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The makers of Anomaly are launching their own publishing label
Polish developer 11 Bit Studios is publishing Flow Combine's indie strategy game Spacecom via 11 Bit Launchpad, the studio's newly publishing label.
June 6, 2014
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Sacked Halo composer taking Bungie to court over unpaid benefits
Composer Marty O'Donnell was fired by Bungie back in April after more than a decade of service. Now, he's taking them to court over the company's alleged failure to pay him benefits owed.
June 6, 2014
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Two Bioshock vets go indie to build a darkly comic game about development
Irrational expats Jordan Thomas and Stephen Alexander have announced their indie studio Question's debut project: The Magic Circle, a first-person game about life inside a game in development.
June 6, 2014
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The 'world's largest game collection' on the auction block
Owner of online game shop Good Deal Games auctions off a collection of over 11,000 games -- verified by Guinness to be largest.
June 6, 2014
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The Witness: Modeling epiphany
Leigh Alexander catches up with Jon Blow about The Witness, and asks the enigmatic designer some questions she has always been afraid to ask him.
June 6, 2014
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Get a job: Goblinworks is hiring a Visual FX Artist
Tabletop RPG fans with MMO game dev experience, take note: Goblinworks needs an artist to join the team working on a Pathfinder MMORPG in the studio's Redmond, WA office.
June 6, 2014
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Video: Developing Rogue Legacy on a budget
Cellar Door Games co-founders Kenny and Teddy Lee explain how they were able to make Rogue Legacy on a budget of less than $15k during a postmortem at GDC 2014.
June 6, 2014
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New report delves into why CCP canned World of Darkness MMO
"There were plenty of developers who would get redirected to create Eve content... During these times, World of Darkness development was significantly slowed down." - a dev on canned MMO World of Darkness.
June 5, 2014
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Despite Hitman: GO success, the next mobile Hitman is free-to-play
Following the success of Hitman GO on mobile, Square Enix Montreal has revealed its next step for the Hitman franchise on mobile and tablet platforms.
June 5, 2014
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Being B.J. Blazkowicz: Storytelling in Wolfenstein: The New Order
Jens Matthies, creative director on Machine Games' Wolfenstein: The New Order, is all about aligning player and protagonist motivations when telling a story in a video game.
June 5, 2014
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GOG moves to challenge Steam and Origin with GOG Galaxy platform
Gog.com has long billed itself as a digital distribution platform for DRM-free PC games, and now it's doubling down on that moniker by launching a standalone client called GOG Galaxy.
June 5, 2014
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Words With Friends co-creator is making a Rift-exclusive platformer
Oculus VR's publishing program is starting to bear fruit -- the company has revealed a partnership with Playful Corp. to build a third-person platformer exclusively for the Oculus Rift VR headset.
June 5, 2014