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• Developers: Russian Real Estate-alite Janna Bullock Is Creepysexyscary

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:45 pm

  Tags: Developers, Janna Bullock, Penelope Green

  The last time we caught sight of the weirdly unaging zillionaire developer Janna Bullock, she was wearing a skin-tight leopard skin miniskirt in the pages of Haute Living. For her profile in today's...

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• 3rd Party iPhone Apps Roundup

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:30 pm

  Tags: Apps, Developers, Iphone Apps, Iphoneapps, Third Party Development, Thirdpartydevelopment

  and we hear back from more developers. Hello World. Hello World Demo KBDemo. Proof of concept Keyboard demo. Part of the larger Mobile Terminal for iPhone project. Do Shell. Runs shell script embedded in App. Can be customized by end user. iDecor. App version of the javascriptlet we posted about here. Sets your iPhone wallpaper based off an

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• How we built the Yahoo! Music Videos Facebook app

  Published: July 16, 2007, 1:36 pm

  Tags: Featured Developers

  on May 24th, companies and developers have released hundreds of applications that now entertain, delight and overwhelm Facebook users everywhere. On June 29, we here at Yahoo! Music released our Music Videos application, which lets users post music videos from our extensive catalog to their Facebook Profile, and allows them to dedicate videos

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• Interview with Heavenly Sword Developer

  Published: July 30, 2007, 1:16 pm

  Tags: Developers Conference, Interview, Heavenly Sword, Playstation 3, Video Game

  At the Developer’s Conference, Joystiq was able to obtain an exclusive interview with Rhianna Pratchett, the story designer and script writer for Heavenly Sword. The interview follows: Why are you writing for games, in particular? I’ve always been a gamer, since I was about six and I started playing Mazogs on the ZX81. My dad was very

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• BioShock Possibly Coming To PS3 in 2008

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:28 pm

  Tags: Sony, Bioshock, Creed, Developers, Gamepro, Gamers, Gaming World, Ken Levine, Love, Microsoft, Momentum, Pc Game, Ps3, Quotes, Sony System, X360, Xbox 360

  Ken Levine, one of the developers working on the game, Gamepro asked him if the game would ever be seen on the PS3, he did not confirm nor did he deny the possibility of the game going on the PS3.However, he replied that Right now are focused on the X360 version. GP: Also, another comment you might not be too open to talking about, but

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• Heavenly Sword Is "Half-Assed" According To Itagaki

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:08 am

  Tags: Games Industry, Assed, Developers, Egm Magazine, Good Game, Graphics Programmer, Heavenly Sword, Hero, Improvements, Ninja Gaiden, Outspoken Critic, Sequences, Tecmo

  played a good game where the developers put a big icon of the button you're supposed to press onscreen, Itagaki says. I look at Heavenly Sword and it seems really half-assed, because it's asking you to do all these button-timing sequences but you are not getting much payoff from it. Via Gamers-Creed ---Related Articles at Gaming

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• Gamecock el presidente Harry Miller Discusses the Industry

  Published: August 6, 2007, 1:44 pm

  Tags: Games, Game Platforms, Game Companies, Alternative E3, Gamecock Media Group, Gathering Of Developers, Harry Miller

  says that the Gathering of Developers, or “alternative E3″, has been around a long time. It started as “counter-culture” activities in the parking lot at previous E3s. “- bands, barbecues, beer and all that kind of stuff. It’s a lot of fun; a better bang for your buck.” Miller says the companies

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• Disney Outlines MMO Strategy at GDC Austin Game Career Seminar

  Published: August 6, 2007, 1:18 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Games Industry, Game Platforms, Game Companies, Disney, Game Career Seminar, Game Developers Conference, Gdc Austin

  The agenda for the Game Career seminar, part of the Austin Game Developer's Conference, is available. Pocket Watch Games' Andy Schatz will be giving the key note address; “A Game Industry Journeyman”. The talk follows his career in the industry from his start as a an intern to his current position as founder of Pocket Watch Games.

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• Gaming: Sony Sends SIXAXIS Prototype to Developers, Doesn't Have Rumble

  Published: August 6, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Developers, Gaming, Playstation, Playstation 3, Ps3, Rumble, Sixaxis, Sony

  SIXAXIS controller to developers to work into their upcoming games. The good news is these SIXAXIS+ controllers have better motion sensing. The bad news is they don't have rumble. Sony says this is just the natural evolution of controller development. Everyone else says give them their goddamn rumble back. [Gamepro via Kotaku]

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• Casual Gaming Numbers Soar, but Developers Face Fierce Competition

  Published: August 23, 2007, 3:48 am

  Tags: Gamer Life, Games Industry, Casual Video Games, Developers, Older Gamers

  space is so crowded with developers,” Ben Lewis, head of marketing and sales at Yatec Games, told the Reporter. “There are thousands out there, with new and bigger players entering the market every day. We small developers need to make sure that we don’t fall in between the cracks.” But despite the competition, there

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• Austin GDC Announces Lineup

  Published: August 23, 2007, 3:47 pm

  Tags: Square Enix, Blizzard, Games Industry, Microsoft, Game Companies, Austin Game Developers Conference, Gdc

  The Austin Game Developers Conference has finalised its lineup. Mike Morhaime, president and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment will be headlining the event along with Hiromichi Tanaka, executive officer with Square Enix and Sulka Haro, lead Designer at Sulake Corporation. The GDC has added a number of additional speakers. Lee Sheldon, an

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• LOTRO Dev Corner: Month of the Captain

  Published: August 23, 2007, 1:37 pm

  Tags: Lord Of The Rings, Computer, Game Companies, Captain, Dev Corner, Developers Corner, Lord Of The Rings Online, Lotro, Turbine

  Many big changes came with the latest update for Lord of the Rings Online: Book 10 City of the Kings. The Developer’s Corner takes a look at what has changed and been added to Captains. Referred to as the “Swiss army knife of the battlefield”, the Captain class is LotRO’s #1 buff class. The original Captain comes with the

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• Windows Mobile 6 promised for Apache owners on Friday

  Published: August 28, 2007, 3:12 pm

  Tags: Apache, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Cooked Rom, Cookedrom, Hack, Htc, Mod, Ppc 6700, Sprint, Upgrade, Verizon, Windows Mobile 6, Windowsmobile6, Xda Developers, Xv6700

  delighted to learn that xda-developers forum member helmi_c is promising an Apache-compatible build of Windows Mobile 6 to be released this Friday, and he's got the screenshots that claim to prove it. As tipster Joey put it, "many of us [6700] owners have been kinda left out in the cold with no WM6 love for the 6700," but where manufacturers and

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• Preliminary Pricing for GMP Content Management System 2.0

  Published: August 31, 2007, 4:48 am

  Tags: Asp Net Cms Content Management Developers Programming Small Business Social Networking Statesboro Technology Web 2 0 Web Development Website Management

  is no need to hire a team of developers to build your own application, nor do you need to shell out tens of thousands of dollars to have a managed website. it beats the "free" basic (and empty) frameworks available as they have only basic modules and require developers. Everything is already built into CMS 2.0." GMP Content Management

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• Better URL writing than Apache or ASP.net

  Published: August 21, 2007, 5:40 am

  Tags: Asp Net Cms Content Management Open Source Programming Search Engine Optimization Seo Web 2 0 Website Management Software Development Developers

  The unique URL re-writing feature in GMP Content Management System 2.0 does not rely on asp.net http rewrite, it is also different than Joomla's, Drupals or other content management systems that rely on Apache mod rewrite. We use a URL substitution routine that writes out the URL including articles titles in the URL, it also

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