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Myths, mid-core and mobile: Facebook’s message to developers
At GDC, Facebook's director of game partnerships Sean Ryan talked to Gamasutra about what the social network is doing to attract developers, and make them want to create Facebook games in 2013.
March 28, 2013
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Unity's CEO on staying relevant in a tumultuous era
David Helgason talks about its partnerships with Sony, Nintendo, and Facebook, and how the company continues to make sure its engine is elegant and works on all those platforms.
March 28, 2013
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AOL's Games.com launches monetization and distribution platform
AOL's Games.com today revealed Developer Center, a set of tools by which game studios can potentially push their games out in front of the millions of users across AOL's network and partner websites.
March 27, 2013
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DICE's Frostbite 3 engine will debut with Battlefield 4
Although it was previously thought that the next installment in the Battlefield series would utilize DICE's Frostbite 2 engine, the company has revealed that a new version of the engine will debut later this year.
March 27, 2013
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Web-to-desktop specialist Pokki launches its own game network
San Diego-based SweetLabs has previously helped game studios bring their social titles to PC without the need for a web browser, including social games giant Kabam.
March 27, 2013
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Journey, Far Cry 3, The Walking Dead win at 13th Choice Awards
At the 13th annual Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony at GDC 2013 this evening, Journey won six of the 11 main awards, with Far Cry 3, The Walking Dead, and Dishonored among the other winners.
March 27, 2013
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Cart Life, FTL: Faster Than Light, Little Inferno take home IGF awards
The winners of the 15th Annual Independent Games Festival, hosted by the Game Developers Conference (GDC), were announced this evening, including Cart Life, FTL: Faster Than Light, and Little Inferno.
March 27, 2013
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Jesse Schell's search for the Shakespeare of video games
What do video games need before we can have our own Shakespeare? The future of game narrative lies in building tech that will allow video games to "listen" to the player, says designer and evangelist Jesse Schell.
March 27, 2013
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The business case for a diverse game character cast
"Our audience is leaving us behind," says Microsoft Studios narrative designer Tom Abernathy in a session from the GDC Narrative Summit. Being inclusive doesn't just make better games, it makes better business sense.
March 27, 2013
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Full Sail study attempts to shed light on Metacritic's weighting system
The website Metacritic weights the scores of different video game critics and publications when calculating its aggregate 'metascore' for any particular title.
March 27, 2013
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The relevancy of premium games in a F2P-dominated economy
Capy co-founder and president Nathan Vella still makes premium games, like Critter Crunch and Sword & Sworcery, because he says there's still a place for them -- especially in niche genres where fans will pay
March 27, 2013
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GDC 2013 Day 2: F2P problems and solutions
The second day of GDC 2013 included notable talks from QWOP developer Bennett Foddy on F2P problems, Kongregate COO Emily Greer on successful F2P strategies, and Subset Games on FTL's postmortem.
March 27, 2013