Video Game Deep Cuts: Smash That Magic Spiderweb This week's highlights include a neat Smash Bros interview, a review of Magic Leap's reveal party, and words of wisdom from Spiderweb Software, among many others.

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  Video: BioWare's postmortem look at the making of Star Wars: The Old Republic At GDC 2012, BioWare Austin leads Richard Vogel and Dallas Dickinson share how Star Wars: The Old Republic positioned itself to break into the World of Warcraft-dominated MMO game market.

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  Watch our chat with CrossCode's lead developer and composer! We talked to some of the developers behind Steam Early Access hit CrossCode about making and selling a retro-flavored RPG in 2018.

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  Facebook is testing a mobile app for watching Facebook Gaming streams Facebook is currently testing a mobile spin on its Fb.gg streaming platform that groups features currently available in the company’s Facebook Gaming web platform into a mobile-friendly app.

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  Weekly Jobs Roundup: Outfit7, Cryptic Studios, and more are hiring now! Here are just some of the many, many positions being advertised right now on Gamasutra's Job Board.

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1 Facebook confirms 30 million people had personal data stolen in breach While the number is less than the company’s original 50 million estimate, a significant chunk of the platform’s userbase had either their contact or profile info accessed in the breach.

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8 Valve under investigation by Brazilian government over violent political game Valve is under investigation by the Brazilian government after a violent political game was published to Steam last week.

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  John Carmack and ZeniMax have ended their legal dispute The legal battle between id Software co-founder John Carmack and current id owner ZeniMax has ended, though a case involving Oculus rages on.

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  Report: Blizzard considering bringing cross-platform play to Diablo 3 Update A Blizzard rep said the company is in talks with Sony and Microsoft to enable cross-platform play across competing consoles with the arrival of Diablo 3 on the Nintendo Switch.

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  XRDC speaker Q&A: BioWare vet Jonathan Perry tunes VR for workplace training Ractive CEO and former BioWare cinematics director Jonathan Perry talks about the potential of VR in high-stress training.

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  Bethesda teams up with West Virginia Tourism Office for Fallout 76 promo Fallout 76 developer Bethesda is partnering with the West Virginia Tourism Office to promote the upcoming game which takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of the state.

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1 Bethesda Softworks opens new office to expand global operations Bethesda Softworks announced the opening of a new office in Moscow, Russia earlier today as part of its expansion of global operations. 

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2 Blog: Working with local devs to gain experience in games user research Landing an entry-level job in GamesUR is difficult, so having experience can set you apart from other candidates. This post outlines several best practices and principles for getting started in GamesUR.

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  We're talking to the team behind CrossCode at 3PM EDT The developers of CrossCode are swinging by for a chat about making their game starting at 3PM EDT.

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1 Blog: Designing for exploration - and terror - in Sunless Skies' Reach update Paul Arendt, CEO of Failbetter Games and creative director of Sunless Skies, talks about reconstructing the first region of the game to make exploration more meaningful and terrifying.

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  Making cars and writing code: Production Line's refreshing dev approach Gamasutra chats with veteran indie Cliff Harris (aka Cliffski) about the work that went into turning car manufacturing into an engrossing game in his Early Access puzzler Production Line.

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  Q&A: A chat with Magic Leap's interaction experts During Magic Leap's inaugural L.E.A.P. Conference in Los Angeles, we sat down with Brian Schwab, director of the company's Interaction Lab, and Aleissia Laidacker, interaction director, to talk about the future of mixed reality.

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  Conde Nast owner Advance buys majority stake in market researcher Newzoo Game market research firm Newzoo has accepted an undisclosed investment from Advance Publications, the venerable media company that owns outlets like Reddit, Wired, and The New Yorker.

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  Video: A design-centric approach to developing characters & stories At GDC 2011, veteran game designer Matthias Worch delivers a great talk that examines how game makers can more effectively reconcile developer-defined and player-derived character identities.

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1 Blog: Marketing and session data for Summoners Fate at PAX West Indie developer Ross Przybylski of D20 Studios offers crucial marketing and player data on his early access tactical CCG Summoners Fate following a showing at PAX West.

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  Microsoft has pulled the plug on Minecraft’s Apple TV version Microsoft has ended support for Minecraft on Apple TV, a change that rolled out late last month but wasn’t really noticed online until just this week. 

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  Get a job: Heart Machine is hiring a Gameplay Engineer Heart Machine is after someone to craft code for character interactions, NPC interactions, scripted sequences, combat, environmental interactions, and much more.

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  Don't Miss: Bringing Camouflaj's République to PlayStation 4 The curious story of how Camouflaj's episodic game République made its way from iOS in 2013 to Steam and then onto PS4 involves an engine overhaul, a port house, and a tricky overseas deal.

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1 Digging into the creation of one pick-ticular WarioWare minigame Kotaku has shared an interesting conversation with longtime Nintendo game developer Goro Abe that explores the origins of one particularly memorable 3 second long WarioWare minigame: Gold Digger.

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  Fortnite's Android version is no longer invite-only While the Android release of Fortnite is still in beta, Epic Games has made the mobile battle royale game available to the masses.

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