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Growing Indigenous worlds in games
Achimostawinan Games' Meagan Byrne and Sadekaronhes Esquivel talk about reappropriation, misrepresentation
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Activision Blizzard goes into the black box | This Week in Business
The Call of Duty publisher has been good at detailing its business, but that won't happen under Microsoft
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Sponsored | Modulate: how AI-assisted voice moderation tools can help combat toxicity
Why Modulate’s voice-native moderation tool ToxMod is more beneficial than old forms of grief reporting
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Peter Molyneux is returning to his roots
Veteran and sometimes controversial game developer on his return to PC and console, and countering the notion that everything he says is a promise
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Everybody makes mistakes | 10 Years Ago This Month
The power of the cloud, second-screen gaming, and more promised futures that never came to pass
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Keeping Devolver’s spirit through challenging times
COO Graeme Struthers on regaining momentum, "doing really well in a market that's gone pretty soft," and why the indie label went down the IPO road
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So, Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard. How will this affect the rest of the industry?
Analysts and developers weigh in on the completion of gaming's biggest M&A deal to date - and what happens next
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Riccitiello's exit a rare bit of accountability | This Week in Business
Let's compare the consequences of Unity's Runtime Fee debacle to those of historical game executive bellyflops
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Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard: The road to approval
We look at the regulatory process and explain what it all means for the $68.7 billion deal
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Navigating the storm: Lessons learned from the mobile market's downturn
My.Games Venture Capital executive director Nikita Matsokin breaks down the numbers to see what's been working (and what hasn't) in the mobile market
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Making Assassin's Creed Mirage culturally and linguistically relevant
Ubisoft's Mohammed Alemam and Jean-Luc Sala on creating one of the first AAA games fully voiced in Arabic
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Taking one for the team you've been kicked out of | Last Week in Business
As ex-BioWare devs file suit for severance, EA reportedly tells them Dragon Age: Dreadwolf hangs in the balance
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Sponsored | Jagex: Mental health comes from our values
Chief people officer Keeley Vaughan-Davies on setting values and culture and Jagex's new partnership with Safe In Our World
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An allergy to transparency | This Week in Business
How the IARC works, what makes Naughty Dog's layoffs different, and the industry's ongoing effort to control everything anyone knows about it
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Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII's combat system | Why I Love
Worldless game director Joel Roset breaks down ingenious design in an oft-overlooked installment of the RPG franchise
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What the current wave of layoffs means for the games industry
Analysts, recruiters and investors weigh in on the impact of mass redundancies, and the longer term prospects for the business of video games
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What Resident Evil Village on iOS tells us about the future of AAA mobile game development
Capcom's producers share their insight on closing the gap between console and mobile development
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Pistol Shrimp and the importance of owning what you make
Ex-Toys For Bob developers Fred Ford and Dan Gerstein talk about The Ur-Quan Masters 2, tools, and what it was like switching engines to Godot midway through development
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Grasshopper Manufacture: 25 years and still hopping
CEO Suda 51 talks rough patches, longevity, and encouraging newer talent at the studio
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Sponsored | Come and Make: AAA games that push the boundaries
We caught up with the Best Places to Work Awards winner on what makes the studio special
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Engines of Woe | This Week in Business
Who pays the price for Epic and Unity's recent revelations about the need for a sustainable business?
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Life after FIFA: The birth of EA Sports FC and its mission to find 1bn fans
"We're going from a video game built out of football, to a football platform built from a video game"
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Sony has a crucial decision to make after Jim Ryan's retirement | Opinion
Should Sony find someone new to take PlayStation into uncharted waters?
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Sponsored | Navigating the path toward success: Xsolla Funding Club's role in FixFox's launch
Studio founder Jaroslav Meloun’s search for an investor ended after a month of joining Xsolla Funding Club, concluding a 2-year-long search
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Making the most of Monopoly Go's false start
Scopely's Massimo Maietti talks about the abandoned original version of the game and how going back to the drawing board produced a breakout mobile hit