GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 27, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox In August 2023, David Vonderhaar announced he was leaving Treyarch , the Activision studio behind the Call of Duty: Black Ops series, after 18 years working on the blockbuster shooter franchise.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 15, 2023

Sadly, these tend to be somewhat drowned out by the noise surrounding the AAA titles, so the GamesIndustry.biz team wanted to do our part to help elevate some of the titles we believe deserve to be on people's radars.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 11, 2023

Chris Charla, strategic director of Microsoft's indie programme ID@Xbox, says the need to separate indie titles from AAA is diminishing in many regards.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, a seismic shift that was certainly felt at the 2024 Game Developer Conference (GDC) held last week in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. the #1 casual game launch of 2023 : Scopely’s Monopoly Go! Building and scaling MONOPOLY GO!,

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 31, 2025

I've long said that any AAA game studio, no matter how strong, is always 2-3 flops in a row away from closure. One factor was that 2024 was the first full year since 2012 that Bioware didn't have SWTOR on their books anymore - SWTOR went over to Broadsword in late 2023. DA4 itself was a bit of a mess during development too.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While this includes companies beyond game development — such as platforms, tech solutions, and web3 startups — all the entities in our study operate within the gaming sector. by 2023, suggesting a reassessment of risk by investors. 4 mobile games developers, founded mainly by former King’s employees. —

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A new union survey raised further concerns about crunch culture in game development, with more than half experiencing crunch in the past two years. 57% of those surveyed said they most recently worked on an AAA game. 57% of those surveyed said they most recently worked on an AAA game. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 16, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox It's rare to be given an insight into the development of an AAA game like Cyberpunk 2077.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 10, 2023

It’s my Most Anticipated 2023 Video Games. Forspoken: Another title that was originally supposed to be released earlier but got delayed to this year due to COVID impacting the development is Forspoken. The post Michael Blaker’s Video Game Tuesday: Most Anticipated 2023 Video Games appeared first on Game Industry News.

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AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

Introduction : The importance of selecting a proper game backend Selecting a game backend solution is one of the most significant decisions that game studios face during development. Harmony Games, a mobile game studio founded in 2023, considered two possible paths for solving the backend problem.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 22, 2023

Image: pikisuperstar on Freepik Newzoo’s Global Gamer Study 2023 is a true treasure trove of interesting facts about the people out there that hopefully end up with your game in their hands. Nearly 75.000 people in 36 markets participated in this study. Did you know that more than half of all people with an internet connection play games?

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 4, 2023

With the pandemic as a contributing factor, many companies delayed their major title releases from 2022 to at least 2023. More AAA and AA publishers are pivoting their main franchises towards these models to extend the lifespan of existing franchises. This trend suggests that the market is leveling out to pre-pandemic activity.

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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

AWS GameTime is for gamers and budding game developers who want to go “behind-the-scenes” and learn how their favorite gaming experiences are made on AWS. AWS GameTime is for gamers and budding game developers who want to go “behind-the-scenes” and learn how their favorite gaming experiences are made on AWS.

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

Every aspect of the game’s development has been thoughtfully considered, from ensuring each card has a rich backstory to using a low carbon footprint blockchain and efficient cloud-based technologies like Amazon GameLift on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS makes those calls completely secure; the whole environment feels stable and scales well.”

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 7, 2023

Why did you become a solo developer? The question is really how you decide which ideas to use – a lot easier as a solo developer. How do you stay motivated through (years of) development? I wonder if AAA games like GT7 and Forza use the same type of workarounds that are totally detached from a physically-based car?”

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Big Games

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Giving a number to any game’s development expense is practically impossible. Because each step has its nuances, if one game became successful in a month, other developers could empty their whole bank account, and still, there’s no guarantee the target market will appreciate it. Thousands, Millions, or a Billion– what’ll be your guess?

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AWS Games

MAY 14, 2024

It’s hard to overstate the dedication of Omeda Studios developers working on the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game “Predecessor.” Its core team has developed the game since 2018, even though the studio was officially formed in 2020. The game’s new backend debuted on March 5, 2024.

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AWS Games

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The solution: Known Version Patching (KVP) on AWS To address these challenges, EA implemented a new game patch deployment approach in August 2023 called Known Version Patching (KVP). This automated process takes less than an hour to complete for a AAA title, outputting pre-computed, incremental patches for previous versions of the game.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Games that succeed are earning more money, but most games don't succeed and the money spent to develop those failures is gone and isn't coming back.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

In this blog post, I delve into these trends, dissecting their implications and exploring the broader implications for stakeholders—from seasoned developers to aspiring entrepreneurs. But what is truly alarming for anyone developing new games is how little time players spend playing new games versus enjoying the incumbent franchises.

