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Google eyes up Chinese eSports market with Chushou investment
Google eyes up Chinese eSports market with Chushou investment
Google joined as an investor during a recent Series D funding round, which brought Chushou's total lifetime funding to $120 million.
Jan. 5, 2018
App Store sets new records as holiday spending tops $890M
App Store sets new records as holiday spending tops $890M
As you'd imagine, the festive period is usually pretty lucrative for Apple's mobile marketplace, but this year was a particular standout.
Jan. 5, 2018
Get a job: Naughty Dog is hiring a Level/Environment Designer
Get a job: Naughty Dog is hiring a Level/Environment Designer
Naughty Dog is looking for a passionate multiplayer designer to join its team and be a primary contributor to the design of its next multiplayer game in Santa Monica.
Jan. 5, 2018
At GDC 2018 you'll get a postmortem look at the design of Horizon Zero Dawn
At GDC 2018 you'll get a postmortem look at the design of Horizon Zero Dawn
At GDC 2018 Guerrilla Games' Eric Boltjes will run you through through early prototypes and delving into design decisions and processes that shaped development of the 2017 game.
Jan. 5, 2018
Breath of the Wild & Horizon Zero Dawn lead GDC 2018 Choice Awards nominees!
Breath of the Wild & Horizon Zero Dawn lead GDC 2018 Choice Awards nominees!
The 18th annual Game Developers Choice Awards nominees also include Cuphead, Nier: Automata and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - with the winners to be revealed at GDC 2018 in March!
Jan. 5, 2018
Playable Ads: The Most Fun Ad Ever!
Playable Ads: The Most Fun Ad Ever!
Playable ads create an entirely new ad experience built around the player -- an ad that doesn’t feel like an ad and is actually welcomed by users.
Jan. 5, 2018
High Performance Networking with a ‘Web’ of Peer-Peer Connections
High Performance Networking with a ‘Web’ of Peer-Peer Connections
I discuss the peer-peer networking infrastructure which I have developed in an online-multiplayer game, in order to minimize both server cost and network latency.
Jan. 5, 2018
Free player movement and static worlds
Free player movement and static worlds
A game can either have an open world where the player can move freely, or a world that changes as the plot advances. If it has both, the player will miss out on most of the game’s content. There are some approaches to deal with this, though...
Jan. 5, 2018
How imbalance in the Endless series led to a new take on the 4X genre
How imbalance in the Endless series led to a new take on the 4X genre
Co-founder of Amplitude Studios Romain de Waubert and narrative director on the Endless series Jeff Spock discuss how creating imbalance among factions led to a new take on the on 4X strategy genre.
Jan. 4, 2018
Civilization V mod adds realistic superintelligent AI research
Civilization V mod adds realistic superintelligent AI research
Researchers from the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk has released a mod for Civilization V introducing superintelligent AI into the game.
Jan. 4, 2018
Itch.io saw 100k projects created and 68k completed in 2017
Itch.io saw 100k projects created and 68k completed in 2017
Itch.io's year-end breakdown offers a look at how the many projects and game jams hosted on the platform fared in 2017.
Jan. 4, 2018
The GDC Film Festival leads the list of great interactive spaces at GDC 2018!
The GDC Film Festival leads the list of great interactive spaces at GDC 2018!
As you sort out your plans for GDC 2018, leave yourself some time to scope out the remarkable array of lounges, exhibits, and other events that will be happening across GDC throughout the week!
Jan. 4, 2018