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From Steam rejection to success: The story of Image & Form
From Steam rejection to success: The story of Image & Form
In 2012, Sweden studio Image & Form received a short and to-the-point rejection letter from Valve. A year later, and with a different game under its belt, the company this time received immediate approval from the Steam overlords.
Dec. 10, 2013
Mobile game studio Storm8 opens third-party publishing arm
Mobile game studio Storm8 opens third-party publishing arm
Mobile game studio Storm8 is looking to share its 50 million monthly active users with third-party developers, with the announcement today that it has opened a publishing arm.
Dec. 10, 2013
10% of all Twitch livestreaming coming from PlayStation 4
10% of all Twitch livestreaming coming from PlayStation 4
Since the PlayStation 4 launched last month, around 10 percent of all video game streaming content on Twitch has come from PS4 systems, claims Sony.
Dec. 10, 2013
Lucasfilm Games stars in first-ever studio postmortem at GDC 2014
Lucasfilm Games stars in first-ever studio postmortem at GDC 2014
GDC's inaugural Classic Studio Postmortem features a panel of Lucasfilm Games alums talking and swapping stories about what it was like to work under George Lucas on something other than Star Wars.
Dec. 10, 2013
Riot Games launches new API in open beta
Riot Games launches new API in open beta
Riot Games' new tools are a show of support for app developers in the League of Legends community.
Dec. 10, 2013
DICE troubleshoots in public with Battlefield 4 bug tracker
DICE troubleshoots in public with Battlefield 4 bug tracker
A locked post on the game's forum lists every issue the team is working to solve along with the status of the fix, presumably in an effort to assuage community concerns about the game's buggy release.
Dec. 10, 2013
Double Fine launching indie-backed Hack 'n' Slash in 2014
Double Fine launching indie-backed Hack 'n' Slash in 2014
The studio's next game is a quirky action puzzler borne from the Amnesia Fortnight and funded -- along with Spacebase DF-9 -- by a coterie of notable indies.
Dec. 10, 2013
Get a Job: Robot Entertainment is looking for a visual FX artist
Get a Job: Robot Entertainment is looking for a visual FX artist
"This individual will be key in taking Robot’s games to the next level by creating special effects that will bring depth, refinement, and style to our gameplay."
Dec. 10, 2013
Video: Using Lego and literary genius to prototype Wayward Manor
Video: Using Lego and literary genius to prototype Wayward Manor
Paper and Lego prototyping saves development time and money, explains Wayward Manor developer Matt Korba. Its abstract nature also makes it easy to appeal to those outside the game industry.
Dec. 9, 2013
Call for blogs: The top games of 2013
Call for blogs: The top games of 2013
Evaluate the best games of the year alongside Gamasutra's editors -- by contributing a blog post that tackles the game or games you consider most significant in 2013.
Dec. 9, 2013
Skullgirls fallout: Konami requests console game be delisted
Skullgirls fallout: Konami requests console game be delisted
Skullgirls developer Lab Zero Games and co-publisher Autumn Games have terminated their business relationship with Konami -- and it would appear that Konami was not completely onboard with this train of thought.
Dec. 9, 2013
Influential game devs join IGF 2014's jury panels
Influential game devs join IGF 2014's jury panels
Some of the most notable people in game development will be evaluating IGF 2014's standout entries. Today IGF announces members of some of the discipline-specific jury panels.
Dec. 9, 2013