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Contents DEVELOP ISSUE 101 DEC ‘09/JAN ‘10
ALPHA 07
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05 – 11 > dev news from around the globe
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Trevor Williams returns with new studio Playground; Jagex explains the canning of Mechscape; RIM commits to game developers on Blackberry; a report from the 2009 Montreal Game Summit, plus our monthly round up of all the big headlines
14 – 21 > opinion and analysis Nick Gibson looks at how online gambling firms are infiltrating the games industry; Owain Bennallack ponders how development is a young man’s game; Billy Thomson looks at the movie tie-in game; David Jefferies looks back on three years of columns for Develop; and Nicholas Lovell looks at Facebook’s promise
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20 – 23 > peace and unity COVER STORY: The genesis and rise to fame of Unity Technologies
27 – 30 > 30 under 30 We profile the 30 brightest young stars in the game development industry
33 – 40 > london town Eight of the studios that are shaping London’s cutting-edge game dev scene
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We go to Skywalker Ranch to find out how games are tied into the Lucas empire
55 – 57 > metro 2033 Develop flies to Russia to learn more about THQ’s novel adaptation
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50 – 52 > lucas’ arts
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60 – 61 > space re-invaders Taito tells us about evolving Space Invaders for the iPhone and a new generation
BUILD 66 > guide: iphone engines Thinking of finding your fortune on the iPhone? These engines will help…
67 > key release: phonetic arts Text-to-speech comes of age as we check out the Cambridge firm’s offering
81 – 88 studios, tools, services and courses
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