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Subpoenas to be issued over 38 Studios fiasco
Rhode Island's House Oversight Committee has a new chairwoman, and she plans to subpoena all the key figures in the 38 Studios deal that went wrong two years ago.
April 3, 2014
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One Life Left vs. Gamasutra: GDC 2014 #5 - Voice / Over
Recorded on the afternoon of the 21st of March 2014, live from the Moscone Center with shattered voices and weary hearts, One Life Left presents OLL vs Gamasutra Show #5: FIVE STARS.
April 3, 2014
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DICE co-founder will now lead TransGaming's global push
Fredrik Liljegren, one of the original founders of Battlefield studio DICE, has joined video game social games porting company TransGaming as vice president.
April 3, 2014
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Amazon's bid for the living room: The $99 Amazon Fire TV
At a special Amazon event today, the company finally revealed the small black box that it's been working on to slot underneath your living room television: Amazon Fire TV.
April 2, 2014
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Xbox One to Windows Phone: Microsoft's new universal apps run on both
Microsoft announced today that its Visual Studio 2013 IDE has, among other updates, been improved to allow developers to create apps that can be easily cross-ported to Xbox One and Windows devices.
April 2, 2014
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30% of all Twitch livestreams came from an Xbox One last month
Xbox One finally received Twitch livestreaming in March -- and today Microsoft announced that, at its peak on March 11, 30 percent of all Twitch broadcasters were streaming from Xbox One.
April 1, 2014
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Indies seem to be warming up to Microsoft's ID@Xbox program
Indie developers and Xbox VP Phil Harrison share their thoughts about the current state of Microsoft's ID@Xbox self-publishing program in a new post-GDC interview feature published by Edge.
April 1, 2014
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Amazon adds Metacritic to video game purchase pages
The popular review-of-reviews site becomes an even more ubiquitous yardstick for the industry as the biggest online retailer incorporates Metacritic scores.
April 1, 2014
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Origin drops physical sales, goes all digital
It would appear that the vast majority of Origin users also didn't realize that the platform sells physical games too -- and as such, EA has decided to drop physical sales from the platform.
March 31, 2014
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A house divided: Siblings compete in public game dev contest
Chris and Ryan Campbell are brothers, coders and aspiring indie game developers. To stay motivated during development they've started a public sibling rivalry -- The One Year Game Dev Duel.
March 31, 2014
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Runic founders Baldree and Schaefer leaving to go indie
Travis Baldree and Erich Schaefer, founders of Torchlight developer Runic Games, are leaving the company to start over again as a smaller team.
March 27, 2014
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Are playable ads the next step for mobile advertising?
Playable ads are the next big thing for mobile game advertising, if the latest tech coming out of companies like Agawi and AppSponsor is to be believed.
March 27, 2014