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Google X exec Mary Lou Jepsen leaves to pursue new ‘moonshots’ with Oculus

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 2, 2015
2 min

Once named to the Time 100, Jepsen has a penchant for taking "moonshots." At Oculus, she gets to work on another.

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Game developers favor Steam and PC over other platforms

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 2, 2015
2 min

The outlook for the game industry is good, but the rest of the world is more optimistic than North America.

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Shinra Technologies gets a new developer to use its cloud-gaming inventions

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 2, 2015
1 min

Hardsuit Labs has joined Shinra Technologie’s Prototype Accelerator Program, which is designed to foster innovation and freedom via Shinra’s cloud-gaming inventions. Hardsuit is a new company created by developers who made the free-to-play PlayStation 4 and PC shooter Blacklight Retribution.

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SpriteBuilder game developer tools introduce three tiers of subscriptions

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 2, 2015
1 min

SpriteBuilder's subscription plans range from free to $300 a month.

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Ex-SSI Gold Box devs go ‘back to the future’ with tools to transfer characters across role-playing games (updated)

Posted byby Jason Wilson
March 2, 2015
2 min

Designed for Seven Dragon Saga, the "Gateway" system also includes support for Torment: Tides of Numenera and Shadowrun: Hong Kong.

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World of Warcraft’s new real money-for-gold effort brings more free-to-play to Blizzard’s cash cow

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 2, 2015
12 min

Blizzard will offer gamers a way to buy gold legitimately using an auction for game time, which may lead to changes in tradeable high-end raid dungeon items and the game’s auction houses.