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Blizzard is suing a studio that's suing a studio -- again
The clone wars continue, as Blizzard is once again suing a Chinese mobile game company for copyright infringement even as that studio is itself suing another studio...for copyright infringement.
July 7, 2015
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Fallout 4 nets top honors in Game Critics' Best of E3 awards
It's been almost a month since we said goodbye to E3 2015, and now the Game Critics Awards has closed the books on this year's show by announcing the winners of its annual Best of E3 awards.
July 7, 2015
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Oculus VR is funding about two dozen Rift-exclusive games
Oculus VR chief Brendan Iribe has told Gamasutra that Oculus is now fully funding development of roughly two dozen Rift-exclusive games, including Insomniac's action-adventure game Edge of Nowhere.
July 7, 2015
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Get a job: Cloud Imperium Games is hiring a Gameplay Engineer
One of the studios behind Chris Roberts' Star Citizen is hiring a gameplay engineer to work on the massively crowdfunded CryEngine title from Cloud Imperium's Santa Monica, CA offices.
July 7, 2015
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Sponsored: Webinar: Graphics Performance Analysis with Intel GPA
Want to build your best Windows or Android game? Learn how Intel INDE Graphics Performance Analyzers help you analyze, optimize and debug your game to identify issues negatively impacting your framerates.
July 7, 2015
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Survey: Sweden and the UK are Europe's top game development hubs
European developers responding to the GDC Europe 2015 State of the Industry survey say Sweden is making the best games in Europe right now, with the UK, Germany and Finland close behind.
July 6, 2015
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Video: Making games about rich experiences, not addiction
At the GDC 2014 'Rant Apocalypse" session, academic and author Heather Chaplin delivers an argument against game developers modelling the games they make to take advantage of addictive behavior.
July 6, 2015
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Get a job: Red 5 Studios seeks a UX/UI Designer
Firefall developer Red 5 Studios is looking for an experienced UX/UI designer join the team at the studios' Irvine, CA offices and work on functional/visual design of in-game assets.
July 6, 2015
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Mojang taps its mobile codebase to put Minecraft on Windows 10
The upcoming Minecraft for Windows 10 basically "is" the mobile (C++) version of the game, according to a developer, rather than the Java-based version that's currently available for PC platforms.
July 6, 2015
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Obituary: Exidy founder Pete Kauffman
Gamasutra has learned that H.R. "Pete" Kauffman, the founder of long-time arcade game company Exidy, passed away last week. He is survived by his wife, daughter and grandchildren.
July 6, 2015
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Epic Games leads GDC Europe's lineup of great sponsored talks
Passes for GDC Europe 2015 are still available at a discounted Early Bird rate, and as the show draws nigh we're debuting a pair of sponsored sessions on UE4 and PowerVR that you'll want to check out.
July 3, 2015
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Mod Mentality: How Tabletop Simulator was made to be broken
Indie devs (and former modders) Jason Henry and Kimiko chat with Gamasutra about why they developed an "online tabletop sandbox" game aimed explicitly at modders, and what they learned along the way.
July 3, 2015