2 Valve calls out surprising popularity of PS4, Switch Pro controllers on Steam Valve wants you to know that players are interested in using the PS4 and Switch Pro Controllers more on Steam, and they're working to make them more compatible in the future.

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  Video: A classic postmortem of the trailblazing Ultima Online In this 2018 GDC session, Raph Koster, Starr Long, Richard Garriott de Cayeux (Lord British himself) & Rich Vogel talk about the things that went wrong and right in making and running Ultima Online.

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  Big Fish Games laying off 15% of staff to focus on 'social casino' & 'casual' games Yup, it's another layoffs story. Word is spreading today that Big Fish Games is cutting roughly 15 percent of its workforce, including a number of executives, to focus on casual & social casino games.

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  Get a job: Cryptic Studios is hiring a Character Artist for a Magic: The Gathering MMO The ideal candidate understands the aesthetics and technicalities of game-ready character art and can texture, shade, surface, optimize and implement just as well as they can sculpt.

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  Drawn to Death is closing down its online servers The sketchy brawler created by David Jaffe’s now defunct studio The Bartlet Jones Supernatural Detective Agency is ending online service in March.

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5 Don't Miss: A Myst classic postmortem from co-creator Robyn Miller Myst co-creator and sound composer Robyn Miller shares the design and production details behind one of gaming's most iconic first-person adventures.

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  Switch cloud saves are actually stored for 6 months, clarifies Nintendo Nintendo has offered a bit more of an explanation on what happens to the cloud saves of Nintendo Switch Online members should their subscription lapse.

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  Activision hits Spyro fan game with cease and desist order The creators of the Spyro the Dragon fan game Spyro: Myths Awaken have received a letter from Activision’s legal team calling for the end of development on the project.

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2 Ex-Telltale dev files class action suit over sudden mass layoffs A former Telltale employee has filed a class action lawsuit against the company alleging a violation California’s WARN Act by failing to give 60 days notice ahead of mass layoffs.

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  2K launches 'Foundations' program to support underprivileged communities The initative will help underprivileged neighborhoods by providing "essential technology upgrades" in community centres, and also refurbishing local basketball courts.

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1 Telltale looking to work with 'potential partners' to finish The Walking Dead Telltale claims it's working on a solution to finish The Walking Dead, but the news hasn't gone down too well with many game developers.

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  Blog: Evolving classic RTS interactions for VR - Part 3 In trying to evolve classic real-time strategy mechanics for virtual reality, we soon learned what interactions fit our game model, and what did not.

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  Footage and concept art from Telltale's canceled Stranger Things project has surfaced Netflix has explained it's "evaluating other options for bringing the Stranger Things universe to life," meaning this could be the first and final glimpse we catch of Telltale's vision.

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Postmortem: Midnight Hub's mystery puzzler Lake Ridden Lake Ridden is a mystery-puzzle indie game developed by two artists, two programmers/designers, and one producer. In this postmortem, we'll look back at its two-year production.

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Video: Psychosis and the making of Hellblade In this GDC 2018 talk, Ninja Theory's Dominic Matthews and Tameem Antoniades discuss the delivery of the mental health themes in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.

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  Archiving Will Wright's early design notes for The Sims The Strong Museum of Play spoke with Game Informer recently about obtaining the design documents and sketches from The Sims creator Will Wright.

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  Get a job: Rocket League dev Psyonix is hiring a UI Lead Psyonix is looking for an experienced UI Lead to oversee interface design and development on Rocket League.

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  Destiny 2 devs explain the evolution of Gambit's combo PvP and PvE play Gambit aims to merge the mostly-separate player-vs-player and player-vs-everything sides of Destiny 2, but its creation didn't come without its fair share of struggles.

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9 Devil May Cry 5's microtransactions designed as an 'option...to save time' Devil May Cry 5 will include microtransactions for in-game orbs initially obtained through combat or exploration if players wish to speed up the upgrade process and add buffs earlier.

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1 Don't Miss: The value of taking a narrative approach to level design Game designer Jolie Menzel shared some advice on how storytelling techniques can be applied to level design, drawing on her experience making games at Ubisoft and, before that, Telltale.

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  Free-to-play Warface grabs 1.3M registered players in one week on PS4 Overall, the top six countries, including the US, Germany, France, the UK, Brazil, and Russia, only represent around 62 percent of the title’s total registered PS4 players for week one.

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  XRDC speaker Q&A: Charles Yust on the potential of interactive AR exhibits Charles Yust, principal design technologist at frog, gives a preview of his upcoming XRDC talk about the power of interactive AR exhibits in museums.

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  Report: Guild Wars 2 in-game currency no longer available in Belgium The issue appears to be unique to Belgium, as some players in the country have succeeded in buying gems by using a VPN to make it seem like they're connecting to the store from another region.

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15 Blog: Examining the debate behind loot boxes With more concerns regarding regulating loot boxes, today's post takes a look at the appeal, design, and debate of this polarizing microtransaction.

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  Meet the pioneering Japanese indie behind La-Mulana "We’ve created this with the belief that while times and trends may change, there are always going to be players who want games with real challenge to them," says La-Mulana 2 director Takumi Naramura.

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