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Former Techland COO starts a new game studio in Poland

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 18, 2017
1 min

Strange New Things, a game development studio based in Wroclaw, Poland, announced its opening today. Pawel Zawodny, the former chief operating officer of Techland, formed the...

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PAX South will host NGE’s Overwatch Winter Premiere Live Finals

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 18, 2017
1 min

Overwatch is bringing its team-based shooting to the next PAX. Next Generation Esports (NGE) announced today that it is partnering with Twitch to bring...

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Sensor Tower: Q4 game revenues grew 70%, downloads up 33%

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 18, 2017
3 min

Mobile game revenues grew 70 percent in the fourth quarter to $7.5 billion, compared to $4.4 billion a year earlier, according to mobile measurement...

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MIT launches Play Labs to help AR, VR, and AI startups get off the ground

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 18, 2017
2 min

Bayview Labs, Seraph Group, and MIT Game Lab are creating Play Labs to accelerate startups in augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. The...

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South Korea’s YJM Games invests in The VR Fund

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 18, 2017
2 min

YJM Games, a South Korean mobile game developer, has invested in the Venture Reality Fund (The VR Fund), a $50 million fund dedicated to...

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Xbox One beats PlayStation 4 and mobile gaming in December’s ad spend

Posted byby Jason Wilson
January 18, 2017
2 min

Consoles blew their mobile counterparts out of the water GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, which measures TV advertising in real time, to bring you...

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Nintendo Switch hands-on: Intriguing tech comes with some concerns

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 18, 2017
5 min

After an initial teaser in October, Nintendo finally fully revealed its newest console — the Nintendo Switch — last week. The hybrid system —...

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Harmonix vet Florian Hunziker grabs Adam Boyes’s old third-party relations gig at PlayStation

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 18, 2017
3 min

Among the three major console manufacturers, Sony has had arguably the strongest support from third-party indie developers and major blockbuster publishers this generation. Now,...