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Voice-controlled game dev Volley nets $55 million in fundingVoice-controlled game dev Volley nets $55 million in funding

With $55 million from Microsoft, Amazon Alexa and others, Volley is looking to build even more voice-controlled, AI-powered games to be played at home.

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The Game Show Interview: Starting a Career as a Game Composer
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byWinifred Phillips
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Apr 4, 2024
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byBryant Francis
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Apr 3, 2024
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byBryant Francis
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Jordan Mechner recounts the tale of creating Karateka from home
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Mar 29, 2024
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6 Min Read
byImran Khan
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IGF 2024 Winners on creating Venba, Rhythm Doctor, and more
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Mar 29, 2024
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8 Min Read
byDanielle Riendeau
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Mar 29, 2024
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byBryant Francis
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Mar 25, 2024
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byJoel Couture
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How Venba uses food to explore connections and disconnections with culture for immigrants
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Mar 22, 2024
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byJoel Couture
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Using medical stories and heart conditions to create musical challenges in Rhythm Doctor
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Mar 22, 2024
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byJoel Couture
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The challenges of laying worlds upon worlds in puzzle game COCOON
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Mar 22, 2024
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byJoel Couture
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Tying music and food aesthetics together for an 'oddly satisfying' experience with Nour: Play With Your Food
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Mar 21, 2024
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byJoel Couture
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How Tchia captures the feeling and myths of New Caledonia with its environment and play
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Mar 21, 2024
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byJoel Couture
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Venba wins Grand Prize at the 2024 Independent Games Festival Awards
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Mar 21, 2024
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byBeth Elderkin
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Baldur's Gate 3 sweeps Game Developers Choice Awards 2024
Baldur's Gate 3 sweeps Game Developers Choice Awards 2024
Mar 21, 2024
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byChris Kerr
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Building Baldur's Gate 3's memorable characters was all about forming trust in performance capture
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Mar 20, 2024
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byAlessandro Fillari
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How a theme of 'a road trip from hell' would shape Darkest Dungeon II
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Mar 18, 2024
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byJoel Couture
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Baldur's Gate 3 dominates BAFTA Games Awards 2024 nominations
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Mar 7, 2024
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byChris Kerr
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Dial up the Diegetics: Musical Sound Effects for the Video Game Composer (GDC 2024)
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Obituary: Mark Dodson, video game voice actor, passed away at age 64
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Mar 4, 2024
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There's plenty of Nadji Jeter in Marvel's Spider-Man 2's take on Miles Morales
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Feb 29, 2024
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byBryant Francis
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Insomniac Games used finger-thwapping balloons for the sound of Spider-Man's wingsuit
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Feb 28, 2024
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Feb 27, 2024
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byJoel Couture
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Why art from the '70s is great inspiration for games like Cocoon
Why art from the '70s is great inspiration for games like Cocoon
Feb 26, 2024
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byBryant Francis
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Q&A: How the Mortal Kombat 1 score brought nuance to a brutal world
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Feb 26, 2024
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