Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This decision marks a notable departure for both a blockbuster game and a major first-party Nintendo release. Eiji Aonuma recently revealed that Nintendo currently has no plans to release additional content for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 18, 2024

A new AAA studio has launched, composed of industry veterans from EA, Sony, Blizzard, Disney, Apple, and Google. Founded in October 2023, Muddy Robot Games is led by former International Game Developers Association president Chris Hood. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 22, 2024

The pair reflect on the challenges AAA hardcore games face on mobile devices and ponder the future of whether publishers will continue to invest in these technologically impressive but commercially disappointing ports. For more on this subject, be sure to check out the latest column from contributing editor Rob Fahey.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Experienced veterans from EA's Respawn studio have formed a new AAA team called Giant Skull. The developer is led by Stig Asmussen, who is best known as the game director for 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and 2023's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As an industry, we're currently caught in a perfect storm of rapidly-evolving technology and the spiraling demands of modern AAA games, with a huge number of developers working for years to meet the level of scale and fidelity audiences have grown to expect. Read more

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Game Developer

JANUARY 9, 2024

"If you find yourself a bit bored while playing the next AAA title, thinking something like “I’ve seen this so many times before”, open a search engine of your choice, type “indie games” and press enter."

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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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Game From Scratch

JUNE 12, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Epic Games Release 500+ Free AAA Quality Game Animations Epic Games are the kings of free stuff, from their monthly giveaways to today’s announcement, 500+ game ready motion matched game engines for Unreal Engine 5.4.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 10, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The games industry's current troubles have been well documented by this point and, looking at the release slate for the rest of the year, you'd be forgiven for thinking there's not much cause for optimism on the horizon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). The traditional way to make games longer since the beginning of times is to divide them in stages. Additionally, Godot 4.0

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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 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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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. 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.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The company will be led by head of studio Patrik Méthé (pictured above far left), one of many Ubisoft alumni on the team, and is currently working on a video game adaptation of The Bird That Drinks Tears, a popular series of South Korean fantasy novels by Yeongdo Lee. Read more

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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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AWS Games

MARCH 13, 2025

Experience first-hand how Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games helps build breakthrough gaming experiences at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), March 17-21, 2025 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Unlock direct-to-player game streaming at 1080p resolution, 60 frames per second to any device globally with a web browser.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 5, 2024

The gaming business of Warner Bros. 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. Read more

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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. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 10, 2023

EA has formally announced Cliffhanger Games and revealed its first project. 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. It follows news that EA's Motive studio is creating a game based on the Iron Man IP. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 9, 2024

New AAA game developer Deviation Games is closing, the studio announced. By 2021 it had over 100 employees, and the studio signed a deal with PlayStation to create an original AAA IP for the company. But the project hit challenges. I want to express my deepest gratitude to our entire team.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Weirdly enough, I was playing Fable 2 on Tuesday night, using my phone and Xbox Cloud Gaming. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Leaked Microsoft documents have revealed the estimated costs of putting third-party games on Xbox Game Pass.

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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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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

JUNE 14, 2024

The titles seen across the likes of Guerrilla Collective, Wholesome Direct, and Day of the Devs were superb, with indie titles even turning up during Summer Game Fest and Xbox Games Showcase. Below are our picks from the summer games showcases of 2024. Read more

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 7, 2025

At the typical AAA studio, they're probably hiring for expertise in a specific field - somebody who's an expert at AI, or procedural content generation, or in-game economies. I generally don't care whether that person was paid by an indie or AAA studio to do it, I really only care if they did so at in a professional capacity.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Netflix has shut down its AAA Southern California game studio known as Team Blue. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 6, 2024

Since MiHoYo released Genshin Impact in 2020, an irreversible shift in perception happened across the gaming industry and among many gamers: free-to-play mobile games can actually be good?! Arguably, Genshin Impact had all the ingredients of a fully-fledged AAA console/PC game.

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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. If the name sounds familiar, it's because Sony had already announced it would be publishing Firewalk's first game back in April 2021. It now boasts almost 150 employees.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 20, 2024

The games industry is in constant flux; what we think we know today as fact is gone often completely different the next day. Developers used to have to partner with publishers for their games to reach market; now they can use digital platforms and release their wares into the world without a middle man. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 9, 2024

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says that putting a game like Call of Duty into Game Pass will inevitably push consumers towards subscribing, at least for a bit. Zelnick told us in 2022: "That doesn't make any sense to us, because economically speaking, we don't think consumers are prepared to pay for that.

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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. This is not only due to the size of the games, but also the complexity and expertise involved in making cutting-edge titles.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

million video games from AAA publishers were sold across Europe last month, GSD data reports. It's an impressive result, especially as the big game of August - Baldur's Gate 3 - is not counted in this data as publisher Larian is not part of the GSD panel. That's a rise of nearly 29% over August last year. Instead, FIFA 23 is No.1.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 18, 2024

Rocksteady co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have created a new London-based studio, called Hundred Star Games. 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. Read more

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Narrative design has always been an important part of video game development, but its significance in modern-day games continues to grow as narrative elements play an important role in player engagement and retention. Several exploration games also incorporate similar story designs. The core gameplay in Gossip Harbor.

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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. Seasoned gaming studios like ours love Maya for its features and flexibility.

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Juego Studio

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The leading players in the video game industry have consistently been AAA game companies. This blog will explore the distinctive role of Europe, renowned for its vibrant gaming history and exceptional studios, in the realm of AAA game development studios.

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