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Valve takes on the task of making Dota 2 a newcomer-friendly MOBA
Valve takes on the task of making Dota 2 a newcomer-friendly MOBA
The storied developer has detailed a pair of changes coming to the four-year-old game that it hopes will make the staple MOBA more accessible to new players.
July 31, 2017
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds claims record for most peak players in a non-Valve game
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds claims record for most peak players in a non-Valve game
The early access battle royale game has dethroned Fallout 4 as the non-Valve title with the most on-record concurrent players.
July 31, 2017
Video Game Deep Cuts: The Prison Of The Night Trap Kickmen
Video Game Deep Cuts: The Prison Of The Night Trap Kickmen
This week's highlights include an article series about gaming in prison, behind the scenes of Night Trap, & how satirical soccer game Enter The Kickmen got made.
July 31, 2017
Documentation a Necessary Evil
Documentation a Necessary Evil
I discuss why documentation is needed in the game development cycle and how it can be improved and improve the game dev cycle.
July 31, 2017
How we developed Robust AI for DwarfCorp
How we developed Robust AI for DwarfCorp
Tthe strategies we tried for producing intelligent behavior in our base-building game DwarfCorp. State machines, action planning, behavior trees and sequential composition are discussed with examples and pitfalls.
July 31, 2017
HTML5 Is Here
HTML5 Is Here
With 100,000 games over 10 years, Kongregate takes a look at trends in game development technology. Specifically, at the rise of HTML5 over Flash in both quantity and quality of games.
July 31, 2017
Pricing games is hard!
Pricing games is hard!
One of the hardest things in game development, especially if you are self publishing, is deciding what price your game should be, so I opened up the debate on twitter and got some surprising results.
July 31, 2017
Wikileaks Exposes CIA’ 3 Linux/macOS Malware- Aeris, Achilles, SeaPea
Wikileaks Exposes CIA’ 3 Linux/macOS Malware- Aeris, Achilles, SeaPea
We all know what CIA is capable of but what WikiLeaks has been publishing lately under the Vault 7 leaks series is simply astonishing. According to the latest
July 29, 2017
Cisco in 2017 Gartner Unified Communications Reports
Cisco in 2017 Gartner Unified Communications Reports
The UC market is dynamic and fast-paced, so we're pleased to see Cisco as a leader in Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant based on “completeness of vision” and “ability to execute”.
July 28, 2017
Tech Industry Calls for Open Immigration to Ease Skills Crisis
Tech Industry Calls for Open Immigration to Ease Skills Crisis
Tech Industry Calls for Open Immigration to Quell Skills Crisis. Cybersecurity sector already has big problems recruiting enough workers
July 28, 2017
Global Operation Ends in Arrest of US DDoS Suspect
Global Operation Ends in Arrest of US DDoS Suspect
Global Operations Ends in Arrest of US DDoS Suspect. Australian, Canadian and US law enforcers worked on case for over two years
July 28, 2017
German Police to Bypass Encryption by Hacking Devices
German Police to Bypass Encryption by Hacking Devices
German Police to Bypass Encryption by Hacking Suspects’ Devices. Strategy would circumvent need to request encryption backdoors from WhatsApp et al
July 28, 2017