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Respawn says "single line" of Apex Legends code was behind elusive audio bug

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The dev team said finding the bug was like searching for a "needle in a haystack."

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Turning Bugs Into Features

Game Developer

This post will review how I took a bug that I needed to fix and turned it into a standout feature for our game.

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Finding a New Balance Between AI and Beneficial Bugs

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'Bugs are an integral part of games culture and the social networks that games build around themselves.'

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Pete Hines on Starfield, Bethesda and bugs: "We embrace chaos"

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Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Starfield is not technically out until next week, yet it is already dominating conversations in many ways across the games space – and inevitably bugs are a factor.

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Book Excerpt: Animal Crossing tracks the rise of the original cozy life sim

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Video game preservationist and historian Kelsey Lewin tells the story of how a mundane-sounding game full of bug-catching, letter-writing, and furniture-collecting became one of Nintendo's best-loved franchises.

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QA workers at Activision Blizzard call for an end to bug quotas

Game Developer

QA staff at Activision Blizzard's Texas and Minnesota offices want to stop being required to hit inconsistent quotas and more transparency from management.

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Warner Bros' live service ambitions marred by fumbled Suicide Squad launch

Game Developer

WB wants to further embrace the live-service game model, but Suicide Squad's launch bugs are putting a wrench in those plans.

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