GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft's own difficulties in building a portfolio of studios that could rival that line-up is well documented; its travails were constantly magnified by unflattering comparisons with PlayStation's studios seemingly humming along and turning out a steady supply of hit games.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 9, 2024

So we had to build all of that on our own. Three Oscars Shalin Shodhan is no stranger to building immersive worlds. So weve tried to build a framework for what Dotson is and isnt, we creatively explore that space to delight the audience. Detective Dotson is expected April 3, 2025 for PC, consoles and mobile.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In playing around with the retro game streaming subscription service Antstream Arcade recently, a thought occurred to us.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

Now that Mordhau has arrived on both PlayStation and Xbox , console players finally get the chance to hack & slash their way through medieval battlegrounds. We couldn’t break the PC version as they share a common data source, which is important for our build process. So, we had to be smart and make everything dynamic.

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Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

Likewise, construction elements have become intertwined with the core mechanics of many titles, such as the Japanese-hit Slime Isekai Memories , where narrative progression is tied into its base building despite its focus as a turn-based RPG. Merge Vikings Combining merge2 mechanics with progressive character and building vectors.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox While consoles like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S haven't flown off store shelves in India, mobile gaming continues to scale one peak after another in the country. Microsoft now has a team devoted to building its presence in India.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Knowing other developers were using it gave us more confidence to build. Ahead of the game’s first alpha build release in March 2019, Norsfell adopted a backend comprising Amazon API Gateway , AWS Lambda , and Amazon GameLift. “We It allows us to plan for, respond to, and adapt in different scenarios.”

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 17, 2024

The 3D platformer is the follow-up to Astro's Playroom, a small game that's included with every PS5 and showcases the capabilities of the console's DualSense controller. The quality of Astro's Playroom prompted Sony to invest in the developer behind it, Team Asobi, and now they're building a full follow-up, which launches this September.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2025

Based on our experiences talking with other streaming platforms, we were anticipating having to do a custom build, but we didnt need to. We just took our Windows build, uploaded it to Amazon GameLift Streams, and it ran. New players, who do not own a gaming console, can explore Jackbox Games offerings more easily than ever before.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

After a year in Early Access, a unique game now crashes into Steam that presents players a simple yet irresistible premise: build structures and crash them into other structures. Abriss – Build to Destroy is the brainchild of three German students operating under the name The Randwerk Cooperative.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As revealed during the developer's Investor Day on October 5, CD Projekt has invested 178 million PLN ($40 million) in bringing Cyberpunk 2077 to next-gen consoles and to build the 2.0 update, which added a variety of improvements such as revamped game systems and UI. Read more

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 17, 2024

Any company that wants to release a premium game console basically needs to make an enormous investment that will probably not pay off for years. This is generally an expensive process - building anything physical is costly, time-consuming, and is a moving target because competitors aren't stopping either.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

GLAAD today released its first State of LGBTQ Inclusion in Video Games report, building around the results of a Nielsen survey that found 17% of active gamers identify as LGBTQ. Nielsen's survey covered 1,452 active PC and console gamers between June and August of last year.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The AWS team has been so helpful in showing us how to use new technology, like generative AI, so that we can focus more of our resources on developing games and testing out innovations instead of building every piece ourselves. This makes the gaming experience more engaging and last for a longer time.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 10, 2024

Since Sony entered the console market thirty years ago, it has devoted an immense amount of time, money, and focus to building up a studio system to deliver a steady flow of high-quality exclusive games for PlayStation platforms.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 28, 2024

VR continued to build hype in the intervening years, but mostly in the background.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 19, 2023

This is particularly important for console games, where it can take weeks, if not months, to release an update to a game. We were able to build our own matchmaker and get set up with Gameye in less than a month. The post Understand the principles behind matchmakers – and build one yourself appeared first on PreMortem Games.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Finally, create a build resource and deploy to an Amazon GameLift managed fleet. Local environment prerequisites Have local development resources in place to build with Amazon GameLift server SDKs or Amazon GameLift plugins for Unreal Engine or Unity. Generate a build resource and deploy to Amazon GameLift managed fleets.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

If Nintendo started developing a new console shortly after the Switch's launch (2018), we're about due for a new console unveiling. Is it common for console manufacturers to talk about the next console to developers privately? How do you think the new console's third party launch games get made? Absolutely.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 26, 2024

Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. This conversation painted a nuanced picture of the current market, particularly the PC/console segment, and offered a glimpse into its future trajectory. The market remains challenging for new games.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A console dev kit is a lot like a networked computer fused with a game console. It has beefier hardware than the retail console (because it needs to be able to hold and run debug builds of the game). Game consoles today typically have plugins for Microsoft Visual studio to handle the remote debugging process.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Written by Adam Telfer , our razor-sharp Canadian co-host who doesn’t just play games—Adam both builds and dissects them. PVP Shooters on console have been the dominant genre for nearly 20 years. But Shooters on PC/Console are like Match games on Mobile -- one of the biggest genres, with players always hungry for another game… right?

