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Amber opens support studio in Mexico’s Guadalajara tech hub

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 11, 2020
1 min

Guadalajara has a new studio working on video games. Amber, which refers to itself as a full-service game-development agency, is expanding to the Mexican...

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Microsoft: VR is big on Windows, but Xbox would need ‘a bunch of work’

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 10, 2020
2 min

Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality initiative may have brought multiple VR headsets and a substantial quantity of VR software to the PC platform, but the...

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IronSource launches ad-based game studio Supersonic Games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 10, 2020
3 min

IronSource has long helped games and apps become more popular through its ad monetization tricks. But now it’s going into publishing and development with...

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Enterprise VR startup ForwardXP forms game division and hires art director

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 10, 2020
3 min

ForwardXP announced that it has created a new division, Forward Game Studios, and hired a new studio art director Justin Thomas. The Dallas-based enterprise...

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THQ Nordic opens Nine Rocks Games in Bratislava to create survival sim

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 10, 2020
1 min

THQ Nordic has a new studio in Bratislava, Slovakia called Nine Rocks Games. This team plans to begin work on an unnamed “survival/shooter” game...

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Tencent invests in Spec Ops: The Line studio Yager

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 10, 2020
1 min

Tencent is making another big move in the gaming space. The Chinese megaconglomerate is investing an undisclosed amount of capital in Berlin-based game studio...

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Golf Pool is an ideal fit on VR headsets

Posted byby Jason Wilson
February 10, 2020
1 min

Golf Pool VR does pretty much exactly what you would expect from it. That’s right — you play 8-ball pool with a golf club...

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Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt — Think globally, act digitally

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 9, 2020
9 min

GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. Previous chapters can be found here. To help commemorate its 25th...