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Content studio Offbrand launches games publishing label

GamesIndustry.biz

Content studio Offbrand has branched out into games, having launched its publishing division Offbrand Games. Announced at IGN Live , content creator Ludwig Ahgren shared that he was partnering with Jason "Thor" Hall, founder of independent studio Pirate Software.

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???????GIANTS Software Releases Free Content Update for Farming Simulator 23 on Nintendo Switch & Mobile Devices

Game Developer

Free content update for Switch and mobile versions released, exciting addition of the DEUTZ-FAHR 6185 TTV confirmed.

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3D Content Interoperability with Topology-Free Modeling

Nvidia

Current topology-based modeling software produces 3D objects in a single level of detail. Current topology-based modeling software produces 3D objects in a single level of detail. In addition, due to the topology creation process, 3D modeling is time consuming and has a high entry barrier for content creation.

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The closure of four studios casts a shadow on Microsoft’s commitment to innovative content

PreMortem.Games

It is now the third-largest game company in the world and generated $23 billion in revenues across console hardware, and first- and third-party software sales last year. The news casts a shadow on Microsoft’s willingness to develop innovative content. Stick with the winners while it’s still winter.

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Bungie recently revealed that the red war campaign in destiny 2 is unavailable, even internally. They said its due to outdated code. How often does that happen in live service games? And what sort of decisions are made that leads to all the work seemingly being put down the drain?

Ask a Game Dev

Most content built during a particular hardware generation is available and functional during that hardware generation because things don't change too much. Red War was launch content back in 2017, on the Xbone, PS4, and Windows. That's what I suspect happened.

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Apple approves Epic Games Store for iOS after rejecting it twice

GamesIndustry.biz

While developers are now able to release software for iOS without distributing it through Apple's App Store, the company still requires it to go through a notary service. According to its developer guidelines , this system "scans software for malicious content, checks for code-signing issues, and returns the results to you quickly."

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Solid Q1 for Sony but PS5 hardware unit sales down 27% YoY

GamesIndustry.biz

For the three months ended June 30, 2024: Software sales represented ¥486 billion ($3.30 As part of that, add-on content sales particularly grew compared to the same period last year, up 37%. billion) in revenue out of the total for the G&NS segment, an almost 20% growth year-on-year. Read more

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