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GDC 2015 is now open for registration!
The time has come to sign up for the largest and longest-running worldwide event for game developers: Game Developers Conference 2015 is now open for registration!
Oct. 1, 2014
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Report: Tencent trumps EA, Sony and Apple in terms of game revenue
A new market research report further reinforces the notion that free-to-play and mobile game firms are competing with (and, at least in Tencent's case, eclipsing) traditional AAA game companies.
Oct. 1, 2014
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Humble Bundle debuts curated storefronts with Yogscast partnership
Getting your game covered by a Yogscast YouTuber now nets you placement in a new curated storefront as the Humble Store expands its purview to encompass partner stores.
Oct. 1, 2014
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Star Citizen hits $55 million, and 280 devs, as funding rolls on
"I sometimes get asked why continue to raise money. Haven’t you already raised enough to make the game? The answer is that Star Citizen isn’t a normal game."
Oct. 1, 2014
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Get a job: Telltale is hiring a Tools Engineer
The folks who made The Wolf Among Us seek an experienced Qt engineer to work on Telltale's suite of graphical user interface tools at its studio in San Rafael, California.
Oct. 1, 2014
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Video Postmortem: Making a truly sci-fi game in MirrorMoon EP
What does it really mean to make a "sci-fi" game? Santa Ragione's Pietro Righi Riva explores the question while giving a postmortem talk about his game MirrorMoon EP during GDC Europe 2014.
Oct. 1, 2014
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Uncertainty leads to the best horror games, says Resident Evil creator
"The horror experience is most scary when the player really isn’t sure whether their character is going to live or die." - Shinji Mikami, best known as the creator of the Resident Evil series, discusses what he believes makes horror stories the most tense.
Sept. 30, 2014
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There is a Tetris sci-fi movie in the works 2
With all the movie adaptations of video games that have popped up over the years, it was only a matter of time before someone tried to turn Tetris into a movie.
Sept. 30, 2014
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Grand Theft Auto music vets found new audio production company 2
Craig Conner and Will Morton, previously senior audio designers at Grand Theft Auto studio Rockstar North, have left the company to found their own audio production company.
Sept. 30, 2014
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Is Portal 2 a better brain-training game than brain-training games?
A recent study from Florida State psychology researchers pit two kinds of games against one another to see which is actually “better” for your brain: "entertainment" games or "brain-training" games.
Sept. 30, 2014
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Four hackers indicted for breaking into Valve and Microsoft servers
Besides allegedly stealing Gears of War 3 game code, they also hacked into U.S. Army networks and stole training software for Apache helicopter pilots -- data worth, in total, over $100 million.
Sept. 30, 2014
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On the back of mobile success, InnoGames opens new studio
The Hamburg-based studio, best known for making browser games, has an iPad hit -- and now expands to Dusseldorf to beef up its mobile offerings.
Sept. 30, 2014