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Power to The People
2013 News of the Year, Part Two: What were the five most important developments in the gaming industry this year? Here are our picks
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2013 in Quotes: "Buy crap and you will get more crap"
Who said what in 2013, the year that Blizzard weren't running for president, the Fish flipped and we all had to #dealwithit
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Stock Ticker: 2013 in Review
Game stocks (mostly) outperformed the markets as enthusiasm for the new spilled over into valuations. But who were the big winners and losers?
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Hope Springs Eternal: Can Mobile Offer a Console Experience?
Ryan Payton on developing République, going episodic and why F2P is "manipulative, evil and anti-consumer"
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Happy Trails
2013 News of the Year, Part 1: It's been an eventful year but we're counting down the top 10 events and trends for easy digestion
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Persons of the Year: The Class of 2013 pt. 2
Crowdfunding, billion-dollar deals and a bit of the old ultra-violence, but who's number one?
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Persons of the Year: The Class of 2013
Indie cred, the perils of Twitter and surviving the apocalypse - Part One of our run-down of the defining figures of the year
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"Fast follow" no longer works in mobile
As TinyCo gets into licensed fare with Family Guy, studio's Andrew N. Green says quality games, more traditional marketing key for future
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Getting Emotional: Developing Sports Games for Next-Gen
Sports franchise devs discuss the challenge of splitting their focus between current-gen and next-gen
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What lessons can be learned from LucasArts?
Google's chief game designer Noah Falstein reflects on the good and bad of his time at Lucasfilm Games
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Kabam: Adding the prestige to free-to-play
"The traditional publisher/developer model is kind of like the prisoner's dilemma" says president Andrew Sheppard
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Sports Games: Tackling a Catch-22
We talk with several sports franchise devs about walking the tightrope between innovation and appeasing a core fan base every year
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Gran Turismo 6 struggles to find the line between quantity and quality
Polyphony Digital's latest excels in familiar ways, but critics lament the lack of new ideas
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Pachter: "I don't know why Iwata is still employed"
The analyst scolds Nintendo for not taking advantage of mobile, states that PS4 will top XB1, and makes some bold predictions
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Devs must be careful with "massaged" metrics
Execution Labs' Jen Whitson details dangers of data-driven design and why it's here to stay anyway
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Reggie: What fans want and say doesn't affect what we do
"100,000 signatures doesn't mean 100,000 sales."
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Mobile Controllers: Game On or Dead On Arrival?
We chat with several devs about the new iOS game pads and what impact they will ultimately have
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Gaijin Entertainment: "We're not the greedy bastards here"
Free games on consoles will have to hit higher standards, says CEO Anton Yudintsev
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Giving Away Your Game is Hard
Frogmind COO Teemu Mäki-Patola (developer of Badland) on how to choose a business model for your mobile game, why F2P may not be best for some
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Shaking up a franchise? Take nothing away, says Splinter Cell dev
Ubisoft's Everett finds balancing the fresh & expected tough, but essential
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Could GTA Online work as a F2P title?
The GamesAnalytics staff look at the structure of Rockstar's multiplayer
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What Price Victory: The Rising Cost of Console Gaming
Sony is set to triumph in day-one sales, but the British public is confused by AAA pricing on both consoles
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How PS4 and Xbox One Will Yield Better Creativity
Why does next-gen matter? Devs tell us what the extra power will allow them to do
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Square Enix seeking "formula that works" for Latin America
Head of publisher's regional start-up says it's time to start targeting the emerging market with homegrown content
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Perfect World gains in Q3 revenue and profits
CEO looks ahead to the launch of DOTA 2 in China