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Game Errors

AUGUST 4, 2023

How long has Baldur’s Gate 3 been in development? Baldur’s Gate 3 has been in development for six years. Although the people from Larian claim they did everything possible to deliver the game in the given timeframe weeks before the release, the situation during most of development was different.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 26, 2024

This evolving landscape presents opportunities for agile developers to thrive, even as AAA studios grapple with extended development cycles and rising costs. Newzoo stipulates that developers should recoside the importance of PC as a target gaming platform. in growth for the year 2024.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding. The immersive worlds game developers craft will get players hooked and keep them coming back for more. What is Unreal?

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 12, 2023

Just like in the years prior, the blog post travels at lightspeed across the mobile gaming industry, achieving two distinctive outcomes: EXCITEMENT: Ilkka’s annual blog posts excite game developers everywhere. Ilkka’s words often portray Supercell’s game development model as straightforward and simple to carry out. And why not?

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Game Errors

MAY 31, 2023

Check the system requirements : Diablo 4 system requirements align with the fact that it is a AAA game from 2023. The developers report that Razer software is causing compatibility issues , so disable it before starting the Diablo 4 installation. Use the CTRL + Shift + ESC shortcut to open Task Manager.

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Game Daily

JULY 19, 2023

during yesterday’s 2023 Games for Change Festival in New York. A single season of dystopian-futurism TV show Black Mirror has way more interesting ideas about the future than current AAA gaming’s apocalyptica. Its best known release is Never Alone, which was developed in partnership with the Iñupiat community in Alaska.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Deconstructor of Fun x Google Istanbul conference is coming up on March 9th, 2023! It also canned Battlefield Mobile and closed its developer Industrial Toys—a studio it acquired in 2018 but hasn’t released any titles since. Why do the size and the pedigree of the development team matter? SAVE THE DATE!

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

The rules of the game are not established yet, and, as a game developer, you are expected to create them. On the other hand, it leads to a quite unstable business where you might have to pivot after a year of development. However, the hard part lies in experimenting with everything except the game development itself.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

We dive into decline of hypercasual games and hybridcasual, an attempt by mobile game developers to adapt to the new normal in the industry. Based on the current marketing environment, we made the decision to temporarily suspend our new game development pipeline until the ROI for new games is economically viable.”

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Unreal Fest, the annual developer conference organized by Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine (UE), returns to New Orleans October 3—5 for three days of speaking sessions, hands-on workshops, and specialized industry tracks. This allows smaller game companies to produce AAA game content, and that’s exciting.”

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Game Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

That’s the question addressed by Ampere Analysis’ Piers Harding-Rolls in a recent webinar report, titled Dissecting the competitive landscape for console games in 2023. More than 500 developers and publishers are active in that market, and some handle multiple games.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 11, 2024

By understanding these complexities, we can gain valuable insights into the dynamics shaping the contemporary gaming landscape and explore potential pathways for future growth and development. At the same time, they are, perhaps for the first time in history, expecting development budgets to decrease. Yet this did not materialize.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

billion in revenue it will generate in 2023. Moving into work-from-home setups, especially for the console’s many massive AAA titles, further hamstrung the majority of the studios. Moving into work-from-home setups, especially for the console’s many massive AAA titles, further hamstrung the majority of the studios.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Predicting the Future of Supercell’s Brand New Studio A year ago, Supercell announced their intention to open a studio in North America with the mission of developing games for PC and Console. Their first step would be to hire a core founding team around which they would build the development team.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Nevertheless, now that the hype faded out and people are more focused on actually making games, the trade-off between decentralization and mass market reach should sway developers to forget about buzzwords. Where that first sentence worries most of the developers is secondary sales, i.e., sales happening between players.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 26, 2023

This blog details the service launches, customer sessions, and partner announcements most relevant to game developers. Service Launches Across more than 100 service launches from Amazon Web Services (AWS) at re:Invent, these are the top services for developers to build, run, and grow their games. Watch the re:Invent breakout session.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Build the organisation, develop the capabilities, and take it from there." The Debate Over AI Replacing Jobs In today's industry landscape, where the development cost of major AAA titles approaches a billion dollars, executives are compelled to consider AI as a cost-control measure. Launch and learn. Make mistakes.

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