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Losing Childhood Dream, Two North Texas Men Create LapKing, an App to…

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Are you the next LapKing? You race each other in a digital setting but with real laps. What our users really want is to be able to say they are faster than their friends. LapKing successfully merges lap by lap training with the fun of a video game! DALLAS (PRWEB) September 11, 2020 Software developers routinely turn action sports into video games, but LapKing's reality video game concept is different. "You race each other in a digital setting but with real laps. What our users really want is to be

Bungie Vet Says Destiny Deal With Activision Was “Bad From The Start”; Microsoft Almost Signed The Game

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Video game industry veteran Martin O'Donnell, who composed the music for Halo and was on Bungie's board of directors, has spoken very openly about the deal Bungie made with Activision and how it all fell apart. The long and short of it is that O'Donnell had a bad feeling about the deal for the Destiny series from the very beginning, but the whole story is like something out of a movie.Speaking to YouTuber HiddenXperia, O'Donnell first clarified that it was Bungie's seven members of the board of directors that collectively

Oculus co-founder and games industry vets form Mountaintop Studios

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Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell is heading up a new game development house called Mountaintop Studios, joined by colleagues from around the gaming industry. The company aims to leave the crunch and toxic culture pervasive in game studios behind and make one that’s “collaborative, anti-crunch, diverse and inclusive.” The founding team includes Mitchell’s former colleague Mark Terrano, who was creative director at Oculus, Matt Hansen, former COO of Double Fine, and artist Rich Lyons, who worked at Naughty Dog and Vigil. According to its webpage, Mountaintop will be creating “multiplayer games

Mixer’s Collapse Due To Overspending And Toxic Work Conditions, Report Suggests

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The June 25 announcement that Microsoft's game streaming platform Mixer would be shuttered came as a surprise to most, though company insiders have revealed that Mixer has struggled for some time both with internal culture and service issues. A new report by Business Insider features interviews with former Mixer employees, including the company's co-founder Matt Salsamendi, to find out what happened.Mixer began its life in 2016 as a small start-up called Beam, created by Matt Salsamendi and James Boehm, which was soon. As a competitor to the already-established Twitch, the

Where to open a game studio

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With the game industry booming, more entrepreneurs are evaluating where to base their new startup or open a new office for their existing company. The U.S. government’s block on H1-B and L-1 visas will encourage American game startups to add an office abroad much sooner than they otherwise would have. But where? This spring, I surveyed a number of gaming-focused VCs about which cities are the best hubs for game studios targeting the Western games market. Several locales stood out as heavily recommended — which I’ve shared below — but

Riot Games Executive Resigns After Sharing Controversial George Floyd Image

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The Riot Games executive who was under internal investigation after sharing a controversial image of George Floyd has resigned, according to a company spokesperson. The news came on the evening of June 11, a day after Vice Games originally uncovered the news. Riot Games emphasized the same sentiment they shared when Vice Games originally published their report, calling the image that Johnson shared "abhorrent" and that it "runs directly counter to our values and our belief that addressing systemic racism requires immediate societal change." "We’re also striving to change the

Riot Games Is Donating $1 Million To Fighting Systematic Racism

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Riot Games is donating $1 million to causes to "accelerate progress" in fighting systematic racism. The studio's first two donations are being given to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and The Innocence Project. Riot Games announced the news with a tweet on Friday, saying it was their responsibility to commit resources to systematic change. The company did not specify the amount of either initial donation. The Innocence Project is a New York-based nonprofit that works to free people wrongly convicted of crimes and prevent future injustices. The organization primarily

Population Zero leads new batch of Nvidia GeForce NOW titles

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A fresh batch of 19 games are playable through Nvidia's GeForce NOW cloud gaming service, including Population Zero, fresh off its Steam Early Access debut. After a couple of rocky weeks that saw a handful of games disappear from Nvidia's GeForce NOW service, things are starting to pick up again. On Thursday, Nvidia announced a fresh batch of 19 games that are set to debut on the company's cloud gaming service, with the freshly-released Population Zero leading the way. Here are the 19 games that will be taking part in