Switch continues to dominate hardware sales in the U.S. The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console in the U.S. throughout March in terms of unit and dollar sales, and has been throughout the past quarter.

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5 Blog: Evolving difficulty modes in survival horror - Resident Evil 2 What can Hardcore Mode in Resident Evil 2 offer beyond tougher enemies and scarcer bullets? A look at how content-based difficulty rewards survival horror fans.

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  Video: Building God of War's Atreus to fit with both gameplay and narrative Working Kratos' son Atreus into God of War complicated many aspects of development but, in the end, including him as a fully realized companion AI paid off.

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  Get a job: Into the Breach dev Subset Games is hiring a Platform Engineer Subset Games, the game studio behind FTL and Into the Breach, is looking for an experienced C++ programmer to work remotely and help manage its growing library of games.

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4 Google coy with new Stadia details, pushes the promise of discoverability Google has lofty ambitions for its coming cloud-based game platform Stadia, many of which include giving game developers and players alike the ability to approach video games in a different way.

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1 Don't Miss: Using vision as the cursor in Tethered "VR offers new ways of interacting that allow us to get much closer to that mouse and pointer functionality by turning your face into a mouse pointer," says Ian Moran, technical director of Tethered.

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1 Super Mario Bros. Commodore 64 fan port hit with DMCA takedowns Nintendo has taken action against a fan project to port Super Mario Bros. to the Commodore 64. After 7 years, the project released its finished game this month.

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10 Constant development means a perpetual push to crunch at Epic, say Fortnite devs "If I take time off, the workload falls on other people, and no one wants to be that guy," one dev tells Polygon how crunch has become an unofficial requirement for QA at Epic Games.

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2 Assassin's Creed Unity hit by review bombers intent on spreading positivity Assassin's Creed Unity is the latest game to be review bombed by Steam users, but perhaps not in the way you'd expect.

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  XRDC returns this October, so now's the time to pitch your great AR/VR talks! There's no better place to be if you want to check out the latest AR/VR tech while sharing knowledge with your peers -- and now's the time to submit your pitches for talks!

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8 Here's why the Epic Games Store takes a 12 percent revenue cut from devs Tim Sweeney has explained exactly why the fledgling Epic Game Store only takes a 12 percent revenue cut from devs, as opposed to the once standard 30 percent taken by rival Steam.

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  World War Z has surpassed 1 million sales in first week The co-op title launched on April 16 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC, and notably skipped Steam in favor of the Epic Games Store.

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  Keywords nabs Japanese HTML5 developer Wizcorp for $1.1 million Irish game service provider Keywords has acquired Japanese work-for-hire studio Wizcorp for $1.1 million in cash. 

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  Video: The making of the Xbox Adaptive Controller This GDC 2019 talk covers the process of designing the Xbox Adaptive Controller and how it required the Microsoft Devices team to rethink how they engineered controllers altogether.

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  GB Studio offers a free Game Boy-inspired way to create 2D games 30 years out from the release of Nintendo’s iconic handheld, GB Studio offers a way to create Game Boy-esque games that can be played in browsers or emulators.

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  Get a job: Rockstar Games is hiring a Facial Animator Rockstar Games is hiring a talented animator to create facial animations for characters and animals appearing throughout cinematic and gameplay sequences in its games.

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  South Korean FTC to review in-game purchase policies South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has laid plans to review the consumer practices, particularly policies dealing with in-game purchases, of game companies. 

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1 Don't Miss: Maintaining tension in Nex Machina "We needed to cut as much of excess fat as possible and figure out what was really necessary to get the feeling you are on the "knife's edge"." - Henri Mustonen, Senior Level Designer at Housemarque.

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  Boldly she rode: How Heaven's Vault reinvents adventure games "Inkle has done something radically original here, a breath of fresh air in a game industry all but stultified by unimaginative impersonations and safe bets," says Gamasutra columnist Katherine Cross on Heaven's Vault.

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1 Blog: What happens when game artists design a mural While 99% of the time we're using our skills to make games, sometimes we get to use them to create something truly special—in this case a mural for a hospital room in partnership with Momentum Children's Charity.

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8 Apex Legends is on the decline with streamers after a record-setting month A report from StreamElements says that Apex Legends viewership has seen a steep decline in the last month as major streamers move on from the game.

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2 Blog: The morality of anti-heroes in video games Video game heroes are bastions of virtue admired by players far and wide - but what about villains? Why are some of us drawn to nefarious characters, and what does that say about us?

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  Over half of PUBG Corp's 2018 revenue came from Asia PUBG Corp saw $920 million in revenue for 2018, most of which came from the PC version of its multiplatform game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

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2 Behind Dawn of Man's style of 'ant colony' city-building Dawn of Man sped to the top of the Steam charts last month with its compelling style of simulation and city building. We got with Martiño Figueroa of developer Madruga Works to find out more about the game's development and design.

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  Video Game Deep Cuts: The Panzer At Heaven's Vault This week's roundup includes a Panzer Dragoon series classic postmortem, impressions of the eagerly awaited Heaven's Vault, as well as secret MMO servers, homebrew Game Boy Games & the return of D&D.

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