Blog: Historians play Assassin's Creed Discovery Tour In this live stream, historians Bob Whitaker and Kate Cook explore and discuss Assassin's Creed Discovery Tour Ancient Greece.

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  Chat with the developers behind GreedFall at 11AM EST Drop by the GDC Twitch channel for a conversation about the development of GreedFall starting at 11AM EST.

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  Devs: How do people find your game on Switch? "Switch versions are still selling better than Steam or other console versions. But sometimes nowadays I believe that’s ‘not enough copies on Switch vs. REALLY not enough copies outside of Switch.'"

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  Get a job: Hyperkinetic Studios is hiring a Level Designer Our ideal designer will be responsible for executing level design tasks as assigned by the Lead Level Designer to help ensure the highest level of quality on our projects.

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  Football Manager 2020 studio swaps to recyclable packaging, wants others to do the same The standard edition of Football Manager 2020 will feature almost entirely recyclable packaging, including plant-based inks and a box made from 100 percent recycled fibers.

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  Video: Crafting emergent tragedies in Kitfox's The Shrouded Isle In this 2019 GDC session, Kitfox Games' Jongwoo Kim presents a design postmortem of The Shrouded Isle and examines three techniques that designers can use to create emergent tragedies.

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3 Don't Miss: How Sonic Mania's devs made the old new (and good) again "I've been researching for this project for the last 26 years. The wealth of knowledge amongst our team is so vast that between us, we have the entire tapestry of Sonic on the back of our hands."

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  Valve launches revamped Steam Library in open beta The overhauled Steam Library detailed by Valve a few weeks back is now open to the public, or at least open to those that opt into the Steam Client beta program.

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  Come to XRDC and see how augmented reality is reshaping how we shop! Over 2M people have used Houzz's new AR 'View in My Room 3D' tool when buying products from the company, and at XRDC in San Francisco next month you'll get the lowdown on how and why it works!

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2 Rockstar Games now has its own game launcher on PC Grand Theft Auto dev Rockstar Games has rolled out a hub for all of its digital games on PC, accurately dubbed the Rockstar Games Launcher.

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  Don't delay: Pitch your best AR/VR talks for VRDC at GDC 2020! Hey game makers, quick reminder today that organizers of the 2020 Game Developers Conference are still accepting VRDC talk submissions -- but only until Monday, September 30th at 11:59 pm Pacific!

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  One decade in, League of Legends still averages 8M peak concurrent players daily Riot Games says that its free-to-play MOBA League of Legends still averages around 8 million peak concurrent players on a daily basis.

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1 Proposed E3 revamp could turn expo into 'fan, media, and influencer festival' E3 could be getting a big overhaul next year, with organizer The ESA mulling over a rebrand that would see the show become a "fan, media, and influencer festival" in 2020.

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1 Knights and Bikes is being turned into an animated TV show Knights and Bikes, the charming hand-painted adventure game from Foam Sword, is being turned into a television show by British production company Tiger Aspect.

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  Control freak: Inside the narrative design of Remedy's least linear game In an effort to better understand the making of the game's striking narrative, Gamasutra chats with Remedy narrative designer Brooke Maggs about her work crafting Control's eerie setting. 

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  Get a job: Tequila Works is hiring a Senior Producer The Senior Producer is vital to oversee the pipeline, scheduling, asset managing, build processes, and QA of the whole game.

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  Kojima details the subtly social gameplay of Death Stranding Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding is, at his own admission, a tough game to explain. 

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  Video: Building explosive 8-bit Nintendo eSports the Tetris World Championship way In this 2019 GDC talk, Hitsparks Games' Chris Tang explores how the Classic Tetris World Championship format makes the most of Tetris for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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2 Don't Miss: Fine-tuning the balance of sandbox and RPG in Dragon Quest Builders "Our team found the building and survival elements in the sandbox genre to be really fun, but that type of game often lacks overall objectives, and some players aren't sure what they should be doing.

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1 Gears 5 saw 3 million players during launch week through Game Pass and retail The Coalition's Gears 5 attracted over 3 million players in the early days of its launch, a launch that Xbox says makes the game the biggest launch of any Xbox Game Studios-developed title on the Xbox One.

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  PSA: Upload your resume to Gamasutra's job boards! Here's a friendly reminder that Gamasutra's job boards are the best place to find your next job in the game industry - upload your resume and land the job you want!

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  Borderlands 3 has nearly doubled Borderlands 2's peak concurrents record on PC Borderlands 3, released last week on the Epic Games Store, has already surpassed the all-time peak concurrent players record set by its numbered predecessor, Borderlands 2, on PC.

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  Report: The PS4 has sold-through 30 million units in the United States The PlayStation 4 has now sold-through 30 million units in the United States alone, according to the latest figures from analyst Niko Partners.

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5 Blog: The difference of accessibility vs. playability in game design Today's post looks at the growing conversations around accessibility when discussing game design, and how there's another aspect of making titles that can be enjoyed by a wider audience.

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  U.S. mobile developer Scopely expands into Asia with new Japan office U.S. mobile game developer-publisher Scopely is expanding into the Asia-Pacific region with the opening of a new office in Japan.

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