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The lead designer of Guild Wars 2 is the latest addition to Amazon’s games development arm. Amazon Game Studios has hired Eric Flannum, who leaves ArenaNet after 10 years at the MMO firm. He will take up the role of creative director, according toGamasutra. Flannum will reportedly be working on …
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Eric Flannum joins Amazon Game Studios to work on new PC title
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Developers can now publish games of up to 100MB without Expansion Files
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Read More »Assassin’s Creed Syndicate introduces first transgender character
Ubisoft continues push towards diversity with latest entry in long-running series
Read More »Oculus Mobile SDK coming soon, Oculus Platform to follow
Mobile tools due in November, while marketplace will expand to include Rift early next year
Read More »Microsoft and Creative England relaunch £500k Greenshoots initiative
The Greenshoots incubator is back, with more money for start-up studios and covering a far broader area. A joint venture between Microsoft and Creative England, the programme is now open to all studios in England – outside of Greater London – and has been funded with 500,000. That’s double the …
Read More »Microsoft and Creative England relaunch £500,000 Greenshoots incubator
Initiative now open to all studios in England, with links to Xbox and double the investment of previous cohorts
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