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Sponsored: Mirror's Edge Catalyst - Shattering the Norm
You may not be ready to run, jump and leap across buildings, but EA DICE's Mirror's Edge Catalyst allows you to unleash your inner Faith Connors and experience the next best thing.
July 20, 2016
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Video Game Sequels
While many fans decry frequent game sequels, their use in the game design process cannot be understated.
July 20, 2016
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Pokemon Go media coverage is truly insane – analysis
Currently there is no way to miss Pokemon Go. In its short lifetime, the game is breaking records left and right like being the biggest mobile game in the US ever or attracting more users than services like Twitter or Tinder.
July 20, 2016
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How Pokémon Go Fails to Capture Learnability
Why does Pokémon Go need propping-up from the hundreds of how-to guides that have popped up this week? This article highlights how Niantic have broken or ignored principles for designing a learnable game.
July 20, 2016
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Vivendi now holds 20.2 percent of Ubisoft's voting rights
Vivendi's latest attempt to tease control away from Ubisoft has seen the French media group pick up even more voting rights.
July 19, 2016
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PS4 version of Rise of the Tomb Raider getting PSVR chapter
Rise of the Tomb Raider's days an Xbox console exclusive are almost up, with Sony revealing the game will make its PS4 debut on October 11.
July 19, 2016
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Ubisoft's fortunes rise thanks to strong Q1 sales of digital goods
Ubisoft posted earnings for its first quarter of the fiscal year today that were a bit better than the company's internal projections, due in large part to sales of digital goods.
July 19, 2016
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Thanks to Pokemon Go, Nintendo surpasses Sony in terms of market value
The striking popularity of Niantic and The Pokemon Company's mobile game continues to inspire investor confidence in backer Nintendo, which has now surpassed competitor Sony in terms of market value.
July 19, 2016
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When you know your game isn't done -- and you ship it anyway
In a new interview War for the Overworld lead Josh Bishop tells Eurogamer why the game was shipped in an unfinished state, even though the devs knew it wasn't ready and would have liked to delay it.
July 19, 2016
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Microsoft's games revenue slips due to declining Xbox console sales
Microsoft put out a new earnings report today that shows the fortunes of the company's games business slipping, something it chalks up primarily to low prices and declining sales of its Xbox consoles.
July 19, 2016
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Being Indie in South America
What is like to be an Indie developer in South America? Good and bad things about it from an Argentinean point of view.
July 19, 2016
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Unity 5 and WebGL porting guide
So, you have been working on Mobile games for a while using Unity, and probably heard that with Unity 5 it was possible to port your games for the Web sans Unity Web Player.
July 19, 2016