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Unity Technologies offers sneak peek at next-generation game engine

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 28, 2017
2 min

Unity Technologies showed game developers an early peek at Unity 2017, the next-generation game engine coming in April. Unity CEO John Riccitiello made the...

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Rogue Trooper: Redux is Rebellion’s return to 2000 AD on PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC

Posted byby Jason Wilson
February 28, 2017
1 min

Rebellion Developments is going back to one of its cherished classics — the comic book world of Nu Earth and 2000 AD. The Great...

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Unity-based games saw 16 billion downloads in 2016

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 28, 2017
2 min

Unity Technologies has a wide reach for its game engine, which designers use to make games for every platform. In 2016, games based on Unity...

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EA reveals four expansion packs for Battlefield 1

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 28, 2017
2 min

More maps, more weapons, more fun. Electronic Arts and its DICE studio revealed the first details of all four expansion packs included in the Battlefield 1 annual Premium Pass. The expansion packs are called They Shall Not Pass, In the Name of the Tsar, Turning Tides, and Apocalypse.

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Ubisoft is working on an Avatar game using the Snowdrop engine

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 28, 2017
2 min

French video game publisher Ubisoft is working on a video game based on James Cameron’s Avatar film, and the French video game publisher is...

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76% of game developers still labor under crunch conditions

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 28, 2017
3 min

Three out of four game developers still work crunch time, or extended hours, according to new data from the latest International Game Developers Association (IGDA)...

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Why is Studio Wildcard paying Ark modders $4,000 a month? GamesBeat Decides

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 28, 2017
3 min

Many consumers made it clear in 2015 that they don’t want to pay for mods on Steam for games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim — even though many players very much want to continue using and enjoying that content.