GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 10, 2024

While there are still a number of AAA games heading to consoles and PC by the end of the year, it's currently a quieter line-up than we would historically expect and some heavy hitters that are most likely to move the needle, such as Grand Theft Auto 6, aren't due until next year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 7, 2024

It’s no secret that game development has seen a massive expansion in scope in recent years. What would have once taken a development team three or four years to make now requires much more people, and four to six years to ship.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

PUBG developer and publisher Krafton has opened its first Canadian studio, GamesIndustry.biz can reveal, with the unveiling of Krafton Montreal. Currently employing 12 staff, the team hopes to grow to 150 people within the next three years, adding another AAA studio to the already competitive Montreal development scene.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Spider Web of Narratives Developing a game with a complex narrative structure, multiple endings, and randomized events can be a daunting task. His experience in those fields really helped him in his game development career. My goal was to create a gaming experience mimicking a borderline state of mind.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 2, 2023

There's an exciting new AAA game studio that's growing rapidly in Leamington Spa and already picking up awards. Lighthouse Games is a new development team set-up by Gavin Raeburn, the co-founder and former studio head of Forza Horizon developer Playground Games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

BulletFarm is headquartered in Los Angeles but positioned as a remote-first studio, and is already working on a AAA game built in Unreal Engine 5. NetEase Games has opened another new studio in the West in the form of BulletFarm, and has hired Call of Duty veteran David Vonderhaar to lead the team.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 31, 2024

He is not only another character from a little-known background, but he's also one of the few Oceania characters in AAA title. GamesIndustry.biz spoke with Overwatch lead hero producer Kenny Hudson about the steps and lessons learned from how the development team crafted the new tank character. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 20, 2023

PlayStation has agreed to acquire Firewalk Studios, the AAA multiplayer developer that is working on a live service game for PS5 and PC. Firewalk was set-up in 2018 as part of ProbablyMonsters (a collective of AAA game developers).

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 5, 2024

Discovery has been historically focused on AAA console games, but the company's CEO and president of global streaming and games JB Perrette wants to change that. And having 11 owned studios where we're not just a publisher of games but actually a developer of games, we think is a differentiative asset for us." Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A team of game developers who have worked on various AAA titles such as Mass Effect, The Witcher, and Doom Eternal have unveiled Fun Dog Studios. The studio is a minority-led and completely employee-owned game developer. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 20, 2024

Virtuos has acquired British indie game developer, Third Kind Games. Virtuos says the acquisition will enhance its "AAA co-development capabilities and establish a new foothold for Virtuos in the UK."

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

Fresh out of school Kaighen Finley started his own web & game development company Team iNtuition. Just to be on the safe side he mainly focused on web development, but his heart was not in it. Why did you become a solo developer? How do you stay motivated through (years of) development?

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 18, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox At a glance Joseph Staten, a long-serving Halo developer, has joined Netflix to head up a new AAA project. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 16, 2023

The veterans who left Need for Speed developer Criterion in December last year have reunited to form a new AAA studio: Fuse Games. The new outfit has been founded by studio general manager Matt Webster, head of content Steve Uphill, head of production Pete Lake, head of technology Andrei Shires, and head of operations Alan McDairmant.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 27, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A new AAA development studio has opened doors in the UK hub of Leamington Spa, helmed by the former studio head and co-founder of Forza Horizon creator Playground Games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 10, 2023

Some of the leaders behind the Forza Horizon series have formed a new AAA games studio in Leamington Spa called Maverick Games. The team is led by studio head and creative director Mike Brown, who was previously the creative director on the Forza Horizon franchise.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 9, 2024

New AAA game developer Deviation Games is closing, the studio announced. It was formed in 2020 by Jason Blundell and Dave Anthony, two development veterans best known for the Call of Duty: Black Ops franchise. But the project hit challenges. But the project hit challenges.

