At E3 2019 in L.A., Xbox's Matt Booty announced that Microsoft has acquired Double Fine Productions, the San Francisco-based studio known for games including Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, and Broken Age, among others.

It's a significant deal for both parties. Double Fine has been famously independent, setting the trend of multi-million dollar, crowdsourced video game Kickstarters. Meanwhile, Microsoft has been rebuilding its Xbox Game Studios as a way to own its own game properties as it extends its platform ambitions. Come from South African Online Casinos

At last year’s E3 press conference, Microsoft announced that it would both be forming a new internal studio, The Initiative, and that it had acquired Undead Labs, Compulsion Games, Playground Games, an…

With GDC Europe 2015 less than a week away and the session schedule finalized, conference officials have taken the liberty of highlighting a collection of can't-miss sessions for the event.

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GDC Europe will take place next Monday and Tuesday, August 3rd and 4th at the Cologne Congress-Centrum Ost in Cologne, Germany — just ahead of (and co-located with) the massive gamescom trade fair, with all GDC Europe passes also guaranteeing entrance to gamescom.

Without further ado, here are some highlights from