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Mario Kart World | Critical Consensus

GamesIndustry.biz

But despite its proven success, is a multiplayer-oriented racing game the right launch title when there are no other first-party releases, besides the slight Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour? Driving with 24 players on those wide routes from one course to another, it doesnt feel so much like a race as a chaotic road trip.

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Mastering Stylized Art: The Business Case for Differentiating Your Game in a Crowded Market 

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In a world where many studios pour millions into lifelike graphics, a new wave of developers is asking a different question: what if style trumps realism? In an industry racing toward realism, stylization offers breathing room for creative identity, budget-conscious scalability, and emotional resonance. Ever played Cuphead or Hades ?

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Former Criterion leaders set-up new AAA games studio Fuse Games

GamesIndustry.biz

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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Gorilla Softworks’ debut game The Ancients aims for prehistoric realism

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It’s the debut game of Turkish studio Gorilla Softworks. “We We consulted two anthropologists while building our technology and culture trees to reflect the prehistoric cultural and technological progress of the human race”, he says.

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How much freedom does a game designer have at a non-indie studio? Are they able to pitch and create their own ideas or are they basically project leads that get assigned games to make/design (ie that time everyone was making a WW2 shooter)?

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We're not project leads that pitch entire games, we're [ content creators ] that build the bits of specific content in games - the spells, the monsters, the fights, the classes, the races, the quests, the environments, the stats, the companions, and so on.

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BG3: 10 Surprising Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

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Since the game was released, gamers worldwide have been racing to learn as many BG3 facts as possible. Baldur’s Gate 3 company, Larian Studios, presented the possibilities of storytelling in role-playing games, and it will never be the same! Larian Studios is unfathomabley based. This served two primary purposes.

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Blockbuster Games Failed to Grow the Market - What Next?

Deconstructor of Fun

The subscription model, and Game Pass in particular, lowers consumer price expectations and drives the devaluation of gaming content in a cannibalistic race to the bottom. Transitioning to remote negatively impacted the productivity of most game studios causing delays. The downside of GaaS is that there are enormous risks.