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Yahoo upgrades Flurry dev tools, marries them with its ad services
Today at the company's first Mobile Developer Conference, Yahoo announced major new features for the popular Flurry analytics package, which it acquired last year.
Feb. 19, 2015
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Road to the IGF: Ben Esposito's Donut County
Did you ever want to be a hole? Gamasutra speaks to Ben Esposito about Excellence in Visual Art nominee Donut County, its pleasant pastel visuals, and its gentle provocation.
Feb. 19, 2015
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Epic Games offers up $5 million in Unreal Dev Grants
Today Epic Games has announced a new initiative -- one that could see your game netting between $5,000 and $50,000 in no-strings-attached funding from the engine provider.
Feb. 19, 2015
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Road to the IGF: Down to the Wire's Ice-Bound
An interactive novel and an augmented reality game that got kicked off by the suggestion to create a project to "imagine the future of the book," Ice-Bound is an IGF Excellence in Narrative finalist.
Feb. 19, 2015
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Sega opens its wallet to acquire Western mobile developer talent
Sega Networks is making a show of investing in Western F2P game developers by pouring money into a pair of mobile game studios and buying a third one outright.
Feb. 19, 2015
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The Outsiders is a new indie studio founded by former DICE devs
This week Stockholm-based developers David Goldfarb and Benjamin Cousins took the wraps off their new indie studio: The Outsiders.
Feb. 19, 2015
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One of the BioWare doctors is back in the games business
After leaving the game industry in 2012 to pursue passion projects in the beer business, BioWare cofounder Dr. Greg Zeschuk is back -- in a sense -- with a leading role at mobile game company Biba.
Feb. 19, 2015
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Sponsored: Selecting and optimizing type in games
When was the last time you read on-screen text while playing a video game? For most of us, the answer is "the last time I played a video game."
Feb. 19, 2015
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Play games, meet creators and find a job on the GDC expo floor
With less than two weeks to go until the 2015 Game Developers Conference, show officials highlight some of the most exciting things to see and do on the GDC show floor.
Feb. 18, 2015
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Tencent eyes Europe, with majority investment in Miniclip
China's biggest fish invests in a European mobile publisher of top-grossing games -- and perhaps offers some good news for mobile devs hoping to crack the Chinese market.
Feb. 18, 2015
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Road to the IGF: SuperChop Games' Ephemerid
Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure is a "rock fairy tale about a paper mayfly," brought to life by its unique classical guitar soundtrack. We catch up with SuperChop Games about the Excellence in Audio nominee.
Feb. 18, 2015
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Road to the IGF: Klei Entertainment's Invisible, Inc.
As part of our ongoing Road to the IGF series of interviews with IGF award-nominated devs, we caught up with Klei's Jason Dreger and James Lantz to find out what inspired the design of Invisible, Inc.
Feb. 18, 2015