SuperGenius – One Company’s Journey into the World of Outsourcing
SuperGenius started out like many small game companies – with a dream. They wanted to outsource their talent and work with the best game developers in the world. They quickly discovered that someone...
View Article10 Most Influential Games of the 80s
It’s no secret that video games were a great deal different back in the 1980’s; from classics we still see today to the games that didn’t live to see the next decade. Remember the original versions of...
View ArticleCogswell Student’s Artwork Featured On Kotaku!
One of our students, Matt “Bardler” Bard, had his polycount rock formation featured on Kotaku as, “A rather magnificent-looking, somewhat dungeonesque wall from Bardler” Clicker here for the article!...
View ArticleDay of the Devs
It was a video game enthusiast’s paradise. Screens and consoles decked every wall of (nearly) every room of the two story Old Mint building in San Francisco, all displaying demos of games to be...
View ArticleWomen in Animation and Women in Games International
The animation and games industries are two places where you rarely find women working, until recently. Even Cogswell has been a heavily male-dominated school until a few years ago. What’s exciting is...
View ArticleTour at Zynga
There were dogs everywhere. Perhaps that shouldn’t have been a surprise to me after seeing the huge dog logo on the massive building, but it still caught me off guard in a pleasant way. Zynga also...
View ArticleE3 Recap
The E3 Entertainment Expo is happening right now, among the slew of announcements comes some welcome news for any fan of Rareware (RARE) games. Microsoft and RARE are bringing a collection of 30 of...
View ArticleE3 Recap 2 – Final Fantasy 7
In 1994 a game that has been since known as a ground breaker for Japanese RPGs began development. It was originally intended to be developed and released for the Super Nintendo, and was moved to to...
View ArticleStudents at Cogswell College spend 48 hours developing games
The following article originally on the Mercury News website, February 4th 2015. It was written by Jasmine Leyva of the Mercury News. It covers the 2015 Global Game Jam event at Cogswell, and offers...
View ArticleCogswell Brings Original VR Mobile Game “We Are Cubed” To SIGGRAPH 2015’s...
Sunnyvale, CA, July 27, 2015 –Cogswell College, a historic, 600-student educational institution offering a unique curriculum fusing Digital Art, Engineering and Entrepreneurship, will have two...
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