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July 20, 2012

Opinion: How not to go insane while working from home

[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday opinion piece, Itzy Interactive’s Kyle Kulyk shares some general advice for indie developers working from home and wanting…

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Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances now playable in your browser

EA’s latest free-to-play title, Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances, has gone live in a browser near you. Aeria Games has turned the…

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Ex-Bizarre devs revive Dreamcast cult classic Fur Fighters on iPad

Former Bizarre Creations developers have revived Dreamcast classic Fur Fighters for release on the iPad. Liverpool-based mobile developer Muffin Games developed a…

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RAD Soldiers have a recipe for destruction in latest trailer

Originally supposed to launch back in June, Splash Damage’s turn-based/asynchronous iOS strategy game, RAD Soldiers, should be launched “soon.” This latest trailer,…

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Darksiders 2 iOS app lets you harvest souls for goods

A new location-based check-in app for Darksiders 2 has been launched on the App store. Once you install the oh-so-tasteful iOS app,…

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Volition acknowledges Saints Row 3 PC performance issues

Certain owners of the PC version of Saints Row: The Third have had performance issues, such as low framerates and generally slow…

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God of War: Ascension dev ‘pulls back’ from in-game violence against women

In an interview with IGN, Sony Santa Monica’s David Hewitt admitted the team’s scaled back on the violence towards women in God…

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Journey unearths retro head-hunting in CE minigame, ‘Gravediggers’

One of the three minigames included in the Journey Collector’s Edition is Gravediggers, a title (un)borne from thatgamecompany’s first 24-hour game jam…

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THQ shuttering Arizona QA facility, moving all QA to Montreal this year

Consolidation news now, as THQ has announced it plans to close its Phoenix, Arizona QA facility. “Montreal is a prime location for…

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July 19, 2012

The Essential 100, No. 82: Fallout

New life emerges from the barren wastes of PC role-playing games….

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The Secret World: Supernaturally Average

Funcom’s horror-based MMO The Secret World is nothing but ambitious, but if we said the massively multiplayer online role-playing game took a…

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Ubisoft Sales Up 27 Percent Thanks To Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

Ubisoft sales have risen significantly in the first quarter of fiscal 2012-13 mostly due to the success of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier….

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EA, Microsoft, Zynga formally oppose law preventing gay marriage

Newsbrief: Game companies Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Zynga have joined numerous other parties in a formal amicus brief that opposes the United…

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Wizorb breaks through as a PS Mini July 24

Wizorb is officially spreading to up to three more platforms next week in North America. Beatshapers has ported Tribute Games’ RPG-style Breakout…

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Deadpool comic author Daniel Way is writing the Deadpool game

Daniel Way, the current author on the Deadpool comic series for Marvel, will also pen the story behind High Moon Studios’ upcoming…

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EA joins coalition opposing the Defense of Marriage Act

Electronic Arts has banded together with an alliance of US businesses that oppose the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a federal law…

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The Essential 100, No. 83: Contra

The cooperative game that one-upped the action movies of the '80s….

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Ni no Kuni pre-order program plays on Kickstarter concept to hand out more stuff

The “Wizard’s Edition” of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is already pretty tempting for those already interested in the…

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