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Generalist Programmer
Negotiable DOE + Relocation + Bonus
UK - North East

31 July

16:10 Developers gear up for All Stars event

15:31 Lionhead celebrates tenth birthday

15:18 MumboJumbo acquires Hot Lava

15:10 Tim Schafer to speak at Leadership Forum 1

14:46 Australian developers lobby again for better tax breaks

14:34 Entropia Universe picks CryEngine 2 3

10:25 PopCap launches first free iPhone game 2

30 July

14:43 OneBigGame strikes a chord with studios

11:02 Develop conference round-ups available now

10:59 Rockstar developing new PS3-exclusive franchise

10:35 Microsoft's Rare developing Nintendo DS version of Viva Pinata 2

28 July

16:02 Traveller's Tales making Lego Indiana Jones

27 July

17:15 Jaffe leaves SCEA but stays in Sony fold

15:55 Daedalic drinks Xider

15:33 EA Chicago to develop new Marvel game 9

15:29 Emergent launches Academic Program

14:20 Develop Awards 07 video now available

09:53 Scholastic spurs Gusto growth

26 July

15:38 Rebellion says middleware is not cutting-edge

13:20 Nazis and 'No Feet' go into Game Design Room 101

12:03 UK studios effectively discouraged to create new IP 2

11:34 Labour to introduce ?video games GCSE?

10:30 Sony clarifies Home development roadmap

10:27 Tsutomu Kouno provides hints on new Loco Roco game

07:51 Big night for games development 2

25 July

18:56 Developers must embrace online, says Satchell

17:00 AI.implant withdrawn for new commercial games

15:47 Tragnarion Studios partners With Epic

15:41 Six more sign up to amBX 3

14:32 One Life Left steps out in Brighton

14:31 SCEE screenwriter: 'Story input can seem whimsical'

10:41 'MMO design has not changed in a decade' - Garriott 2

24 July

17:52 'Graduates are not slave labour,' says EA's Jeffrey 2

17:40 Develop Mobile: The 20 hot trends in mobile gaming 1

15:41 Games Edu: SCEE announces PSP Academic Development Programme 1

14:58 Develop Mobile: 35 games in the works for new N-Gage 1

13:00 Games Edu: Satchell - 'We need interesting curriculi'

12:20 Lyon GDC announced

10:57 Develop Mobile: Glu - 'Focus on gameplay, not gimmicks'

03:31 EA - Gardner to go

23 July

23:31 Developers discuss the case against Epic 2

14:34 Keita Takahashi to speak at GameCity 2007

12:37 XBLA-centric toolset for XNA coming

12:35 GC Developers Conference speakers confirmed

12:24 Spector: 'It's a crazy time to be an independent'

12:09 Star Vault gets Unreal

10:01 Industry readies for Develop conference

20 July

14:04 The truth about localisation and QA

11:49 Sourcebook ?07 goes live 1

10:52 Final Fantasy XI producer to keynote Austin GDC

10:43 Foundation 9 ready for Comic-Con showing

09:43 Epic Games sued by Silicon Knights

19 July

15:37 GarageGames and Dream Games open Torque School

15:02 Another tech buy for BioWare

14:53 Turn 10 rules monthly UK developer chart

12:36 Nickelodeon invests in online

12:34 GDC Korea 07 cancelled

12:24 Tokyo Game Show Forum details emerge 1

10:56 University of Abertay and Instinct unveil education package 1

10:22 Eidos signs Strawdog for first XBLA game

18 July

17:59 BioWare Austin sides with morpheme

17:09 Leipzig organisers open Game Developer Business Centre

15:41 Games can do good, says Eternal Sonata director 1

14:55 Biggest ever Develop Awards looms

13:16 Rockstar Leeds developing Wii Table Tennis

12:50 AMD sponsors Dare ProtoPlay 1

17 July

22:25 THQ joins Valve's Steam service

22:03 Moore quits Xbox and former EA studios boss steps in

17:47 Ubisoft sells Gameloft stake

15:05 Nokia to N-Gage developers in Brighton 1

12:48 Momentum still building behind Wii game development

11:59 Aardvark urges games industry to hire more graduates

11:50 Quantic Dream: 'Industry needs to become more ambitious'

10:37 Global games development firms descend on UK

10:04 New studio opens in Hamburg

09:53 Creative Assembly Australia chooses Hansoft

16 July

17:38 Torque Game Engine available for Wii licensing

16:52 ?Developers must think globally?

