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What Affects Indie Sales in Eastern Europe?
Russian & Eastern European sales data aggregated from 18 different indie games on Steam points to a few patterns worth keeping an eye on.
June 7, 2016
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VR support comes to Amazon's Lumberyard engine, starting with Rift and Vive
There's a new update coming to Amazon's Lumberyard engine in the next few weeks, Lumberyard Beta 1.3, that will add support for the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and other virtual reality headsets to the nascent game engine.
June 6, 2016
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Video game voice actors' union calls on state regulator to improve working conditions
Last month the SAG-AFTRA actors' guild published an open letter to California state regulators requesting an investigation into unsafe working conditions in the video game voice acting industry.
June 6, 2016
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Chinese gov't aims to tighten its hold on the mobile game market
The country's mobile game markets are reportedly slated to get a fresh coat of red tape, as a new government initiative aims to require pre-approval of all mobile games released in the region.
June 6, 2016
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Next Xbox One updates bringing Cortana and Windows marketplace unification
The next Xbox One updates, both of which will land this summer, will bring Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant to consoles and start bridging the gap between the Xbox and Windows Stores.
June 6, 2016
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Overwatch gets Facebook Login and live streaming functionality
"Blizzard games are best when played with friends, so it's important to us to provide our players with features and services that make it easy and fun to share their experiences with each other."
June 6, 2016
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Report: Puzzle & Dragons dev GungHo to buy back majority stake from SoftBank
The deal would be worth around $685 million, and would see GungHo repurchases its own shares for 294 yen ($2.74) each.
June 6, 2016
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P.T.-inspired horror title Allison Road cancelled
"Sadly Allison Road had to be canceled. Statement to come in the next few days. Thanks for all of your support, we're very sad it came to this."
June 6, 2016
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Get a job: Sony is hiring a Game Programmer
Sony seeks to hire a game programmer on a temporary basis to work on "a game used for R&D purposes related to our next generation gaming system" at its offices in San Mateo, California.
June 6, 2016
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GDC Europe: Get a behind-the-scenes look at Call of Duty art production
Come to GDC Europe and check out the "Art Production for 'Call of Duty'" talk to hear Activision Blizzard's Carlos Garcia & Red Hot CG's Claas Grimm take you behind the scenes of AAA game production.
June 6, 2016
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Opinion: Redefining success - by a 'successful' game developer
Amir Rajan, the developer behind popular mobile and browser game A Dark Room, shares his idea of what "success" really means.
June 6, 2016
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Competitive Elements in Cooperative Games
Competition can be used to help make cooperative games more interesting for players of vastly different skill levels to play at once.
June 6, 2016