GDC 2014 Archives - Page 3 of 5

Respawn Community Manager Abbie Heppe hosts the 2014 Game Developers Choice Awards

The 2014 Game Developers Choice Awards convey a message of hope

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 20, 2014
2 min

It will take the video game industry a long time to address the panoply of social justice concerns in video games, but the 2014 Game Developers Choice Awards demonstrated that gender issues, at least, are not going back in the box.

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Game development leader Kate Edwards spells out how the game industry needs to change (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 20, 2014
14 min

The IGDA's leader wants to know where game developers need help when it comes to diversity and advocacy issues.

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14 min

Nintendo on Animal Crossing: ‘We mistakenly stayed the course with the Wii version’

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 20, 2014
2 min

With a new approach in 2013, Nintendo saw the 3DS Animal Crossing: New Leaf receive near-universal acclaim -- and more than double sales.

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Microsoft’s game exec Phil Harrison explains how Xbox One will catch the PlayStation 4 (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 20, 2014
6 min

Microsoft executive addresses the question of whether Xbox One can catch up in the console battle.

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Russian e-commerce giant Mail.Ru adds its own MyGames mobile division with four new games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 20, 2014
2 min

Russia's big Internet company is making a bigger investment in online games.

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Chasing Facebook, Alibaba leads an astounding $280M round in mobile messaging network Tango

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 20, 2014
3 min

With 200M members, Tango credits mobile games for setting apart its mobile messaging network.

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3 min

A shark attack convinced me that Sony’s Project Morpheus makes virtual reality work

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 20, 2014
3 min

It takes one demo to turn a VR skeptic into someone who gets the new tech.

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Streamline Media worked on BioShock Infinite.

How soccer and theater helped Irrational create BioShock Infinite’s Elizabeth

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 19, 2014
2 min

These are some of the many tricks that Irrational Games used to make Elizabeth seem more real to players.

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Epic Games breaks triple-A secrecy and gives access to Unreal Engine’s source code

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 19, 2014
2 min

As of today, anyone will be able to get access to Unreal Engine 4 for a $19 per month subscription fee and a revenue sharing agreement that grants Epic Games 5 percent of all revenues.

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In a race with Sony, Oculus unveils improved Rift virtual reality dev kit (hands-on preview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 19, 2014
3 min

The new version of the Oculus developer kit will ship in July, and you can preorder it now.

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