2011 was a pretty flat year, according to the findings of Game Developer magazine’s annual salary survey of industry professionals. Salaries were calculated and compared across discipline, region, experience level and gender from 2,500 interview-ees (out of 4,000 respondents). 66% of respondents netted a higher income than last year (up from 56% in last year’s […]
Kellee Santiago, who co-founded Flower-dev thatgamecompany with Jenova Chen after first collaborating with him while studying at USC in 2006, has left the game studio for undisclosed pastures. The reasoning given by Santiago was that she felt she had “done everything [she] needed to do there, and that [Jenova’s] in a great place now to […]
The 3DS side project to the recently confirmed Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two is hoping to build on the gaming legacy many have forgotten Mickey Mouse had. As reported by About.com, the latest issue of Nintendo Power goes into detail on Epic Mickey: The Power of Illusion, including its relationship to the early […]
Yesterday, representatives for the UK government announced plans to bring tax relief programs to its indigenous video game development industry. The government has stated that it wants to make Great Britain “Europe’s technology centre”. The move comes around two years after the last concentrated effort to add tax incentives to game development, when the Labor […]