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Crowdfunded effort to buy Homeworld series goes south
An independent developer has failed to acquire rights to the Homeworld franchise and is now refunding Kickstarter backers. Now the question is who owns the storied RTS franchise, and what will they do with it?
April 19, 2013
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Call for GDC Europe 2013 talks closes on Monday - submit now!
Game Developers Conference Europe 2013 organizers are reminding that the show's call for lectures will close on Monday April 22nd - submit your talks for the August show in Cologne today!
April 19, 2013
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Video: See where Resident Evil's creator wants to take the horror genre
Mainstream horror games today are heavy on the action and lacking in the horror. Can one of the genre's old guard bring the creeps back to horror game design?
April 19, 2013
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Send your dirty dev tricks for the final issue of GD Mag!
Game Developer is bringing back one of one of its most popular features: Dirty Coding Tricks! It's not just for coders, though; send us stories of your dirtiest workarounds for other dev discipline.
April 19, 2013
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Ye olde Xbox 360 drove some healthy revenues for Microsoft
While Microsoft's next video game console waits in the wings for an expected reveal this year, its seven-and-a-half year old Xbox 360 is still helping drive revenues.
April 18, 2013
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BioShock, Tomb Raider stave off larger declines in March
NPD Group's monthly report of U.S. physical video game sales showed a 10 percent decline in dollar sales for last month -- a drop that could've been much worse if it weren't for a couple high-profile titles.
April 18, 2013
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Supercell's latest reported revenue figures are ridiculously huge
Revenues for the Helsinki, Finland-based mobile game company are reportedly on track this year to be more than twice that of EA's mobile games division.
April 17, 2013
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'If you respect your public, eventually it pays back'
Dontnod creative director Jean-Maxime Moris comments on gender equality as a theme in the upcoming Capcom-published action-adventure game Remember Me.
April 16, 2013
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One tool company's solution to mobile fragmentation
Xamarin, the software company best known for its work on the Mono and MonoTouch .NET Framework-compatible cross-platform tools, today announced an upcoming user interface testing platform for mobile developers.
April 16, 2013
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PapayaMobile's next step into the Chinese mobile market
As many of the biggest players in the mobile games space look to tap into the lucrative Chinese market, mobile game network PapayaMobile today launched its own expansion into Chinese territories.
April 16, 2013
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Ubisoft poised to make big play on persistent games
Yannis Mallat looks back on Ubisoft's technical innovations in the last console cycle, pointing to evolving consumer media habits in driving game design.
April 15, 2013
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Developing for Ouya? Here's how it stacks up to today's mobile devices
Futuremark has used its 3DMark benchmarking tools to test the power of the upcoming Ouya Android OS home games console against other devices, ranking it 73rd in terms of comparative performance.
April 15, 2013