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Dust 514 developer CCP Games has hired EA’s former free-to-play specialist, Jean-Charles Gaudechon. Games Industry reports Gaudechon will assume an executive producer role for the microtransaction-driven FPS. He joins CCP Shanghai, and will report to senior VP of product development Sean Decker –another former EA free-to-play executive. Gaudechon previously served …
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CCP Games is looking at more ways to sell real-life products to players in exchange for in-game money. The developer-publisher of popular PC MMO EVE Online – which has over 360,000 subscribers worldwide – recently offered gamers 100 Nvidia graphics cards in-game. They sold out in less than two minutes. …
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