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• GameStop: New hardware sales to shrink by 10% in 2016

  25-03-2016 23:06
  
  On the back of a flat year for the company's game business, its execs are projecting further shrinkage in consoles and games for the year. ...
  
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• Devs Answer: What are your favorite gaming Easter Eggs?

  25-03-2016 22:23
  
  Easter is upon us, so we asked developers to share some of their favorite gaming Easter Eggs, with a few explanations for finding them yourself. ...
  
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• Atari Vault launches with 100 games, controller support, and online features

  25-03-2016 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Earlier this year, Atari announced a 100-game bundle for PC, and now this  Atari Vault  has just gone live. For those who want to relive their blocky childhood gaming memories, this is the most convenient method of doing so without resorting to emulators or retro consoles. And if that’s not enough, the collection also adds online features and full controller support. Titles from the dawn of gaming have been released in various formats over the years, and it appears that
  
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• Sunset Overdrive goes free for Xbox Games with Gold in April

  25-03-2016 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft is giving away free downloadable copies of its open-world Xbox One action game Sunset Overdrive next month as part of Games with Gold, a member-exclusive perk for Xbox Live Gold service subscribers. Xbox Live Gold subscribers will also receive a free copy of Telltale Games’ The Wolf Among Us in April, along with a pair of Xbox 360 classics that are playable on the Xbox One via the platform’s backward compatibility feature. Related:  The best Xbox One compatible Xbox 36
  
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• Get a job: Digital Extremes is hiring a 3D Environment Artist

  25-03-2016 20:27
  
  Based out of Canada, the studio behind Warframe is looking for an experienced 3D environment artist to work on upcoming projects alongside the team in its London, Ontario studio. ...
  
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• Don't Miss: How Dark Souls' multiplayer mechanics invaded other words

  25-03-2016 20:09
  
  What is it about player invasions in Dark Souls that's so compelling? In this classic feature, we chats with devs to explore why the mechanic is exciting, and how they put their own spin on it....
  
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• Scary sideways plane landings like this normally only work in video games

  25-03-2016 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  You know what's great about flying virtual planes in games like  Grand Theft Auto ? As long as you get the plane on the ground using a maneuver other than a direct nosedive, there's a good chance you'll survive it. Via Oklahoma news station  KFOR , a United plane that touched down at Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City encountered some dangerous winds while trying to land and had to come in at an angle that was almost completely sideways. It goes without saying that this is
  
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• The importance of conversation and player stories in Moon Hunters

  25-03-2016 19:59
  
  "Most heroes' and villains' interpersonal skills are at the core of their identity and legends because they're what drive how we act, and why we act."...
  
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• Video: How NetherRealm built Mortal Kombat's cinematic story mode

  25-03-2016 19:50
  
  In this GDC 2013 talk NetherRealm's Adisak Pochanayon explains how, exactly, "there's a full-length feature film rendered in our game, with seamless transitions in and out of gameplay."...
  
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• Subterfuge was my favorite game of 2015, but I never want to play it again

  25-03-2016 19:41
  "On paper, Subterfuge is the perfect game for me. Despite all that, the game has failed to keep me playing for more than a few weeks, and I don't see myself starting a new game ever again." ...
  
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• Harmonix Offering Every Rock Band Song Ever on PC

  25-03-2016 19:31
  
  Harmonix announced access to the entire Rock Band DLC library for Rock Band 4 on PC.
  The collection costs $2500 USD, and should include over 2000 songs aggregated over the course of Rock Band's history. The package is a tier in its Rock Band Fig campaign.
  Harmonix noted licensing could affect whether certain songs will be available in the package, or if certain songs leave the DLC library in the future. The company didn't confirm if future DLC will be included in this deal.
  While Harmo
  
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• Oculus Rift steals Gear VR's moves, can now do the asynchronous timewarp

  25-03-2016 19:23
  At GDC last week Oculus VR announced it would be bringing asynchronous timewarp capabilities to its Rift virtual reality headset, and today a blog post confirmed that the new feature will debut in Oculus PC SDK 1.3. ...
  
