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Games Programmer
Dependant on experience
UK - London

30 April

10:48 iPhone game devs offered cross-promotion deal

09:20 Average US developer salary at £53k

08:12 Witcher row exposes game cancellation

29 April

16:29 Xbox?s Gosen calls for dev support

15:20 Euro GDC session proposals on deadline

14:36 Autodesk releases Mudbox 2009 for Mac

14:23 Remake of Resi remake heading to Wii 1

12:43 TimeShift dev taking on Havok Destruction

08:52 Development giants join Dare to be Digital 1

28 April

18:44 Fallujah dev ?surprised? by Konami withdrawal 3

15:46 Super Stardust dev lines up new project trio

14:37 American Army enlists Autodesk AI

14:09 Game consultant Eightbyte opens service

09:13 Valve dominates ELAN Awards

08:45 Fleet of developers strike Nvidia deal

07:47 Square: Japan?s game industry ?almost xenophobic? 10

27 April

16:53 Trion unveils new ?MMORTS? project

15:42 Rebellion signed to handle development of Bethesda's Rogue Warrior 1

14:25 Dale named as Realtime Worlds CEO

13:27 David Reeves scotches RealTime Worlds rumours 1

12:25 Science team creating 'smell effect' peripheral 2

10:04 Konami abandons controversial Fallujah game 6

09:10 Square wants Eidos money back by 2012

08:49 Facebook may open info floodgates to developers

08:00 Bethesda cited as salvager of A2M?s forgotten Wet

24 April

15:46 University of Abertay hosts HCI conference

12:40 Hideo Kojima named Most Valuable Person

12:29 75 per cent of UK studios to grow workforce

11:46 Ready for a new job?

10:59 Rockstar North scoops MCV Award

23 April

15:12 Venture funding for games 'in collapse'

14:10 DICE's new download-only Battlefield will cost $15

11:51 PopCap considering Plants vs Zombies console development

11:27 Budget 2009: Govt has ?failed to back the games industry? 4

11:11 New studio Smashmouth Games opens in Manchester 1

09:24 Trion World Network president departs unexpectedly

08:58 NCSoft succumbs to Steam

08:34 Sega appoints Cory Haynes to lead US

22 April

17:46 NCSoft?s Aion spinning money in China 3

15:35 Lightning Fish looks to trump Wii Fit

15:15 GDC China opens call for submissions

14:43 EA Sports ?transformed? by online play 1

12:26 Bizarre Creations? new racer revealed?

11:43 Develop Quiz returns for summer

10:49 Will Wright now EA consultant

21 April

17:25 Sony?s Pub Fund offers ?invaluable assistance?

15:40 Disney's Black Rock: We can save 'dying' racing genre

15:03 Only 24 hours left to have your say on crunch

14:53 3D gaming ?puts innovation back to the forefront? 5

12:28 Creat Studios and Origin Systems co-founders to keynote IGCEast

12:00 Ubisoft pulls plug on Shadowbane

11:17 BioWare exec moves to Disney Interactive

09:12 Ian Livingstone joins Tory review body 1

08:16 New bank funding scheme may aid developers 1

20 April

14:57 Obsidian developing new Fallout title

14:23 G4BOX and Wicked Interactive partner with IGA Worldwide

11:49 App Store search engine trick ?discovered? 1

11:39 Edinburgh Interactive Festival passes on sale now

11:11 Virtual Heroes Acquired by ASA

10:59 Abyssal Engine and RakNet integration confirmed

10:23 Perforce Server Log Analyzer made live 1

10:05 Introversion reclaims Defcon rights

17 April

18:06 Sony slammed for ?exorbitant royalty demands? 3

16:56 Who is the world?s most bankable games studio?

16:15 'Pirate Bay will warn mainstream off BitTorrent' 7

14:50 Ready for a new job?

13:00 Games provide ?crucial life skills?

11:30 Hundreds spill the beans on ?industry?s dirty secret? - crunch 10

10:25 GDC Austin opens call for speakers

09:40 Square Enix?s march for Western content continues with WW2 signing 1

16 April

22:03 Activision rubbishes IP and studio acquisition lawsuit

15:20 Activision buys Scratch developer 7 Studios

14:56 All-time top App Store downloads revealed

14:32 Unity to keynote Nordic Game 2009

13:05 GDC China vs China GDC: The stand-off continues 1

10:05 THQ licenses Morpheme

15 April

14:18 IGDA Leadership Forum speaker submission deadline nears 6

13:00 Game AI Conference returns to Paris

12:51 Overworked? Sick of crunch? Tell us all about it 5

11:49 NCsoft opens Paragon Studios

10:55 Sony to focus on regionally targeted development 1

10:40 Virtual Heroes picks Vicious Engine

14 April

13:03 'Early-look' version of Android 1.5 SDK released

11:50 Bioware founders to keynote GDC Canada

10:40 Jagex joins Tiga

09:56 RakNet now free for indie developers

09:49 International partnership signed by Abertay and Peking universities

09:36 Partnertrans to host localisation workshop

10 April

23:35 Rockstar looks to link Flash games with Nintendo DS title 4

9 April

11:32 Latest issue of Develop out now

10:06 'Generation gap will hurt studios,' says Seamus Blackley 11

09:02 Kuju committed to diversifying middleware commitments

8 April

19:05 Will Wright leaves EA

16:34 Registration opens for 2009 Develop Conference

14:58 'Twitter puts your players in the studio with you,' says Infinity Ward 6

14:33 UKTI u-turn on games industry event funding 3

13:16 Number of Nordic games funding applications on the rise

12:00 E3 Expo advanced registration ends soon

09:02 Can games development embrace more flexible working patterns?

7 April

13:19 Iraq's Fallujah conflict chronicled in new Konami game 8

12:25 Sony touts dev headcount equal to 'Nintendo and Microsoft combined' 3

11:44 Realtime Worlds details new staff overtime package 9

10:06 Charting the rise of network gaming

09:48 Second Italian Video Game Developers Conference confirmed

09:43 Climax picked to ?reinvent? Konami?s Silent Hill 3

6 April

15:04 Ruffian's Billy Thomson writes for Develop

12:42 Independent Game Conference East sessions confirmed

11:37 Metaboli signs three-year deal with Epic

11:14 Yu Suzuki leaves key Sega post

10:43 Mortal Kombat devs to abandon Midway?

3 April

17:49 Curve announces first self-published title 1

12:45 Could you have a better job?

10:53 Tiga calls Government to benchmark tax system

10:10 GDC Europe online registration now open

09:46 John Broomhall honoured at G.A.N.G awards

08:50 Inside Strawdog Studios

2 April

14:53 Paradox Interactive Appoints Fredrik Wester as CEO

12:54 Imageworks and Insomniac opt for Xsens' mo-cap tech

12:31 PopCap creating Plants Vs. Zombies

11:44 New Scrum Master game development course scheduled

1 April

17:22 APB devs on opting for SoundSeed audio middleware

15:43 'The gap between game and film tech is rapidly closing'

14:56 Nordic Game 2009 conference program revealed

14:40 Develop Awards return in July

13:35 GDC China organisers respond to CGPA letter

12:58 Success of GDC 09 'proves the resilience of the games industry'

11:58 Montreal International Game Summit dated

09:58 Big losses at Big Huge 1