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Yet another hurdle for UK's video game tax breaks
The proposed video game tax relief in the UK has been delayed yet again, as the EU Commission has launched an investigation into the case for such a relief program.
April 16, 2013
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One tool company's solution to mobile fragmentation
Xamarin, the software company best known for its work on the Mono and MonoTouch .NET Framework-compatible cross-platform tools, today announced an upcoming user interface testing platform for mobile developers.
April 16, 2013
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As EA bows out, Facebook says games are strong as ever
Electronic Arts made the big decision earlier this week to back away from social games on Facebook. Today, Facebook shared some stats to allay fears that the sky is falling on the social network.
April 16, 2013
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PapayaMobile's next step into the Chinese mobile market
As many of the biggest players in the mobile games space look to tap into the lucrative Chinese market, mobile game network PapayaMobile today launched its own expansion into Chinese territories.
April 16, 2013
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Ubisoft poised to make big play on persistent games
Yannis Mallat looks back on Ubisoft's technical innovations in the last console cycle, pointing to evolving consumer media habits in driving game design.
April 15, 2013
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This week in video game criticism: From SimCity to formalism
This week, our partnership with game criticism site Critical Distance brings us picks from Kris Ligman on topics including personal isolation, intimacy in narrative, the use of home in games, and more.
April 15, 2013
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Why monetization is our industry's next big problem - and opportunity
Some say that free-to-play is the bane of the video game industry. But rather than wishing free-to-play would go away, maybe we'll just have to get really good at using it.
April 15, 2013
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Developing for Ouya? Here's how it stacks up to today's mobile devices
Futuremark has used its 3DMark benchmarking tools to test the power of the upcoming Ouya Android OS home games console against other devices, ranking it 73rd in terms of comparative performance.
April 15, 2013
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EA backs off from Facebook in a big way
In a surprise announcement, Electronic Arts today revealed that it is retiring a number of its biggest Facebook games, including The Sims Social and SimCity Social.
April 15, 2013
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Black Annex: A QBasic game for the 21st century
Black Annex is a nifty-looking strategy game from Australian indie studio Man Fight Dragon. What really makes the game stand out is that it has been written entirely in the decades-old QBasic programming language.
April 15, 2013
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What stealth means to this Splinter Cell dev
"Part of the dynamic of stealth games is that you're holding that power of life and death over the NPCs, but electing not to do anything with it." - Patrick Redding at Ubisoft Toronto talks about tackling stealth in video games.
April 15, 2013
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A visitor from the future pays homage to today's free-to-play games
In the future, food costs nothing -- and we have free-to-play games to thank. Read this rare account from a time traveler who gives us massive spoilers from the year 2113.
April 12, 2013