Tag Archives: Game Developer magazine

UBM Tech will no longer publish its Game Developer magazine and the July 2013 issue will be the last to circulate after a 19-year run.

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Game Developer Magazine has published the findings of its annual survey into employment equality in the games industry, and the findings underline the need for significant change.

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Game Developer Magazine has announced the results of its 11th Annual Video Game Industry Salary Survey, the results of which state that the average US salary across the games industry in 2011 was $81,192.

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Team Meat’s Edmund McMillen has written in Game Developer Magazine that the studio felt “taken advantage of” by Microsoft during development of Super Meat Boy, because the firm put pressure on the team to finish the game in time for the XBL Game Feast promotion.

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Game Developer Research has released its annual list of the Top 50 Developers according to the number of studios, sales from 2008 along with SkU numbers, and metacritic ratings for each.

The supplement to the Top 50 Developers countdown in Game Developer magazine surveyed 600 industry professionals from the magazine and Gamasutra, asking for opinions on more than 150 developers.

Those polled were also asked to “rate any relevant experiences with working with the companies in question.”

Top 25 is below, with the rest posted after the break courtesy of Joystiq.

1. Nintendo
2. Blizzard Entertainment
3. Ubisoft Montreal
4. Rockstar North
5. EA Canada
6. Konami
7. Valve Software
8. Epic Games
9. EA Tiburon
10. Treyarch
11. Hal Laboratory
12. Capcom
13. Traveller’s Tales
14. Bethesda Game Studios
15. Insomniac Games
16. Namco Bandai Games
17. EA Redwood Shores
18. Koei
19. Kojima Productions
20. Harmonix Music Systems
21. Media Molecule
22. Lionhead Studios
23. Vicarious Visions
24. Maxis
25. Neversoft Entertainment

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