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Games Programmer
Dependant on experience
UK - London

30 June

17:59 Molyneux's 'eureka moment' in bed with his wife 1

14:47 Milo tech 'used in Fable The Journey'

14:42 Bungie supports indies with Aerospace

12:55 Unity opens Stockholm office 3

12:38 New Respawn project details emerge

11:59 Publishing firm formed by ex-Sony devs

11:39 Android consumers 'are put off by paying' 2

29 June

12:05 Habbo Hotel lead designer joins Makielab

11:46 Novarama SCEE exclusivity deal announced

11:39 MS: Do gamers really want 3D?

09:57 Zynga to go public with IPO 1

28 June

13:59 THQ advocate Votypka joins rival Ubisoft

12:11 Industry outrage at 'brutal' Team Bondi crunch 36

11:32 Eve Online backlash could cost CCP $1m 6

10:19 Ignition 'axes London dev team'

27 June

17:02 US developer freedoms get supreme court vote

16:36 MoMinis to host three educational webinars

15:53 Free-to-play joy as Team Fortress popularity soars 1

15:29 Onlive open to Xbox and Sony partnerships 1

15:14 Ignition cutbacks leave more out of work

14:41 Braben keynote booked for Develop Conference

14:26 Moshi Monsters UK studio valued at £125m 1

14:02 This isn't a 9-to-5 job, says defiant McNamara 27

12:38 Team Bondi interrogated: The list of accusations 25

11:30 Team Bondi dev culture 'hostile and brutal' 4

09:25 Develop publisher Intent Media acquires UBM titles

24 June

15:50 Lionhead takes games education into its own hands 6

14:00 The top five games job vacancies (w/e 24.06.11)

13:00 VIDEO: How to enter the Mominis contest

12:55 Xbox 'begins dev support for free-to-play' 11

01:00 Exclusive: Team Fortress 2 is free forever 28

23 June

17:48 Black Rock hiring for 'free-to-play Unity game' 2

17:15 London-based Bossa comes out of hiding 1

12:02 Valve raises interest in Wii U development

11:45 Ian Livingstone to receive Development Legend accolade

09:29 EA to buy PopCap, sources claim

22 June

22:49 Report puts $1bn price on PopCap acquisition

18:32 Neon Play celebrates 20m downloads in first year

16:53 Infinity Blade to become free-to-play in Japan

16:29 'No coding necessary' for new HTML5 game engine 5

15:15 In pictures: Crysis 2's DirectX 11 upgrade 3

14:16 Shanda 'planning iPhone and Android dev buyouts'

14:00 FEATURE: How much is an hour of your time worth?

11:55 FEATURE: MoMinis talks to GetJar about apps

11:24 Tax break hopes for Pennsylvania state 1

11:02 First wave of iPhone 5 speculation arrives 2

10:09 How an indie snatched Carmageddon from Square-Enix

21 June

17:50 New York development 'cheaper than west-coast US' 1

16:56 Adobe launches Flash-on-iPhone app tool 3

15:19 Witcher 2 producer quits CD Projekt

14:31 Lionhead technical boss departs for new studio

13:49 LulzSec suspect 'to be examined for Sony data'

13:07 Essex teenager arrested after LulzSec attacks

12:20 Game budgets won't stop climbing, Ubisoft warns

11:34 EA's Ben Cousins to run new Ngmoco Sweden studio

10:19 Miyamoto: Wii U tech won't push far beyond rivals

09:44 Molyneux on Kinect: No buttons cause problems

20 June

17:40 New memory tool 'reduces multithread game stalls'

16:53 MeeGo dev meet-up this week

16:10 New 'Women In Games Jobs' event emerges

15:45 Sumo Digital placements for Sheffield students 1

14:43 LA Noire studio accused of 'thankless crunch' 12

12:33 New Xbox: Crytek rejects certain 'insider' info

11:28 DICE explains Battlefield framerate trade-offs 3

10:50 $400m at stake as Activision takes EA to court 1

10:04 1.3 million Sega customers hacked

17 June

15:35 Australia tax relief 'ignites publisher interest' 2

14:53 EA loses its fifth exec in three months

14:00 The top five games job vacancies (w/e 17.06.11)

