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Hadean Lands dev offers 'no-hint pledge' certificate as $35 DLC
"It might be easier to stick to that [no hints] promise once you've laid down some cash on it," reads a post from the developer on the DLC's Steam page. "Just a thought. It's up to you."
June 21, 2016
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Longtime Angry Birds frontman Peter Vesterbacka is leaving Rovio
Finnish developer Rovio is saying goodbye this week to longtime Angry Birds frontman Peter Vesterbacka, who -- after over six years with the firm -- is stepping down as chief marketing officer to focus on being an entrepreneur.
June 21, 2016
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City management, mayhem and Sid Meier's wisdom: Making Civilization VI
6 years on, Firaxis is preparing to ship Civilization VI. Here, producer Dennis Shirk reveals how the game's design incorporates everything from Sid Meier's 33/33/33 rule to a novel "Mayhem" mechanic.
June 21, 2016
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Video: See some of the many prototypes inside Valve's VR lab
Make magazine recently travelled to Valve's headquarters in Washington to check out the game company's VR efforts, and they brought some cameras with them.
June 21, 2016
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Razer aims to spur (OS)VR game development with $5M VR dev fund
Heads up, VR devs: This month Razer launched its OSVR Developer Fund, which has a starting pool of $5 million and a mandate to aid VR developers with funding, marketing and promotional support.
June 21, 2016
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G2A Sold $450k worth of our games
G2A Sold $450k worth of SpeedRunners, Party Hard, and Punch Club.
June 21, 2016
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Antegods Design Update: Tweaking Dash Gameplay
Antegods is a stonepunk arena action game by Codeglue. In this blog post our game designer Wytze Kamp talks about he tweaked a new character feature dubbed dashing.
June 21, 2016
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Nintendo Is in Trouble and E3 Didn't Help
At E3, I saw Nintendo on a ledge, falling. In my ten years at E3, this was the first outward display of a company in such disarray.
June 21, 2016
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E3 2016 Media Coverage Analysis – aka “Who won the E3 media battle?”
E3 is now over, the weekend has passed, the attendees have flown back to their homes, and it is time for me to go over the media coverage of the events, as is now traditional.
June 21, 2016
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Come to GDC Europe and see how LawBreakers' gameplay is designed
At GDC Europe Boss Key Productions' Dan Nanni will deliver an expert talk on how to design a game that's both fun and functional, using the studio's work on multiplayer shooter LawBreakers as example.
June 20, 2016
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What devs at E3 were saying about Project Scorpio and PlayStation Neo
At E3, we spoke to developers about the prospects of developing for the new upgraded consoles from both Microsoft and Sony.
June 20, 2016
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Fantastic Contraption adds built-in mixed reality and Twitch chat functions
The latest update to Fantastic Contraption includes integration with Twitch chat and a new Director Mode to help players show off their virtual reality creations.
June 20, 2016