Unity Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The new Shader Graph Feature Examples sample set is now available to import now from the Package Manager to help you create a wide range of effects and techniques using Shader Graph.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The year 2022 was very special for us. A lot of work was done, but almost nothing worked and so many features were unfinished. As a result, 2022 became a year of focus on stabilizing and finishing all major remaining issues. Things improved a lot, but eventually it was time to do feature freeze and focus on bug fixing.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 29, 2025

Nazi crimes That balance is perhaps most evident in the games standout features. “Weve always had publishers before, but in 2022 the industry was just sliding into a crisis,” Friedrich says. “We were featured in SPIEGEL, ZEIT and even on German public TV, which is a big deal in Germany,” Schulz adds.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 2, 2023

Statista’s Market Insights show that 48% of the revenue in casual games in 2022 came from in-game ads, with the share of IAA revenue increasing each year. Permanent and temporary boosts As a midcore idle RPG, Legend of Slime utilizes the standard temporary buff feature with rewarded video ads.

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Unity Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Now updated for Unity 2022 LTS features. We created two technical e-books to provide advanced Unity users with a better onboarding experience.

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Unity Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Tech Stream extends the system’s feature set for better integration with worlds and gameplay. The new Unity water system was first introduced for the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) as part of the 2022.2 Tech Stream. The latest LTS release and upcoming 2023.1 Dive into all that you can do with these tools.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A narrative can also help with pacing, building and releasing tension alongside key story beats while directing the players’ attention and emotions through them, all the while supporting other features and creating a meaningful foundation for retention. Several exploration games also incorporate similar story designs.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 8, 2024

million digital and physical games were sold in the UK during December, an increase of 2% over the same period in 2022. It's a strong result when you consider November and December didn't feature too many big new releases. EA Sports FC 24 reclaimed No.1 1 for the month, and was boosted by some pre-Christmas sales activity.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 4, 2023

A larger drop can be identified if we compare Q2 2023 to Q2 2022. The game features different modes and progressively more challenging levels. Released back in 2022, the game takes its inspiration from the widely popular Piano Tiles series by Umoni Games. The market has shrunk from 3.9B installs over the past three months.

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 22, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Visual Studio 2022 Adds Breakpoint Groups Sometimes a basic feature is added to a decades old product and it can really change the way you work, with Visual Studio 2022 the addition of breakpoint groups could be exactly that feature.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Since the start of the year, there have been 7,800 announced layoffs so far in 2024 , compared to 10,500 for all of 2023 and 8,500 in 2022. The post The new normal • Video game layoffs are a feature, not a bug appeared first on PreMortem Games. Each has let go of a similar portion of its workforce.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Battle passes have crept into almost every mobile game genre imaginable, with our platform showing that 66% of mobile games in the top 20% have incorporated the feature. Editor’s note: This blog post was originally published in March 2022. Merge Dragons also features a piggy bank as part of its battle pass.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Mortal Shell has featured on Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus. A Nintendo Switch version also released in December 2022. And that doesn't include players who have touched the game via subscription services, publisher Playstack says. The game was broadly well received, and it shot to 500,000 sales within the first nine months.

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 30, 2024

a resource we first featured back in 2022. In that earlier feature, TheBaseMesh.com featured over 250 high quality low polygon UV unwrapped meshes that are game ready or well prepared for sculpting. GameFromScratch.com The Base Mesh 2.0 Today we are revisiting The Base Mesh 2.0, appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

After all, this is hardly the first time that QQ Speed has added a new mode that significantly differs from its primary mechanics; it once featured a Fall Guys-style minigame and a recreational area where players can hang out and chat with others. The game features a Homeworld Slot mode with similar mechanics to the hit game Coin Master.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

This officially marks the start of feature freeze for 4.4. We wont risk merging any new features or risky bug fixes until after we release 4.4 Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3 is jam-packed with new features despite having a much shorter development period than 4.3. release cycle. New in Beta 1!

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 30, 2024

Drag Her, a 2D hand-drawn fighting game featuring a roster of real-life drag artists, launched its Kickstarter campaign back in February 2022 with a modest and cheeky funding target of $69,000.

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Juego Studio

AUGUST 15, 2023

These games have unique features that not only make them different but also make them more immersive and exciting to play. billion in revenue in 2022. Genshin Impact and Honour of Kings generated the maximum revenue […] The post Features/Characteristics of a Role-Playing Game appeared first on Juego Studio.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

But its not just collaboration events that feature anime; there are also an overwhelming number of titles entirely based on popular IPfrom Dragon Ball: Legends and One Piece: Bounty Rush to Fate/Grand Order. Interestingly, it also launched alongside a new permanent in-game feature: special abilities.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

Publishers and studios are constantly looking for new ways to improve these, whether it’s with more powerful ad creative to boost UA or by adding new gameplay mechanics and features to improve player retention. The game also started running UA creatives and changed its Appstore page featuring gameplay from these levels.

