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Rock Band 3 Lead Designer Teasdale Leaves Harmonix For Twisted Pixel
Having unlocked virtually all of his career "achievements" at Harmonix as a designer on Rock Band, Dan Teasdale is leaving the studio to pursue a more hands-on development job. Teasdale, whose most recent position was lead designer on the upcoming Rock...
Gamasutra Apologizes For Recent Site Instability Issues
The creators of Gamasutra and Game Career Guide would like to apologize for our recent website slowness -- and note that technical changes over the holiday weekend should resolve problems permanently. The intermittent slowdown that some of you may have...
Interview: LucasArts VP Bihr Talks Going Beyond Star Wars
LucasArts vice president of global publishing Mary Bihr tells Gamasutra that the company continues to be "committed to having an internal studio" and is "not opposed to looking in new directions", despite a Star Wars-centric E3 showing. The company's l...
Interview: God of War Writer On Scripting Klei’s Shank

Marianne Krawczyk's first video game writing gig was David Jaffe's original God of War. Not a bad way to start off a career in games writing. Her most recent work is found in the big-budget triple-A blockbuster God of War III. But she's not limiting herself to the realm of Kratos or packaged retail hits. EA Partners said Thursday that Krawczyk is the writer behind Shank, the visually-striking 2D mature beat-'em-up from Eets creator and ...

GDC Canada Adds Career Seminar Talks, Console ‘New Realities’ Talk

GDC Canada organizers have revealed initial Game Career Seminar lectures for the May 6th-7th Vancouver event, also adding a Main Conference lecture by Disney and ex-Radical execs on the harsh 'new realities' of making major console games. As well as already-announced emerging market lectures from Zynga and the Diner Dash creator and other recently debuted talks from Obsidian, Blizzard, Telltale, and Blue Castle Games execs and creators, the event is starting to debut details on ...

Interview: Silent Hill’s Akira Yamaoka On His Big Leap

Noted composer and producer Akira Yamaoka recently left Konami after having worked there for the bulk of his career and shifted to Grasshopper Manufacture, the development studio led by the iconoclastic Goichi Suda, which recently released No More Heroes 2. Yamaoka is currently set to work as the composer on the action horror game under development at the studio for EA Partners; the title is produced by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. To find out ...

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