The video game hardware company Razer has opened up a new online shop to handle the sale of digital games on PC.

The Razer Game Store isn’t an entirely new platform. Instead, the company is selling keys for existing platforms like Steam and Uplay, sometimes with ‘Razer exclusive’ discounts, and letting customers count those purchases toward Razer’s existing loyalty program in the process.

With enough points, that program will turn back around and offer discounts and other perks to players that regularly use the storefront to pick up digital copies of games.

Razer takes special care to note that the keys being sold through its platform are legitimate and obtained through partnerships with developers and publishers,  likely to avoid the reputation some online key retailers have for obtaining game keys through unscrupulous methods.

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Location: Agoura Hills, California

Visual Concepts is one of the world’s top game development studios with a flat, entrepreneurial, and non-corporate work environment. We have a proven track record having shipped over 100 multi-SKU titles to great critical acclaim.

Our studios in Agoura Hills, CA and Novato, CA are committed to gaming and technical innovation and offer top candidates the opportunity to learn and grow with some of the smartest and most creative minds in the industry.

We’re seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer, focused on tools development. 

You’re passionate about developing deep, high quality interactive tools used by all disciplines of game development for the creation, visualization, integration, release and testing of game content.  You will develop next generation tools and engines, with a focus on the interactive layer of the two.  You’re experienced creating Windows-based tools used in game development including data/asset management, creation frameworks, and user interface.

You’ll build tools that meet production demands and ensure efficiency and creative opportunity for all members of the development team. You’ll create graphical user interfaces and associated tools that enable the team to intuitively work with various assets and content.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in tools development for console games
• High proficiency in C / C++ / C#
• Fluent in Windows-based development (.Net, etc.)
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming
• Able to diagnose and solve problems quickly and independently
• Able to learn and master complicated code systems
• Able to write clean, bug-free, well-documented and efficient code
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science
• Passion for video games
• Good team player

Additional Skills:

• Experience with web development (HTML, Python, etc.)
• Experience with designing user-friendly UI
• Knowledge of Maya/Max is a preferred plus

Interested? Apply now.

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Welcome to Next Week on Xbox, where we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox One! Every week, the team at Xbox aims to deliver quality gaming content for you to enjoy on your favorite gaming console. This coming week we can jump into the free-to-play MMO TERA, join a small boy, his giraffe, and a pet rock in The Adventure Pals, or battle a curse in 60-second bursts of gameplay in Minit — and these are just a few of the excellent games coming to Xbox One next week! Read more below and click on their profiles for pre-order details.

Games

April 03, 2018

A game about a small boy, his giraffe, and a pet rock. In this quirky adventure game, The Adventure Pals sends you on an epic quest to rescue the boy’s father before he’s turned into a hot dog. With local drop-in/drop-out co-op, this delightful side-scrolling, hack-n-slash adventure is full of colorful friends and enemies.

Games

April 03, 2018

Minit is an adventure played 60 seconds at a time where you’ll journey outside the comfort of your home to help unusual characters, uncover countless secrets, and overcome dangerous foes, all in hopes of lifting an unfortunate curse that ends each day after just one minute.

Games

April 03, 2018

Experience an MMO where your skill and positioning determine whether you live or die in battle. In TERA, you aim, dodge, and time your attacks for an exciting combat experience. TERA’s content is entirely free to play, and with an interface redesigned and optimized for game controllers, TERA offers an immersive MMO experience from the comfort of your couch.

Games

April 04, 2018

Xbox Play Anywhere – The Hades Betrayal expansion aims to deliver new, epic missions for Raiders of the Broken Planet, with three new characters in an action-packed adventure that pits the Raiders against the most powerful military force in the galaxy: The Hades Division.

Games

April 04, 2018

Just as its approaching its 20^th anniversary, Dangun Feveron makes its console appearance with its blend of classic, vertical style bullet hell shooter gameplay. Featuring original game modes that put a new twist on its classic gameplay, and with remixed background music, enjoy the return of this classic arcade game brought to you by M2 ShotTriggers.

Games

April 06, 2018

Manage your very own zombie battle bus to fight the undead in this tactical survival sequel to Dead Ahead. Kills zombies, collect supplies, search for survivors, and upgrade your bus to break through barricades to establish a shaky foothold of survival.

Games

April 06, 2018

The demonic preacher has escaped to the mountains in pursuit of a grim secret that could give him ultimate power. He has already eluded the detective and her partner Hamilton twice: once in Maple Creek, and again in Ravenwood. Play this finale that’s full of adventure, hidden-object puzzles, and ancient mysterious.

Another weekend has been and gone, and with it came Splatfests in both North America and Europe. As usual, both events were well contested, with Splatoon 2 players of all ranks and skill levels taking part to bring home the win for their selection.

As is often the case, both events resulted in narrow 2-1 wins, with each competition seeing the most popular side lose out in the solo and team matches. The North American Splatfest was particularly close, with Baseball just coming out on top thanks to some very marginal wins.

It was a similar story in Europe, although the solo and team games swung a little more in the winning side’s favour. Salted popcorn came out on top.

Did you take part in the Splatfest? Were you on the winning side? Let us know how you got on in the comments.

While it’s been a relatively quiet week for the games industry (and the month as a whole, compared to the fanfare that saw Nintendo Switch’s launch a year ago), we did some activity on the Nintendo Switch front. The multiformat monster that is FIFA 18 continued a strong run with another week at number two, although Mario Kart 8 Deluxe dropped from number four to number seven as Forza Motorsport 7 revved back into the top five.

Super Mario Odyssey also had a decent week, with sales that pushed it from number 11 back into the top ten at  a respectable number nine. Outside of the top ten, The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild also had a better week making the shift from number from 18 to 15. Here’s the full list:

1(1) Far Cry 5
2(2) FIFA 18
3(3) Sea Of Thieves
4(9) Forza Motorsport 7
5(5) PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds
6(6) Call Of Duty: WII
7(4) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
8(10) Grand Theft Auto V
9(11) Super Mario Odyssey
10(12) Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy

So what do you make of last week’s chart performances? Will Nintendo Labo make an impact among the big hitters come the end of April? Share your thoughts below…

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