Game Wisdom

MARCH 27, 2023

Diablo 4’s Beta Shows the Horror of Modern AAA Design Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com It’s been a rough couple of years for Blizzard Entertainment, going from one of the premier studios in the world to one mired in controversy, scandals, lawsuits, and destroying years’ worth of goodwill with their fans.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

With the rise of the gaming industry, two distinct categories of games have emerged: AAA games and mobile games. As a result, mobile gaming is pushed aside in favor of AAA titles, which have their own position in the market. Now, when you think about high-end games, you think about AAA. Can Mobile Games Be AAA?

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 6, 2024

The lower price point bucks the trend of most AAA games selling for $70 during the current generation. GamesIndustry.biz checked the listings on the US and UK stores, showing price tags of $39.99 and £34.99 respectively (again, same as Helldivers 2). Read more

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

During the day he works as a Senior Software Engineer at Blizzard Entertainment, creating games like Hearthstone, together with a large group of specialized professionals. In AAA, the roles are typically very specialized and each individual doesn’t have much room to experiment outside of their responsibilities.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 4, 2023

Top image by Freepik The games industry has been one of the most resilient and profitable sectors in the entertainment industry. More AAA and AA publishers are pivoting their main franchises towards these models to extend the lifespan of existing franchises. That’s why Newzoo expects fewer new releases in the coming years.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As reported by IGN , the entertainment union known as the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) collected data from hundreds of AAA, mobile, and indie developers between March and mid-August 2023. 57% of those surveyed said they most recently worked on an AAA game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 17, 2023

Remedy Entertainment has announced that Alan Wake 2's release date has moved to October 27, giving it more space in a month of multiple new AAA title launches. The studio originally planned an October 17 date for the horror sequel.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The departure announcements of not one but two industry icons in a single week juxtaposed with a woman taking the reigns at a leading firm suggests interactive entertainment as a whole is gearing up for its next decade of growth. Marketing spend is spiraling and even Apple has started fencing with AAA titles for their devices.

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Played with Fire

APRIL 14, 2022

As game fans, we can choose from both big AAA productions and less known (but not always) indie productions. Although they are often devoid of loud releases from the AAA sector, they still gain unflagging popularity. Many players are already bored with the secondary nature of AAA games and the lack of innovative ideas.

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The Bottom Feeder

JULY 24, 2023

Never trust professional reviews of AAA games. People who DARE to want a functioning, entertaining game for their hard-earned dollars. (I’m Every year, a half dozen AAA games make enormous fortunes despite being barely functional. Also, wait for user reviews of games. Never trust anyone. But whatever. Stuff happens.

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

It kicked off with a panel discussion led by Joanie Kraut, CEO of WIGI, with insights from Susan Cummings, CEO of Tiny Rebel Games; Christina Seelye, CEO of Maximum Entertainment; and Marie Ablaza, Recruiter at Netflix Games Studio.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Juliana Loh Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX and art direction. His latest book is Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning (bit.ly/GamingSEL). GamingSEL). For more, please visit MatthewFarber.com.

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Game Design Aspect

JUNE 9, 2021

Juliana Loh Juliana Loh is an independent Producer/Artist whose background includes branded entertainment, UX and art direction. His latest book is Gaming SEL: Games as Transformational to Social and Emotional Learning (bit.ly/GamingSEL). GamingSEL). For more, please visit MatthewFarber.com.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Special attention must be paid to game art design, as the visual element is one of the most meaningful aspects of the entertainment industry. These are the main factors to consider when choosing an outsourcing studio: Experience working with AA or AAA game titles. The art design can be critical to the game’s overall success.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 13, 2024

Most AAA simply cannot afford the team sizes of today. The bull case : AI will supercharge indie developers allowing them to challenge large AAA by removing production constraints. Source: Newzoo When before gaming offered unrivaled entertainment value that is not so today. Albeit the marketing constraints would remain.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 15, 2023

I’m talking about using NFTs across gaming and real world entertainment, like ticketing or theme park scenarios.” ” Although Web3 gaming has many detractors, as well as a patchy track record in these early years, Udall says the technology is beginning to find wider acceptance.

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Gamesbrief

AUGUST 11, 2022

There are three major ways that we, as consumers, spend money on video games: We subscribe to services such as Gamepass, Apple Arcade or Netflix We buy “boxed product” games, for example: AAA titles in physical boxes or indie games on Steam We buy virtual currency or virtual items in free-to-play or service games. Subscriptions.

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Awesome Tuts

APRIL 22, 2022

A lot of people found it funny so I’m sharing it here for some entertainment. So off goes Brackeys to this link: Lazy Game Dev – No Game Left Behind And uses the coupon code LAZY … to claim a 20% discount on Lazy Game Dev that could help him build an AAA quality game… before the 9 hours are up… And — who knows?

