Video Game Deep Cuts: The Outer Wilds Of A Void City

This week's roundup includes a look at the intriguing triple-I (sorry!) titles Outer Wilds & Void Bastards, as well as the role of the city in games, bringing back Bubsy, & more. ...

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Video Game Deep Cuts: The Outer Wilds Of A Void City

This week's roundup includes a look at the intriguing triple-I (sorry!) titles Outer Wilds & Void Bastards, as well as the role of the city in games, bringing back Bubsy, & more. ...

from Gamasutra News https://ubm.io/2ELGORZ

Video Game Deep Cuts: The Outer Wilds Of A Void City

This week's roundup includes a look at the intriguing triple-I (sorry!) titles Outer Wilds & Void Bastards, as well as the role of the city in games, bringing back Bubsy, & more. ...

from Gamasutra Independent Games News https://ubm.io/2ELGORZ

Researchers pit DeepMind AI against human Quake III players

AI researchers at Google†™s DeepMind have trained an artificial intelligence agent on Quake III and published a paper on how it performed in matches with and against humans. ...

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Researchers pit DeepMind AI against human Quake III players

AI researchers at Google†™s DeepMind have trained an artificial intelligence agent on Quake III and published a paper on how it performed in matches with and against humans. ...

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Get a job: Sanzaru Games, Legends of Learning, and more are hiring now!

Here are just some of the many, many positions being advertised right now on the Gamasutra Job Board! ...

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GameBender console merges video games with kid-friendly programming

The next project from Makey Makey co-creator Jay Silver is the GameBender, a plug-n-play game console that lets its players create and edit games on the fly. ...

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Video: The things I wish I knew before becoming an art director

In this 2017 GDC talk, veteran dev Denis Rogic presents nine major lessons drawn from the missteps he made as an art director so that you can learn from them (and hopefully avoid the same mistakes!) ...

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Video: The things I wish I knew before becoming an art director

In this 2017 GDC talk, veteran dev Denis Rogic presents nine major lessons drawn from the missteps he made as an art director so that you can learn from them (and hopefully avoid the same mistakes!) ...

from Gamasutra Independent Games News https://ubm.io/2XoMfO4

GameBender console merges video games with kid-friendly programming

The next project from Makey Makey co-creator Jay Silver is the GameBender, a plug-n-play game console that lets its players create and edit games on the fly. ...

from Gamasutra News https://ubm.io/2I9Kb68

Video: The things I wish I knew before becoming an art director

In this 2017 GDC talk, veteran dev Denis Rogic presents nine major lessons drawn from the missteps he made as an art director so that you can learn from them (and hopefully avoid the same mistakes!) ...

from Gamasutra News https://ubm.io/2XoMfO4

Don't Miss: A Cultist Simulator retrospective

The postmortem for Weather Factory's 1920s Lovecraftian card game Cultist Simulator, an indie success story for 2018. ...

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Don't Miss: A Cultist Simulator retrospective

The postmortem for Weather Factory's 1920s Lovecraftian card game Cultist Simulator, an indie success story for 2018. ...

from Gamasutra Independent Games News https://ubm.io/2Z0lu2Q

Nintendo brings Labo VR support to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Nintendo has brought support for its Labo VR goggles to another flagship Switch game. ...

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Nintendo brings Labo VR support to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Nintendo has brought support for its Labo VR goggles to another flagship Switch game. ...

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Former Gearbox VP joins Nintendo to lead developer and publisher relations

Former Gearbox vice president John Vignocchi has joined Nintendo of America to take charge of the company's developer and publisher relations team. ...

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Indie publisher Raw Fury has acquired the rights to the Kingdom franchise

Indie publisher Raw Fury has purchased the rights to the Kingdom franchise from creator Thomas van den Berg for an undisclosed fee. ...

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Indie publisher Raw Fury has acquired the rights to the Kingdom franchise

Indie publisher Raw Fury has purchased the rights to the Kingdom franchise from creator Thomas van den Berg for an undisclosed fee. ...

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Blog: How community management can take player engagement to the next level

Community management couldn't be more crucial in today's online gaming world. With the right tools and methodologies, you will gain understandings that should help engage players on a higher level. ...

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Game Design Deep Dive: Frenetic local multiplayer in Emergency Water Landing

Emergency Water Landing is a local multiplayer game where players control high powered rescue rafts and fight to save the most passengers, and this is how we designed it. ...

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Game Design Deep Dive: Frenetic local multiplayer in Emergency Water Landing

Emergency Water Landing is a local multiplayer game where players control high powered rescue rafts and fight to save the most passengers, and this is how we designed it. ...

from Gamasutra Console/PC News https://ubm.io/2Xj4O63

GameStop COO and CFO Rob Lloyd steps down amid executive shuffle

GameStop chief operating officer and chief financial officer Rob Lloyd is departing the company, a move that comes amid a mild executive reshuffling at the retailer. ...

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Get a job: Harmonix is hiring a Senior Server Engineer

Harmonix is seeking an experienced network-focused software engineer to join its team developing in-house backend services for its titles in development. ...

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Video: Using empathy as a game mechanic in Unravel

In this 2017 GDC talk, Coldwood's Martin Sahlin explores how the Swedish studio used empathy as a game mechanic in its striking 2016 puzzle-platformer Unravel.  ...

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Report: VR/AR company Leap Motion sold to UltraHaptics for $30 million

Leap Motion has reportedly been purchased by rival VR tech firm UltraHaptics for $30 million. ...

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Video: Using empathy as a game mechanic in Unravel

In this 2017 GDC talk, Coldwood's Martin Sahlin explores how the Swedish studio used empathy as a game mechanic in its striking 2016 puzzle-platformer Unravel.  ...

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare brings cross-platform play to the series

The latest game in Activision†™s long running Call of Duty series is the first to offer cross-platform play. ...

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare brings cross-platform play to the series

The latest game in Activision†™s long running Call of Duty series is the first to offer cross-platform play. ...

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Don't Miss: Ray Muzyka's Baldur's Gate II postmortem

In honor of Bioware's much-beloved RPG, check out Ray Muzyka's in-depth postmortem from a 2001 issue of Game Developer magazine. ...

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Don't Miss: Ray Muzyka's Baldur's Gate II postmortem

In honor of Bioware's much-beloved RPG, check out Ray Muzyka's in-depth postmortem from a 2001 issue of Game Developer magazine. ...

from Gamasutra Console/PC News https://ubm.io/2wJXkP3

Games on the Google Play Store now required to disclose loot box odds

Google Play's dev guidelines now say that apps with loot boxes "must clearly disclose the odds of receiving those items in advance of purchase.† ...

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Detroit: Become Human, Nintendo Labo among Games for Change Awards finalists

Games for Change has listed the games up for honors in its 2019 Games for Change Awards and introduced a pair of new awards coming to this year†™s show. ...

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