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Making your game stand out in brutally-competitive mobile app stores
If there was ever an entity that once and for all disproved the old notion of "if it's a good game, it'll sell," it's the mobile app store.
Nov. 19, 2013
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This Week in Video Game Criticism: Shiny new boxes, dull new games
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Erik Fredner on topics including the reception of Call of Duty: Ghosts and the present console transition.
Nov. 18, 2013
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Double Fine's Spacebase recoups investment in just two weeks
Indie Fund has revealed that Double Fine's Spacebase DF-9, currently on Early Access, has managed to recoup its $400k investment in two weeks -- a promising sign for future Indie Fund recipients.
Nov. 18, 2013
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Video: The 'Ms. Male' Character
In the fourth entry of the "Tropes vs Women in Video Games" series, Anita Sarkeesian takes a critical lens to several overlapping themes representing women in games as cosmetic counterparts to men.
Nov. 18, 2013
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Get a job: Treyarch is hiring a technical animator
"The Technical Animator will produce animation assets and also be the Animation Department’s facilitator. The ideal candidate will be fluent with Motion Builder and motion-capture editing."
Nov. 18, 2013
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Glitch lives on, as MMO's assets enter the public domain
Tiny Speck, studio behind the closed MMO Glitch, has announced that it will be releasing the entirety of the game's art and animation assets for public use, under Creative Commons' "No Rights Reserved" license.
Nov. 18, 2013
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OpenPandora dissolved, as company runs out of money
It came to light over the weekend that OpenPandora, the manufacturer best known for its open source Pandora handheld games console, has run out of money and has subsequently applied for the company to be disbanded.
Nov. 18, 2013
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Obituary: Sega Dreamcast boss Charles Bellfield
Charles Bellfield, formerly Sega of America's vice president and a key person behind the launch of the Sega Dreamcast console, has died.
Nov. 18, 2013
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Bungie cozies up to Sony, as the PS4 sells 1M in 24 hours
Sony sold over 1 million PlayStation 4 consoles within the first 24 hours of the hardware being on sale in the U.S. and Canada last week.
Nov. 18, 2013
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Raspberry Pi passes 2 million sales milestone
The Raspberry Pi, the cheap and tiny computer designed to teach programming to students, has passed 2 million unit sales in just under two years, the company behind the device has announced.
Nov. 18, 2013
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A look back at video game sales across a console generation
Gamasutra analyst Matt Matthews draws from his years of tracking video game sales to take stock of everything he's observed over the past generation of consoles.
Nov. 18, 2013
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Major League Gaming launches video streaming service
Looking to catch the Twitch wave, eSports network Major League Gaming has announced the launch of its own video streaming hub, MLG.TV.
Nov. 18, 2013