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Zynga and NetEase bringing Dawn of Titans to China
High-end free-to-play mobile game due for Eastern release by the end of the year
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Platinum Games now working on first fully-owned IP
Studio drops ambition to release one title per year after Scalebound cancellation
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“Virtual reality will be our best interface with true AI”
VR expert Dave Ranyard discusses the potential for storytelling with virtual and augmented reality at Nordic Game
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Anita Sarkeesian: “Games need to tell better stories that don't oversimplify oppression”
Critic praises “cultural shift” in video game storytelling, but says recent examples are a “band-aid on a deeper wound”
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Fumito Ueda: “For me, it's not important to tell the details of the story”
The Last Guardian developer shares his design process with Massive MD David Polfeldt and attendees at Nordic Game Conference
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The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast: VRX 2017 with Brynley Gibson and Julian Mower
Latest episode now available to download, discussing the search for new genres and the rising standards of virtual reality
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Inon Zur: “In video games, you don't need to hear the music - you need to feel it”
The Fallout 4 composer offers advice to aspiring musicians and discusses why he prefers scoring games to TV and film
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Playground spent 18 months developing the first 10 minutes of Forza Horizon 3
“First impressions change how players perceive a game,” says creative director Ralph Fulton
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“No region or city is free of the games industry's gender disparity”
Gram Games calls on companies around the world to push for better diversity, just as it's doing with The 22% Project
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Oliver twins: “Failure to change results in complete collapse”
The veteran development duo ponder the biggest changes in the industry ahead of their Nordic Game talk
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Twitch Unity day aims to promote diversity, inclusivity
Streaming platform also selling t-shirt to raise money for Amnesty International
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“VR shooters are the lowest common denominator - we need to move on”
Virtual reality experts discuss the next step for the technology, encourage developers to explore “deeper games”
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Derivière: “Games music needs to emancipate itself from Hollywood”
The Get Even composer discusses the benefits of live musicians, real-time generated soundtracks, and the folly of mimicking movies
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Nielsen: VR/AR awareness has nearly doubled among US population
One in ten Americans plans to buy PlayStation VR, 9% want Project Scorpio, 12% want Nintendo Switch
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Nitro Games sets sights on €3.2m IPO
Finnish mobile dev aims to raise capital ahead of shift to self-publishing model
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Mobile devs should target 39-year-old women that play Pokémon Go and Candy Crush - report
Research from Verto Analytics suggest this is the typical “super mobile gamer”, who plays across multiple devices
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Nintendo Switch boosts Nvidia revenues by up to $192m
Graphics hardware firm reports Q1 revenues of $1.94bn, aided by new console's use of Tegra processor
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Why the games industry holds the key to War Child's future
The charity that supports children in war-torn areas reflects on its blossoming relationship with video games
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“VR doesn't have to be an immersive first-person thing to add something special”
Paw Print Games on its mission to prove that virtual reality can enhance classic 2D gameplay with new brawler Bloody Zombies
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Amazon Lumberyard: One Year On
Mike Frazzini on the engine's first twelve months, how it attracts high-profile studios, and distancing the tech from CryEngine
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Gang Beasts dev: Parity clause means we can't commit to Xbox One release
“Making something exclusive for the sake of it just feels like an unnecessary step”
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Steam currently handling 50,000 refund requests per day
Stats from marketplace's support page dealing with more calls for money back than all other queries combined
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ZeniMax trademark forces indie to rename Prey for the Gods
“We could've fought this but we didn't want to spend our precious Kickstarter funds”
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Need For Speed creative director joins Amazon Game Studios
Former Criterion dev Craig Sullivan says Seattle-based behemoth is “not messing about” when it comes to games ambitions
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Guerrilla Cambridge art directors form Polygon Treehouse
New studio already working on first title, point-and-click adventure Röki