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Games Programmer
Dependant on experience
UK - London

31 March

21:50 THQ releases staff at Kaos and Volition

21:08 'SOE long', as cuts come: 205 fired, 3 studios dead 3

20:36 Is this the solution to Facebook fragmentation?

18:15 Epic Games: We will be vindicated in court 4

16:17 Ben Cousins departs from Easy Studio

15:53 Epic: 'If Apple continues at this rate...'

15:37 Mobile game concerns 'a temporary issue' - Epic

14:01 Silicon Knights demands Gears of War money 4

11:27 Eurocom opens mocap studio to external devs

11:09 Axe hangs over Sony Online studios

10:26 Court blocks THQ from snatching more Ubisoft devs 1

30 March

15:54 UK studio Supermassive opts for Gamebryo

15:33 Android in-app purchases locked to Google store

15:14 Xbox Indies ratings 'scam' forces Microsoft probe 2

14:30 Hunt for UK's smartest developer returns 1

14:14 Game Republic fights on with private backing

11:02 Resident Evil duties sent to Canada 2

10:32 Irem halts production across multiple projects

10:22 Activision castaways form new indie unit

09:56 EA exec producer quits for Crystal Dynamics 1

09:27 Microsoft 'to update 360 disc format'

29 March

15:47 Former Tecmo Koei boss to usurp Zynga Japan CEO

15:03 Skillset ticks another Abertay course

14:19 Last chance to enter Dare to be Digital 2011

13:39 Tax man cometh for 3DO creator Trip Hawkins 1

13:24 VIDEO: Vice City modders add next-gen to the '80s 1

11:41 Nintendo: 3DS isn't for unproven indies 9

11:00 Develop Conference speaker call ends this week

10:25 Xaitment bundles 'cost-effective' AI pack

09:48 Metacritic pulls development career scores 1

28 March

16:00 Apple developer expo clash with E3

15:55 Hiring run as startup studio Playground blooms

15:45 Nintendo: We embrace independent spirit 1

15:03 Ignition comes clean on cuts and cancellations

12:25 Culture boss slams door on games tax breaks 7

11:17 Bridges burnt after Microsoft 'snubbed indie dev' 4

10:46 Metacritic begins rating individual developers

10:18 Amanita reveals third Samorost and PS3 projects

09:47 'Progress for Skills Review' - Livingstone

08:00 OPINION: Why Iwata wasn't wrong 9

26 March

12:45 Amanita Design unveil Samorost 3 and others

25 March

23:42 Machinarium coming to PS3 and tablets this year

15:56 Unity and Airplay support Blackberry Playbook 1

15:33 Blackberry trick brings Android apps to Playbook

14:45 Ex-RTW man reveals new 'crowdsource studio'

12:30 The top five games job vacancies (w/e 25.03.11)

12:02 Zynga 'wants tax breaks for San Francisco HQ' 1

11:17 IGDA board election cancelled after low turnout

10:47 Ed Fries to keynote Nordic Game

10:36 '3m app downloads per day' on Blackberry App Store

10:32 Square Enix joins mobile games race 1

10:10 Android to unlock in-app purchase system 1

24 March

15:45 Internship opportunity at Ninja Theory 5

14:51 APB owner to open Scotland studio 2

12:11 £159m loss between R&D and game tax breaks 3

10:38 Game tax break no-show lets UKIE down

09:53 Zynga thief jailed for two years 1

09:00 UKIE calls for games industry ambassadors

23 March

16:27 Ideaworks Labs releases Airplay SDK 4.4

14:05 Tiga: 'Budget worth £7m to UK devs' 4

14:01 UK Govt to simplify R&D credits scheme

13:18 UK Budget 2011: R&D tax credits to raise 200%

10:36 Mixamo integrates with Unity Asset Store

10:12 Ex-Bizarre Creations staff form Hogrocket

10:10 Optimising Total War: Shogun 2

22 March

15:15 Develop in Brighton: Speaker submission deadline nears

13:42 Trendy Entertainment sings UE3's praises

12:25 COD community boss joins Sledgehammer 1

12:01 3DS lead: Making cheap games is of no interest 6

10:30 Relentless adopts Hansoft

09:23 1995 'GTA' design doc unearthed 3

21 March

17:47 Nexon grants A Bit Lucky $5m in funding

16:37 Craig Duncan joins Rare

16:06 Focus: Multicultural business

14:27 Next-gen Xbox due in 2015? 1

12:21 Zynga dismisses Xbox Live 4

10:41 C4 games development documentary to air 3

09:58 Zynga picks up Floodgate team

09:17 Sony 'in trouble' in hardware space, says ngmoco boss 6

18 March

19:24 Angry Birds dev Rovio plans stock market jump 1

15:48 Insomniac: Triple-A audience isn't growing 1

14:59 News Corp 'primes IGN for social games drive'

