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 Survey: Code Outsourcing Rising Despite High Vendor Turnover [10.17.07] According to a new Amritt Ventures report, while coding and QA outsourcing is on the rise, 27 percent of developers have fired three or more outsourcing vendors over the past year. Gamasutra talked to Amritt's Gunjan Bagla to learn what more can be done to better foster overseas relationships.
London Game Career Fair Announces Sony, EA, Rare Speakers [10.17.07] Gamasutra parent group CMP has announced the speaker line-up for its Oct. 23-24 London Game Career Fair, the exclusive recruitment event of the London Games Festival, featuring representatives from Relentless, EA, Rare, Sony, Ubisoft, and Blitz Games.
Q&A;: Bungie's Barnes On Halo 3 After The Flood [10.17.07] Navigating the post-Halo 3 halo, Gamasutra presents a detailed interview with Bungie's head of production Jonty Barnes, looking at the smash hit game's localization, ESRB rating, and even revealing that Bungie was "concerned that [Halo 3] wasn't going to fit on one disc."
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Postmortem: Black Rock Studios' MotoGP'07 [10.17.07] In this Gamasutra-exclusive postmortem, David Jefferies of UK-based Black Rock Studios (formerly known as Climax Racing) follows up last year's postmortem of MotoGP'06 with an honest look at this year's Xbox 360 racing title, covering optimization, frontend, crowd systems and more.
This Game Is Not Yet Rated: Inside The ESRB Ratings System [10.16.07] The Entertainment Software Ratings Board is a key part of the game industry, but do you know exactly how ESRB employees rate video games? Gamasutra spoke to Patricia Vance, president of the ESRB, to analyze the process and a day in the life of a game rater.
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GameSpot To Webcast AIAS Interactive Achievement Awards
Video game website GameSpot and the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) have announced a partnership to host the 11th annual Interactive Achievement Awards, which will be held on February 7, 2008 at Red Rock Casino & Resort in Las Vegas during the 2008 D.I.C.E. Summit.
According to the announcement, GameSpot will provide a live webcast of the awards show, allowing its audience to see the traditionally industry-only event. The Interactive Achievement Awards are peer-based awards dedicated to recognizing the products, individuals, and development teams that have propelled advancement in the industry.
The D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit is a once-yearly conference dedicated to exploring approaches to the creative process and artistic expression as they apply to the development of interactive entertainment. The Academy has over 10,000 members, with the board comprised of senior executives from companies including Bioware/Pandemic, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony and Ubisoft.
GameSpot vice president Josh Larson said, “With games now seen as a truly mainstream entertainment medium, the gaming industry is due to have an awards event that possesses the credibility on par with the Oscars or Emmys. Not only will GameSpot give gamers access to this exclusive event through our live broadcast, we will also enhance their experience even further by providing the fun, interactive elements they enjoy.”
POSTED: 06.19AM PST, 10/16/07 - Leigh Alexander - LINK
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