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500 games launched per day on iOS last year (and other digital sales facts)
500 games launched per day on iOS last year (and other digital sales facts)
With digital marketplaces becoming increasingly crowded, Mike Rose, of tinyBuild dug into the current state of indie sales expectations for digital platforms.
March 2, 2015
UK retailer Game expands into eSports with Multiplay acquisition
UK retailer Game expands into eSports with Multiplay acquisition
U.K. retailer Game has announced a deal to acquire Multiplay, a long-running U.K.-based video game event firm, for £20 million (~$30.1 million USD) as it expands into eSports and digital PC games.
March 2, 2015
Reactive game dev: How Serious Sam 4 became The Talos Principle
Reactive game dev: How Serious Sam 4 became The Talos Principle
Croteam kicks off the GDC 2015 Independent Games Summit with a talk on how the Serious Sam studio taught itself a new way to make games as it embarked on its first puzzle game: The Talos Principle.
March 2, 2015
Autodesk enters the game engine business at GDC
Autodesk enters the game engine business at GDC
3ds Max maker Autodesk is making its first foray into the game engine business this week at GDC in San Francisco, where it will demo its upcoming Stingray engine to developers on Wednesday afternoon.
March 2, 2015
Exploring what it takes to make a funny game
Exploring what it takes to make a funny game
Why is comedy in games so rare -- and so hard to get right? Developer Zoe Quinn took the stage at GDC today to explore the topic and offer fellow developers a few potential ways to make funny games.
March 2, 2015
Unreal Engine 4 is now free-to-download for everyone
Unreal Engine 4 is now free-to-download for everyone
You'll still pay a royalty on any commercial projects you make, but say goodbye to subscription fees -- the popular engine is now completely free to try.
March 2, 2015
Narrative and design insights from 80 Days' writing lead
Narrative and design insights from 80 Days' writing lead
At GDC 2015, Meg Jayanth, lead writer of acclaimed mobile adventure game 80 Days, shared insights into how the team at Inkle created a deeply narrative, highly nonlinear and satisfying story.
March 2, 2015
What to do before you start building a free-to-play game
What to do before you start building a free-to-play game
Ethan Levy explores better ways to design F2P games and reminds F2P developers to be as rigorous in their business design as their are about their game design.
March 2, 2015
Valve, HTC have a new VR headset coming out this year
Valve, HTC have a new VR headset coming out this year
Valve Software and mobile phone maker HTC announced on Sunday the "Vive," a high-end VR headset that plugs straight into a PC.
March 1, 2015
Everyday Heroes of Cisco Empowered Women’s Network: Sharon Sputz
Everyday Heroes of Cisco Empowered Women’s Network: Sharon Sputz
This article was written by Anuja Singh. Carpe diem – Seize the day! Inspiration from everyday heroes of Cisco Empowered Women's...
Feb. 28, 2015
The Story of Cisco Virtualized Managed Business Services: How Cisco Evolved its Engineering Teams To Revolutionize Servi …
The Story of Cisco Virtualized Managed Business Services: How Cisco Evolved its Engineering Teams To Revolutionize Servi …
I’ll be boarding a flight to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress tomorrow knowing that this year’s event will be like no other for Cisco’s service
Feb. 27, 2015
Introduction to 802.11ac Wave 2
Introduction to 802.11ac Wave 2
802.11ac is the hottest topic of discussion and deployment in WiFi over the past couple of years. Ratified as a standard by the IEEE in November 2013, the first phase...
Feb. 27, 2015