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If you've played Mini Motorways, you'll enjoy this postmortem of Dinosaur Polo Club's first transit title Mini Metro. ...
Starbreeze profits dip as it doubles down on new Payday projects
Starbreeze's second-quarter investor†™s report indicates that the publisher is still grappling with losses, even though sales are up. ...
Get a job: Deep Silver Volition is hiring a Senior Environment Artist
Volition is looking for a Senior Environment Artist to help us build the world for the next Saints Row title. ...
EA offers mea culpa for delisting classic games from GOG
EA's Chris Bruzzo explains that the company will †œconsider player perspectives†before removing games from sale in the future. ...
Deep dive: Shapez.io - from web game to $1 million Steam hit
How did web game Shapez.io end up grossing $1 million on Steam? We look at its route to success in this data heavy deep-dive. ...
Epic Game Store self-publishing tools enter closed beta so devs can tinker
Epic is letting developers tinker with the Epic Games Store's self-publishing tools as part of a new closed beta. ...
Blog: What developers should eliminate from their publishing agreement - Part 5
This post from games industry lawyer Tim Repa Davies looks at some quick fixes that devs can use to improve their contract. ...
Oculus co-founder's new studio Mountaintop nets $30 million to create debut project
Fledgling game studio Mountaintop has secured $30 million in funding to continue developing its debut title. ...
Blog: Animating VR adventure The Secret of Retropolis
A retrospective on the art direction and production of The Secret of Retropolis, a VR take on the point & click genre, drawn and animated in VR. ...
Biomutant has topped 1 million sales, recouped development costs
Open-world action-RPGÂ Biomutant sold over 1 million copies in just over a month after launching on May 25, 2021. ...
Embracer Group acquires Demiurge Studios, Fractured Byte, and Smartphone Labs
Perennial spender Embracer Group has fully acquired three more game studios to bolster its development capabilities. ...
Mini Motorways and the delicate art of marrying complexity and minimalism
"Both [Mini Metro and Mini Motorways] are based on seemingly-simple systems that are complex in unintuitive ways, so there's a lot of depth waiting to be discovered." ...
Don't Miss: How emotional psychology and The Goonies inspired Sea of Thieves
Here's a look at how the lead designers of Sea of Thieves conceived the social pirate game. ...
Fortnite's new game mode curiously resembles Among Us
Epic Games has announced a new game mode for Fortnite that seems to resemble Innersloth's hit indie game Among Us. ...
Get a job: Myr is hiring a Tookits Engineer
Myr is hiring a Toolkits Engineer to help build new virtual reality games with a remote team. ...
