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Steam sale 2016: Revenues up despite conservative discounts
After revealing that this year's Steam sale was significantly more lucrative than the last, Steam Spy creator Sergey Galyonkin has crunched the numbers in an attempt to figure out why.
July 8, 2016
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Lord of the Rings Online dev Turbine hit with layoffs 2
Lord of the Rings Online creator Turbine is being hit with layoffs as parent company Warner Bros. continues to transition the studio into a free-to-play mobile developer.
July 8, 2016
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Key reseller G2A looks to secure marketplace with front-end verification
Video game key reseller G2A has taken more steps to reform its controversial marketplace after developer TinyBuild alleged the company has cost it roughly $450,000 in fraudulent sales.
July 8, 2016
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Study: Big discounts on bulk IAP buys in mobile games barely affect earnings
University of Chicago economists worked with F2P mobile game maker King to study how deeply discounting IAP bought in bulk affects a game's profitability. Their findings? Not much, apparently.
July 8, 2016
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Less than a day after launch, Pokémon Go tops the iOS charts
Less than a day after it launched, the location-based mobile game Pokémon Go from Niantic and The Pokemon Company is now the #1 most popular and top grossing free iOS app on the U.S. App Store.
July 8, 2016
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Teaching the Player: Don’t Use Words
Taken from my personal site.
July 8, 2016
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The Surprising Profile of Idle Clicker Gamers
A Quantic Foundry case study with a client on Idle Clicker games where the findings surprised us. We expected to find casual gamers, but we found a core gamer audience.
July 8, 2016
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Disclosing paid content legally – a practical guide for developers and influencers
Pete Lewin and Jas Purewal, interactive entertainment lawyers at Purewal and Partners, have created an easy-to-use guide for developers and influencers to help identify what disclosures (if any) are legally required when it comes to paid content.
July 8, 2016
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PlayStation exec Adam Boyes announces departure from company
Playstation's VP of third-party relations told Twitter followers he'd be stepping down from PlayStation for a return to the world of indie game development.
July 7, 2016
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Epic's Tim Sweeney has faith in Project Scorpio and Playstation Neo
The longtime Epic Games CEO says that these new consoles will solve old problems for game developers, though he still has concerns on how Microsoft will be approaching game development for Windows 10.
July 7, 2016
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Hidetaka Miyazaki says taking chances is essential to Dark Souls 3's success
As a company president and lead game designer, Hidetaka Miyazaki sees a need for risk-taking in order to maintain the success of From Software's games.
July 7, 2016
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Video: How Overwatch was designed so people could 'play by sound'
At GDC 2016 Blizzard's Scott Lawlor and Tomas Neumann run down how the studio designed and tuned the audio elements of Overwatch so players could literally "play by sound."
July 7, 2016