13:21 Sega: The era of big UK studios is over 2

11:58 Hosts named for Develop Awards

11:49 New Wii U dev kits 'to arrive by July'

11:00 Second coming for Sega Racing Studio

10:10 THQ to host UK studio open days

16 June

17:56 Microsoft Gamefest dev event set for July

17:50 Microsoft debuts Kinect for Windows SDK

17:18 Report: Nintendo pulled devs' Wii U demos at E3 2

16:35 Develop seals Epic partnership 1

16:19 Avalanche: Kaos deserved better, and we'll help 2

15:18 $5m fund to port iOS games to Android

14:05 EKI One licensing prices revealed

13:10 Epic's 'Dev Days' come to Europe

12:19 Desilets joins THQ amid 'staff poach' row

11:40 'Giant enemy crab' studio rumoured to have closed 2

10:51 18,000 accounts compromised in BioWare hack

10:28 EA lays blame on Valve for Crysis 2's Steam ban

15 June

17:51 Bohemia Interactive integrates xaitment's AI tools

17:31 Ex-Rockstar dev: It's an ideal time to quit AAA studios

16:48 Avalanche to open New York studio 3

15:42 Nintendo: Wii U won't play DVD or Blu-ray

14:21 Garriott to Keynote GDC Europe

13:58 Iwata: I wasn't criticising mobile devs at GDC 1

12:35 Wii U 'running custom Radeon R770 GPU' 4

12:05 Industry elite to mix with students at Cambridge edu event

12:00 FEATURE: Could your game change the world? 2

11:29 Valve opens micropayment model for Steam devs 1

11:03 Jagex to explain studio transformation at Develop Conference 1

10:27 Last chance: Develop Awards early bird ends June 15th

09:45 EA 'begins pulling games from Steam' 2

14 June

17:58 Next Xbox 'on desks at Crytek UK' 4

17:36 Mizuguchi: Modern technology is ready for my ideas

17:21 Kojima, Molyneux and Bleszinski set for Gamelab

15:38 CCP Games boss headlines GameHorizon 7

15:28 Unity expands in the UK with new Brighton studio

12:00 Gamecity:Hamburg backs the Develop Awards

11:30 Minecraft sales top 2.5 million 1

11:12 Burning $9m, VC anxiety and commercial triumph - the Mind Candy story

13 June

16:52 THQ to axe Homefront studio Kaos [Update 2] 1

16:45 THQ to cut down UK studio [Update 2]

16:04 OPINION: Fragmentation frustrations

15:44 Crytek: We're bringing our tech to Wii U 2

15:08 Wii U controller and system designs 'near-final'

12:45 Develop 117 details Mind Candy's rise and rise

12:32 Xbox Live 'to be integrated with Windows 8' 3

11:44 Mediatonic making Walking Dead game for Facebook

11:30 Hacking spreads to Nintendo and Epic websites

10:50 Early bird extension deal for The Develop Awards

10:34 'Kinect 2.0' design talk at Develop Conference 1

11 June

02:10 MBE for Charles Cecil

10 June

18:00 E3 2011 - All the news

17:55 Programming guru gives insight into Wii U tech 7

17:38 New versions of core EA franchises to hit iOS

17:34 Media Mill reveals Little Deviants audio work

17:26 Molyneux: Fable demo 'a horrendous mistake' 5

17:10 Bleszinski: You have to work with hackers 4

15:19 Firemint reveals iOS Wii U competitor

15:14 'Thousands affected' in Codemasters data hack

14:56 Activision wary of mobile games focus

14:33 Three men arrested after PSN attack 1

13:04 Square Enix JPN: Our E3 efforts were 'humiliating'