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OPM Jobs

AUGUST 31, 2022

We’re proud to be partnering with MCV/Develop to bring you the 2022 30 Under 30 – this time with a live ceremony! The 30 Under 30 winners will be invited to and announced at IRL 2022 – and featured shortly afterwards in the November issue of MCV/DEVELOP. with the required information. What is required for nomination?

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

One such example is Garena Free Fire, which celebrated its fifth birthday with an in-game concert featuring none other than the prince of pop, Justin Bieber. The film made the equivalent of $100 million after 46 days after its release and is the highest-grossing movie of 2022 in Japan so far. Collaboration event framework.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 15, 2024

Esports featured in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, but will not appear in the 2026 event. The IOC and the National Olympic Committee of Saudi Arabia have entered a 12-year partnership, and the games will be held at regular intervals. A city and venue have yet to be selected. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The main reason for the drop is January 2022 saw the huge launch of Pokémon Legends: Arceus from Nintendo. Whereas this January didn't feature such a significant game release. Tracking all physical games, plus digital downloads from most major publishers (see list below), sales are down slightly on last year (a drop of 4.4%).

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Played with Fire

DECEMBER 30, 2022

A memory of 2022. Stargaze was featured in The Big Adventure Event hosted by Hitcents. We became sponsors of KrakJam 2022. We participated in Digital Dragons 2022. We met with you at the Gamescom 2022 in Cologne. You visited our booth at PAX West 2022 in Seattle. We met in Tokyo at the Tokyo Game Show 2022.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For quick answers, refer to our PDF featuring the essential data points from this article: GDEV x InvestGame – Feature #5 For a comprehensive analysis, let’s delve into the detailed investigation below. Have any of these VC-backed startups reached notable success? What’s up with the exits? How is all this compared to ex-Riot?

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

all the way back in August of 2022. There are several new features in Stride 4.2, but the highlight features are no doubt the support for.NET 8 and C# 12, […] The post Stride 4.2 GameFromScratch.com Stride 4.2 Released The open source C# powered game engine Stride just released version 4.2.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Announced in February 2022 , the PSVR 2 follows up on 2016's PlayStation VR, which had sold 4.2 Today sees the launch of Sony's latest virtual reality headset, the PlayStation VR 2, which aims to offer a generational step up on the company's original VR headset. million units worldwide as of March 2019.

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Game Refinery

JUNE 15, 2023

The rise of hybridization in mobile games has resulted in game developers experimenting with new gameplay mechanics and features from other genres to drive engagement, something that’s often done via limited-time events. Royal Match introduced the Space Mission race event in July 2022.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

year-over-year from 2021 to 2022 (TikTok Internal Data, 2022) – makes it the perfect place to find inspiration for casual and hyper-casual mobile games. In the casual/hyper-casual space, we see this happen via three major feature areas: meta layers, social and LiveOps. Meta layers. The adoption of meta elements has increased.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

AWS re:Invent was back in full force in 2022 with over 50,000 members of the global cloud community coming together in Las Vegas for the 11th edition of the conference. The feature also allows faster local iteration by registering development machine processes as game servers for a GameLift Anywhere fleet. Watch the demo. Learn more.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

When a game with a unique style and appearance becomes a hit, it doesn’t take long for new games to emerge, hoping to emulate that success by using the same gameplay mechanics, visual style and features. Kitka Games’ Stumble Guys. Stumble Guys. You’d be forgiven for mistaking Stumble Guys for Fall Guys.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 19, 2024

I had the idea of Left to Rot for a while, from around 2022, but I never had a clear vision. Especially now I am working to implement speech recognition, a quite unique feature in video games nowaday. I used to work as a lead developer on a small indie game company in Romania, Constanta. How did you get the idea for Left to Rot? “I

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Which brings us to the Friend Referral system, a feature that has the potential to support user acquisition and retention indirectly by word-of-mouth. Most notably, casual mobile games, which make use of this feature, have the most straightforward implementation of the Friend Invitation system.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. Along with the basic feature and controls, some integrations were done: When the Script editor is undocked, the last selected Viewport is shown. Test the implement features and fix bugs. Current progress.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 11, 2023

This quarter’s top 10 features some newcomers that have been around for a while, with one even as long as 2016. Hypercasual Q1 regional split Comparing the total downloads in Q1 2023 with those in Q4 2022, we see a decrease of 5%. However, an even more significant downtrend can be noticed when comparing Q1 2022 to Q1 2023.

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Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tower of Fantasy was launched in the global markets in August 2022, luring players to the game with its “Genshin with an MMO experience” headlines. The genre difference is what makes Tower of Fantasy stand out from its competitor Genshin Impact, as the two games might have otherwise been too similar without some tweaks in the feature set.

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