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'It can never be that simple': Designing the quests of Cyberpunk 2077
CD Projekt Red quest designer Patrick Mills explains the underlying ideas informing the development of Cyberpunk 2077's open-world quests.
June 20, 2018
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Stick or Twitch? How streaming is hurting single-player games
"Why would any major studio outside of a first party trying to sell consoles, or a studio with a reputation for single-player games, bother with an immersive, single-player campaign?"
June 20, 2018
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Editor roundtable: What did E3 2018 mean for game developers?
Gamasutra's editorial roundtable sits down to share their thoughts on what E3 2018 meant for game developers as a whole.
June 19, 2018
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Editor Roundtable: How does Ubisoft's HitRecord partnership impact devs?
The Gamasutra editorial team discusses the potential impact and reasoning of Ubisoft's partnership with HitRecord to bring crowdsourced assets into Beyond Good and Evil 2.
June 15, 2018
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Avalanche EP: livestreaming 'can't not' influence game development now
One of the executive producers on Just Cause 4 explains how streaming has changed the studio's approach to game development.
June 14, 2018
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How Captain Spirit is helping Dontnod prep for Life is Strange 2
"Captain Spirit lets us prepare ourselves to completely launch a new game," says Dontnod's Raoul Barbet. "It allows us to train ourselves to design with those new ways of thinking and interaction."
June 14, 2018
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Sony issues evasive response to Fortnite cross-platform controversy
"We're always open to hearing what the PlayStation community is interested in to enhance their gaming experience."
June 14, 2018
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Rare official arcade versions of Donkey Kong, Sky Skipper headed to Switch
Nintendo is officially bringing a pair of long lost arcade games to the Switch under the Arcade Archives series, one of which never saw a full release.
June 14, 2018
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Cyberpunk dev: QA can absolutely help your team prevent offensive moments
If you're trying to keep hateful moments from showing up in your game, your QA team may helpful in flagging them before they ship, says one quest designer from CD Projekt Red.
June 13, 2018
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Analyst report: Xbox One install base at 39M as of March 2018
Those figures would mean the Xbox One is someway behind the PlayStation 4, which had an install base of 76.6 million back in March.
June 13, 2018
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Fortnite has attracted 125M players in under a year
Popular multiplayer shooter Fortnite has grown to 125 million registered players since launching less than year ago on July 25, 2017.
June 13, 2018
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EA's Patrick Soderlund talks Anthem, loot boxes, and women in Battlefield
Electronic Arts' Patrick Söderlund explains the broad creative strategies at EA, giving us a rare birds-eye view of the motivations that drive EA as a game publisher.
June 13, 2018