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• 22-year-old designer explains how he leaked a fake Nintendo NX controller

  25-03-2016 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Last week, a photo emerged on Reddit from a user called “Idriss2Dev” that would cause the Internet, Nintendo fans and skeptics alike, to fall to their knees at Nintendo’s precarious reliance on gimmicky hardware to move units. Not only did the “leaked” gamepad, allegedly for Nintendo’s next console, codenamed the NX, look like a step down from the Wii U, the images we saw would potentially alienate console gamers by giving them no other option than to use an i
  
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• Battlefleet Gothic: Armada’s Orks Enter The Beta, Release Date Set For April

  25-03-2016 18:54
  Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, Focus Home Interactive’s digital adaptation of the Games Workshop tabletop game, is going to be in beta for a little while longer. Originally expected to launch in March, fans can now look forward to it in April.
  We previously covered the Chaos fleet, which is designed to attack from long range and keep distance from enemies. The Ork fleet is the opposite, moving to close the gap and rip enemies apart. They will be entering the beta, which is available to those
  
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• Blog: 5 tips for teaching game design to non-gamers

  25-03-2016 18:43
  "The group transitioned from being those who didn't know their emergent gameplay from their experience-driven gameplay, to a band of amateur designers twisting core concepts and themes to create game ideas." ...
  
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• Classic Postmortem: Lionhead's Black & White

  25-03-2016 18:20
  Fifteen years ago today, Lionhead Studio's unique creature-training God game Black & White was released. Here's Peter Molyneux's in-depth postmortem that first ran in Game Developer magazine. ...
  
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• GDC Europe 2016 announces dates and calls for papers

  25-03-2016 17:55
  
  GDC organizers have put out the call for submissions to present lectures and panel sessions at the 2016 Game Developers Conference Europe, which will run August 15-16 in Cologne, Germany....
  
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• Avoid our crowdfunding failure

  25-03-2016 17:25
  "We spent four months creating art assets, planning updates, putting together the page and writing and rewriting all the content. But as we found out, none of this mattered." ...
  
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• Hear a Beatle's Voicemail to Destiny Composer

  25-03-2016 17:00
  
  When you’re as accomplished a composer as Marty O’Donnell, getting an international rock icon like Paul McCartney to sign on to help in composing the soundtrack to your game is just a product of luck and solid connections.
  In an interview with IGN Unfiltered, O’Donnell explained the process of how the ex-Beatle became involved. When speaking with an associate one day, O’Donnell was asked who he would ideally want to work with as Bungie prepared to start work on the Destin
  
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• High Res Images of New Destiny Enemies Released

  25-03-2016 16:25
  
  Bungie released high resolution images of some of the upcoming Destiny enemies, and also clarified a point about the Prison of Elders.
  Bungie ran a live stream earlier in the week detailing its Spring update. You can find the full stream archive below. However, unlike what was mentioned on the stream, Prison of Elders does not have any checkpoints.
  Community manager David "DeeJ" Dague has also given us updates on a couple of other things that weren't mentioned on the stream. Namely, King's Fall
  
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• Is Fallout 4 Automatron Worth Picking Up?

  25-03-2016 16:03
  
  We're back! Automatron brings mechanical menaces to The Commonwealth, but is the DLC worth your time? Jared, Miranda, and Brendan answer that and talk new companions, custom creations, and much more. Enjoy your apocalypse!Pinkytron 1-TrillionPinkytron 1-Trillion says you can also listen via direct download.
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• Nate Wonders If It’s All Worth It In Uncharted 4 CGI Trailer

  25-03-2016 15:07
  Uncharted 4 might very well be Nathan Drake’s last adventure. And Naughty Dog and Drake himself are wondering the same thing: has it all be worth it?
  Based on past outings, we’re thinking the answer is going to be a resounding “yes.” But we’ll find out for sure when it finally arrives on PlayStation 4 on May 10.
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  If you’re hungry for more Uncharted, you can check out our February 2015 cover. We also have the first fou
  
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• VR dev resources: A big list

  25-03-2016 13:06
  From Oculus Rift to Cardboard, a big list: "I've parsed tons of info, found a lot of practical useful info and tips in tutorials, answers, forums, blogs and so on and going to gather it here and share."...
  
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• Ex-Blizzard Devs Prep The 8-Player Diablo-Inspired Kings And Heroes

  25-03-2016 01:44
  A group of developers who have previously worked at Blizzard, Valve Software, Certain Affinity, 7 Studios, and Turbine are teaming up to make a newhack-and-slash RPG in the vein of Diablo.The name might be generic, but the game sound promising. Developed by a new studio called Industry Games, Kings and Heroes looks to be an open-world, fantasy RPG, which looks a bit like a first person Diablo. Players will be able to play solo or in groups of up to 8 players as they explore procedurally generat
  
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• Stardew Valley Review

  25-03-2016 01:13
  
  My favorite thing about Stardew Valley is not just that there’s a lot to see and do, but that it’s (almost) all intertwined. It’s not apparent at first — when I started my farm, I planned each tile for maximum efficiency and reset when I accidentally bought the wrong seeds. But the secret of the Valley is that it’s much more than making each day productive on the farm alone. As I ventured off my plot of 16-bit land and started to explore, I began to really enjoy the
  
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