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Tonk Tonk Games raises $2 million for uFighter mobile game with your face in it

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 19, 2019
2 min

Tonk Tonk Games has raised $2 million in funding from Bitkraft Esports Ventures to build its uFighter mobile game, where you play as one...

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RPG veteran Bill Roper leaves Improbable and joins indie studio AuthorDigital

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 19, 2019
3 min

Bill Roper has decided to leave Improbable, a British tech company that raised $502 million from SoftBank for its virtual world simulation software, to join Seattle area...

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Paradox Interactive reports Q4 was its best financial quarter ever

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 19, 2019
1 min

Paradox Interactive revealed its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2018, earning revenues of about $35.96 million. This is the publisher’s best quarter...

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How Star Stable PC online game extended reach to girls with music label

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2019
8 min

The video game industry hasn’t designed many games specifically for girls, but Star Stable has proven to be one of them with staying power. Stockholm-based Star...

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Greg Broadmore interview — why Weta Workshop spent seven years on its Magic Leap game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 18, 2019
11 min

Greg Broadmore had never made a video game before, but that didn’t stop him from creating a groundbreaking augmented reality game on the Magic...

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Sony seeing progress toward VR’s second generation of games

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 18, 2019
1 min

Sony’s Shawn Layden says the VR industry is starting to move into its second generation of content. Layden said as much during his keynote...

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Tim Schafer interview: Psychonauts 2, crowdfunding’s future, and staying nimble

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 17, 2019
8 min

Tim Schafer is the game industry’s favorite silly man. He hosted the awards ceremonies at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), cracking jokes about Trump and...

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New controller patent could show the PSVR’s future

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 17, 2019
2 min

Sony’s rumored new PSVR controllers have returned in two new patents, sporting some interesting features. We first spotted these new controllers in a patent published in...