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Sandboxr's 3D-printed game toys now on Amazon
Sandboxr's 3D-printed game toys now on Amazon
3D-printed Smite, Primal Carnage, and Infinity Blade toys now sell on the massive online storefront thanks to new biz relationship.
July 8, 2015
Pokemon is dethroned: Japan's bestselling games for 2014
Pokemon is dethroned: Japan's bestselling games for 2014
Yo-Kai Watch outsells Pokémon, Monster Hunter continues its reign, and more -- in a comprehensive list of Japan's 1,000 best-selling games of 2014.
July 8, 2015
Report: Gameloft lays off staff, shutters New York studio
Report: Gameloft lays off staff, shutters New York studio
UPDATE: A Gameloft staffer confirms layoffs. Gamasutra has received word that a number of Gameloft employees have been laid off this week as the company moves to shut down its New York City office.
July 8, 2015
Journey's Hunicke: The industry must come together, evolve, and innovate
Journey's Hunicke: The industry must come together, evolve, and innovate
"No one would have given money to Notch for Minecraft -- now look! That kind of effort comes from a genuine love for the medium itself..."
July 8, 2015
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