How useful errors and evolving player skills shape Fortnite's UX Ben Lewis-Evans, lead UX researcher at Epic Games, discusses his work on games like Fortnite and how UX researchers can preserve the roughness of good game design.

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1 Reverse-engineered Diablo source code released on GitHub Someone who goes by "GalaxyHaxz" has uploaded what appears to be a reverse-engineered version of the original source code (sans game assets) for Blizzard's pioneering 1996 game Diablo to GitHub. 

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  Video: Creating the narrative of Rise of the Tomb Raider In this GDC 2016 talk, writers and narrative designers from Rise of the Tomb Raider discuss how they worked together to build the next stage of Lara Croft's adventures.

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1 Sensible Object raises $3.2M for R&D toward board games using Alexa Sensible Object, developer of the voice-augmented trivia board game When in Rome, has raised $3.2 million to be used toward R&D for board games that will utilize Amazon Alexa.

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2 Analyst: 66% of console players still prefer physical games over digital The majority of players still prefer physical games over digital on console, and Nielsen Games reports that the exact opposite is true for players on PC.

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  Get a job: Armature Studio is hiring a Sr. Gameplay Programmer Armature Studio is looking to bring a Sr. Gameplay Engineer on board at its Texas-based studio to design innovative gameplay systems for an ongoing project.

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3 Don't Miss: A Game Design Deep Dive into Darkest Dungeon's Affliction System Chris Bourassa & Tyler Sigman of Red Hook Studios: "We wanted to capture the human response to stress. Any person can break under pressure, and people break in different ways."

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3 Valve introduces limits for new games to prevent 'fake' ones from gaming Steam “We don’t believe these constraints will negatively impact real games in any way, and the removal of fake games should improve the store experience for everyone.”

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2 'Gaming Disorder' officially listed in World Health Organization diagnostic doc The World Health Organization has finalized the draft for the 11th International Compendium of Diseases (ICD) revision, including a disorder involving video game addiction within its pages.

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  Blog: Building the boss fights of X-Morph: Defense - Part 3 In the third article in the series, we unveil the design decisions behind the bomber boss in X-Morph: Defense, and why we decided to get rid of it completely.

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2 Rare says streamers were critical to Sea of Thieves' success Sea of Thieves broke its three-month sales target in 24 hours with a little help from Game Pass, and a lot of help from streamers. 

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3 PUBG dev says store-bought assets help teams 'work smart' "Hiring an art team of 40 people to 'try a game' and 'see if it's fun' is simply not a smart way to work. This is what the asset store is for."

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3 Blog: Are battle royale titles the next big esport? Battle royale titles and Fortnite in particular have taken over multiplayer and streaming, but does the genre have the legs to be the next big esport?

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  How Avalanche and id are working together to build a new Rage Rage 2 game director Magnus Nedfors explains how Avalanche and id started collaborating, shedding some light on what he and his team have learned about making open-world games that feel dynamic.

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  Video Game Deep Cuts: Another Grim E3 World This week's highlights include lots of E3 news, a Grim Fandango reading to remember, and a stellar analysis of Another World/Out Of This World.

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  Video: Building the touchy-feely world of Media Molecule's Tearaway At GDC 2013, Tearaway creative lead Rex Crowle described the challenges of designing and building a world that can flex, fold, tear and crumple under the fingertips of players.

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  Sales from Fallout 76 'Country Roads' cover will be donated to charity Bethesda Softworks will donate 100 percent of sales made from the song used in Fallout 76's trailer to Habitat for Humanity.

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1 Behind the motion-capture kiss in The Last Of Us Part II Advanced facial capture helped orchestrate the kiss featured in the trailer for The Last Of Us Part II.

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  Weekly Jobs Roundup: Rabbit, Digital Extremes, and more are hiring now! Whether you're just starting out, looking for something new, or just seeing what's out there, the Gamasutra Job Board is the place where game developers move ahead in their careers.

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6 Editor Roundtable: How does Ubisoft's HitRecord partnership impact devs? The Gamasutra editorial team discusses the potential impact and reasoning of Ubisoft's partnership with HitRecord to bring crowdsourced assets into Beyond Good and Evil 2.

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1 Don't Miss: How Prey gives players space to tell their own stories Gamasutra looks at how the holistic level design of Prey gives players room to tell stories of their own.

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3 Review manipulators aren't as sneaky as they think they are, warns Valve “We ban games and partners all the time for this,” said Valve’s Tom Giardino. “It’s really easy for us to see when you do, even if you you do it slowly.”

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  Microsoft is making changes to its Xbox app to better reflect PC users Microsoft's Xbox app for Windows 10 is being reworked to reflect the wishes of PC users.

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  Blog: Chess + Rogue = Chogue - some notes on hybrid game design An introduction to Pippin Barr and Jonathan Lessard's chess-Rogue mash-up called Chogue, and the specific exploration of game design space its hybrid nature facilitates.

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  Blog: Composing video game music for virtual reality - Part 3 Video game composer Winifred Phillips shares ideas from her GDC 2018 talk, this time discussing composition and recording methods to make music fit into a VR world.

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