Game development

Overwatch: Blizzards Titan Edition of a Team-based multiplayer

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Today at BlizzCon 2014, Blizzard Entertainment announced a new franchise – it’s the first new franchise in 17 years, Hearthstone is a new game, not franchise – Overwatch. Blizzard is one of the video game studio best known for high-quality productions and games that you will enjoy even 10 years later. Not only for highly polished games also for astonishing cinematic trailers. They gifted us with games like Diablo, StarCraft and WarCraft, Hearthstone, today it’s the day not only for a brand new game but also for step forward, today …

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Blizzard is on a quest. The Fate is up to you – Choose your Destiny

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Ever thought of applying for one of the positions that Blizzard has listed on their jobs page? You’re not alone. I’d actually go as far as saying that most people playing World of Warcraft, StarCraft or Diablo have at one point given it a thought. Jobs at Blizzard are notoriously difficult to find because Blizzard is one of the most respected companies in the games industry. World of Warcraft boasts over 7 millions subscribers that have at this point been playing for close to a decade, which might arguably make it the …

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Unite 2014 – Keynote

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This August, Seattle saw a flood of game developers coming into town for Unite 2014, the eighth annual Unity conference held at the Seattle Center. Among the exciting sessions and keynote speeches, Jens Fursund from our PowerVR Ray Tracing team was there to introduce the upcoming Unity 5 lightmap editor which uses our ray tracing technology to quickly and accurately simulate lighting. The keynote address from Unity’s premier developer conference in Seattle with Unity’s co-founders Davíð Helgason and Joachim Ante, technical director Lucas Meijer, VP Online Services Tod Hooper and …

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Twenty Years after Doom: John Carmack on the Future of Engineering Virtual Worlds

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Named to the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Under 35, Time Magazine’s 50 Most Influential People in Technology, and inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame, John’s contributions and commitment to fostering open-source communities has inspired a generation of young people to become computer scientists and engineers. Now, as the Chief Technology Officer of Oculus VR, he works on the Rift with the goal of once again revolutionizing the way we experience games. featured image provided by Official GDC – Flickr: Game Developers Choice Awards @ …

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Dreamfall Chapters Reborn Trailer

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Dreamfall Chapters is an episodic, story-driven adventure game set in parallel worlds of science and magic — the new chapter in the critically acclaimed The Longest Journey saga. Book One: Reborn is coming out this autumn, and here is the brand new trailer for the first of five thrilling episodes. The latest trailer for the first episode of Dreamfall Chapters, the $1.5 million Kickstarter-funded sequel to the 2006 adventure game Dreamfall, shows off its three parallel worlds and the characters that thread throughout the story. Dreamfall Chapters is developed on …

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INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENT DESIGN FOR GAMES AND FILM

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The course will be heavily focused on developing the fundamentals of your painting skills. Simon takes you through, step-by-step, the process of learning how to paint and design in Photoshop. This course is for people who are beginning to paint either traditionally or digitally in Photoshop right through to those who are at an intermediate level but would like a more solid grounding in the foundations of painting and composition. Episode – Character / Rendering / Drawing

Skywind – Official Development Video #1

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To anyone seeing this video, the best way to help this project and make our hard work pay off is to SHARE AND SUBSCRIBE to these videos to spread the word. We need volunteers of all sorts, and there are simple tasks that anyone can help with, so please check out the website and see how you can support us at Morroroblivion. The more help we get, the faster the final release will come.

Xbox One: Invitation

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Update 28.10.2013: We will contact the winners shortly-ish! Make sure to check your emails! This is an invitation to a new generation. Where your games and entertainment are no longer separated, but together in one. This is an invitation from the all-in-one, Xbox One. Jump ahead. You like to play your games with friends? Already waiting for the Next-Generation XBOX? Get your invitation here and play with us some games on the brand new XBOX ONE! Click here and get your invitation! (Germany, Austria ONLY!) Watch the trailer above and …

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Intaracting with the gaming community

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The greatest threat to the video game industry may be some of its most impassioned fans. Increasingly, game developers are finding themselves under attack by some of the very people they devote their lives to entertaining. And this growing form of gamer-on-game-developer cyber harassment is starting to take its toll. …not much time. Here you go… read the full article on polygon!

Brad Muir Interview; Massive Chalice; Taking Risks

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Abit more than a year ago, Double Fine Productions put Kickstarter on the map for game developers around the world. It was never the studio’s intention to. It had launched a campaign to raise funds for an adventure game — a game it knew publishers wouldn’t want, but fans might — and asked for $400,000, a modest amount by game development standards. Read the full Article on Polygon (By Tracey Lien) Brad Muir Interview? The dude with never ending enthusiasm? Man, this dude never ceases to amaze me… watch an increadible …

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Frostbite 3: Enhancing Battlefield 4 (No Guppies)

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Battlefield 4™ is the genre-defining action blockbuster from DICE that will be the first game to ship on Frostbite™ 3. Fueled by the next-generation power and fidelity of Frostbite 3, Battlefield 4 provides a visceral, dramatic experience unlike any other. DICE has released a new video showing how the Frostbite 3 engine will “levolution” your Battlefield 4. “Levolution”, DICE srsly? Please don’t say that ever again! The DICE Team   will take you on a short trip through the new features coming with Frostbite 3. – Trees react and sway in …

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E3 2013, Kickstarter & Link Compilation #3

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E3 Announcements, Films & Video Games Command & Conquer™ | “Welcome Back, General” E3 2013 Need for Speed Rivals | Cops Vs Racer Trailer Dragon Age: Inquisition E3 2013 Battlefield 4 – Lars Gustavsson Pre-E3 Interview Battlefield 4: Official “Angry Sea” Single Player Gameplay Video Battlefield 4: Official “Siege of Shanghai” Multiplayer Trailer Battlefield 4: Official Commander Mode Trailer Mirror’s Edge – E3 2013 Titanfall: Official E3 Announce Trailer Dark Souls II – Go Beyond Death (E3 2013) Thief – Garrett the Master Thief – E3 2013 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow …

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Debut Gameplay Trailer

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Debut Gameplay gives you an exclusive sneak peek into the vast and gritty world of Geralt of Rivia, the witcher. Experience a realm where morality is not a simple choice between good and evil and where every decision ripples through the one hundred hours of gameplay CD Projekt RED has hand-crafted to meet the needs of the RPG fan. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt features: Vast, living, open world full of meticulously created quests and Points of Interest, 35 times bigger than the one …

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Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft – Building the Fire

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Blizzard Entertainment’s Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is a free-to-play strategy card game for Windows, Macintosh, and iPad. Designed to be deceptively simple and epically engaging for players of all backgrounds, Hearthstone features quick and lively duels that evoke the spirit of a friendly match played beside a crackling tavern fire. PAX Eeast 2013 Day 1 – Announcement “Blizzard Hearthstone” (If you’re only interested in Hearthstone skip to 15:31) Follow the project on Twitter @PlayHearthstone