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Location: Chicago, Illinois

Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore is a growing studio with more than 150 employees.  Our environment is a combination of casual creativity and functional productivity, powered by the studio’s own, proprietary game engine.

Responsibilities:

• Use content authoring and game engine tools to integrate character motions and procedural effects to create responsive, compelling, and attractive player- and AI-controlled character movement in a new title
• Develop and maintain animation processes, rigs, pipelines, and animation systems

Requirements:

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills, interdepartmental fluency.
• Experience using in-game animation systems, with a thorough understanding of blend trees, IK, state machines, tagging, and scripting.
• Experience with planning and implementing real-time animation systems, walk cycles, strafing, aiming, environmental interactions, etc.
• Experience with 3DS Max, Maya, Motion Builder.

Desirable:

• Experience with motion capture pipelines.
• Proficiency with dynamic IK, physics (Havok) and rigging / animation for use with those systems.
• Familiar with version control software.
• Mel, Python, Lua experience.
• Familiar with Modern Console animation systems.
• Basic modeling and realistic animation skills.
• Passion for videogames and game development.

Interested? Apply now.

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Facebook announced today the introduction of their gaming creator pilot program, a live streaming monetization service geared specifically toward “gaming streamers”. This introduces another platform for developers to have their games seen by a wider audience. 

Similar to YouTube and Twitch, the pilot program is “actively exploring ways for fans to back their favorite gaming creators via payments during select livestreams on Facebook,” but it isn’t clear yet how the company will encourage direct fan support from people watching a stream. 

In addition to ensuring that streamers will be able to make a living off of streaming games on Facebook, the platform will enable all creators accepted into the pilot program to livestream at 1080p/60fps (Facebook live video previously ran at 720p/30fps). Since the program is still in its infancy, Facebook has expressed interest in building a solid foundation alongside creators. 

“Based on the results of our initial tests, we’ll expand our fan support monetization initiatives to more gaming creators, including participants in our initial pilot program.”

To see the full details of Facebook’s gaming creator pilot program, check out their blog post. 

We’re releasing a new update (1802.180121-1921) to Preview Alpha that addresses and adds one of the items (Game Pass in Collection) we listed in yesterday’s release notes. This update also includes fixes to Kinect setup and Network Transfer. Read on to learn more about this update, which will be made available starting at 6 p.m. PT to all Alpha Insiders.

New Features:

My Games and Apps Collection – Game Pass (No, we really mean this today! We experienced an error that resulted in it not appearing yesterday.)

• We have enabled a new feature to show an “Xbox Game Pass” tab within “My games & apps” for users on Preview Alpha with an active Game Pass subscription. If someone has an active Game Pass subscription, they will see this tab appear in “My games & apps” and will be able to quickly install available games from Game Pass. It works just like “Ready to install” but for Game Pass. For users in Preview Alpha who do not have Game Pass, they will see the updated left navigation—section dividers added and Memberships tab has moved.

Fixes:

System Setup – Kinect

• When configuring a Kinect during the initial console set-up experience, the process no longer fails when attempting to tune audio.

Network Transfer

• The network transfer no longer fails when initiated from a console on 1802 (this update).

Known Issues:

Profile

• Some users are seeing a new issue that can cause the incorrect Profile color to display after powering on the console.

Pseudo-Localization

• You may notice strange characters which replace normal translated text on the dashboard, Guide, and other areas. Please use Report a problem when you encounter these issues.

Games Installation

• Games that are installed fail to launch. Workaround: If the games are installed to an external drive please copy the game to the internal drive or attempt to delete the title and redownload to fix the launch error.

Display 

• We are investigating the inaccurate RGB colors that have been reported when displaying in 4K HDR mode when playing a UHD disc.

Tournaments

• The left and right navigation for selecting date and time during Tournament creation is currently reversed when the console language is set to Arabic or Hebrew.
• Left and right navigation in Tournament twists is reversed when the console language is set to Arabic or Hebrew.
• Left and right navigation in the bracket view of Tournaments is reversed when the console language is set to Arabic or Hebrew.

Avatars on Home

• Users wishing to represent themselves as an avatar can do so by changing their settings under My profile > Customize profile > Show my avatar.

SNK has published a new trailer for its upcoming fighting title SNK Heroines to coincide with EVO Japan 2018, and the level of fan service on display is off the chart.

As well as showing plenty of gleefully bouncing flesh, the trailer also details how you can customise your fighter and gives a little bit of detail on the (wafer thin) plot. 

However, the really big news is the reveal of Nakoruru from the Samurai Shodown series. She joins Athena Asamiya, Leona Heidern, Mai Shiranui, Yuri Sakazaki and Kula Diamond in the confirmed roster, will more fighters to be revealed closer to the summer launch.

NIS America will be handling publishing duties for this one. Excited? Let us know with a comment.

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam!*

Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.

*Offer ends April 3rd at 10AM Pacific Time