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Monster Strike: Why Street Fighter II's producer will 'never' return to consoles
Monster Strike: Why Street Fighter II's producer will 'never' return to consoles
For decades, Yoshiki Okamoto was one of Capcom's most renowned developers -- but after a mobile hit, he tells Gamasutra that console games are "just not something I want to deal with anymore."
Nov. 19, 2014
Xbox One matchmaking app Overdog nets $1.8 million in funding
Xbox One matchmaking app Overdog nets $1.8 million in funding
With plans to expand to another platform and Xbox One app launching next month, the company has sights on changing how players group up online.
Nov. 19, 2014
Activision Blizzard settles with shareholders over stock buyback
Activision Blizzard settles with shareholders over stock buyback
A class action lawsuit arose when the mega-publisher negotiated with former majority stakeholder Vivendi -- but the company now says that it's in the clear.
Nov. 19, 2014
World of Warcraft subscriptions shoot up to 10 million as Draenor launches
World of Warcraft subscriptions shoot up to 10 million as Draenor launches
The company has sold 3.3 million copies of the new expansion, World of Warcraft's fifth in its 10-year history, to players.
Nov. 19, 2014
Disruptor Beam nets $3.2M in funding to keep making social games
Disruptor Beam nets $3.2M in funding to keep making social games
The developer of Game of Thrones Ascent will use the money to expand, acquire more licensed properties and continue development of its upcoming Star Trek social game.
Nov. 19, 2014
Sharpen your game dev toolset with tips from Ubisoft at GDC 2015
Sharpen your game dev toolset with tips from Ubisoft at GDC 2015
Ubisoft's David Lightbown believes the tools we use to make games could stand to be honed, and he's coming to GDC 2015 in March to show us how it's done.
Nov. 19, 2014
Video: The trial by fire of making Little Inferno
Video: The trial by fire of making Little Inferno
Speaking at GDC 2014, Tomorrow Corporation cofounder Kyle Gray expounded on lessons learned in the making Little Inferno, ' a satirical fireplace simulator with a deep, dark secret.'
Nov. 19, 2014
Thousands of Sites Suffer Collateral Damage as China Blocks EdgeCast
Thousands of Sites Suffer Collateral Damage as China Blocks EdgeCast
Thousands of Sites Suffer Collateral Damage as China blocks EdgeCast. One of world’s largest Content Delivery Networks gets the Great Firewall treatment
Nov. 18, 2014
Met Police Tackling 200 Organized Crime Groups
Met Police Tackling 200 Organized Crime Groups
Met Police Tackling 200 Organized Crime Groups. New division makes 100 arrests as two fraud reporting centers are planned
Nov. 18, 2014
An Engineer’s Thoughts on Work/Life Balance
An Engineer’s Thoughts on Work/Life Balance
Several months ago I became so busy with work that I subconsciously compiled a script that auto-executed every time someone asked any question vaguely
Nov. 18, 2014
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with Splunk Enterprise
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data with Splunk Enterprise
The Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data is the third generation of Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data with significant
Nov. 18, 2014
Going Native with OpenStack Centric Applications: Murano
Going Native with OpenStack Centric Applications: Murano
Following on our previous discussion surveying the projects supporting applications within OpenStack, let’s continue our review with an in-depth look at
Nov. 18, 2014