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Which YouTubers are the right ones for your game? by Simon Carless on 03/31/21 08:01:00 pm     The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.   [The GameDiscoverCo game discovery newsletter is written by ‘how people find your game’ expe...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] 1 April 2021, Bratislava: An outstanding year of growth for Slovakian based game development studio Pixel Federation, has led to impressive investment back into the company and a forward-thinking restructuring. After over a decade as CEO, Simon Sicko now steps away from directing and into a newly defined creative role. In turn, the leadership of Pixel F...

House Flipper adds fun new stuff! You can now renovate and flip a Turtle House on a deserted island! You can switch from night- to day-cycle; there are new sliding doors, narrow options for bathroom and living room doors, pouf and sofa tortoise, new easels and even cool sunglasses! Major additions include the option to paint the sides of stairs any color of your choice, items can now be hung from other ceiling-like structures, such as window recesses. Realism has been improved with more commer...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] Team up with friends to manage your own alchemy store and lead it to success by preparing the best potions! Pre-order Potion Party now on the Nintendo eShop   The weariest travelers are seeking the strongest potions! Grab the herbs -- no, not those ones! -- and stoke the fire, the clients are waiting! Maybe this all might be easier with an extra set o...

Certain Affinity has appointed veteran Halo developer Dan Ayoub as its VP of Canadian operations and general manager of its Toronto studio.  Ayoub most recently served as general manager of education at Microsoft, and prior to that worked as a studio head at Halo developer 343 Industries. In his new role, Ayoub will be tasked with leading Certain Affinitys growth efforts in Canada. He joins the company at a time of rapid expansion, with the Texas-based developer recently passing 250 full-...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] TRAILER :  LONDON, UK — 1 ST ARPIL, 2021 — Today, on April Fools, Ubisoft unveiled For Honors theme for this special day. Welcome to the playground and enjoy the added whimsical gameplay elements until 2 nd April! Be prepared to see the warriors like you have never seen before, trading their swords for plastic ones and leading toy soldier armies. A...

Gameplay capture platform Lowkey raises $7 million and launches new mobile app ); } Gameplay capture platform Lowkey has raised $7 million through a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Lowkey allows users to watch, capture, and edit short gaming videos that can be shared online, and is being pitched as a way for creatives to capture footage that can be shared on social apps like Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok.  The Lowkey desktop app lets users automatically c...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] Nice, France – 01/04/2021. Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem will receive the first free downloadable content update for Chronicle1: Bloodtrail on Steam today.    13 th of February 2020 and gathered more than a million players that will discover and take part in the story of the Children of Heimlock, split into three Chapters, before experiencing an end gam...

); } The Gamasutra Job Board is the most diverse, active and established board of its kind for the video game industry! Here is just one of the many, many positions being advertised right now. Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Hello, are you a unicorn? Wed like one. Someone who can talk to designers, write a spec, make a perfect wireframe, clothe it in a gorgeous UI, then roll up their sleeves and implement it in game. Please do it on time, run user tests, gather notes, make it better. And i...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] SEATTLE - Mar 17, 2021 | 8Doors: Arum’s Afterlife Adventure, an immersive and beautiful metroidvania-style game being published by NEOWIZ and developed by Rootless Studio, will be released on Steam and GOG on April 8th.   8Doors is a story-rich adventure game that is based on the Korean myth of “Princess Bari” and follows ‘Arum’ as she ventur...