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PAX is Coming - Give Your Booth the Thought it Deserves
Planning a booth for a large convention such as PAX can be intimidating. How can you stand out from all of the other booths around? How can you make the booth work in your favor? Get started thinking about your booth.
April 7, 2016
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Video: The things you learn from playtesting Skylanders with kids
At GDC 2014, Activision Blizzard's Gareth Griffiths outlines how his team ran successful playtests with children, and techniques the Skylanders team developed to collect and make sense of the data.
April 6, 2016
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Get a job: Respawn seeks a Creature Concept Artist
The house responsible for Titanfall is looking to hire an artist to create creature concept art alongside the team at Respawn's Chatsworth, CA studio working on a 3rd-person action-adventure game.
April 6, 2016
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Rock Band 4 crowdfunding campaign fails to take flight
After just over a month, Harmonix's Rock Band 4 PC crowdfunding campaign has fallen short, raising just 52 percent of its target goal from 1,674 backers.
April 6, 2016
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How Paradox plunders history for great gameplay mechanics
Chris King, a game designer at Paradox Development Studio, says the key to making strategy games like Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings is knowing how much history to include...and leave out.
April 6, 2016
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Survey: Video ads are the #1 way players prefer to 'pay' for mobile games
Findings from surveys recently conducted by Unity suggest that of all the ways you can make money from your mobile games, video ads that give in-game rewards are the most palatable to most players.
April 6, 2016
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Rovio writes off 2015 as an 'expected' loss
The house that Angry Birds built posted an operating loss for 2015, acknowledging that it was a "challenging year" but that the company has high hopes for its upcoming feature film debut.
April 6, 2016
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Tera publisher En Masse lays off staff
Seattle-based En Masse Entertainment initiated a round of layoffs late last month that saw an unspecified number of people lose their jobs as the company restructured "to better position the company for the future."
April 6, 2016
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Twitch and Faceit partner for new eSports initiative with $3.5m prize pool
The renowned streaming company dives into the eSports segment in a new relationship with an eSports company that already knows how to run leagues.
April 6, 2016
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Beamdog vows to fix bugs and stand behind staff in new Baldur's Gate update
In the face of online outcry, CEO Trent Oster says that his studio does not condone harassment but will move to address fan complaints regarding bugs.
April 6, 2016
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UK Government-backed eSports competition to debut alongside Rio Olympics
It's not an official part of the Olympic competitions, but with medals and national teams, you can see where this is going.
April 6, 2016
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Guilty Gear tries something new: Preorders give arcade mode as instant bonus
If the company still makes arcade versions of its games, then it only makes sense to give players early access, right? In this case, it comes two months in advance.
April 6, 2016