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Texas slashes government incentives for video games and film
As the two industries clash over who gets what, a lack of compromise and heightened scrutiny from politicians means that the latest subsidies are looking very lean by previous standards.
May 29, 2015
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2K sticks by BioShock as the franchise tops 25M copies sold
T2 chief Strauss Zelnick seems bullish about the future of 2K's BioShock franchise, which he claims has sold over 25M to date -- 11M of which were copies of Irrational Games' swan song Infinite.
May 29, 2015
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Video: Designing cities for high-speed traversal in Sunset Overdrive
At GDC 2015, Insomniac Games' Liz England deconstructs the design of Sunset Overdrive and the two scrapped cities that Insomniac built before arriving at the game's iconic Sunset City setting.
May 29, 2015
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Get a job: Sucker Punch is hiring a Concept Artist
InFamous: Second Son studio Sucker Punch is after a full-time artist to work on crafting inspirational concepts and screenshot paint-overs to guide the team in the studio's Bellevue, WA office.
May 29, 2015
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Starbreeze aims to snap up the Valhalla engine in $8.6M deal
Stockholm-based Starbreeze Studios seeks to acquire the Valhalla game engine in a stock deal valued at roughly 73 million Swedish kroner (~$8.6 million USD).
May 28, 2015
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Google updates its Cast SDK, for streaming games to TVs
You can use the device as a dedicated game controller, use the full horsepower of Android and iOS devices on Chromecast -- and the SDK now handles multiplayer games better, too.
May 28, 2015
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Report: Apple buys augmented reality SDK startup Metaio
The startup produced an SDK available for a variety of platforms -- and now Apple seems to have dived into the tech, as legal documents confirm that it's been snapped up by the tech giant.
May 28, 2015
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Godus developer 22Cans 'reboots' under new chief Simon Phillips
Peter Molyneux's studio 22Cans is making a show of hiring fresh talent and making some staffing changes to "reboot" the company, chief among them being naming recent hire Simon Phillips the new CEO.
May 28, 2015
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Free-to-play proves too enticing for another premium MMO: WildStar
Carbine Studios' WildStar is the latest premium MMORPG to abandon mandatory subscriptions in favor of a monetization model that will see the entire game becoming free-to-play this fall.
May 28, 2015
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Might & Magic creator nets $4.5M to launch new mobile venture
Game industry veteran Jon Van Caneghem has managed to raise $4.5 million from investors like Tencent to publicly launch a new L.A.-based mobile game developer/publisher: VC Mobile Entertainment.
May 28, 2015
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With Google I/O on, updates to the Android OS and tools are here
The biggest mobile platform in the world gets a boost as the search giant holds its annual conference in San Francisco. Here's the relevant link to see the latest OS preview and more.
May 28, 2015
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Get a job: Be a Game Designer at Bohemia Interactive
The studio responsible for Arma 3 and DayZ is looking for game designers to join the team in its Orlando, Florida office to work on projects for military and industrial customers.
May 28, 2015