In Memoriam - Cyberlore Studios

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberlore_Studios
While it didn’t completely cease operations (just changed its name to Minerva), Northampton-based Cyberlore is no longer focusing on regular games.
Since 1992, they produced a whole number of expansion packs for games such as Warcraft, Heroes of Might and Magic and Mechwarrior, but due to collapse of their publisher Hip Games, they changed their name [...]

Gamedevmap on MA

One useful resource for anyone trying to break into game industry or just learn something about video games in your area is GameDevMap (http://www.gamedevmap.com) and currently 6 companies are listed for “Massachusetts”  and 27 companies are listed for “Massachussets”, which, all in all, makes for 30+ companies!
Not bad, not bad - now I wish that [...]

More Blog/General Updates

After seeing more than a few local game companies posting a whole batch of new positions on their websites, I decided to create a separate page for job postings which I will update every 2 or 3 weeks.
At this point it seems that Harmonix, Blue Fang Games and Turbine Inc. are some of the most [...]

In Memoriam - Stainless Steel Studios

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_Steel_Studios
According to Wikipedia, Cambridge, MA based SSS was founded in 1997 and ceased all operations on November 2005, with the reason being cuts in funding from Midway Games.
They managed to produce Empire Earth (published by Sierra) and Empires: Dawn (published by Activision) , with Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War finished/published by Midway Games, while [...]

GameBrix

As you may or may not know, I’m currently going through a web design certificate course at New England Institute of Art (http://www.artinstitutes.edu/boston/) and the fact that I came to one of the classes and wasn’t even supposed to be here because class was canceled, resulted in this…
By mistake, I was invited to a presentation [...]