Don't Miss: Designing a new UI system for The Division Ubisoft Massive's Christian Savoie covers some of the major lessons learned while developing new technology and creating the UI for The Division.

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  GDC 2019 offers a wealth of UI/UX talks to help you build better games! Good UI/UX is key: No matter how great your game is, people won't play it if it's a pain to learn and play. So come to GDC 2019 and learn useful UI/UX design strategies from the best in the business!

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  AER: Memories of Old dev Forgotten Key is closing down The indie studio behind 2017's AER is closing its doors after 7 years, but sharing demos for its incomplete projects on itch.io after the closure.

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  Niantic closes funding round with $245 million raised Pokemon Go developer Niantic has raised a grand total of $245 million at the close of a Series C funding round, bringing the company’s current valuation up to nearly $4 billion. 

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  Alt.Ctrl.GDC Showcase: Guitar Wizards Guitar Wizards draws a pair of players into a battle of song and light, having them play dueling guitars to launch magical beams at their opponent.

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  GDC 2019 will host a Classic Game Postmortem of Paperboy! Veteran game dev John Salwitz, who's worked on everything from Rampart to Klax to Medal of Honor, will be at GDC 2019 in San Francisco the deliver a Classic Game Postmortem of Atari's arcade hit Paperboy! 

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  Blog: It took us over a year to learn what our game was about Rise's main mechanic was first designed during a game jam on the 7th of July 2017, after three disappointing iterations we finally started development on the 21st of November 2018.

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Unity updates terms of service (again) in response to Improbable dispute Unity has revised its terms of service to ensure developers can use any third party service that integrates into Unity, following a dispute with SpatialOS maker Improbable.

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  Jam City secures $145 million to support global growth and acquisition plans The news comes shortly after the Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery developer laid off an unknown number of staff as a result of "organizational changes."

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3 EA Vancouver's open-world Star Wars game has been canceled The title was being built using some of the assets from Visceral's scrapped Star Wars project, which was handed over to EA Vancouver after the studio's closure in 2017. 

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  Blog: A student game dev's experience at MAGFest 2019 A reflection on our first experience showcasing Runaway, a punk rock parkour platformer, at the Music & Games Festival (MAGFest).

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  Hitman developer IO Interactive has opened a new studio in Malmo The Danish company said the decision to open IOI Malmo was a "natural choice" given the region already plays home to a strong game dev community. 

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1 Thoughts on Detroit: Become Human Thomas Grip takes a look at the design behind Quantic Dream's Detroit: Become Human.

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  Video: How reward systems can guide player experience in World of Warcraft Blizzard Entertainment's Travis Day shares some of the hardest lessons learned about how reward systems can guide or harm player experience in games like World of Warcraft and Diablo 3.

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5 Tabletop games continue to succeed on Kickstarter as video games fall behind It looks as though tabletop games dominated Kickstarter in 2018, while successfully funded video game campaigns have declined. 

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  'We have a big hit because we have a healthy work/life balance', says Slime Rancher director In a recent interview with Waypoint, Slime Rancher game director Nick Popovich discusses the 40-hour workweeks at Monomi Park.

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  Dusk sells 69,420 copies a month after launch The 90s throwback shooter Dusk has sold 69,420 copies since launching as a Steam exclusive last month, according to the game's producer Dave Oshry. 

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  Get a job: Mythical Games is after a Senior Producer Mythical Games is looking for a highly-organized Senior Producer with exceptional communication skills and proven game production experience.

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4 Don't Miss: Writing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided to 'hold a mirror up to the world' Eidos Montreal's Mary DeMarle chats about art and business of writing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a game about conspiracy theories, terrorism, and fear released into a world awash in the same.

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  Forza Horizon 4 patches out Floss and Carlton dance emotes Playground Games has patched out a couple dance emotes from Forza Horizon 4, two moves that coincidentally have become the subject of a lawsuit against Fortnite developer Epic Games.

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  Learn new ways of helping communities discover your game at GDC 2019! Notably, Poly Bridge dev Patrick Corrieri will be at GDC 2019 to present "Community Driven Discoverability for Indies," a session of strategies for increasing the discoverability of your games!

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  Analyst: 2018 was an unimpressive (but stable) year for video game crowdfunding ICO Partners' annual read of the state of crowdfunding is out and rounds up data on both Kickstarter and Fig campaigns into a handful of nifty graphs to illustrate how crowdfunding fared in 2018.

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  Alt.Ctrl.GDC Showcase: OVERTIME OVERTIME takes a toy basketball and infuses it with the drama of the final moments of a basketball game.

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  Blog: Designing a production process - An addendum An addendum to my 'Designing a Production Process' series that describes how to further utilize your issue tracking database to support it.

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  Level up your free-to-play mobile game dev skills at GDC 2019! At GDC 2019 in March you won't want to miss these opportunities to hone your mobile game-making skills and learn new ways of grabbing (and holding) a healthy playerbase!

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