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Microsoft’s PlayFab cuts prices for its networked player game services

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 13, 2020
1 min

Microsoft’s PlayFab division said it is cutting prices for its networked player game services. The changes are rooted in PlayFab’s effort to find efficiencies and...

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Unity targets indie game developers with new growth program

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 13, 2020
3 min

Unity is launching its Game Growth Program to help indie game developers accelerate adoption of their games. Through this program, Unity will use its...

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Vungle acquires AlgoLift mobile ad marketing intelligence firm

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 13, 2020
3 min

Vungle has acquired mobile ad marketing intelligence firm AlgoLift for an undisclosed price. The move is a confirmation of predicted consolidation in the mobile...

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Yakuza: Like A Dragon on Xbox Series X feels like a launch game

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 12, 2020
2 min

Yakuza: Like A Dragon is exactly the kind of game that I expect to find at a console launch. That is to say that...

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Roblox files papers with SEC for public offering

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 12, 2020
2 min

User-generated game platform Roblox confirmed a recent report that it has filed papers today to go public on the U.S. stock market. CNBC previously reported...

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Android Studio 4.1 simplifies using TensorFlow Lite models and Android Emulator

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 12, 2020
4 min

Google today launched Android Studio 4.1, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE). Android Studio 4.1 is supposed to address “common editing,...

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shred their way to Smite

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 12, 2020
1 min

Hi-Rez Studios announced today that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are heading to its MOBA, Smite. The foursome will be available through the game’s...

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The app industry’s reckoning with privacy, control, and consumer empowerment

Posted byby Jason Wilson
October 12, 2020
4 min

For the first 12 years of its existence, the app industry, like many nascent markets, pursued growth by focusing primarily on investor-pleasing metrics such...