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Former Monolith developers behind F.E.A.R have announced their new studo, Blackpowder Games and their first title, Betrayer [http://www.blackpowdergames.com/betrayer/]. The high contrast black and white look is an interesting and unique style to go with.

Ex-Monolith devs form BlackpowderKey devs behind F.E.A.R., No One Lives Forever re-team with colleagues for PC action adventure BetrayerGamesIndustry.bizChris Buckley [http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-08-05-ex-monolith-devs-form-black

Members participate in Xbox Community Ambassadors or the Enforcement United beta, and on the backend, we track your participation, calculate your XP, and award loot to your Gamertag as you level up. There’s no need to opt in to earn rewards, submit your activity, or create a new profile. We’ll take care of the heavy lifting.

Looks like leveling your gamertag was successful enough for Valve/Steam that Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon too. I wonder how long until they add trading cards to

The other key is to absorb all of that hate into one big fireball of motivation inside of your belly and then pour all of that energy into your work until you can unleash one big giant motherfucking HADOKEN upon the community that wins awards and sells millions and then the haters will truly be eating a giant bushel of dicks as you roll in a pile of money, acclaim, and community love.

Words to Live by.

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A great read if you know how to program. Even if you don’t, it makes an interesting skim through.

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There’s not that many titles out there that began on iOS and made their way to this many other platforms over time

Close to a 1/3 of sales came from IOS. This was a truly amazing game with some stunning audio. I could listen to the soundtrack all day.

CAPY – It’s Getting There » Blog Archive » WE SPIED A #SWORCERY INFOGRAPHIC [https://www.capybaragames.com/2013/07/a-sworcery-infographic/]

After owning the little cube for more than a month now, I can attest to this. The marketplace and UI are horrible. I’ve since sideloaded the thing with XBMC and Netflix, and has become a nice media device, however.

73 percent of Ouya owners haven’t paid for a single gameCEO Uhrman projects confidence even as majority aren’t spending money.Ars TechnicaKyle Orland [http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/73-percent-of-ouya-owners-havent-paid-for-a-single-game/]

Hidden away in the press release, World of Warcraft dropped to 7.7 million subscriptions, losing roughly 600k since the last quarter.

Activision Blizzard breaks off from Vivendi in $8.2 billion deal<b>UPDATE</b> The house of <i>Call of Duty</i>, <i>World of Warcraft</i> and <i>Skylanders</i> will spin off of Vivendi to become an independent, publicly traded publisher. Game DeveloperKris Graft [http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/197030/Activision_Blizzard_breaks_off_from_Vivendi_in_82_billion_de

Fan created Expansion ideas and art for World of Warcraft. While I no longer play, it’s still worth a look at some of the effort put into this concept.

New Expansion - Draw your predictions!Rise of the Legion Lost in Translation Update This was originally a thread to draw up some stuff you think we might see in the next expansion, but a Chinese gold farming site saw the images and the context was lost in translation. They thought it was concept art leaks (which it clearly isn’t).…MMO-Champion [

One of them came a bit of a pleasent surprise to me- a PC port of Deadly Premonition [http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=160687506].

Steam :: :: Sixteen More Titles Greenlit TodayWe’ve just Greenlit another fourteen games and two software titles, bringing the total number of Greenlit titles to 145. These titles were selected on the same criteria we have been using in the past: Votes in Greenlight give us a hugely valuable point of data in gauging community interest along wit…

Anyone will now be able to develop on the Xbox One, similar to Playstation 4.

Microsoft: Every Xbox One Can Be Used To Make Games [UPDATE]Every single Xbox One can be used to make games, Microsoft says—in other words, you can use the next-gen console as your very own development kit.KotakuThe A.V. Club [http://kotaku.com/microsoft-every-xbox-one-can-be-used-to-make-games-up-898750954]

EA was quick to put out a blog post [http://www.ea.com/news/update-on-ea-sports-and-college-football] they will continue to make college football games, just not under the NCAA name anymore.

NCAA will not renew EA Sports contractThe NCAA has made the decision not to enter a new contract for the license of its name and logo for theNCAA.org [https://www.ncaa.org/news/2013/7/17/ncaa-will-not-renew-ea-sports-contract.aspx]