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A business school professor at NYU predicts that, without the option to sell back a game, not as many people would buy it new. Price Charting summarizes how the study’s simulation of how the absence of a used market would impact the new game market: Because gamers who buy new games no longer have th
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Dishonored started with art and went from there, no plot, just an idea of what the world was going to be (a fact which our reviewer discovered on Monday). With Viktor Antonov, the guy who brought us the design of City 17, leading the charge, it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. Antonov and Sebastia
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Kotaku hosted a forum where its audience could ask an anonymous game developer about the development process. No punches were pulled: One reader asked, “If a small Studio pitches an idea, how much of the influence will be on making money from that Idea?” To which the developer responded: “Most of th
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I will always say this: – – – When I mean this: And vice-versa. And it is annoying. Does anyone else have this problem?
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Ever wonder how a video game gets greenlight? Sometimes all it takes is a 96 second demo: This video wasn’t even playable. It was just an idea that Nels Anderson and Klei were kicking around and had animated. Interestingly enough it bears quite a resemblance to the final product.
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Starcraft 2 is one of the biggest e-sports around. If you can’t compete with the best, you can at least watch them. “The Drinking Man’s Guide“, as dubbed by its creator Frank Lantz, can help you get acquanted with the particulars: Lantz, designer of “cross-media entertainment” and games, and co-foun
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Even if you haven’t been sucked into the MMORPG Guild Wars 2, you can appreciate this breathtaking concept art for their Halloween update. Craig Pearson at Rock, Paper Shotgun has the details: The Shadow of the Mad King update will bring a new four-part story based around the returning trickster. Th
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Video games and the future of psychological analysis: Back in 2011, PhD student Giel van Lankveld noticed something interesting about Neverwinter Nights. If you compared the in-game experiences of characters with the personality test results of players, certain in-game actions lined up with prominen
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Game developers and journalists switching jobs doesn’t necessarily result in the best media, but it’s a learning experience for both sides. Famed gaming journalist Leigh Alexander’s text adventure has a self-aware streak that reminds me of D.F. Wallace, or maybe just Daniel Handler. Check out her co
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Vault Boy, the iconic mascot from Fallout, is giving fashion tips to other famous videogame characters.
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Chris Donlan’s grandfather was an L.A. cop in the 1940s, and Donlan’s father grew up there. Of course, this means Donlan had to play L.A. Noire with his dad, at least to show him the long-since razed Richfield Tower. I’ll never forget the moment we found it. Dad could just about remember the cross-s
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Elisée Maurer has made “a game to make games”. If you think Minecraft is a platform for game creation, just wait until you see Maurer’s Craft Studio: It take inspiration from Minecraft of course, but it’s also reminiscent of Little Big Planet, letting you build things, but also design the principle