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Top Twitter execs create “#Angels” investment group
A group of Twitter executives has come together to form its own investment group called #Angels, which is looking to invest in promising technology startups. The team is made up of four current Twitter executives – Vijaya Gadde, Jana Messerschmidt, Katie Jacobs Stanton, and Jessica Verrilli – as well as former Twitter employees Chloe Sladden and April Underwood. “We’re focused on funding the ...
Game legend and Oculus CTO John Carmack on “The dawn of mobile VR” | #GDC2015
In the early 1990s, John Carmack was the lead programmer at Id Software, where he helmed some of the video game industry’s most innovative and iconic game series, including Wolfenstein 3d, Doom, and Quake. Carmack is currently the chief technology officer for the Facebook-owned Oculus VR, and this week he spoke at Game Developers Conference 2015 in ...
Nvidia announces Shield streaming set-top device for TV | #GDC2015
The Shield portable game streaming device by Nvidia Corp has been called “impractical” by some critics, but now Nvidia is taking its Android powered device into the living room with a new TV set-top console announced this week at Game Developers Conference 2015 in San Francisco. “I believe that someday everyone will want a smart ...
Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney on “The State of Unreal” with a surprise Nvidia announcement | #GDC2015
Epic Games recently surprised game developers when it announced that it would be making Unreal Engine 4 completely free to use, and today at Game Developers Conference 2015, Epic founder and CEO Tim Sweeney explained the motivations behind the change and what he sees for the future of Unreal and the video game industry. “We’ve ...
Sunless Sea creator on his “biggest mistake” when making the indie hit
Failbetter Games’ Sunless Sea followed the path of many recent indie games, making the transition from Kickstarter campaign to Steam Early Access to full release, but Sunless Sea is one of the few such games to came out the other side successfully with a dedicated fan base and respectable sales. Failbetter Games co-founder and chief narrative officer Alexis Kennedy ...
Twitter’s progress is good but “nowhere near what the opportunity is,” says CFO
Twitter Inc has been on shaky ground over the last two years, with a dramatic slow in user growth and a lack of investor confidence in some of the company’s leadership. Twitter CFO Anthony Noto spoke at a technology conference hosted by Morgan Stanley on Tuesday, where he praised the new features added to the site ...
League of Legends dev talks balancing depth with fun | #GDC2015
Riot Games’ League of Legends (LoL) is one of the most popular games in esports, and this week at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, LoL’s lead designer Ryan Scott talked about finding the balance between depth, complexity, and fun in video games. “Depth is something I feel very strongly about,” Scott said during a GDC session. “I ...
Game community conflicts are “like inflammation in the body” | #GDC2015
In the last two years, game developers have learned that public relations in the video game industry is about far more than customer service. With heated conflicts arising more and more between different groups of players, many game makers are finding themselves in the uncomfortable position of mediators, trying to put out the fires that flare ...
Zuckerberg reassures telecoms that Facebook is a friend
Facebook Inc has made major strides in helping developing countries connect to the web thanks to its Internet.org charity organization, but yesterday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook and Google receive too much credit for expanding internet coverage. “We can help, because Facebook is one of the primary ...
World of Warcraft tokens will let players buy game time with in-game gold
After months of rumors, Blizzard Entertainment has finally announced the WoW Token, an in-game item that can be redeemed for 30 days of World of Warcraft subscription time. The new token will be sold for real money through the WoW store, which also sells vanity pets, mounts, and transmog equipment. Players will be able to purchase WoW Tokens for ...
