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Unexpected Narrative: Part 2
Story can be found in unexpected places in games. In this article series, I will discuss my thoughts on finding narrative in surprising places, and applying those structures to your own games.
May 19, 2016
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John Romero to share coding lessons from id's early days at GDC Europe 2016
Game industry veteran John Romero will shine a light on the way things worked at id in the early days in his talk at GDC Europe in August about game coding principles learned making games like Doom.
May 18, 2016
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Take-Two turns in expected full-year results, as GTA continues to shine
The launch of XCOM 2 and continued success of GTA helped the company do better than anticipated for its most recent quarter, and full-year results were in line with expectations.
May 18, 2016
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VR dev Lucid Sight nets $3.5 million, will release 20 games this year
"This capital will allow us to release high-quality and free ad-supported games across all VR platforms at a higher pace."
May 18, 2016
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Grand Theft Auto V tops 65 million shipped units
The cross-generation mega-hit keeps on selling, with 13 million sold in the last year despite shipping on only one platform during 2015.
May 18, 2016
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Chrome to deprecate Flash
The Chrome team revealed plans to block Flash content from every website unless a user explicitly allows the player to run. This is another step in what seems to be a plan to ban Flash from the web. These are my thoughts as a game developer on the topic.
May 18, 2016
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This Week in Video Game Blogging: health and nature
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Zoya Street on how games are finding new ways to portray health.
May 18, 2016
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Chinese VR firm offers prizes for VR games via a Global VR Challenge
VR game makers, take note: Chinese VR firm DeePoon is looking for unreleased VR games, and it's holding a global VR game competitition with a $35,000 prize pool to find them.
May 17, 2016
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Gear VR sales have surpassed 300,000 in Europe this year
Samsung has sold over 300,000 of its Oculus-powered Gear VR virtual reality headset across Europe since the start of the year.
May 17, 2016
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Top German soccer club buys pro League of Legends team, Elements
"Particularly noteworthy is the development of structures within League of Legends and the flagship League of Legends Championship."
May 16, 2016
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Video: Enabling hands in virtual reality
This 2016 VRDC talk from Gleechi's Jakob Johansson and Kai Hbner draws on 8 years of robotics experience to explain problems related to generating natural hand motion and interaction.
May 16, 2016
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Video: Creating the unique interactive soundtrack of Remember Me
The challenges of distilling the sensation of the game's central theme of memory manipulation from a live orchestra, then seamlessly complementing the live instrumentations with electronic enhancements.
May 13, 2016