Features (Page 46)

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Why would you launch a bleeping FMV game in 2022?

NotGames' Alex Paterson and Denis Sewell look to carve a path to FMV genre dominance with the dystopian TV production title Not For Broadcast

Jan. 26, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

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Becoming the next Sega and Eidos: The transformation of Curve Games

New CEO John Clark on the vision and future of the Human: Fall Flat publisher

Jan. 26, 2022 Christopher Dring

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Microsoft gaming revenues up 8% in Q2

Update: 20 million people have played Halo Infinite since launch, making it "the biggest Halo launch in history"

Jan. 26, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

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Psyonix on pivoting to mobile with Rocket League Sideswipe

The Epic-owned studio discusses the challenges of redesigning the hit car game to suit a different market

Jan. 25, 2022 Danielle Partis

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EA announces three more Star Wars games

Respawn working on a Star Wars Jedi follow-up and a first-person shooter, as well as a strategy title from Bit Reactor

Jan. 25, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

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Ian Livingstone: My Vision for Games in 2022 | Playable Futures

Kicking off the Playable Futures series, an industry icon considers trends that might define the sector's future

Jan. 25, 2022 Sir Ian Livingstone

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Tracing the past, present, and future of game cinematics

Goodbye Kansas' Anton Söderhäll on the history of in-game cutscenes and how they have evolved

Jan. 25, 2022 Anton Söderhäll

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Legal trends for the games industry in 2022 | Opinion

Advant's Dr. Andreas Lober and Luca Guidobaldi shares their predictions for the Metaverse, European law and more

Jan. 24, 2022 Dr Andreas Lober and Luca Guidobaldi

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Call of Duty QA workers vote to unionize

78% of Raven Software testers vote to form union, ask Activision Blizzard to voluntarily recognize a group of 34 members

Jan. 21, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

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How do you learn from failures that succeed? | This Week in Business

Lego Star Wars is a complicated build, ex-BioWare developers dispel the notion of BioWare Magic, and we sift through the chatter around Microsoft's Activision Blizzard deal

Jan. 21, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

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Buying Activision Blizzard is the industry's biggest gamble | Opinion

The sheer scale of Microsoft's acquisition shouldn't distract from how risky and difficult it will be - and some major questions won't have answers for years

Jan. 21, 2022 Rob Fahey

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GDC survey takes dev temperature on studio toxicity unions, blockchain, more

Organizer Katie Stern talks about annual survey results and going forward with March's in-person event

Jan. 20, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

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TT Games employees report crunch, bullying at Lego studio

Current and former staff report 80-100 hour work weeks, planned crunch, mismanagement wasting months of work

Jan. 20, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

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Super Rare Games launches indie publishing label Super Rare Originals

Ryan Brown discusses how company aims to "rebuild the power dynamics in indie publishing to be in the developer's favour"

Jan. 20, 2022 Danielle Partis

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Rainbow Six Extraction | Critical Consensus

A fun, co-operative shooter at its core, but ultimately could have just been a Siege expansion

Jan. 20, 2022 Danielle Partis

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How Firestoke wants to redefine publishing, one non-violent game at a time

Co-founder Paul Farley discusses how the new UK-based indie publisher aims to fix the developer/publisher relationship

Jan. 20, 2022 Marie Dealessandri

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"The deal that will change the industry forever": Analysts on Microsoft's Activision acquisition

Experts break down the biggest implications from the record-breaking $68.7 billion deal

Jan. 19, 2022 James Batchelor

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Former Firaxis art director Greg Foertsch unveils new studio, Bit Reactor

XCOM designer discusses how new outfit plans to refresh the strategy genre and rival AAAs

Jan. 19, 2022 Danielle Partis

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Xbox's Activision Blizzard is about more than beating Sony | Opinion

Microsoft has more likely targeted Candy Crush than Call of Duty to grow its business

Jan. 18, 2022 Christopher Dring

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Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard

All-cash deal to see Xbox maker pay $68.7bn for Call of Duty publisher, a 69% premium over its closing share price Monday

Jan. 18, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

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Sponsored | Subway Surfers: Lessons from the world's most downloaded game

A look at how frequent updates, artist-friendly tools and elegant production pipelines helped SYBO's game soar past three billion downloads

Jan. 18, 2022 Sponsored Article

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2022 is shaping up to be one of video games' biggest ever years | Opinion

Platform holders and publishers alike are preparing to unleash their best ever line-ups

Jan. 17, 2022 Christopher Dring

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Take-Two-Zynga is a very big deal, but is it a good one? | This Week in Business

The Grand Theft Auto publisher is paying a premium for a company with a track record of losses and a slumping share price, but there's some upside too

Jan. 14, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

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Black Game Developers Fund on rebranding, evolving, and expanding

Strategic advisors Sithe Ncube and Justin Woodward discuss the Humble-backed venture's next steps to independence

Jan. 14, 2022 Danielle Partis

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Unit sales are only one factor in the sequel equation | Opinion

Decision-making over franchises can seem obscure, but there's usually solid logic behind such investment -- and sales are only part of the puzzle

Jan. 14, 2022 Rob Fahey