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 5, 2023

BiliBili, a Chinese games and entertainment company, secured the rights to publish a mobile version of Fall Guys shortly after its release, but Mediatonic hasn’t announced any plans to release the game on mobile in the West.

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The Bottom Feeder

MAY 26, 2022

AAA games are now up to $70, and nobody will talk about that price with anything other than rage. We still provide, in terms of fun per dollar, one of the best values in entertainment. For example, a whole new game from my company is twenty bucks. And yes, every great once in a while, an indie game is too expensive. You won't like it.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It became a staple device for family entertainment and gaming on the go. We can see AAA titles running on handheld devices, while also catering to indie titles that are released on all platforms. The DS family included various iterations, such as the DS Lite, DSi, and DSi XL, each building upon the success of its predecessor.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2023

This insider look at what Andrei has learned from 12 years contributing to some of the biggest entertainment franchises in the world is one for the history books. Gaming Roundup ???????

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Game Daily

MARCH 28, 2023

.” Alanah Pearce, who works with the narrative team at Sony Santa Monica made a similar case : “As a writer, having to edit AI-generated scripts/dialogue sounds far more time consuming than just writing my own temp lines I would far prefer AAA studios use whatever budget it costs to make tools like this to instead hire more writers.”

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Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

Added: A helpful comparison here would be to look at Black Isle’s 1997 game Fallout , along with Obsidian Entertainment’s 2019 game Outer Worlds. AAA games are first and foremost products and their “smooth functionality” is prized above all else.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 2, 2020

Budgets for AAA console games could be more like $20M-$50M (notwithstanding Activision’s $200M+ budgets for Call of Duty although also including marketing and distribution). We promise to deliver only the most insightful, relevant and entertaining content in your mailbox. Email Address. We respect your privacy.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

Although most of them come from the F2P mobile sector, the industry has observed professionals transitioning from the PC/console space to focus on developing AAA-quality blockchain games. For example, Gala Games acquired Ember Entertainment at the beginning of 2023 in order to bring Ember’s portfolio onto their platform.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2022

Compared to more demanding models that may monetize much more, but also risk burning their players because regular people simply can’t spend $500+ in a game per month before they consider if there aren’t better ways to spend their moment on entertainment.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 30, 2023

Shuhei Yoshida, head of Sony Interactive Entertainment's Independent Developer Initiative, has been working with indie studios for decades. The fact that a small game from a small team took Game of the Year titles everywhere, not just AAA titles," he says. "It It wasn't just best indie game, but the best game of the year.

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Game Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

As Ampere points out, they are up against a formidable array of consumer options including other games of the same genre, in-device competitors, multi-platform options and, of course, time-sinks like social media and other entertainments.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 24, 2023

It was founded by a group of seasoned developers who were instrumental in the success of several AAA franchises including The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 and, Dying Light. The Invincible is our first project, and we hope that it will become a ticket for further productions that can be described as ‘meaningful entertainment’.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Torchlight Infinite by XD Entertainment. Torchlight Inifinite is an ARPG (action roleplaying game), and the fourth title in the series made by XD Entertainment. As technology improves (especially with hardware, server management, ping, etc), we’re starting to see more and more AAA fast-paced titles hit the smaller screens.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

unlike Outer Wilds, golden loop here is heavily hard-gated by quest progression, not a "true" information game, compromise with AAA market? Meanwhile, Aleksis is an entertaining character with a big complicated party setpiece that invokes past Arkane games and the game marketing. So far, Egor is a random guy you know nothing about.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MARCH 21, 2023

You should be fine as a player to be in that situation since you traded money for entertainment value just like any other game. On the other hand, they might want to sell them simply because they got bored and don’t want to continue playing it even if it means being net negative monetarily.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

year-on-year increase in net revenue Eschatology Entertainment raises $4m in seed funding Immersive Gamebox raises $20 million, receives new patent Behold Ventures becomes Sweden’s largest venture capital firm with $25.9 year-on-year Newzoo forecasts game market will shrink 4.3% to $184.4B

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 4, 2023

Instead, we believe that it’s the native hybridcasul developers, such as Habby and Lightheart Entertainment that will emerge as the winner. the surprise announcement of Counterstrike 2, CCP's massive raise for a AAA Web3 game and more. Written by Craig Chapple , a games industry analyst, and a part-time journalist ?️

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We can say with more confidence than ever that gaming is at the heart of media and entertainment. Moving into work-from-home setups, especially for the console’s many massive AAA titles, further hamstrung the majority of the studios. The report describes that AAA games released on modern platforms cost $200 million or more to produce.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

But when you think about the AAA catalogs offered by Xbox Game Pass and Playstation Now, this just seems like a nearly impossible battle to take on for a streaming media company with little game development experience, no matter how flush with cash they are. I think the “smaller Apple Arcade” concept is a bit of a red herring. Marketing Play?

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