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

These tasks can negatively impact the continuous development experience, and productivity, by occupying the local machine resources and studio build farms. We can alleviate these production bottlenecks, and scale on demand, by creating a distributed build environment in the cloud. Operating the build environment.

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AWS Games

JULY 26, 2022

However, building a scalable and reliable session-based online multiplayer game is not easy, since there are many components that need to be developed. You define messages in the AWS Management Console by specifying what shape they have and what role they have within your backend. Currently, Unity with C# are supported. Unity 2020.3.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A narrative can also help with pacing, building and releasing tension alongside key story beats while directing the players’ attention and emotions through them, all the while supporting other features and creating a meaningful foundation for retention. Buildings in the Outpost act as locations for special Brief Encounters.

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Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I grew up playing PC games and largely skipped the early Nintendo phase including games like Mario and never fully embraced console gaming. The "game" isn't about getting good at complex platformobatics (I just made that word up); it's more about quick combat skills and building your character. I'm not a platform person.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 8, 2024

So we had to build all of that on our own. Three Oscars Shalin Shodhan is no stranger to building immersive worlds. So we’ve tried to build a framework for what Dotson is and isn’t, we creatively explore that space to delight the audience. Detective Dotson is expected later this year for PC, consoles and mobile.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 15, 2023

This license allows the publishers to use things in advertising like the console logos, images of the consoles, trademarks such as the words “Playstation” or “Xbox” or “Switch” and related accessories (e.g. Joycon”, “Sixaxis”, “Kinect”, etc.).

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Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I grew up playing PC games and largely skipped the early Nintendo phase including games like Mario and never fully embraced console gaming. The “game” isn’t about getting good at complex platformobatics (I just made that word up); it’s more about quick combat skills and building your character.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2023

Unlike Microsoft, which develops operating and application software, and Nintendo, which considers itself a toymaker, Sony has long focused on building high-quality media devices. Building all that hardware, however, is costly and slow. The difference in DNA helps to better understand each firm’s strategic decision-making.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Building video games has never been a simple task. Build on your strengths. And even more so in VR, considering how immersive these games are compared to mobile, console and PC. The VR market seems to exist as a separate entity from the main console and PC games. Not that this stopped Sergio Hidalgo.

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Cocos

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The screenshot of your console indicates the use of Bullet physics, which is not ideally suited for the CapsuleCharController (as per the documentation). The gameplay functions as expected in Web Builds and the Editor, but it encounters an above mentioned issues in the Windows and Android Builds.

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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

It is also used for console and PC games, as well as in the metaverse, such as reality shows and simulating megacities. Unity is used for use cases beyond games, and these new use cases may not run on traditional game platforms, so being able to build for a wide variety of platforms is critical.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 26, 2024

Console gaming is on track to reach $44.9 Console hardware sales are projected to decline sharply by 31% in 2024 and another -11% in 2025E, due to the end of the current console generation cycle. Mobile gaming continues to dominate this category, accounting for $109.6 billion (3.6% growth), and is forecasted to reach $115.7

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 6, 2023

Now it's prepping to build on that with a simultaneous PC and mobile launch for its upcoming turn-based fantasy RPG King Arthur: Legends Rise. A couple years back it took its first steps into the world of PCs, bringing its RPG shopkeeper sim Shop Titans to PC after an initial mobile launch.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Commodore 64 console was her first gaming experience. She therefore inherited consoles from older siblings and cousins. Building the ecosystem Bukola discovered her passion for marketing after reading a Times Magazine article. She recalls playing table tennis and tabletop games such as Ludo, Chess, Draft and Monopoly.

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Big Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

Our smartphones have become more than just communication devices- they are now powerful gaming consoles that fit right into our pockets. With an extensive array of games at our fingertips, turning your smartphone into a gaming console is easier than ever. Fortnite Fortnite needs no introduction.

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