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Which Steam games are slow burners, and which are swift droppers?
What is hype, but a miserable pile of secrets? Fortunately a few charts from Steam Spy offer a little data on what separates the different kinds of hype and what secrets they may contain.
Aug. 29, 2016
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CD Projekt Red is now worth $1 billion
Thanks to the combined power of The Witcher 3 and Gog.com, CD Projekt Red is now valued at over $1 billion.
Aug. 29, 2016
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Come to VRDC for expert tips on putting VR to good use at events and stores
John Buzzell is an award winning 25-year veteran of the digital industry, and in his VRDC talk "10 Tips for VR in the Retail/Trade/Event Space" he'll share lessons learned about making use of VR at events and at retail.
Aug. 29, 2016
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Submit your Summit, VRDC talks for GDC 2017 now!
The GDC 2017 call for proposals of lectures and panels for topic-specific Summits and the Virtual Reality Developers Conference at GDC is open now through Friday, September 23rd!
Aug. 29, 2016
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Get a job: Be a Senior Unity Programmer at Petroglyph Games
Petroglyph Games (Grey Goo, 8-Bit Armies) is hiring an experienced Unity programmer to work alongside the team in Las Vegas, Nevada developing the studio's upcoming virtual reality game.
Aug. 29, 2016
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Is it okay to refund a game after playing 2+ hours? Devs weigh in
Some people are claiming they've requested -- and received -- refunds after buying No Man's Sky and playing it for 2-50 hours. Now, many devs have weighed in on whether that's okay and what it means for their work.
Aug. 29, 2016
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One studio becomes two as Xeodrifter dev Renegade Kid shuts down
After nearly a decade, Renegade Kid is closing as cofounders Gregg Hargrove and Jools Watsham go their separate ways -- and they're splitting the studio's game catalog on purely dimensional grounds.
Aug. 29, 2016
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'The heyday of South Korean games exports...is now over'
A new report in the Financial Times goes into detail about a declining South Korean game industry, in the face of intense competition from China and the U.S.
Aug. 29, 2016
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Art Outsourcers: How to Do Well in the Bad Weather
Now it seems to be hard time for Chinese art outsourcers, the hike of the salary, the depreciation of US dollars, and the console game market isn’t so good. However there are a handful of them are doing well.
Aug. 29, 2016
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Dungeon999F - Development logs
This is a making note about my first mobile RPG Dungeon999F. I made a dungeon999F as oneman army, and I hope this could be helpful to all prospective One man armys.
Aug. 29, 2016
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Why Assassin’s Creed series isn’t social stealth, and what to do about that?
In this post I discuss what constitutes social stealth, and what's missing from Assassin's Creed for the games to have it.
Aug. 29, 2016
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How Ubisoft Casablanca failed after 18 years experience
After working in the studio for 6 years, i’ve left a year ago because the smell of fire was on the air, one year later Ubisoft Casablanca was closed. I would like to share here some of the internal and external issues that contributed to the closure.
Aug. 29, 2016