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GDC rescinds Atari founder Nolan Bushnell’s Pioneer Award after #MeToo protests

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 31, 2018
2 min

The Game Developers Conference has rescinded its Pioneer Award to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. The former Atari executive has admitted to sexually inappropriate behavior in...

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2 min

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World of Warcraft devs on creating level-scaling and Allied Races

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 30, 2018
10 min

World of Warcraft is preparing for the Battle for Azeroth. But even before the massively multiplayer online role-playing game’s seventh expansion launches later this...

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10 min

Posted inin Technology

Microsoft buys live game operations startup PlayFab, will integrate into Azure

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 29, 2018
2 min

Microsoft has acquired PlayFab, a startup which accelerates game development by handling live operations and other tasks so developers can concentrate on making their...

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2 min

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Inside Team Liquid’s high-end esports training facility

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 28, 2018
5 min

I took a tour of a very different kind of place in Santa Monica, California. It is still under construction, but it will be...

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5 min

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Dragon Ball FighterZ is already outdoing Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition on PC

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 27, 2018
1 min

Dragon Ball wasn’t just an anime thing that I was into back when I was an awkward teenager. It turns out that most awkward...

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1 min

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Epic Games is closing Paragon and offering refunds

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 26, 2018
1 min

Epic Games‘ MOBA project, Paragon, is ending as the studio focuses on Fortnite. Paragon will shut down on April 26. Epic Games is offering...

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1 min

Posted inin Business

The cost of games

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 24, 2018
12 min

Recently I was in Anaheim giving a talk called “Industry Lifecycles.” It was intended to be a brief summary of the blog post of...

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12 min

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SuperData: Delayed PC release will hurt overall Monster Hunter: World sales

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 23, 2018
2 min

Capcom’s action role-playing game Monster Hunter: World just finished up its limited-time beta earlier this week, but it will be out on January 26...

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2 min

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Xbox Game Pass will add new exclusives like Halo and Sea of Thieves on day one

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 23, 2018
1 min

Microsoft announced today that Xbox Game Pass will now include exclusives from Microsoft Studios as they release. This is a big upgrade for the...

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1 min

They Came From Space was built with Cloudgine.

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Epic acquires Cloudgine so Unreal devs can offload game processing to servers

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 22, 2018
2 min

Epic is unlocking the power of the cloud for its Unreal Engine 4 game-development tools. The company has acquired Cloudgine, a startup that enables...

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2 min