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Data You May Have Missed From GDC’s 2024 State of the Industry Report Featured Blog | Data You May Have Missed From GDC’s 2024 State of the Industry Report

Parsing through data and interpreting it to find its real-world applications is no easy task, but it is imperative to keeping businesses in check as their power over consumers expands.

Feb 23, 2024

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The graveyard of features in games: when stuff that seemed promising just doesn't work Featured Blog | The graveyard of features in games: when stuff that seemed promising just doesn't work

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Feb 22, 2024

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byRobert Seidel

Feb 21, 2024

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