Editor Contents Features Michael “RedTide“ James [email protected] 28 Top 8 reasons why Regulars we love this job assistant editor 8 Ed’s note There’s a lot to love about the work we do. Sure, Geoff “GeometriX“ Burrows 10 Inbox it’s often tough and occasionally the only food the 14 Bytes staffers can afford is the crumbs left on the floor of Staff writer Michael’s new Land Rover, but we’d not trade it for Dane “Barkskin “ Remendes anything in the world. Let us tell you why.

Contributing editor Opinion Lauren “Guardi3n “ Das Neves 14 I, Gamer 30 Do it yourself 16 The Game Stalker Breaking into game development doesn’t have to be Technical writer 18 The Indie Investigator a pipe dream. We talk to some industry professionals Neo “ShockG“ Sibeko 20 Miktar’s Meanderings and set you on the path to becoming the next great game developer. International correspondent 95 Hardwired Miktar “Miktar” Dracon 114 Game Over 36 XCOM: Enemy Unknown Contributors Michael went to Burger King. Along the way, he Rodain “Nandrew” Joubert Previews stopped to have a look at the real X-COM remake. He Walt “Ramjet” Pretorius saw many nice things. The end. Miklós “Mikit0707 “ Szecsei 56 Monster Hunter 3G Pippa “UnexpectedGirl” Tshabalala 60 Street Fighter X Tekken Tarryn “Azimuth “ Van Der Byl 62 PlanetSide 2 42 Adam “Madman” Liebman We travel to London to see New York and São Paulo 64 Tribes: Ascend in action. Things get shot, stuff explodes and Michael Skullgirls Art director 65 gets Burger King’s “special sauce” all over his face. Chris “SAVAGE“ Savides

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