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Pay what you want for this game developer training bundle

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by on August 1, 2015 at 1:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Offers, TNWDeals

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Imagining new worlds in game development is great fun and a genuine career path opportunity. The Game Developer Bundle at TNW Deals gives you the technical skills to make it happen, and you can pay whatever you want for it. Whether you want to create the next time-sapping mobile hit, or make a PC classic, these courses have you covered. The bundle is actually split into three separate collections, each of which focuses on a different method. The first looks at how to construct games without a single line of code. This includes five courses on using software such as…

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Why the Beatles are letting down a generation

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by on August 1, 2015 at 1:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion

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Two of the most important bands in pop music history – the Beatles and the KLF – aren’t available on streaming services. At this stage, that’s a grave disservice to popular culture. For musicians, there’s a lot wrong with streaming services. They replace substantial sales revenue with a trickle of income, and they arguably encourage listeners to snack on individual songs rather than appreciating whole albums as works of art. And yet streaming is increasingly how listeners want to consume music, and what are musicians without their audience? For the Beatles, the continued absense from Spotify, Apple Music and their…

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17 of the best new and updated Android apps from July

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by on August 1, 2015 at 12:03 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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With July now fading into the distance, it’s time to look back over some of the best new and updated Android apps from across the month. From a new Angry Birds, to really handy file management tools and a live-streaming app that pretty much only wants to show your nostrils, we’ve got it all here in one handy list. All you need to do is peruse it at your leisure and test some of them out! Angry Birds 2 Angry Birds was one of the biggest runaway hit mobile games of all time, and successfully launched across a whole range of platforms.…

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This isn’t clickbait: You shouldn’t hate BuzzFeed but should think more about the media

Aug01
by on August 1, 2015 at 11:53 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion

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“Isn’t that journalism now? Just embedding a bunch of tweets from someone famous or notable and some reactions from normal people?” A friend put that question to me recently and I can’t really disagree with the assessment at first blush. Scrabbling up social media posts has become one of the dominant modes of pushing clicks in the commodity news business. Sites find things that well-known people have said online and spin them up into stories, which at their core are about nothing. How many amazing responses from celebrities to dumb questions can we see (in GIF form and otherwise)? At what point will we…

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21 of the best iOS apps from July

Aug01
by on August 1, 2015 at 9:55 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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With July a fast-fading memory, it’s time to look back over some of the best new and updated apps from across the month. From a new Angry Birds, to productivity tools and a live-streaming app that pretty much only wants to show your nostrils, we’ve got it all here in one handy list. All you need to do is peruse it at your leisure and test some of them out! Angry Birds 2 Angry Birds was one of the biggest runaway hit mobile games of all time, and successfully launched across a whole range of platforms. And now, some years…

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