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Study: Nearly 10% of all successful Kickstarters fail to deliver
Study: Nearly 10% of all successful Kickstarters fail to deliver
A Wharton School of Business researcher surveyed over 47,000 Kickstarter backers and concluded that successfully-funded Kickstarters still have a roughly one in ten chance of failing to deliver.
Dec. 8, 2015
DayZ will let (some) players charge real money on private servers
DayZ will let (some) players charge real money on private servers
Developer Bohemia Interactive has updated its monetization policies to grant DayZ players temporary permission to charge real money for goods and services on private DayZ servers -- as long as they don't affect gameplay.
Dec. 8, 2015
Fallout 4 Pirated Copy Leads To Bitcoin Theft
Fallout 4 Pirated Copy Leads To Bitcoin Theft
People who download stuff from torrents and other cracked software providing websites have a very bad news because a user recently downloaded a pirated copy
Dec. 7, 2015
Video: Analyzing Steam's marketplace using public sales data
Video: Analyzing Steam's marketplace using public sales data
At GDC 2015 Ars Technica's Kyle Orland uses publicly-available Steam data to peek inside the marketplace and explore how things like Metacritic rankings and discounts seem to affect game sales.
Dec. 7, 2015
Get a job: Tangentlemen seek an experienced Level Designer
Get a job: Tangentlemen seek an experienced Level Designer
L.A.-based indie studio Tangentlemen is looking to hire someone with Unreal Engine experience and a taste for scary games to work as a senior level designer on the studio's current project.
Dec. 7, 2015
Her Story, Sunless Sea, and Rapture writers nominated at British Guild Awards
Her Story, Sunless Sea, and Rapture writers nominated at British Guild Awards
The writers behind Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Her Story, and Sunless Sea will be going head-to-head at next month's Writers' Guild Awards.
Dec. 7, 2015
Pokémon Go developer Niantic opens Japanese studio
Pokémon Go developer Niantic opens Japanese studio
"It might very well be that Pokémon is not the only Nintendo mobile game that will make use of AR and GPS going forward."
Dec. 7, 2015
What Fallout 4 does with polyamory is just the beginning
What Fallout 4 does with polyamory is just the beginning
Fallout 4's romance options are not mutually exclusive. You can flirt with, sleep with, and develop relationships with multiple characters concurrently, with both companions and regular NPCs.
Dec. 7, 2015
Sega invests millions in fledgling mobile publisher, GoGame
Sega invests millions in fledgling mobile publisher, GoGame
"We have developed a system which manages all these processes for the game developers through a self-service model so that they can focus on what they do best."
Dec. 7, 2015
Microsoft-owned Minecraft coming to Nintendo Wii U
Microsoft-owned Minecraft coming to Nintendo Wii U
Open-world builder Minecraft will be landing on the Nintendo eShop on December 17, where it'll be available for $29.99.
Dec. 7, 2015
Bethesda nearly outspent Activision last month with $14M in Fallout 4 TV ads
Bethesda nearly outspent Activision last month with $14M in Fallout 4 TV ads
Bethesda made a rare appearance alongside Activision, Ubisoft and Electronic Arts in the big-spender charts for video game TV ads last month, reportedly dropping more than $14M to promote Fallout 4.
Dec. 7, 2015
Tracing the legacy of watch game design, from Casio to Apple
Tracing the legacy of watch game design, from Casio to Apple
There's a nice feature over on Polygon today examining where watch games came from, how they were sold by firms like Casio & Nintendo, and how they influenced the design of modern smartwatch games.
Dec. 7, 2015