Shadowstone, the new game from Secret Door and Dreamhaven, kicks off a surprise public playtest at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase

Shadowstone, the Sunderfolk spinoff announced in February by Secret Door and Dreamhaven, has kicked off a public playtest that’s set to run until the game launches into early access. Announced during today’s Future Games Show Spring Showcase, the playtest will give players a sample of the game ahead of release in either solo or multiplayer…

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Blizzard vet Rob Pardo closed this year’s GDC keynote by urging executives to cool it with the layoffs: ‘The game team is more valuable than the game itself’

Today at GDC, San Francisco’s annual summit of games industry professionals, former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo delivered this year’s keynote address, sharing a lessons learned from a game development career spanning from his days as lead designer on Starcraft: Brood War and Warcraft 3 to founding his own studio at Bonfire, developers of…

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Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented the Quicksort algorithm for a sixpence bet, dies at the age of 92

Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, known as Tony to friends, has died at the age of 92. One of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing, he invented the Quicksort algorithm after a bet with his boss, later devised Hoare logic (a system for rigorously assessing the correctness of a program), and was…

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Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan’s favorite hero is Reinhardt, and reveals his charge was inspired by Left 4 Dead 2: ‘It’s what separates a great Rein from a sh*tty one’

Even though he’s not on the cover art, Overwatch’s tank hero Reinhardt is as synonymous with the hero shooter as Tracer. He was one of the original heroes to launch with the game and has remained incredibly popular as time has gone on. “Reinhardt was actually my main,” former game director Jeff Kaplan told Lex…

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Dave the Diver DLC adds a little Stardew Valley time management and relationship building to the formula when In the Jungle releases in June

Dave the Diver will tread further into unfamiliar waters soon as the explorer and his friends set a date for the fishing RPG’s next expansion. During today’s Future Games Show Spring Showcase, Mintrocket announced that the In the Jungle DLC will release on June 18. As Dave moves his operations to Utara—a jungle village nestled…

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