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Bungie experiments with selling level boosts for Destiny
Bungie experiments with selling level boosts for Destiny
The folks at Bungie have quietly added Destiny level boosts to the PlayStation Store, which means Destiny players can now pay to skip through a large chunk of the game.
Dec. 15, 2015
Survey: American men and women play games in roughly equal measure
Survey: American men and women play games in roughly equal measure
The Pew Research Center reports that, contrary to popular perception, men and women who play games in the U.S. do so in roughly equal measure -- 50 percent to 48 percent, respectively.
Dec. 15, 2015
GPUOpen is AMD's new open-source game dev toolset
GPUOpen is AMD's new open-source game dev toolset
Graphics hardware firm AMD announced a 2016 initiative at its Radeon Technologies Group Summit earlier this month that will see the company launching a new open-source development toolkit: GPUOpen.
Dec. 15, 2015
Disembodied hands scale a cliff in new Crytek VR title, The Climb
Disembodied hands scale a cliff in new Crytek VR title, The Climb
Crytek has announced that it will be supporting the Oculus Rift by releasing its new VR title, The Climb, exclusively on the device.
Dec. 15, 2015
UK organized crime unit arrest edu-game hack suspect
UK organized crime unit arrest edu-game hack suspect
Officers from the UK's South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) have arrested a man who they believe was involved in the recent VTech hack.
Dec. 15, 2015
Gamasutra's Best of 2015: Christian Nutt's Top 5 Games
Gamasutra's Best of 2015: Christian Nutt's Top 5 Games
Christian Nutt shares his top 5 games for 2015 -- and games big and small make the cut. What holds them together? An attention to exploring existing game designs in new ways.
Dec. 15, 2015
Miyamoto on action game design and difficulty
Miyamoto on action game design and difficulty
"One of the issues with action games is how to make something that can be enjoyed by all skill levels... the best method is when the player can adjust the difficulty himself while playing."
Dec. 15, 2015
Erin Robinson Swink tapped as creative director of UC Santa Cruz game masters program
Erin Robinson Swink tapped as creative director of UC Santa Cruz game masters program
The independent developer (Gravity Ghost, Puzzle Bots) joins the faculty of the respected Northern California video game program at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Dec. 15, 2015
Patent owner sues EA, Activision, Zynga, and more over sports games
Patent owner sues EA, Activision, Zynga, and more over sports games
Reports suggest that Virtual Gaming Technologies, LLC is aggressively pursuing a number of publishers over patents relating to realtime data reporting in games.
Dec. 15, 2015
7 combat systems that every game designer should study
7 combat systems that every game designer should study
We reached out to several designers for their take on the games that introduced truly memorable innovations to hand-to-hand combat systems.
Dec. 14, 2015
Get a job: Roblox is hiring an experienced Engineer
Get a job: Roblox is hiring an experienced Engineer
The outfit responsible for game creation/publishing platform Roblox is looking to hire an experienced C++ coder to serve as a senior engineer on Roblox Studio at the company's San Mateo, CA HQ.
Dec. 14, 2015
Here are your Design, Nuovo and Student award juries for IGF 2016
Here are your Design, Nuovo and Student award juries for IGF 2016
The juries behind the GDC 2016 Independent Games Festival come together as a diverse lineup of lauded developers and industry professionals sign on to decide the finalists for the March awards.
Dec. 14, 2015