12:24 Nintendo: Wii U reveal should have been clearer 3

12:22 FIFA not ready for Kinect

11:54 Remedy recoups iPhone dev costs in 3 days

11:42 Microsoft: All our game studios should use Kinect

11:35 E3 2012 dates announced 2

10:54 Microsoft: We haven't greenlit a new Alan Wake

10:44 Bobby Kotick 'considering MySpace buyout'

10:12 Wii U pad's screen resolution put at '854x480'

10:04 Crytek: Cloud gaming could transform the industry

10:00 Amiqus joins forces with Develop Awards

9 June

18:06 Miyamoto: Wii U will only read one screen-pad 7

18:05 Report: Apple u-turn on app subscriptions

17:30 Id Tech 5 unacceptable for Skyrim - Carmack 1

17:17 Mirror's Edge 2 lives on

17:04 Carmack: I never wanted to license out our tech

16:48 Rage SDK confirmed

16:26 Jagex hires 8Realms VP

15:40 OPINION: Why in-app billing won't solve Android issues 1

15:38 Jaffe: Your WipEout is our Twisted Metal 1

15:05 Denki's Quarrel finds publisher, release imminent

14:23 id regrets Rage's seven-year dev cycle 1

13:07 Double Eleven scores LittleBigPlanet Vita

13:07 CCP: Xbox Live 'too strict' for MMOs 3

12:55 Wii U: A visual tour

12:24 Infinity Ward considering dedicated MW 3 servers 2

12:07 VIDEO: Wii U garden demo was likely in real-time

11:56 Wii U 'axes friend codes for Xbox Live experience'

11:24 Tech specs: Wii U 4

10:53 Sony: Vita battery life to rival PSP's 1

10:34 VIDEO: Nintendo's Wii U announcement trailer

10:24 id Software ambivalent on Wii U 4

10:15 Wii U screen-pad 'allows us boundless innovation'

10:02 Ubisoft backs Wii U with Assassin's Creed project

10:00 Imagination Studios sponsors Develop Awards

09:43 PS Vita 'region free'

8 June

18:39 EA: Battlefield and MOH games in annual rotation 1

17:40 Respawn 'to challenge Bungie' in sci-fi war games

17:34 RIM acquires mobile dev kit firm Scoreloop

17:07 Ireland considering development tax relief

15:23 Mojang: Minecraft 360 isn't a straight port

15:03 TT Games building ambitious Wii U project

15:00 OnLive opens to Apple and Android devices

14:51 Iwata: facial recognition for Wii U controller possible

14:45 Wii U compatibility: MotionPlus certain, others not 2

14:21 Wii Vitality Sensor 'not dead'

13:33 Nintendo boasts huge Wii U network functionality

12:48 Wii U runs with AMD custom Radeon HD GPU

12:39 Ubisoft backs Wii U with new games rush 1

12:19 Wii U: IBM providing 'some of our best tech'

12:00 FEATURE: Are you ready for the next gaming OS? 3

11:55 Levine confirms Vita BioShock is all-new game

11:27 Kotick doubts Battlefield 3 console credentials 11

10:40 VIDEO: The Wii U graphics demo 2

10:38 Miyamoto ending Wii development

10:14 Retro Studios working on 3DS Mario Kart

10:14 Nintendo: Wii U disc capacity at 25GB

10:00 Develop Awards gets Supermassive backing

09:56 Next Level developing Luigi's Mansion 2

07:00 505 Games announces Kinect FPS 2

06:01 Sony: PS Vita and PS3 could replicate Wii U system 9

7 June

19:09 Wii U powered by Unreal Engine 3 tech 4

19:00 Infinity Blade earnings top $10m

18:30 EA champions the Wii U

18:18 Rocksteady building Arkham City for Wii U

18:08 IN PICTURES: Nintendo's new system, Wii U

17:45 Nintendo brings TV to controller with Wii U

16:53 Nintendo: We want Wii 2 to merge core and casual

16:19 Xbox Live Summer of Arcade line-up revealed

15:35 Telltale secures $7m in funding

14:25 Relentless crosses the floor for Kinect work

13:11 Xbox 360 cloud storage announced

12:54 VIDEO: Dust, Uncharted and Resistance headline PS3 1

12:32 Rumour: Limbo coming to PC

12:25 VIDEO: The new wave of PS Vita games

12:15 Sony bid to spread 3D with 'budget PlayStation TV'

