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I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
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Esports stars have shorter careers than NFL players
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Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
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Final Fantasy 7: An oral history (2017)
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Kirby’s Adventure – Nintendo Developer Interview (1993)
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Japanese game developer hasn't left the house in 10 years
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The Making of Donkey Kong 64 (2019)
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A Classic RPG Made of Handcrafted Dioramas
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DreamWorld (YC W21) MMO raises all red flags
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Quad Gods: The world-class gamers who play with their mouths
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Shigeru Miyamoto wants to create a kinder world
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Microsoft Flight Simulator returned to the skies
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Game developers share what they're most proud of making
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A video game that lets you make video games
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Demoscene, the secret behind Finnish game industry
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Nostalgia for Minecraft
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A 30th anniversary note to Prince of Persia fans
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What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat
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More games should be honest about death
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Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos – a Problem for Video Game Developers
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How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2
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The Making of Prince of Persia (2011) [pdf]
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The great video game exodus
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82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding
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Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It Would Be
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Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in an alternate reality
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Id as Super-Ego: The Creation of Duke Nukem 3D (2001) [pdf]
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Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games
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Super Mario 64 – 1996 Developer Interviews
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Square Enix Graphics Designer Manabu Daishima Has Died
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Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone
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Secret developers of the video game industry
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Why won’t she get off Minecraft?
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Bloodborne creator Hidetaka Miyazaki: ‘I didn’t have a dream, wasn’t ambitious'
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‘Braid’ creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game
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Faced with change, an all-female indie dev team evolves to a higher form (2013)
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GameCentral talks to the creator of Oddworld, gains insight into games industry
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The return of the 'bedroom' programmer [video]
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Papers, Please: The 'boring' game that became a smash hit
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Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out
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How The Huang Brothers Bootstrapped Guitar Hero To A Billion Dollar Business
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Kickstarter game project raises $10k, made using a DIY Platformer tutorial.
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Tim Schafer opts to try out Kickstarter for his next game
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Most Video Game Artwork Will Never Be Seen
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Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 1: Dorakue
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Putting the "J" in the RPG, Part 3: Playing Final Fantasy VII
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Where are the builders?
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The secret of Minecraft (2014)
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