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Top YouTube game channels now earn nearly 3.5 billion views every month
The top 100 game-focused channels on YouTube continue to grow more popular, and that growth is being fueled more by personalities like PewDiePie than publishers like Activision.
June 13, 2014
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Patrice Desilets calls for women assassins in Assassin's Creed
The former creative director of Assassin's Creed calls for Ubisoft -- and the industry at large -- to devote more resources to building diverse games.
June 13, 2014
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Musicians union cuts a deal with Microsoft, breaking two-year hiatus
Microsoft has agreed to the terms of an agreement with the American Federation of Musicians that may allow members to compose new game soundtracks for the first time in two years.
June 13, 2014
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Evolve studio Turtle Rock eyes Early Access development
Turtle Rock Studios' creative director and studio cofounder Phil Robb sees the benefits in pulling the veil back on game development.
June 13, 2014
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Get a job: Blizzard is hiring an Environment Artist
Blizzard is looking to bring on an experienced artist to do environmental design on an unannounced title currently in production at the company's Irvine, CA headquarters.
June 13, 2014
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Extrasolar postmortem: Game design at 0.0003 FPS
Lazy 8 Studios founder Dr. Rob Jagnow speaks frankly about the design of Extrasolar and the value of turning your technical constraints into strengths during GDC 2014.
June 13, 2014
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Ubisoft's trouble with Uplay, love for companion apps and microtransactions
Gamasutra speaks to Ubisoft vice president of digital publishing Chris Early about the botched Watch Dogs PC launch and Uplay's image problem.
June 12, 2014
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Recreating the feeling of flight using Oculus Rift
There have been tons of great demos and prototypes showing off what can be achieved with the Oculus Rift VR hardware, but Birdly may be the most imaginative we've seen to date.
June 12, 2014
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Valve bans Steam Community creators following infringement notice
Valve has banned a couple of contributors and released a candid statement to its CS:GO creators, after discovering that the artwork for one of the popular user-created weapons in the game was infringed upon.
June 12, 2014
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30 percent of Twitch viewers are watching on mobile
Video game broadcasting giant Twitch has told Polygon that nearly a third of all Twitch viewers are watching broadcasts via mobile devices.
June 12, 2014
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Nintendo's new IP, Code Name S.T.E.A.M.: Strategy for a new audience
Nintendo's special event for a new IP turned out to be a 3DS strategy game from Intelligent Systems, the Fire Emblem developers -- with hopes of reaching players who don't like strategy.
June 12, 2014
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Too much extra work to put women assassins in Assassin's Creed Unity
"The only logical option, the only option we had, was to cut the female avatar." - Alex Amancio, creative director at Ubisoft, explains why there are no women assassins in the new Assassin's Creed.
June 11, 2014