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Juego Studio

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In the simplest form, AAA games have a high development and marketing budget. For avid gamers, subtle nuances beyond the gameplay matter more than anything else. The graphics quality, sound effects, and framerate all influence the gamer’s psyche.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 10, 2023

The AAA developer is based in Seattle, and it's creating an original third-person single player game based on Marvel's Black Panther franchise. EA announced in 2021 it was forming a new AAA studio in Seattle, led by Kevin Stephens who is the former VP and studio head of Monolith Productions.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 18, 2024

It was back in 2020 when Shawn Layden began sounding the alarm around rising game development costs. Now, four years later, we have caught up with Layden as part of our new GI Sprint series of video, podcasts and articles, which is all around lowering the cost of game development. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox When you play Resident Evil Village on an iPad Pro, it's flabbergasting to believe that this is Capcom's latest mainline entry running natively on a mobile device, looking every bit as good as its home console counterparts.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you're a small developer making a game on a tight budget, 469th position could be perfectly profitable. Immortals of Aveum was not made by a small developer. It is a AAA fantasy shooter created by a 100-person dev team, led by a former Call of Duty creative director and published by EA. 469 isn't necessarily a bad spot.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

As reported by Kotaku , an internal email exchange in May 2022 between Microsoft's VP of gaming business development Sarah Bond and Xbox head Phil Spencer showcased how much it would cost to bring titles like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Mortal Kombat 1 to the service.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 22, 2024

We do have AAA games that are in development," he says. We've announced some of the partnerships that we have with the likes of Starbreeze and Gameloft to build D&D games. I'll leave it to your imagination where they might take that.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 17, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Splash Damage has announced that it's currently developing a new title, Project Astrid, in partnership with gaming streamers Christopher "Sacriel" Ball and Michael "Shroud" Grzesiek. Read more

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Starloop Studios

AUGUST 17, 2023

AAA game development is a complex process that requires well-oiled teamwork from an experienced team. The AAA game development process is an intersection of art, technical skills, writing, and many more disciplines.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Artisan Studios is setting up a development studio in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Canadian-based company plans to employ over 200 developers in its new offices, collaborating with local artists across the MENA region to develop new IPs.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It refers to the fact the PlayStation studio will have released three major PS5 games in three years, while other AAA developers have yet to manage one. Yet even so, 2020's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, 2021's Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and the upcoming Spider-Man 2 is an impressive level of output for any developer.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As an AAA VR game developer, we are just not able to justify the expense needed going forward," the studio said. "[We] The Los Angeles-based studio shared a statement on social media , citing a "lack of support for VR within the industry" as the main reason for closing its doors. "As

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox As a AAA single-player Souls-like, Lies of P is a leap into uncharted territory for both its publisher, Neowiz, and developer, Round8 Studio.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 19, 2024

Edmonton-based startup Artificial Agency has raised $16 million towards the development of its "AI-powered behaviour engine." Artificial Agency just came out of stealth after a year in operation, with the company claiming it's working in "close collaboration with several notable AAA studios."

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 18, 2024

As reported by Polygon , which found the company's Great Place to Work profile , the studio is set to make AAA titles, employing 100 developers. Rocksteady co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have created a new London-based studio, called Hundred Star Games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 15, 2024

Founded in 2015, Beyond-FX is a co-development studio that provides VFX for AAA games, having worked on titles such as Mortal Kombat 1, Valorant, and God of War. Virtuos has acquired the Los Angeles-based VFX studio Beyond-FX for an undisclosed sum.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 14, 2024

Across the week, there were dozens if not hundreds of titles from smaller or solo developers bringing original and innovative ideas to the table, or telling stories from underrepresented cultures, or simply tapping into a sense of fun and imagination that few AAA titles manage with their push for realism or intense action. Read more

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

At Logic Simplified , a leading game development company , we created an FPS game Mr. 45. This is the workflow for creating a AAA model of an AK-47, using Maya, Substance Designer, Substance Painter and Marmoset. We are a sought after Unity and Unreal game development company. I have always been fond of guns as a child.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 23, 2024

Techland's Tymon Smektała, franchise director for the hit Dying Light series, expects more developers to focus on shorter, standalone games instead — or at least in between — hundred-hour AAA blockbusters in future.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 12, 2024

I've seen plenty of programmers who had experience working at smaller or mobile studios move to AAA games and many go in reverse. When we hire engineers for game dev, be it AAA or indie, we look for candidates who can work with a team and have a knack for solving problems with performant, legible, and elegant code.

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