11:45 Big night expected at Games Media Awards 2011

11:35 Lionhead's Fable: The Journey using UE3 1

11:28 Global development elite rush for PS Vita

10:57 RedLynx announces Trials HD sequel

10:32 World-first: CCP reveals MMO-linked console FPS 2

10:09 Bleszinski: Don't hate on Kinect 2

10:00 Develop Awards early bird deal ends today

09:56 Levine backs Sony with Move and PS Vita projects

09:50 PSN activity 'already at 90% of pre-outage levels'

09:39 PSP successor due this year at $249 1

01:02 In numbers: Apple's power and dev payouts 1

00:20 Disney partners with Frontier for new Kinect game

6 June

23:00 Gearbox jumps from Duke Nukem to Brothers In Arms

22:50 Far Cry 3 underway at three Ubisoft studios 4

22:16 Rare splits duties for new Kinect Sports project

22:02 Insomniac holds faith in new IP with Overstrike

19:11 Microsoft flaunts string of improvements to Kinect

18:43 Molyneux reveals Kinect-based Fable project

18:26 Crytek reveals Ryse at Microsoft E3 conference

18:22 Minecraft coming to Xbox via Kinect

18:07 Microsoft: Kinect support for Mass Effect 3

18:06 Ghost Recon goes 'hands-free' with Kinect FPS

17:26 EA Sports to support Kinect across key games

17:21 Hacker group: We have Sony dev source code

17:08 Scaleform founder and CEO joins Gaikai

16:39 Al Lowe revives Leisure Suit Larry

15:49 THQ announces miCoach console project

15:16 Halo 4 in development

15:08 EA: Origin and Steam aren't rival services

14:51 Blizzard seeks 'PS3 specialist' for Diablo III

14:37 Moshi Monsters hits 50m users

14:14 E3 2011 expecting 45,000 attendees

12:56 Insomniac multi-platform reveal at E3

12:39 Rare working on voice-enabled Kinect title

12:22 Sony Santa Monica announcing four games at E3

12:00 Hurry! Develop Awards early bird deal ends tomorrow

11:55 Will Wright building casual sci-fi game

10:26 Microsoft releases Star Wars Kinect video

3 June

15:14 EA blows of Steam with new digital PC service 3

14:51 The top five games job vacancies (w/e 03.06.11)

14:23 Kojima team building new cross-platform engine

10:17 Develop 100: Digital edition available now

10:00 Develop 100: Why didn't BioWare make it? 30

10:00 Develop 100: Microsite live at develop100.com

10:00 Develop 100: It's here

10:00 Develop 100: How Nintendo reclaimed first place

08:00 Develop 100: The Apple and indie revolution 1

2 June

14:48 Yu Suzuki joins 'Kinect fighting game' studio

12:48 Nintendo 'bans Flash on 3DS browser' 54

11:57 100m downloads vaults Backflip to mobile cloud-9

11:39 Development stars set for London Games Conference 1

11:17 Angry Birds creators buy animation group

11:08 EA Visceral producer quits after new child

10:00 Develop Awards team up with Eurogamer

09:48 PSN awakens from six-week nightmare

1 June

17:32 Trinigy's NGP Vision Game Engine released 1

15:20 Mobile tools 'bully' ignores Apple warning

14:45 Dare to be Digital 2011 teams named 1

14:27 Pixonic draws in $5m VC capital

14:05 New App Store law 'is killing dev revenues' 3

12:14 Epic Games steps into Europe with new hire

11:46 FEATURE: How long should it take to build an app?

11:32 iPhone MMO 'makes $1m in 20 days'

10:46 Carmageddon creators set to revive the series 2

10:25 Free Unreal Engine passes 800,000 installs