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Yokoi remembers Nintendo's struggle to understand his Game Boy
Yokoi remembers Nintendo's struggle to understand his Game Boy
In an interview from '97 newly translated and published by Shmuplations, Gunpei Yokoi shares some intriguing opinions on his approach to game design and the state of console games in the '90s.
July 8, 2015
Keep tabs on who's streaming your game where with Gamoloco
Keep tabs on who's streaming your game where with Gamoloco
Gamoloco hopes to capitalize on the rising value of livestreaming by offering a service that lets you track who's streaming your game where, for how long, and how many people are watching.
July 8, 2015
Video: Innovating interactive fiction with 80 Days' Jon Ingold
Video: Innovating interactive fiction with 80 Days' Jon Ingold
At GDC 2015 Inkle co-founder Jon Ingold explains how the outfit's design strategies evolved to produce games like 80 Days, and how it successfully fields interactive fiction games on mobile devices.
July 7, 2015
A comprehensive look at Valve's final Steam Controller
A comprehensive look at Valve's final Steam Controller
"The new Steam Controller has positioned itself as the most universal controller out there, able to work with all of your games to some degree or another."
July 7, 2015
Learn how League of Legends is combating toxicity - right now
Learn how League of Legends is combating toxicity - right now
"As a result of these governance systems... Verbal abuse has dropped by more than 40%, and 91.6% of negative players change their act and never commit another offense after just one reported penalty."
July 7, 2015
Blizzard is suing a studio that's suing a studio -- again
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
Fallout 4 nets top honors in Game Critics' Best of E3 awards
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
Oculus VR is funding about two dozen Rift-exclusive games
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
Get a job: Cloud Imperium Games is hiring a Gameplay Engineer
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
Sponsored: Webinar: Graphics Performance Analysis with Intel GPA
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
Survey: Sweden and the UK are Europe's top game development hubs
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
Video: Making games about rich experiences, not addiction
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