Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime forms new game company Dreamhaven Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime has established a new game company called Dreamhaven to develop and publish original games. 

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  Q&A: Why Apex Legends players are so in love with Skull Town Respawn Games design director Jason McCord discusses why Apex Legends players were so excited to return to Skull Town after months away.

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  ZeniMax Media won't be the last of Microsoft's game dev acquisitions "We will always look to grow inorganically where it makes sense."

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  Core dev Manticore Games raises $15 million, thanks in part to Epic Games Manticore Games, the studio behind the create-a-game platform Core, has raised $15 million in a funding round led by none other than Fortnite and Unreal Engine developer Epic Games.

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  Video: How Pendragon went from side project to full Arthurian adventure Watch Pendragon designers Jon Ingold and Tom Kail discuss the development of the studio's new strategy Arthurian adventure.

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  Get a job: Join Airship Syndicate as a Design Scripter Airship is looking for a motivated designer with technical chops to help implement gameplay in Ruined King: A League of Legends Story!

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1 Don't Miss: How Supergiant Games adds new deities to Hades' pantheon Supergiant Games creative director Greg Kasavin sits down to discuss the design and business decisions behind Hades.

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  Video: How company leaders can tackle systemic inequality in the game industry In this 2020 GDC Summer session, Niantic's Trinidad Hermida looks at how company leaders can tackle the problem of systemic inequality in the video game industry.

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  Epic Games: Fortnite is doing fine, actually The reports of Fortnite's decline are greatly exaggerated or, according to Epic Games' latest legal filing, based on cherry-picked Google Trends data from Apple.

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  Xbox chief Phil Spencer confident xCloud will gain iOS support Xbox chief Phil Spencer appears confident that xCloud game streaming will eventually head to iOS devices, despite Apple effectively making that impossible with a recent guideline update.

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  Microsoft wants to replenish more water than it consumes by 2030 Xbox maker Microsoft has pledged to replenish more water than it consumes by 2030 in a bit to drive sustainability.

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  Editor roundtable: As next-gen heats up, which game console has the edge? Gamasutra's erstwhile opinon-havers stop for a moment to discuss the highs and lows of the next generation of console gaming.

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  Get a job: Join Visual Concepts as a Camera Designer Our Agoura Hills studio is looking for a Camera Designer to design and implement game cameras that make players feel like they are part of the action.

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  Video: Behind Riot Games' Player Dynamics design philosophy In this 2020 GDC Summer talk, Kimberly Voll and Weszt Hart discuss "Player Dynamics", a design craft to address how player interactions create and enhance in-game and meta-game experiences.

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  Football Manager 2020 sees 1 million players in first days of Epic Games Store free week Football Manager 2020 director Miles Jacobson’s candid tweets about the game’s Epic Games Store promo offers devs a look at the PC storefront’s reach.

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1 Don't Miss: How Prey gives players space to tell their own stories Or, Beat, Prey, Love: How Arkane combines holistic level design and dynamic enemies to great effect in Prey.

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1 Bethesda x Xbox - what does it mean for 'regular' game devs? What does Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda parent company Zenimax mean for the video game ecosystem in general, and regular publisher/devs in particular?

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1 Future Club is a new dev-owned studio from ex-Lab Zero staff The developers that once worked on games like Skullgirls and Indivisible at Lab Zero games have started a new studio that, from day one, places ownership in the hands of its employees.

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  Google debuts first Stadia Makers recipients in pitch for indie support Google has announced the first seven indie studios to be included in the Stadia Makers program.

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  The new Xbox App for smartphones will create a 'unified Xbox experience' Microsoft has showcased its new Xbox App for smartphones which aims to create a "unified Xbox experience across devices."

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  Sponsored: Learn the best ways to keep bugs from killing your development momentum The longer a team waits to address bugs, the more difficult they are to resolve. Learn how to better understand problems and accelerate fixes in this free white paper.

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1 Xbox Game Pass has topped 15 million subscribers Microsoft announced the new milestone alongside its $7.5 billion acquisition of ZeniMax Media and The Elder Scrolls developer Bethesda.

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10 Microsoft buys ZeniMax Media and The Elder Scrolls dev Bethesda for $7.5 billion Microsoft is moving to acquire Bethesda Softworks parent company ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion in cash. 

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  Hades has sold over 1 million copies in under two years Supergiant's roguelike dungeon crawler Hades has sold over 1 million copies, according to a tweet from the American studio.

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2 Designing and applying audio accessibility features for roguelikes Explaining Cogmind's closed caption-like audio log, visible SFX, and other audio options, as well as discussing some parts of the implementation process.

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