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How Thatgamecompany uses data to build long-term relationships with players

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 20, 2020
2 min

How Games Make Money is back with another episode. This time, Thatgamecompany director of online experience Tim Nixon joins host Jeff Grubb to talk...

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Bugsnax’s theme song is saving ‘Not E3’ for me

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 20, 2020
1 min

Indie band Kero Kero Bonito released a recorded performance of their new song for the upcoming bug-snacking simulator Bugsnax today. This comes as the...

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Sea of Thieves surpasses 15 million players since March 2018

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 20, 2020
1 min

Like a siren’s song, Sea of Thieves is continuing to draw in an audience. Developer Rare’s pirate-adventure simulator has had more than 15 million...

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DeepMind’s AI automatically generates reinforcement learning algorithms

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 20, 2020
2 min

In a study published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, DeepMind researchers describe a reinforcement learning algorithm-generating technique that discovers what to predict and how...

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Mythical reveals gameplay for do-it-yourself Blankos Block Party online game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 20, 2020
4 min

Mythical has revealed the gameplay for its Blankos Block Party free-to-play online game coming for the PC later this year. Developed in partnership with United...

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In World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, new game tech and old code are at war

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 19, 2020
5 min

Game director Ion Hazzikostas faces a rough challenge for this fall’s World of Warcraft: Shadowlands expansion. Blizzard Entertainment must make a (sometimes poorly) aging...

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Glu reloads its war chest for mobile game acquisitions

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 18, 2020
15 min

Glu Mobile has grown into a big mobile game publisher through both acquisitions and home-grown titles. But as the world changes around the company,...