Yellow Monkey Studios, is set for release today. The four-member team – Shailesh Prabhu (founder and game designer), Krishna Israney (game designer), Manu Thomas (game programmer) and Yorrick Mendes (game Programmer) – spoke to MCV about the new game, the journey so far, and …
Read More »The secrecy of games development
The Creative Assembly's Al Bickham discusses the risks of revealing too much about your game too early
Read More »Tryst release pushed back to 14th September
The Steam release of Tryst, the competitive RTS game from Hyderabad-based Bluegiant Interactive, has been pushed back to 14th September. The game was initially set for release on 26th August. The game is currently available for preorder on Steam in three opitions – a single copy, the premium edition that …
Read More »Ironjaw Studios debut title Super Rollers out now
The first game from Manipal, Karnataka-based Ironjaw Studios, titled Super Rollers, is out now on the iOS App Store. Priced at $0.99, Super Rollers is a physics-based puzzle game set in an alternate dimension where the world as we know it, as well as everything in it, is flat”. You …
Read More »Yellow Monkey Studios’ HUEBRIX arrives on 6th September
Yellow Monkey Studios has announced that its upcoming mobile puzzler HUEBRIX will arrive on iOS and Android devices on 6th September. The game was initially set for release on 15th August. HUEBRIX is the Mumbai-based indie studio’s third game, and the follow up to its award winning iOS title It’s …
Read More »MMO strategy game Vinashi now in open beta
Indian PC and mobile games developer Gamiana has announced that its upcoming MMO strategy game Vinashi is now in open beta, with the commercial release set to follow soon. The browser-based game is based on the lore of 16th century India and supports multiple platforms and devices, with a single …
Read More »There’s a game out there for everyone
Ana Kronschnabl discusses how the industry should take a new direction with development to spur on innovation
Read More »Reports: Shuttered Sony Liverpool was working on two PS4 games
Sony announced yesterday that Studio Liverpool, best known for the WipEout series, was in the process of being shut down. Reports today suggest that the studio was working on a new WipEout game and a stealth action game in the vein of Splinter Cell for the yet unannounced PlayStation 4. …
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