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What is a Game Engine?

Posted 05-02-2008 at 06:15 AM by [PhiberOpticks]


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Originally Posted by Gamasutra
April 29, 2008

Educational Feature: What is a Game Engine?
GameCareerGuide.com, Gamastura’s sister web site for students and other newcomers to game development, has just posted a new educational article that cracks one of the big mysteries of the game industry: What the heck is a game engine?

Experienced developers bandy around the term “game engine” as if
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The Future of Boss Battles

Posted 05-02-2008 at 05:50 AM by [PhiberOpticks]

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FEATURE: The State and Future of Boss Battles
By Edge
Prehistoric but in no danger of extinction, do boss battles deserve such prominence in modern gaming?
Admit it: if you’re a long-serving gamer, you’re almost definitely au fait with the Rage Punch. That sudden, explosive venting of anguish after shuffling off your virtual coil for the Nth time, where the only course of action is to unleash
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Article Organization [Pheedback]

Posted 05-02-2008 at 05:00 AM by [PhiberOpticks]
First, I would like to talk about the the purpose that I believe the wiki serves. Feel free to disagree. But I think its purpose, intertwined with the fact that the game is still in development, more easily allows people to edit content, since in fact, any content can be subject to change. I think the articles section is a more official source of content.

For starters, I think the title, Articles for the section can be slightly misleading. I think Database is more appropriate. Or...
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The MMO market

Posted 05-02-2008 at 03:29 AM by [PhiberOpticks]
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ANALYSIS: MMOGs - Risk vs Reward
By Screen Digest
Analyst Piers Harding-Rolls examines the gambles involved in publishing premium online games.

It is clear that for those companies that succeed, the MMOG subscription
model can be extremely lucrative and benefits disproportionately from scale. In other words, once past a certain level of subscribers, operating expenses’ impact on profit margins falls heavily, allowing for great returns. Operating profit for well-adopted
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Michael Bay accepts challenge [Uwe Bollsh*t]

Posted 05-02-2008 at 02:59 AM by [PhiberOpticks]
I while ago, I posted a video of Uwe Boll challenging Michael Bay. Now, I've got some better news: Michael Bay accepted it. Now, Uwe Boll isn't exactly the most brilliant director in the world. In fact, he's probably one of the worst. But if he can be called anything (besides a real ******), he can be called a marketing genius. Read what he says or watch the toob link and you'll see what I mean.

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Hi here's Uwe Boll, I'm very happy to say the fight is on. Boll Vs. Bay. It's a rumble
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