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Adaptive music solution Psai launches on Unity Asset Store
An 'interactive music engine', audio tool Psai has launched on the Unity asset store, providing developers with a way to create interactive music scores that adapt automatically to gameplay.
Jan. 5, 2015
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Get a job: Be a Gameplay Engineer for Oculus VR
VR-curious developers, take note: Oculus VR is looking for an experienced engineer to join the team in its Seattle, WA office and work on creating "game-like experiences" for the Oculus Rift.
Jan. 5, 2015
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More esteemed developers, artists join IGF Jury Panels
The juries behind the GDC 2015 Independent Games Festival take form as an exciting lineup of lauded developers and industry professionals sign on to decide the finalists for the March awards.
Jan. 5, 2015
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Video: Exploring the Japanese indie game dev scene
Speaking at GDC 2014, BitSummit director James Mielke talks about how Japanese indies are changing the status quo of Japanese game development despite rarely being acknowledged by mainstream media.
Jan. 5, 2015
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Cryptic Comet's Vic Davis retires from digital games
Vic Davis, creator of Armageddon Empires, Solium Infernum and Occult Chronicles, has announced his retirement from making digital games, moving instead to designing board games.
Jan. 5, 2015
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Destiny's multithreaded rendering architecture explained at GDC 2015
Bungie graphics engineering architect Natalya Tatarchuk will walk you through the lessons learned in developing Destiny's multtithreaded rendering architecture at GDC 2015.
Jan. 5, 2015
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PlayStation 4 crosses 18.5 million units sold globally
The company now has 10.9 million PlayStation Plus subscribers -- and sold 4.1 million PlayStation 4 consoles across the globe in its holiday sales period.
Jan. 5, 2015
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Sony gears up to launch PlayStation Now subscription system
Sony has set prices and a launch date of January 13th on a subscription system for its PlayStation Now game streaming service, which has been working through beta testing since last January.
Jan. 5, 2015
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Monument Valley: Only 5 percent of Android installs were paid
While developer Ustwo says that a small number of those free installs are legitimate, it seems that piracy continues to be a major problem for premium games on Google's platform.
Jan. 5, 2015
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Former DICE and Spark devs launch indie venture Fugitive Games
Four devs from the likes of DICE (Battlefield 4) and Spark Unlimited (Lost Planet 3) have debuted a new indie studio in Santa Monica and seek to crowdfund development of a space survival sim.
Jan. 5, 2015
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Get a job: Be a Senior Programmer at The Workshop
The Workshop, which had a hand in both The Evil Within and Sorcery, is looking for multiple programmers with console game development experience to join its Marina Del Rey, CA studio.
Dec. 31, 2014
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20 developers, events and trends that shaped our industry in 2014
As we bid farewell to 2014, it's clear we're closing out one of the more momentous years in recent game industry history; here are the developers, events and trends that defined the year.
Dec. 31, 2014