GameDev News - Week Ending January 20, 2017
- Dev/Tools/Tech
- Industry News
- Microsoft-related
- VR/AR
- Other
- Swery launches new studio
- Titanfall mobile tie-in cancelled in open beta
- Lack of Switch pack-in game down to hitting $299 price-point
- (UK) App store prices to rise 25% next week
- Guitar Hero Live devs join up with Ubisoft to form new studio
- Nintendo announce new free-to-play mobile title Fire Emblem Heroes
- Mobile studio Outfit7 acquired by Chinese chemical firm in $1b deal
- EA announced second EA Play event in Hollywood. No E3 booth this year
- Game Design Deep Dive: Dynamic audio in destructible levels in Rainbow Six: Siege
- Fox launches video game division FoxNext
- EA Motive hires portal designer Kim Swift
- Playdead co-founder forced to cash out $7.2M in shares and depart studio
- Games/Misc/Stuff I Think is Interesting