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Studio Wildcard will pay for ARK: Survival Evolved mod content
The creators of two new maps were paid "several months salary" and hired by the company
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Blizzard and Twitch pledge to fight racism with pilot program
An incident at a recent live-streamed Hearthstone tournament has highlighted the need for change in eSports
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New hire roundup: Creative Assembly names Gareth Edmondson COO
New role for ex-Ubisoft Reflections managing director and Jeffrey Lin leaving Riot Games lead our first movers and shakers round-up
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Sega returns to profit on cuts and streamlining
But revenue across Sega's games business was flat or in decline as new products failed to excite
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eSports supremacy beckons as Overwatch beta pulls 9.7m players
Blizzard's hero shooter attracted more players than Battlefront and The Division
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Asobo Studio: Lessons from the frontline of HoloLens development
"Sometimes experience is a trap. As an experienced developer you might think, 'In this case, let's do that.' But you're wrong"
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Game Jolt's Marketplace lets indies decide their own revenue share
No more than 10% will be accepted, devs encouraged to invest sales revenue in other games on the platform
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MZ's RTplatform now has a leader
Salesforce exec Nasi Jazayeri has joined the company formerly known as Machine Zone to lead its cloud tech strategy
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Bandai Namco profits slip, Dark Souls III soars
From Software's has shipped 3 million, but it launched a few days from the close of the fiscal year
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PS4 and Xbox One have a new competitor in the Chinese console market
Fuze's new Tomahawk F1 console is smaller and digital only, but the similarities are plain to see
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How do you keep World of Warcraft's players happy?
Blizzard designer Ion Hazzikostas on the best approach to managing an audience of millions
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Metal Gear and mobile games give Konami a boost
Digital Entertainment division doubled its operating profit in the last fiscal year, but Konami sees decline in its future
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Battleborn takes #1 on a quiet week in the UK
The closest rival for Gearbox's latest was Call of Duty: Black Ops III
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Capcom forecasts digital shift after solid fiscal year results
Packaged games will receive "limited sales runs" as the company pursues growth in digital games and Asian markets
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Does App Store placement still matter?
A new App Annie report shows daily download gains of between 100 and 500 per cent depending on territory
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"Cross-play with other networks? That's not the Microsoft of ten years ago"
Marcin Iwinski sees a bright future for CD Projekt's GOG Galaxy, even in a world where Steam and UWP exist
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Made for Samsung exclusivity programme opens up to indie games
Samsung pledges to, "push your game to a very good audience," as it seeks to bolster its Galaxy App Store
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Glu Mobile: VR several years from returning "meaningful" revenue
CEO thinks desktop VR is two or three years from inflection point, and mobile VR is even further than that
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inXile legal challenge forces indie dev to rebrand game
The Alien Wasteland now called Action Alien following cease and desist letter over "Wasteland" trademark
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Glu confirms 100 jobs cut in five months following Q1 loss
"We cut nothing that was actually going to deliver in our mind certain revenue later this year"
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The Workshop Entertainment acquired by Skydance Media
Studio founded by Treyarch vets will become a VR focused subsidiary of Skydance
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Chinese mobile games market is now the most valuable in the world
Newzoo and TalkingData report pegs annual revenue for 2015 at $7.1 billion, rising to $10 billion this year
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Nvidia and Samsung settle all existing patent litigation
Legal back-and-forth started with an Nvidia lawsuit in 2014, settlement arrived hours before final hearing
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Deceased Oculus co-founder to be honoured at University of Maryland
Part of Brendan Iribe's $31 million complex will be named after co-founder Andrew Reisse, who died in 2013
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GameAnalytics now available to Unreal Engine devs
Free analytics service can be integrated with any game made with Unreal