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Grand Theft Auto trilogy remake coming to modern consoles and PC

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
October 8, 2021
2 min

Rockstar Games today announced Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — Definitive Edition, a collection of remakes of three previous Grand Theft Auto games for...

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The DeanBeat: Twitch hack exposes more industry secrets

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 8, 2021
5 min

Perhaps the lesson of the leak of a trove Twitch‘s data, source code, and internal tools is that we can expect this to happen...

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My.Games Venture Capital invests $3M in 3 Eastern European game studios

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 8, 2021
2 min

My.Games Venture Capital has invested $3 million in three new game studios in Eastern Europe. The studios are Voxter, Tworogue Games, and Wideview games. Part...

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Video games are risky, expensive, and a really good business

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 8, 2021
2 min

Making video games is an exercise in cognitive dissonance. It is a hit-driven business where you can never know how consumers will respond. And...

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Bitkraft raises $75M token fund for blockchain game investments

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 8, 2021
3 min

Bitkraft Ventures, one of the biggest investors in game and esports startups, launched a $75 million token fund that it will use to put...

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Frank Miller’s one-of-a-kind Sin City NFT art sells for $840K

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 8, 2021
3 min

Sin City comic book creator Frank Miller reaped $840,986.16 in his non-fungible token (NFT) auction of an original piece of art titled I Love...

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Eidos Montreal becomes first AAA studio to adopt a 4-day workweek

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
October 7, 2021
2 min

Eidos Montreal announced today it is shifting to a four-day work week. It’s keeping its eight-hour schedule, meaning its full-time employees will now work...

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Reinforcement learning improves game testing, AI team finds

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 7, 2021
6 min

As game worlds grow more vast and complex, making sure they are playable and bug-free is becoming increasingly difficult for developers. And gaming companies...