16:18 Another acquisition as PopCap buys SpinTop 1

16:00 Develop unveils new website

10:30 Torque Game Builder update available

09:30 XNA Game Studio version 2.0 on the way

13 July

17:00 Creative Assembly, Rockstar Games and Deadline Games staffing up 5

15:45 New sessions for Develop conference

15:15 GameHorizon to host Industry All Stars event

15:00 Channel 4 backs Dare to be Digital

14:45 Nippon Ichi nabs DS licence

10:00 Disney acquires Junction Point Studios

12 July

17:15 Sega Racing, Codemasters and Realtime Worlds expanding

16:15 PopCap Games buys developer Retro64

15:45 Daedalic authorised for DS development

14:30 Elevation Partners buys localisation company

13:30 Yorkshire unis create UK 'Game Academy' 8

12:15 Voice-O-Matic expands host compatibility

11:15 Player One inks output deal

11:00 Morpheme upgrades to 1.1

10:45 IGA gets $25m

10:30 Geomerics gets £2m from Trinity Hall 1

10:15 E3 2007: EALA developing Wii quiz game

09:30 E3 2007: NCsoft signs exclusive PlayStation development deal

11 July

21:00 E3 2007: Unreal Engine 3 to get PS3 optimisation

20:30 E3 2007: Developer exclusives key for Sony

15:45 Sony signs up Queasy's EveryDay Shooter for PSN

15:30 Itheon releases compact network emulator

15:30 Codemasters agrees to more amBX games 1

14:45 E3 2007: Bungie's Marathon to get XBLA treatment

14:30 E3 2007: Guerilla: Killzone 2 demo 'an important milestone'

10:45 E3 2007: Unreal Engine 3 gets Games for Windows Live integration

10:15 E3 2007: Krome and Climax handling new Piñata games

09:45 E3 2007: Scene It sees Microsoft battle Sony

10 July

17:30 De Montfort announces new masters programme

17:15 EA and Spielberg talk games development

15:15 Blitz headcount passes 200

10:45 Team Bondi licenses LightSprint

10:45 GDC China speakers named

10:30 Animazoo set to unveil new tech in Brighton

10:15 Gamecock slips into Legendary box

10:15 Educational deal for Modo

9 July

15:00 Shanda buys rival Aurora

13:15 Bplus announces first Wii Software title

13:00 Microsoft to open software development center in Vacouver

11:45 Perforce version 2007.2 available

11:15 Riccitiello: Industry is 'boring people to death'

11:15 Black Rock, Geomerics and Broadsword expanding

10:15 Trinity College gets industry backing

10:15 NCsoft to open UK development studio

10:15 Microsoft Japan unveils cheap 360 line for educators

09:45 Develop 74 available now

09:15 More details emerge of new EA IPs

6 July

13:45 Q&A: NoE's Fischer discusses Wii Software

12:45 UK devs want Government backing

12:15 Sony says 'sorry' for Resistance

12:00 Disney unearths Black Rock

12:00 Chemistry: ?Publishers prefer Unreal?

11:00 PhaseSpace joins Epic?s IPP

10:30 Develop conference countdown begins

10:15 Tokyo Game Show expands middleware event

10:00 New UK games production firm formed

5 July

11:00 Bournemouth Uni to hold geometric algebra lectures

10:30 Square Enix developing educational DS range 1

09:45 Austin GDC People's Choice voting opens

09:30 Trinity College offers Ireland's first games masters degree

4 July

17:30 Ghostlight confirms Chemistry deal

10:30 Australian developers demand government support

09:45 BAFTA deadline nears

09:30 Torque X free to XNA Creator's Club

09:15 Paleo licences CryEngine 2

09:00 EA DICE working on new IP

09:00 Another dev deal for Gamecock

3 July

17:45 Early rises at Microsoft to bridge PC/console gap

16:45 Dream signing for Sony

14:15 EA earns advertising Achievement

12:30 Microsoft to bring it home again

11:30 $12m funding boost for Emergent

11:15 New report praises social gaming

10:45 Tiga says Brown era bodes well for games

2 July

15:30 Capcom looking for global partnerships

14:45 Indian games development sector on the rise

14:45 20th Century Fox gets game biz dev man

14:30 Nokia targets multi-platform games development

14:15 Q&A: Microsoft's Phil Spencer 1