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

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

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Artisan Studios is setting up a development studio in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The developer will expand into publishing its titles, in addition to developing what it says will be "the first AAA titles in the GCC region."

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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. It follows news that EA's Motive studio is creating a game based on the Iron Man IP.

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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

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

DECEMBER 22, 2023

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 As an AAA VR game developer, we are just not able to justify the expense needed going forward," the studio said. "[We]

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company specializing in everything from documentaries, science fiction films and animations to music video, graphic design and video games. The more you raise the bar, the more you risk disappointing somebody, especially if you don’t have AAA budgets.”

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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

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. It is the third dedicated live-service game studio that PlayStation has acquired over the last 18 months, alongside Bungie and Haven Studios.

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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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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Combine a Valve-like artful level design core with Destiny's tight skill tree, as well as Fortnite loot systems and skins, and you can imagine a somewhat decent pitch that lets the studio keep its soul despite a blood pact with the Zenimax money vampires. (In that a bigger US AAA or a non-US indie would've failed to capture.

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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.). While for very large studios this is not an area of interest, medium-sized studios still rely on significant amounts of assets and pre-made functionality.

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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

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

MAY 23, 2023

Former EA DICE leaders have reunited to form Time To Kill Games, a new AAA studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. The studio currently consists of seven people, but with plans to scale up to between 80 and 120 employees. It’s working on a new shooter built using Unreal Engine.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Unions for Ubisoft's AAA and mobile studios in Barcelona have filed a lawsuit against the Assassin's Creed publisher over its remote work policy changes. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Netease has debuted its newest Western development studio, Spliced. The studio is working on "a world class online gameplay experience" using an original IP, and current job listings call for people with experience working on AAA games and large-scale teams of at least 100 people.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 5, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Lighthouse Games has secured an unspecified investment from leading tech firm Tencent, financing its goal to become one of the UK's biggest AAA studios. It is currently working on an unannounced 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.

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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

MAY 15, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Independent AAA studio Deviation Games has reportedly been hit by layoffs. VGC spotted several members of the team announcing via social media that they had been dismissed from the studio. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 14, 2023

People Can Fly, the developer behind Outriders, has established a studio in Montreal. The Montreal studio will develop a AAA project led by creative director Roland Lesterlin. As reported by VGC , the new office joins the company's locations throughout Poland, England, and the US. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 19, 2024

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." Its engine is due to be available to all studios in 2025. Read more

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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. And it's a big studio with multiple teams. It's a question I've encountered a few times in recent years. Of course, Insomniac's games aren't exactly 100-hour epic RPGs.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 7, 2024

By unifying development and project management, studios can tap into global teams with diverse skill sets and talents beyond geographical boundaries – saving studios precious time, money and resources. Read more

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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.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 14, 2024

Some are bemoaned for crippling previously successful studios with the imposition of unwanted live service models, while others are lamented for implementing unpopular matchmaking algorithms that prioritise retention over connection quality or fair team composition.

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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.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 17, 2023

Prytania Media has announced the opening of two new AAA development studios: Fang & Claw and Dawon Entertainment. The latest additions to Prytania Media will join sister studios Possibility Space and Crop Circle Games. This studio will focus on fantasy combat sports.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. And a month after the game was released, developer Ascendant Studio laid off 40 employees. Immortals of Aveum was not made by a small developer. It was not made on a tight budget. Read more

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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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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Since 2017, the company has acquired almost 90 businesses, ranging from smaller developers like Zen Studios, to AAA studios such as Gearbox and Crystal Dynamics, to non-games firms like tabletop leader Asmodee, comics publisher Dark Horse Media, and even Lord of the Rings owner Middle-Earth Enterprises.

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Starloop Studios

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Unity game engine is one of the gaming industry’s premier game engines, used by development studios for everything from small-scale independent games to AAA titles. The post The Complete Guide to Unity Game Engine appeared first on Starloop Studios.

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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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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 15, 2024

Virtuos has acquired the Los Angeles-based VFX studio Beyond-FX for an undisclosed sum. 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.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 9, 2024

Given the widespread contractions the industry has seen in the past year and ProbablyMonsters' own willingness to part ways with Firewalk, it's interesting to see the company seemingly return to growing its development footprint, but Ryan tells GamesIndustry.biz it's far from unexpected.

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