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Dev shares real talk about the personal costs of living in fear of layoffs
Dev shares real talk about the personal costs of living in fear of layoffs
Game developer Katie Chironis discusses the personal costs of living in fear of layoffs.
March 6, 2019
Kartridge is the latest PC storefront using exclusive games to entice players
Kartridge is the latest PC storefront using exclusive games to entice players
Kongregate's digital video game storefront Kartridge has announced four games that’ll be hitting its platform as timed exclusives this year.
March 6, 2019
Epic Games is now being sued over loot boxes in Fortnite: Save the World
Epic Games is now being sued over loot boxes in Fortnite: Save the World
A lawsuit filed by a Californian father takes issue with the game that was eventually spun off into Epic Games’ mega-popular Fortnite Battle Royale.
March 6, 2019
Chat with the developers behind The Occupation at 1PM ET
Chat with the developers behind The Occupation at 1PM ET
Join the developers of The Occupation for a chat on the making of their game starting at 1PM ET on the GDC Twitch channel.
March 6, 2019
Nintendo announces Tetris 99 Maximus Cup tournament
Nintendo announces Tetris 99 Maximus Cup tournament
Nintendo is hosting the Tetris 99 Maximus Cup, an online tournament challenging players to come in first place as many times as they can for the chance to win 999 My Nintendo Gold Points.
March 6, 2019
Road to the IGF: Calis, Nijman, Kallio, and Johann's Minit
Road to the IGF: Calis, Nijman, Kallio, and Johann's Minit
Minit takes a grand adventure across a sprawling world and breaks it into one-minute chunks, having players find secrets, defeat bosses, and delve through dungeons on a tight time limit.
March 6, 2019
Report: Nintendo is telling mobile development partners to stop players overspending
Report: Nintendo is telling mobile development partners to stop players overspending
"Nintendo is not interested in making a large amount of revenue from a single smartphone game. If we managed the game alone, we would have made a lot more."
March 6, 2019
Designing Mortal Kombat's famously bloody fatalities
Designing Mortal Kombat's famously bloody fatalities
"The very start of the process is always a fatality that's going to set the tone for the rest of them. I'm usually the one who draws up that fatality, and says okay 'this is going to happen.'"
March 6, 2019
Crowdfunding platform BrightLocker shuts down
Crowdfunding platform BrightLocker shuts down
BrightLocker, a crowdfunding platform similar to Patreon and Kickstarter, is closing down amid claims that some developers hadn't been paid money owed.
March 6, 2019
Take advantage of all this cool sponsored content at GDC 2019!
Take advantage of all this cool sponsored content at GDC 2019!
From Google's keynote to the toxicity-fighting Fair Play Alliance Summit, don't overlook all the great GDC 2019 sponsored content available to you as you're planning out your time at the show!
March 6, 2019
Get a job: Game Mechanic Studios is hiring a Gameplay Engineer
Get a job: Game Mechanic Studios is hiring a Gameplay Engineer
Game Mechanic Studios is looking for a Gameplay Engineer to join our team to assist in the engineering and design process.
March 6, 2019
King's Tracey John brings the power of mobile storytelling to GDC 2019
King's Tracey John brings the power of mobile storytelling to GDC 2019
Read how King lead narrative design lead Tracey John will be helping developers tell better stories at GDC 2019.
March 6, 2019