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Games Programmer
Dependant on experience
UK - London

22 December

16:00 Unity 3.5 Flash Player Deployment open beta begins 1

21 December

11:00 Gallery: Developer Christmas cards and gifts! 2

10:41 Ustwo's Whale Trail hits 125,000 downloads

10:34 Engine firms must adapt for digital devs - Crytek

10:32 How big was your Christmas bonus? 3

09:50 Zynga shares edge upwards on day three

09:48 Square Enix member information 'not compromised'

09:16 Abertay welcomes Scottish Parliament games group

20 December

15:03 Sony Tablet S gets PS3 controller compatibility

13:02 Mills Ustwo: 'I'd like to spend £1 million on our internal studio'

12:27 Relentless opens new digital division

11:31 Vita sells 320,00 units in two days

10:55 Naughty Dog: Next-gen move 'terrifying' 1

10:27 Halfbrick scoops MCV Pacific developer award

10:20 Nintendo to showcase Wii U at CES 2012 2

19 December

15:55 Develop's 30 Under 30 now online

15:00 Indie browser animation tool released by Ikinema

12:25 Minecraft creator develops new game in 48 hours 6

11:48 Zynga CEO dismisses post-IPO staff exodus claims

11:15 What does your boss earn?

11:07 Inside Whale Trail: Develop Dec/Jan out now

10:14 THQ triumphs in Ubisoft poaching case 2

16 December

17:41 Channel 4 recruits first games commissioning editor

14:25 Amazon Kindle selling one million units a week 1

12:41 Rumour: 'Rovio eyes Hong Kong IPO'

11:45 Skyrim soars past ten million shipped copies

11:16 Witcher 2 dev threatens pirates with legal action

10:50 Square Enix hack compromises 1.8 million accounts

10:21 Free-to-play APB surpasses three million users

09:50 Zynga IPO raises $1 billion 1

15 December

15:54 Outplay: New board members and new releases

15:46 Interactive Ontario president steps down

15:18 Rumour: 'Xbox design head replaced' 2

15:13 Are you paid enough?

14:39 Getty Images joins TIGA

14:20 Bossa: 'Vita will suffer a horrible premature death' 2

14:13 Indie developers launch fundraising game bundle

14 December

14:20 Former Visceral devs launch mobile studio

13:04 Fantasy MMO Aion to go free-to-play in February

12:09 Bejeweled goes HTML5 as franchise hits Chrome

11:16 Former Zynga exec joins online studio Kixeye

10:43 Nexon IPO raises more than $1 billion

09:45 Hackers breach Square Enix member service

09:00 FEATURE: Will HTML5 generate the next generation of programmers? 4

08:30 Flash Gaming Summit early bird deadline nears

13 December

15:37 Team 17 takes over Iguana assets 3

12:15 Mac App Store tops 100 million downloads

11:28 Miyamoto job update: 'Nothing has changed'

11:01 Rumour: iPad 3 'to launch in four months'

10:26 Cubic Motion forges 'creative affiliation' with 3lateral

10:00 How much does your boss earn?

09:54 Fumito Ueda departure confirmed by Sony 1

12 December

17:05 'Massive layoffs expected for social devs in 2012'

16:29 Stalker studio on brink of closure

13:55 Modern Warfare 3 smashes $1 billion barrier

13:50 UK games industry stars in tonight's Young Apprentice

13:29 Microsoft seeking TV exec for Xbox Live

12:30 Motorola wins injunction banning German iPhone imports 1

11:20 Command & Conquer dev renamed Bioware Victory

10:40 Eutechnyx to open London publishing office

09:40 THQ axes 30 staff after poor uDraw sales

9 December

15:28 iTunes Rewind reveals top apps of 2011

15:26 Avalanche adopts Hansoft tools 1

13:43 Indie anger at new Xbox dash 3

13:41 What are you worth?

13:35 Mobile dev trumps Crytek to best studio accolade

12:41 Football Manager's future 'is mobile, not console' 3

11:01 Kinect support 'required' for future Xbox 360 apps

11:00 Twist to become UKIE CEO 1

10:40 SuperMassive Games scores Doctor Who contract

10:16 Zynga CEO wants 7% of players paying 2

09:39 EA to publishers: 'Adapt to digital or die' 1

8 December

15:28 Invincible mutant scorpion plagues pirated game 1

14:53 OnLive open to PlayStation and Xbox integration

11:00 Tim Sweeney to join AIAS Hall of Fame

10:23 Apple approves Microsoft Xbox app for iOS 2

09:56 OnLive app streams games to iPhone and iPad

09:49 Miyamoto returns to grass-roots game development

7 December

17:51 GDC 2012: Naughty Dog and EA join speaker list

17:15 Indies triumph in Game Connection dev contest

16:51 Piracy block 'sparked upsurge in FM12 sales' 1

15:47 Microsoft in major app store push for Windows 8 1

15:16 New indie PC platform 'ends discoverability woes'

12:10 Are you earning enough money?

12:00 FEATURE: Local apps for local people

11:35 Nintendo: 3DS has regained its vigour 2

11:31 Zynga wins settlement in copyright case

10:54 Last Guardian executive producer resigns

10:01 Persson: LEGO Minecraft 'a perfect fit'

6 December

17:19 Indie charity bundle adopts Radiohead price policy

15:52 Nexon sets its value at £4.6 billion

15:21 Localisation firm Partnertrans to axe UK division 1

14:48 Microsoft publishing contract to be awarded at IGF

14:35 UK social publisher awarded $200,000 EU grant

14:09 Ed Daly joins UK venture consultancy firm

12:07 App Store Charts: Week 49 1

11:10 Breakthrough as Gove backs computer science 13

10:35 Fumito Ueda hush on resignation rumours 1

10:05 Unity deal for Final Fantasy studio 4

5 December

12:45 Microsoft app to converge Xbox and Windows Phone

10:57 Fruit Ninja sequel planned as Govt backs Halfbrick 1

10:08 Zoo Entertainment fails to remain on Nasdaq

09:54 'Axed workforce at Day 1 after Konami U-turn'

2 December

17:07 Infinity Blade 2 slices through App Store

16:43 Nvidia mobile chip 'faster than iPad 2' 1

16:30 Sony 'still wants Flash on PS Vita'

15:37 Zynga set its value at $7 billion 1

11:50 EA adds subscription service to Tetris app 5

11:27 Rare grabs serious talent from UK studios 2

10:35 Dan Stahl quits Zynga after ten weeks 2

10:16 BioWare man raises $15m for new social outfit

09:57 EA makes new social studio acquisition

1 December

17:20 Nearly 500 game firms to attend Game Connection

15:54 LucasArts fee for Star Wars MMO put at 35%

15:35 Vita support comes to Japanese Orochi engine

15:15 120m people play social games, says PopCap

14:52 Nintendo: 3DS sales are outpacing DS 1

13:44 Browser gaming nation Korea becomes Gamescom partner

12:14 Game journalism jobs: Develop seeks US writer

11:46 Evolution Studios exec feared closure

10:47 We can't crunch like that again, says Chair boss