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Column • The Pure Product – Every video game ultimately becomes a story

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Author: Richard Dansky Every video game ultimately becomes a story. The elements of the game, even and perhaps especially the narrative ones, are inert until they are suddenly interacted with by the player. The game, in all its complexity and grandeur and expense and expended sweat, comes down to a story.

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Elon Musk announced that he will open a studio and “Make games great again”

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In response to a comment by Bill Markus, the co-founder of Dogecoin, that gamers have become “ideologically captured,” Elon Musk announced that his firm xAI will open a game studio. Musk states: “ Too many game studios that are owned by massive corporations ,” and that said studio will “ make games great again.”

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Ex-Humble Games staff form new publisher, Good Games Group

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Humble will use Good Games to continue supporting games it had already published prior to restructuring its staff in July.

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BitCake Studio built online multiplayer game Atomic Picnic completely remote

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BitCake Studio , an indie game development studio based in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th year in the industry. Eduardo Lamhut, the company’s main Game Designer and Creative Director of the upcoming game Atomic Picnic , explains how the company started. There was a bunch of things she wanted in the game.

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Invaluable lessons on crafting impactful games: insights from LIMBO’s Dino Patti

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Developing LIMBO as the Co-Founder and CEO of Playdead taught him invaluable lessons about creating impactful games. From the moment the game begins, players are immersed in the experience—no menus, no instructions—just exploration. It’s a design method unlike many other games and something that took me time to fully grasp.

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Video Game History Foundation launches digital library for 'anyone who wants to study games'

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Design documents, press kits, and other materials are freely avaialbe in the VGHF Library for 'anyone who wants to study video game history.'

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SenAm Games is developing Al-Sirah, a game that educates young muslims about the Islam

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SenAm Games ‘ founder, Senad Hrnjadovic , has been involved in the games industry for years, but it was the Pokmon obsession of his two older children that made him realise the power of games as a learning tool. Thats when Hrnjadovic came up with the game Al-Sirah. It got him thinking.