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How are investors feeling about video games today?
“Investors certainly do not see video games as recession proof”
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Restoring a missing piece of history with MLB: The Show's Negro Leagues
Taking inspiration from the Negro League Museum, Sony's San Diego studio was finally able to celebrate the forgotten baseball stars
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How to get away with being an abusive employer | This Week in Business
A helpful guide for staying out of the headlines and being lowdown on the down low
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Always-online SimCity burns to the ground | 10 Years Ago This Month
Everything goes wrong for EA's reboot, EA CEO John Riccitiello steps down, and the industry sends mixed messages on whether it wants women around
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New indie label Cult Games: "Real breakouts don't come from the boardroom"
Founder Helen Burnill discusses how her new venture is supporting studios like Witch Beam and Brightrock Games
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Games tackle the villainy of propaganda
We speak to the studios teaching people how to identify disinformation by letting them spread it within video games
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Riot vets aiming to shake up multiplayer with new studio The Believer Company
Following its $55 million Series A round, we speak to the new studio about its ambitions and how it hopes to take its original IP beyond games
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Sponsored | Discover the tool that can speed up marketing approvals and help prevent video game leaks
Shift Media explains how its MediaSilo platform can stop the pain points companies run into when working on marketing campaigns
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Report: EU likely to approve Microsoft deal for Activision Blizzard
Reuters sources say the European Commission will be satisfied by multiplatform licensing deals for Call of Duty
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Where did Knockout City go wrong?
Velan Studios' Guha Bala discusses the dodgeball multiplayer game's upcoming closure and his hopes for a sequel
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Building a Myst-ery | Why I Love
Smart Technologies' Andy Cargile calls Cyan Worlds' seminal puzzle game "moody, magical, and filled to the brim with mysterious mechanisms..."
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Sony's third-party plan to make PlayStation the best place to play
Shawne Benson lays out SIE's third-party portfolio strategy and how it changes between console, VR, and PC
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Sponsored | Join the free GI Webinar on code assessment and how it can save developers time and money
Featuring leading tech experts from Endava and more
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How do you monetize Minesweeper?
Microsoft's attempts to get money from the Windows puzzler are detailed in this excerpt from Kyle Orland's upcoming Boss Fight Books release
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Bigmode's journey, from YouTubers to publishers
Co-founder Leah Gastrow on what the publishing label brings to the table, its natural progression from content creation, and the problem with placing others in rigid boxes
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What kind of studio does Electric Saint want to be?
The UK startup's founders discuss forming a new development in an uncertain economic climate, and their mission to "make weird shit"
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Rovio gives fans the bird | This Week in Business
Some fans preferred the pay-once remake of Angry Birds to the more lucrative free-to-play versions, so Rovio got rid of it
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What does a wave of closures mean for live service games?
Analysts and publishers discuss the challenges studios face in running an ongoing online titles
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Why Microsoft's claim that it has 20% market share in Europe vs PlayStation's 80% was accurate
There was a reason the company discounted Nintendo
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PS4 reveal signals a new generation | 10 Years Ago This Month
Sony's big hardware unveiling gets positive reviews, live-service games hit a wall, and it's a good month for Bad Calls
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PlayStation VR 2 | Critical Consensus
Reviewers were convinced by Sony's new cutting edge VR headset – and poster child Horizon Call of the Mountain – but it might not be enough to justify the costly investment
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Why I Love: Alisia Dragoon
Wanted: Dead publisher's Sergei Kolobashkin celebrates an underappreciated gem from Sega's 16-bit heyday
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Patrice Désilets and his lifelong obsession with time
The original Assassin's Creed's creative director reflects on his career, and the importance of gameplay mechanics before story
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Blizzard president sends a message | This Week in Business
Mike Ybarra's comments in an all-hands meeting upset some employees, but to what end?
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Game Changers | Professor Jim Huntley
The USC Games educator and creator of the Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund says the games industry needs to put its money where its mouth is on DEI efforts