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Road to the IGF: SmokeStab's Orbital Bullet
Road to the IGF: SmokeStab's Orbital Bullet
Orbital Bullet steadily climbs through generated 360° stages, having players working hard to survive incoming gunfire when it wraps around the level to hit them.
Feb. 12, 2020
Epic's Sweeney: Game companies should be platform agnostic, 'divorce' from politics
Epic's Sweeney: Game companies should be platform agnostic, 'divorce' from politics
Epic Games head Tim Sweeney offers a blunt but candid discussion on the current state of the video game business, and what the game industry needs to do see real growth in the decade ahead.
Feb. 12, 2020
EA handing Need for Speed franchise back to Criterion
EA handing Need for Speed franchise back to Criterion
EA is handing the Need for Speed franchise back to Criterion Games and turning current franchise custodian Ghost Games into an engineering support studio.
Feb. 12, 2020
Activision Blizzard pulls support for Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming platform
Activision Blizzard pulls support for Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming platform
UPDATE: Nvidia has now explained why Activision Blizzard pulled support for GeForce Now, and claimed the situation was the result of a fairly innocuous "misunderstanding."Â
Feb. 12, 2020
Fledgling mobile studio Double Loop secures $2.5 million in seed funding
Fledgling mobile studio Double Loop secures $2.5 million in seed funding
Fledgling mobile studio Double Loop Games has netted over $2.5 million in seed funding from London Venture Partners and 1UP Ventures.
Feb. 12, 2020
Former BioWare scribe Drew Karpyshyn joins Archetype Entertainment
Former BioWare scribe Drew Karpyshyn joins Archetype Entertainment
Former BioWare scribe Drew Karpyshyn has been appointed lead writer at Archetype Entertainment, the new game studio formed by Wizards of the Coast.
Feb. 12, 2020
A game creator in an Artist Residency: my experience at Villa Kujoyama
A game creator in an Artist Residency: my experience at Villa Kujoyama
This article is about the great experience I got the chance to live in 2019: becoming the first game creator to be selected at Villa Kujoyama, a French Artist Residency program. Let me tell you everything I did during 5 month in Kyoto.
Feb. 12, 2020
Squeeze These Last Milliseconds With CPU Time Slicing
Squeeze These Last Milliseconds With CPU Time Slicing
The common wisdom says "profile, optimize, repeat". Let me warn you: this won't always work. When you're done optimizing your low-hanging fruits, gains of 0.1 milliseconds/week become normal. This is when CPU Time Slicing can save your project.
Feb. 12, 2020
Cliff Bleszinski and Boss Key Productions were in talks with FOX for a new Aliens game
Cliff Bleszinski and Boss Key Productions were in talks with FOX for a new Aliens game
As Bleszinski noted, this Aliens game would have been a first-person shooter in which the player would assume the role of a grown up Newt.
Feb. 11, 2020
First gameplay video released for TT Isle of Man Ride on the Edge 2 + PC System Requirements
First gameplay video released for TT Isle of Man Ride on the Edge 2 + PC System Requirements
Bigben and KT Racing have released the first official gameplay video for TT Isle of Man Ride on the Edge 2.
Feb. 11, 2020
Closed beta for Pearl Abyss’ upcoming arena fighter, Shadow Arena, begins on February 27th
Closed beta for Pearl Abyss’ upcoming arena fighter, Shadow Arena, begins on February 27th
Pearl Abyss announced that their new fantasy arena game Shadow Arena will be available through a closed beta test from February 27 - March 8.
Feb. 11, 2020
Gearbox announces new free seasonal event and level cap increase for Borderlands 3
Gearbox announces new free seasonal event and level cap increase for Borderlands 3
Feb. 11, 2020