GDC Speaker Q&A: Roblox's Genevieve C. Johnson uses games to educate GDC speaker Genevieve C. Johnson chats with us about her career and upcoming GDC 2019 session.

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  Video: Shadow Cities and the future of location-based games In this GDC 2012 talk, Grey Area's Markus Montola discusses Shadow Citiesand some of the key lessons from the early days of mobile location-driven video games.

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  Sony is rolling out PlayStation Now to new European territories Sony is expanding its PlayStation Now service to new territories across Europe later this year.

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  Come see this fantastic lineup of films at the 2019 GDC Film Festival! Across the three days a wide range of documentaries and other filmed material based around the video game medium will be screened, some for the very first time -- so don't miss it!

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  With CryEngine's SpatialOS GDK in the works, Crytek reaffirms open-platform goals In the wake of the big (now resolved) dispute between SpatialOS dev Improbable and Unity, Cryengine maker Crytek has reaffirmed its commitment to providing an open platform in a post on its blog.

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1 New esports league crops up around Farming Simulator 19 Giants Software, developers behind the Farming Simulator franchise, has announced the formation of its new official esports league for Farming Simulator 19. 

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  Get a job: Join Schell Games as a Senior Technical Artist Schell Games is currently seeking a talented Senior Technical Artist to develop high-end 3D experiences for traditional gameplay development as well as location-based attractions.

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2 Don't Miss: A Game Design Deep Dive into SteamWorld Dig's digging mechanic Here, the team describes the process they went through in designing the main mechanic of the game, which (as you may have guessed) is the digging.

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  NPD: The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console of 2018 in the U.S. New numbers from the NPD Group show that 2018 was a standout year for Nintendo as the Nintendo Switch led both hardware sales for both December and 2018 as a whole.

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  Master the art of creating and managing great live games at GDC 2019 Don't miss all the great GDC 2019 talks aimed at helping you become a better live game developer! Catch these talks from folks who've worked on Fallout 76, Armello, Path of Exile and more!

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  Longtime CD Projekt Red dev Sebastian StÄ™pieÅ„ joins Blizzard Sebastian StÄ™pieÅ„, the creative director of CD Projekt Red’s upcoming game Cyberpunk 2077, is seemingly making the jump from the Polish studio to Blizzard Entertainment.

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  Alt.Ctrl.GDC Showcase: Neon Nemesis Neon Nemesis appears to be a four-player arcade game, but a hidden fifth player will make mayhem for the others using a lair filled with traps and deadly mechanisms.

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  Strap in for a Panzer Dragoon Classic Game Postmortem at GDC 2019! This is a special Classic Game Postmortem because you get 2 speakers and not 1 but 3 Saturn games discussed in-depth: the original Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon Zwei and RPG Panzer Dragoon Saga.

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  Epic Games acquires digital character specialist 3Lateral The Serbia-based company offers a variety of services including character conceptualization, face rigging, 3D scanning, and modeling.

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7 Adobe acquires Substance toolkit creator Allegorithmic Adobe has acquired Allegorithmic, the French company behind the Substance 3D material and texture creation toolkit that's used by a wide variety of game studios.

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6 Blog: The mysteries of studying game design For this post, I share my thoughts on what it means to study game design, and provide some tips for developers looking to breakdown games for inspiration.

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How the Distraint series stands out in the crowded horror genre One-man studio Jesse Makkonen explains how he was able to get his horror game to stand out in a market that is flooded with genre competitors.

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  Video: How I got my mom to play through Plants vs. Zombies In this GDC 2012 session, PopCap's George Fan walks through how he managed to get his mom to play video games through the development of Plants Vs Zombies.

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My Time at Portia devs compensate voice actors for unpaid wages Pathea Games, developer behind the role-playing game My Time at Portia, has come under fire over reportedly withholding payments to its voice actors for several months. 

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2 Tencent still absent from third round of Chinese game approvals 93 more games have been approved by the Online Games Ethics Committee of China, signaling the third wave of media authorized by the country's gaming regulator since December 2018.

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  Get a job: Disbelief is hiring a Junior Programmer in Chicago Junior programmers at Disbelief are called on to develop and debug in a variety of areas from gameplay to core engine programming.

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Resident Evil 2's time-restricted demo has been downloaded over 3 million times Capcom says the demo for its upcoming remake of Resident Evil 2 was downloaded over 3 million times since it went live on January 11.

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9 Don't Miss: The secret history of Donkey Kong This 2011 feature takes a look back at Donkey Kong's complex history of secret development contracts and protracted legal battles.

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  Hothead Games opens new publishing division Canadian developer Hothead Games has opened up a new division to focus on putting its self-publishing resources toward mobile games from other developers.

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1 Obsidian is patching an optional turn-based mode into Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire launched last year a rather traditional real-time strategy RPG, but soon that won't be the only genre it occupies.

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