13:50 Molyneux: Studio workers deserve fame

12:00 The top five games job vacancies (w/e 18.03.11)

11:34 Huge NCsoft donation to Japan quake relief

10:55 Firemint 'spent $2 million' on iPhone project 2

09:55 Nintendo: We don't want garage developers 17

17 March

15:56 Warner Bros signs long-term Unreal Engine deal

15:38 EA not cleared from $400m Infinity Ward lawsuit

14:56 Crysis scores Inception composer Hans Zimmer

14:30 Machinarium maestro to demo two new projects in UK

13:53 Ad agencies are almost pointless - Valve 1

13:47 Make The Game contest heats up

13:00 GDC Europe opens call for dev speakers

12:17 That Game Studio crowned BAFTA Ones to Watch 3

11:15 Tearful Molyneux's BAFTA speech in full 8

10:34 Game BAFTAs: The winners 3

10:08 Valve hires System Shock man Doug Church

09:36 Square Enix plans second Canadian studio

16 March

15:50 iPhone studio turns to Kinect after sales joy

15:29 Windows Phone app catalogue 'the fastest growing'

14:35 Bleszinski: Dual-analogue isn't for touch-screens 4

12:23 Nintendo must heed third-party warning, EA says 4

11:58 Matthew Jeffery leaves EA for Autodesk role 2

11:13 Big poker night returns to Develop In Brighton

10:47 EA plays down BioWare stealth-review fiasco 2

15 March

14:20 Crytek to release UDK alternative

13:44 EA boss: 'Games should court controversy' 1

11:36 Disney 'makes 80 staff redundant'

10:58 Tiga expands remit amid social games uprising

10:32 Blizzard exploring Diablo for consoles

10:15 Crytek UK project aimed for E3 reveal 14

14 March

17:11 Lilt Line 'needs double sales for Nintendo pay' 6

15:54 Free Realms brings free-to-play to PS3

15:17 Angry Birds 'downloaded over 100m times'

15:09 Human Head 'to finish Prey 2 by 2012'

14:56 Amazon wins Angry Birds Rio exclusivity deal 1

14:17 Jagex deal to develop Transformers MMO 10

13:57 Industry elite unite for $12m earthquake fund

13:30 GDC lecture: 'An Apology for Roger Ebert' 4

13:14 Crafty graduate codes Katamari browser hack

11:59 Zynga: The 40 year-old women is the new core gamer

11:18 Insomniac wants to bring depth to social games

10:37 Zynga begins Japan quake charity drive

10:04 Game projects abandoned as Japan trade falls 1

12 March

15:44 Sega donation to Japan earthquake fund 1

11 March

18:00 In Pictures: The lost world of Milo 6

14:48 EA slashes iPad 2 game prices 1

14:23 Jordan Mechner to keynote Nordic Game

13:32 Game budgets 'have tripled' on 3DS and PSP2 2

13:12 Facebook boosts European dev support

12:03 PlayStation Suite 'can be Android game capital'

12:00 The top five games job vacancies (w/e 11.03.11)

11:23 iPhone devs offered more help to go Android 1

10:44 Japan rocked by earthquake

10 March

17:07 Molyneux praises Lionhead's secret heroes 2

15:50 Zynga opens 'key technology' studio

15:00 In Pictures: Cameron's visit to Special Effect

14:43 Lionhead's new design approach: 'The Golden Line' 5

14:01 Prime Minister hails game charity group

13:05 Angry Birds group secures $42m investment

11:49 Tiga bid to bolster R&D tax

10:53 Sony promotes Hirai in business shuffle

10:27 Devs paid to move iPhone games to Android

9 March

15:33 Jobs on the line as Sony cuts UK projects

14:39 EA: We'd be in worse shape if we hadn't changed 1

13:38 Iwata: Triple-A work has lost the craftsmanship 1

12:09 Game In Scotland returns for aspiring developers

09:58 Games for Windows 'will recover from rocky start' 6

09:56 '40 staff to be emptied' from Hudson US

09:33 Epic's next Unreal Engine - the original HD video 2

08:00 OPINION: The problem with game analytics 3

8 March

15:55 Second studio emerges after Relentless layoffs

15:18 Angry Birds 'cost Rovio $140k, has made $70m'

14:08 Flash on iPhone 'trick' released by Adobe 8

12:50 Discount deadline for dev 'masterclass' event 1

12:00 OPINION: Shouldn't games adapt to busy life? 7

11:35 Louis Castle joins Zynga

11:10 GDC 2011 - Miss anything?

