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CD Projekt Red acquires and rebrands indie dev Strange New Things
CD Projekt Red acquires and rebrands indie dev Strange New Things
Strange New Things, an indie studio formed by former Techland, IO Interactive, and CD Projekt Red devs last year, has been acquired and renamed Wrocław.
March 20, 2018
Crytek will now take a 5% cut from games made using CryEngine 5.5
Crytek will now take a 5% cut from games made using CryEngine 5.5
Crytek announced a new royatly-based business model where the company will take a 5 percent share of profits from games built with CryEngine 5.5.
March 20, 2018
Military-themed video games can promote a damaging vision of real war
Military-themed video games can promote a damaging vision of real war
“We need less killing and more war,” argued writer and veteran Andrew Barron. “Combat is dangerous and game mechanics should reflect this.”
March 20, 2018
Gorogoa: how the hit indie game derived from a failed comic book
Gorogoa: how the hit indie game derived from a failed comic book
"I came to realize that composing the page was more interesting to me that sequential storytelling," shared Gorogoa dev Jason Roberts "I had to do something with it, even if it wasn't going to be a comic."
March 20, 2018
Writing comedic games the West of Loathing way
Writing comedic games the West of Loathing way
“Taking about comedy is one of the least funny things,” said West of Loathing game dev Zach Johnson as he opened his talk at GDC 2018 today about the art of writing good comedy games.
March 20, 2018
Darkest Dungeon devs share golden rules for good creative partnerships
Darkest Dungeon devs share golden rules for good creative partnerships
“Having two bosses...it’s not streamlined,” said Red Hook's Tyler Sigman at GDC today. “But we truly believe the game would not have been successful without that messy, imperfect structure.”
March 20, 2018
Vivendi sells entire stock of Ubisoft shares, Tencent among buyers
Vivendi sells entire stock of Ubisoft shares, Tencent among buyers
After years of grabbing up Ubisoft shares, Vivendi has sold its entire stake in the company and seemingly backed away from its hostile acquisition aspirations.
March 20, 2018
Lockwood Publishing opens Lithuania studio to support Avakin Life development
Lockwood Publishing opens Lithuania studio to support Avakin Life development
Less than one week after opening its third studio in the UK, Avakin Life developer Lockwood Publishing has opened a studio in Lithuania, its first international studio.
March 20, 2018
The player-directed level design of Tacoma
The player-directed level design of Tacoma
Fullbright's Steve Gaynor and Nina Freeman discuss the level design of Tacoma and how different facets of design depended on each other during development.
March 20, 2018
Reaping the Diversity Dividend
Reaping the Diversity Dividend
Supporting Cisco’s Women in Cyber initiative is incredibly important – to me personally and for the company. It’s all about the most important aspect of problem solving: bringing diversity of...
March 19, 2018
How to Harden Your Devices to Prevent Cyber Attacks
How to Harden Your Devices to Prevent Cyber Attacks
The 2016 Distributed Denial of Service attack on Dyn came from over 100,000 infected devices. Learn about the multi-layers of product security architecture and implementation to keep your network safe.
March 19, 2018
Researchers Discover Security Issue on Chrome RDP
Researchers Discover Security Issue on Chrome RDP
Bug discovered that allows a guest user full access to an administer’s machine using Chrome Remote Desktop
March 19, 2018