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Standalone Kinect for Xbox One available from this October
Earlier this year, Microsoft launched the Kinect-less Xbox One in a bid to offer more options when purchasing the console. Now the company will make the Kinect available as a standalone product.
Aug. 28, 2014
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CCP closes San Francisco offices, loses two key executives
With revenue and profits down year-over-year, EVE Online company CCP Games has chosen to shutter its San Francisco studio, and lost two of its U.S. executives.
Aug. 28, 2014
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When Company of Heroes vets build the next Age of Empires...
When Smoking Gun Interactive was offered the chance to pitch a mobile Age of Empires to Microsoft, the studio didn't need to be asked twice.
Aug. 28, 2014
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Phoenix Labs is a new studio from former League of Legends vets
A band of ex-Riot Games veterans have come together to form a new studio in Vancouver, with a focus on AAA multiplayer titles.
Aug. 28, 2014
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GDC Next adds fresh talks on F2P design and app store conquest
The cofounder of YetiZen shares secret strategies for gaming the app stores and Ethan Levy offers tips on designing ethical, successful free-to-play games at GDC Next 2014 featuring ADC.
Aug. 28, 2014
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Get a job: Cryptic Studios is hiring Software Engineers 2
The house that built Neverwinter is looking for programmers to join their Los Gatos, CA-based studio and work on massively multiplayer online games.
Aug. 28, 2014
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Video: Miegakure dev offers perspective on designing 4D movement
A new promotional video for Marc Ten Bosch's 4D puzzler Miegakure seeks to explain how the game implements four-dimensional movement as a puzzle-solving mechanic.
Aug. 28, 2014
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Wii U eShop audience is 93 percent male, 18-plus
According to new stats released by the company at Unity's Unite event in Seattle, Nintendo's audience for download games isn't as young as you might expect.
Aug. 28, 2014
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IGDA issues statement condemning harassment
The International Game Developers Association responds to events where developers and other industry members have been "the subject of harassment and 'doxxing' attacks."
Aug. 28, 2014
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'Gamers' don't have to be your audience. 'Gamers' are over.
'Game culture' as we know it is kind of embarrassing -- it’s not even culture. It’s buying things, spackling over memes and in-jokes repeatedly, and it’s getting mad on the internet.
Aug. 28, 2014
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GOG moves to diversify its lineup by adding DRM-free films
Gog.com has long billed itself as a digital distribution platform for DRM-free PC games, and now it's expanding that remit to encompass DRM-free movies as well.
Aug. 27, 2014
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A peek at the metal: Metro dev talks PS4 vs. Xbox One performance
"We may push 40 per cent more pixels per frame on PS4, but it's not 40 per cent better as a result... your own eyes can tell you that."
Aug. 27, 2014