09:53 New Xbox console in development 5

7 March

15:54 Attendance record broken at GDC 25

15:20 UDK devs making $75k only give 1% to Epic 8

12:43 Rebellion joins social games race

12:14 Sony wants iPhone devs to thrive on PS Suite 2

11:47 Sony boss: We've resurrected our PS1 dev attitude 6

10:24 'We're using the world as a platform' - Wright

10:00 Bleszinski: The double-A game is dead

08:00 Bungie denies previous MMO claim [Update]

4 March

21:30 GDC 2011 - The event in five minutes

15:14 Disney splashes $20m on Finnish studio swoop

14:15 Angry Birds flies to Facebook later this year 1

11:54 GDC11: Piracy is not theft - Persson 20

11:46 GDC11: 70% PSN Store revenue growth

11:45 2012 GDC dates confirmed

04:47 GDC11: New Unreal Engine 'a bigger leap forward than UE2 to 3'

04:15 GDC11: 'Become your brand' says Cliffy B

3 March

22:00 GDC11: Valve's dream to read your mind 3

17:28 GDC11: Sony unveils PhyreEngine 3.0 1

17:12 GDC11: Valve's new Steam security

15:53 GDC11: New Partnertrans website revealed

13:04 GDC11: Akamai launches net games publishing kit

12:08 GDC11: 3DS Super Mario announced

11:55 GDC11: 3DS Zelda title dated

11:42 GDC11: Iwata slams App Store 2

11:31 GDC11: 3DS to use NetFront net browser 1

11:22 GDC11: Wii-integrated Netflix service for 3DS

11:13 GDC11: Shenmue 3 in the works? 1

11:06 GDC11: In pictures - Epic's next-gen showcase

10:45 No merger, but UKIE will wants to work with Tiga

00:04 GDC11: Sony opens Move to hacking community 4

2 March

22:46 GDC11: Epic astounds with new tech demo 3

19:36 GDC11: 'Game development is drowning' - Iwata 6

18:41 iPad 2 graphics 'nine times faster' than first device

17:57 GDC11: Iwata disappointed by WiiWare 1

17:00 GDC11: Spoon cloud gaming launched

15:55 GDC11: APB Reloaded closed beta launches

14:59 GDC11: Vicious Engine 2 supports NGP

11:47 GDC11: Minecraft follow-up announced

10:57 GDC11: Top job shuffle at EA Partners

10:50 GDC11: Unity PSN title unveiled

10:33 GDC11: Havok software announced for Android devs

10:14 GDC11: Ngmoco brands NGP 'dead on arrival'

10:02 GDC11: Idea Fabrik reveals games dev platform

05:10 GDC11: SN System debuts NGP dev environment

1 March

20:32 GDC11: Unity Android goes on sale

20:01 GDC11: EA expands Partners scheme to mobile and social

20:00 GDC11: Sony building dev-friendly Home update

17:35 GDC11: UE3 DX11 capabilities unveiled 11

17:32 GDC11: Euro digital market to hit 3.3bn by 2015?

17:03 GDC11: Google charms attendees with free laptops

16:30 GDC11: Autodesk's secret 'Project Skyline'

16:30 GDC11: 'Mobile is a huge opportunity' says Autodesk 1

15:56 GDC11: EA and Bigpoint reveal partnership

15:31 GDC11: Three Autodesk releases announced

14:00 GDC11: Autodesk lifts lid on 2012 line-up

12:19 GDC11: Microsoft XNA dev contest opens

11:14 Obsidian hints at future projects

11:00 GDC11: SOE undergrad scholarship launched 1

07:30 GDC11: Should game dev have a code of ethics? 4

07:19 GDC11: How the Box 2D hero caught Rovio out 10

05:42 GDC11: Angry Birds 'nears 100 million downloads'

05:20 GDC11: Rovio on Nintendo's $0.99 app warning 3

04:08 GDC11: Zynga's five tips for social game success

02:52 GDC11: Zynga opens its heart on studio culture

00:09 GDC11: Rovio confirms Angry Birds movie