Casual Connect

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Against Gravity: "Physical harassment in VR can be really intense"

CCO Cameron Brown on nurturing Rec Room's thriving community, and the "very real" sense of physical threat in a virtual world

Aug. 10, 2017 Matthew Handrahan

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Bungie's 13-year battle with crunch culture

At Casual Connect USA, Bungie's Luke Timmins detailed how Halo 2's "brutal" crunch led to a new way of thinking about people management

Aug. 4, 2017 Matthew Handrahan

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Washington Governor to open VR and indie filled Casual Connect USA

Studio Wildcard, Psyonix, Survios, Oculus, Valve and Supreme Commander creator Chris Taylor among the speakers at Seattle event

July 21, 2017 Matthew Handrahan

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"There will be AAA VR games - we're making one with Star Trek: Bridge Crew"

Ubisoft's Chris Early and Red Storm's David Votypka on creating AAA value in VR through social interaction

March 14, 2017 Matthew Handrahan

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Does VR need a Killer App?

At Casual Connect today, Valve's Chet Faliszek argued that, like the App Store, VR will succeed on flexibility rather than franchises

Feb. 8, 2017 Matthew Handrahan

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Valve, CCP and Team17 add core slant to Casual Connect Europe

Next month's event will also host GREE's Andrew Sheppard, Square Enix Montreal's Patrick Naud and King VP Stephen Jarrett

Jan. 19, 2017 Matthew Handrahan

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Jam City: We're "halfway towards an IPO"

CEO Chris DeWolfe lays out his growth strategy, and what the "game changing" TinyCo. acquisition means for the company's plan to go public

Oct. 10, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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Colabee Studios: Taking on the World

With their new studio, Never Alone's creative leads want to turn "world games" into a sustainable business

Sept. 27, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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Kabam's Next Wave: PS4 level graphics and $24 million launches

CEO Kevin Chou details the company's ambitious new product strategy, and explains the "healthy" lack of mobile game IPOs

Aug. 23, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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The vanishing differences between mobile and desktop VR

"Very soon, the content you're playing on Vive will be very easily playable on what we call mobile VR platforms right now”

July 25, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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Splitter Critters was the big winner at the Indie Prize Awards

RAC2's game was the only game to pick up two awards at the Casual Connect indie showcase

July 21, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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Are VR exclusives bad? It's complicated

"In a lot of cases a game is not gonna be made at all unless it gets a boost from something like a timed exclusivity deal"

July 21, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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VR "kind of scares me as an investor" - Lasky

Mitch Lasky, venture capitalist at Benchmark, also believes Facebook's acquisition of Oculus may not have been a good thing for VR

July 19, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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eSports' "Wild West" period is drawing to a close

A Casual Connect panel described the forces that will civilise the eSports landscape, leading to a rise in both revenue and regulations

July 19, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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Kabam, Glu, and Super Evil Megacorp. CEOs to speak at Casual Connect USA

Kevin Chou will discuss cracking the static top-grossing chart at San Francisco event this month

July 6, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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"I want to go back to the thing I was born to do”

Shahid Ahmad on leaving "the best gig in video games" at PlayStation to embrace the uncertainties of life as an indie developer

March 30, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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MaxPlay's engine tech is a modern solution to modern problems

"Unity is a ten, fifteen-year-old legacy architecture, and the same thing is true with the Unreal Engine"

March 14, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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Next Games: Right license, right partner, right result

CEO Teemu Huuhtanen on the unexpected benefits of working with licenses, and why The Walking Dead is a smarter bet than Star Wars

March 11, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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“Are you just looking to make a living? Then China has plenty of opportunity”

Tom van Dam on NetEase's westward journey, and the problems facing companies with designs on China

March 8, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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"Reputation is now as important as the games"

Shahid Ahmad and Jason Della Rocca offered sobering advice to independent developers trying to be heard above the clamour of the market

Feb. 18, 2016 Matthew Handrahan

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Machine Zone sues Kabam over trade secrets

UPDATE: Statement from Machine Zone on slanging match that turned legal

Aug. 24, 2015 Matthew Handrahan

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"It's just people selling picks and shovels, not the people finding gold"

FlowPlay's Derrick Morton on his "mobile last" strategy, and how specialist app stores could save the mobile market

Aug. 19, 2015 Matthew Handrahan

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Google's tips for VR development

Chief game designer Noah Falstein pushes devs to start simple with Google Cardboard

Aug. 14, 2015 Rachel Weber

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Tim Train: "Somebody's got to be the huckster"

Big Huge Games CEO shares his tips for finding and working with a publisher

Aug. 12, 2015 Rachel Weber

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Michael Eisner: Creativity doesn't have to be expensive

The former Disney CEO explains the importance of content... via Indiana Jones

Aug. 11, 2015 Rachel Weber