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Gamers’ insatiable demand for Amiibo crashes GameStop’s site
Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct included announcements for new Amiibo that would be hitting store shelves later this year, and droves of gamers immediately swarmed over GameStop’s website as they tried to pre-order the highly collectible figures. The unexpected surge of traffic led to technical difficulties on GameStop’s side, and the Dallas-based game seller has opted to cease ...
Applications for AIAS game design scholarships are now open
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) has announced that applications for its video game design scholarships are open, and prospective students can begin applying now. With the video game industry set to break $100 billion in worldwide value by 2017, the business world can no longer dismiss the medium as simply a toy for ...
Riot Games starts giving banned League of Legends players a second chance
Riot Games’ League of Legends has been trying to shake its reputation for a toxic player base for some time now, and part of its new strategy has been to focus on reform rather than punishment. In its latest move, the Santa Monica-based developer has decided to rescind its ban for Nicolaj “Incarnati0n” Jensen, a professional LoL player ...
Facebook’s new Riff app lets friends create collaborative videos
While yesterday was full of both clever and not so clever April Fool’s jokes, Facebook slipped in a real product announcement for a collaborative video app called Riff. Riff is a video recording and sharing app that takes the short format concept of Vines and adds a collaborative twist. “Our hunch was that if you ...
Playism wants to make the Japanese indie game market grow
While the indie game market has exploded in the West thanks to digital distribution platforms like Steam and crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, the genre has not really caught on in Japan, a country that has long been one of the leaders in game production. But Osaka-based game publisher Playism Games, a branch of Active Gaming Media Inc, wants ...
Nintendo shuts down Super Mario 64 HD fan remake, surprising no one
Nintendo Co Ltd is not exactly known for being very lenient when it comes to fans using its IPs to make their own content, not even in the form of free advertising through Let’s Plays or machinima, so it is no shock that the Japanese game maker has come down hard on a fan working on an HD remake of ...
Twitter publicly launches free Storify-like filtering platform called Curator
Twitter Inc continues its trend of making its own alternatives to third party tools by announcing the release of Curator, which it says “enables media publishers to discover, curate and display the best Twitter content on any screen.” Twitter had already released information about Curator at the News:Rewired Conference in London back in February, but the ...
How Bloodborne creator Hidetaka Miyazaki went from a nobody to company president in 10 years
Despite having an annoying name to say out loud, FromSoftware, Inc. has become one of the most respected game developers over the past few years thanks to its harsh, unforgiving games like Dark Souls, which stands out as a beacon of challenging gameplay amongst a sea of oversimplified titles with regenerating health and floating quest arrows directing ...
The time kids spend playing games matters more than game content, say Oxford researchers
There is no shortage of people rushing to blame violent games for—well, just about anything. Recently, a group of U.K. schools even threatened to inform the police of parents who let their children play mature games. But a new study conducted by researchers at Oxford University shows that the violence does not really matter that ...
Sprinklr becomes the latest “unicorn” startup valued at over $1 billion
Social media is big business, and not just for the social networks behind it like Facebook and Twitter. Sprinklr Inc’s “social experience” tools are used by hundreds of clients to manage their social media presence and ad campaigns, and now Sprinklr has become the latest tech startup to be valued at over $1 billion. Today, ...