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This Week in Video Game Blogging: Being Public
This week, our partnership with games blogging curation site Critical Distance brings us picks from their Senior Curator Zoya Street on sport, pervasive games, and how we respond to the knowledge others are watching us.
July 27, 2016
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Apple iPads make a brief surge in 2016 third-quarter report
Apple's numbers remain steady as iPad revenues move upward for the first time in a while thanks to the launch of the iPad Pro.
July 26, 2016
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Video: Tips from Paradox on mixing history with game design
At GDC 2016, Paradox Development Studio's Chris King shares solutions his studio has for bringing history into your game, while at the same time ensuring the game itself is fun and compelling to play.
July 26, 2016
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Get a job: Deep Silver Volition seeks a senior Technical Artist
Saints Row developer Deep Silver Volition is looking to bring on an experienced technical artist to take a senior position at its headquarters in Champaign, Illinois.
July 26, 2016
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Former PlayStation exec Adam Boyes appointed CEO of Iron Galaxy
PlayStation's former vice president of third-party relations, Adam Boyes, is now CEO of Chicago-based game developer and publisher Iron Galaxy.
July 26, 2016
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Report: NX could be a handheld system with detachable controllers
Anonymous sources have hinted Nintendo's next console, codenamed NX, could be a powerful handheld system with detachable controllers.
July 26, 2016
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Rift gets additional sensor support to make way for room-scale
The additional sensors will enhance movement tracking and improve accuracy as the company prepares to launch its Touch controllers later this year.
July 26, 2016
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A new breed of arcade: Putting devs' skill-based games on casino floors
Gamblit exec Darion Lowenstein speaks to how and why the company wants to work with devs to put simple video games on casino floors. Think '90s arcade games, but with the option to wager real money.
July 26, 2016
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Political snarls drive prominent game educators out of Wisconsin
Frustrated with an inhospitable political climate, University of Wisconsin-Madison game researchers/educators Constance Steinkuehler and Kurt Squire are planning to decamp for California.
July 26, 2016
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Rad adds newer, faster game data compressors to its Oodle offerings
Fun names alert: RAD Game Tools has updated its Oodle library of data compression tools for game developers with two new compressors, Selkie and Mermaid, that are faster than Oodle's extant Kraken.
July 26, 2016
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Investors pour $55 million more into mobile game publisher Scopely
Mobile game firm Scopely has managed to raise $55 million in a Series B round of financing, and it plans to put that money towards expanding its developer ecosystem and investing in games.
July 26, 2016
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Before The Wheel
An essay about the market's lust for certainty, the mad things we do in pursuit of it and the ways of thinking that separate business folk from creatives.
July 26, 2016