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Xbox, Twitch, Blizzard, Riot and more form Fair Play Alliance to combat toxic players
"We envision a world where games are free of harassment, discrimination and abuse"
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SteamSpy: The top 100 games on Steam accounted for 50% of sales revenue last year
Valves generates record-breaking $4.3bn in 2017
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Splatoon creator: “Fan art and live events are part of the world of the game”
How Nintendo's most recent super franchise was born
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Night in the Woods wins Independent Games Festival grand prize
Infinite Fall's debut game also recognised for Excellence in Narrative
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild triumphs at Game Developers Choice Awards
Multiple wins also secured by Gorogoa and Cuphead at San Francisco ceremony
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Elements of games industry "fundamentally broken" says IGDA president
Round table discussion on unions highlights employee grievances
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Building PUBG hype on a $0 marketing budget
Lead community manager Sammie Kang explains how Bluehole cultivated a devoted following of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds streamers from scratch
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How they got Ark: Survival Evolved working on Switch
Port specialists Abstraction on Nintendo, hitting the headlines at GDC and creating its own IP
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Epic: The barrier between Xbox and PlayStation "will inevitably come down"
Tim Sweeney on the emergence of "real games for gamers" on mobile, and the role of cross-platform play for the future of the games business
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Epic Games shows off lifelike "digital humans" with Star Wars and Andy Serkis demos
At GDC today, the Unreal Engine creator demonstrated how real-time raytracing will help games finally cross the uncanny valley
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International Mobile Games Awards winners announced
Bury Me My Love, Hidden Folks, Life Is Strange and Framed 2 among the triumphant games
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China-exclusive Vive Focus coming to Western markets this year
Development kits for the mobile VR headset available from today
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Nintendo reveals best-selling indie Switch games
Celeste triumphs as platform holder pledges to improve eShop discoverability
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The Ataribox becomes the Atari VCS
Hardware gets a new name, logo and look, but it's still unclear as to what precisely it has to offer
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Real stupid questions about artificial intelligence
Spirit AI's Emily Short says it's more important than ever for the press and public to understand what AI is, and what it can do
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Crytek adopts royalties model as CryEngine 5.5 arrives
Developer will now take a five per cent share of earnings from games built with its technology
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Xbox adds almost 300 indie games in a year
“We try to never say the word indie internally,” says ID@Xbox director
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EA's secretive SEED team shows off first demo, Project Pica Pica
GDC technical demo showcases work with ray-tracing and self-learning AI agents
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Google doubles down on mobile games with new store Google Play Instant
New store aimed at improving discoverability lets users play games without downloading them first
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Will Wright returns to game development with mobile title Proxi
The Sims creator working with Unity to find an artist for his first games project in almost a decade
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Microsoft announces DirectX ray tracing
Frostbite, Unity, and Unreal already planning to integrate DXR support
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Unity 2018 detailed in GDC keynote
Machine learning, new scriptable rendering pipelines and more VR support among the highlights
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Facebook reveals new SDK for PC game development
SDK includes new features around community engagement and analytics
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Magic Leap now open to developers through Creator Portal preview
Meanwhile, Unreal Engine and Unity add support for ambitious new augmented reality platform