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PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
In response to a comment by Bill Markus, the co-founder of Dogecoin, that gamers have become “ideologically captured,” Elon Musk announced that his firm xAI will open a game studio. Musk states: “ Too many game studios that are owned by massive corporations ,” and that said studio will “ make games great again.”
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PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Welcome to Dean Gichukie ‘s world, where history comes alive through Kunta Content. This Kenyan-based studio is on a mission to tell authentic, ultra-African stories. The Kunta Content team Dean’s creative journey began at age 8 when he started drawing and painting. One of the stories I wrote was a game.
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PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 28, 2025
This unique ability, previously unseen in Metroidvania games, represents a significant innovation for the genre that the creators at Canadian indie game company Lucid Dreams Studio so love. In the team, everyone is a fan of Metroidvania, says Brand Manager Rayanne Berriche of Lucid Dreams Studio. The studio operates in two locations.
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GamesIndustry.biz
JUNE 10, 2024
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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Game Developer
MARCH 19, 2024
Larian Studio's creative content manager Ben M-J shares good insight into what makes TikTok tick and worked for Baldur's Gate 3.
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Game Developer
DECEMBER 2, 2024
The studio has told content creators bans could be issued for offensive behavior that occurs outside of its games.
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Game Developer
JANUARY 12, 2024
It's time for the game industry to fully embrace this new era, recognizing that it not only leads to better content for players but also fosters deeper engagement for game studios.
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GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 25, 2024
Facepunch Studios has received takedown notices from Nintendo and is currently in the process of removing all Garry's Mod content related to IP owned by the platform holder. The developer posted an update on Steam altering its community to the takedown notice, adding that all Nintendo-related workshop items will be removed.
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PreMortem.Games
MAY 13, 2024
Layoffs and studio shutdowns are barely newsworthy anymore, considering their frequency. Awkward exchange But it seems rather counter-intuitive to let go off a studio like Tango Gameworks which delivered a standout success, Hi-Fi Rush. The news casts a shadow on Microsoft’s willingness to develop innovative content.
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Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The Embracer-owned studio won't be developing new content for the horror title and has also scrapped a planned Switch release.
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Game Developer
MAY 30, 2023
PinCool will strive to create "entertainment content" for a global audience.
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GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Something Wicked Games announced that it has hired Will Shen as its new lead content designer. He joins the studio that has brought other games industry veterans such as Robert Land, Jessica Sliwinski, and Akil Hooper. Read more
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PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 24, 2025
Joanna Keler is a freelance Marketing Manager who worked on titles like This War of Mine and Frostpunk by 11 bit Studios and Best Month Ever by Klabater. You can set up a tone for your game or studio. Theres the Announcement, when you introduce your game or studio to the world. Are you daring? Are you one of the good guys?
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GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 27, 2024
Misfits Gaming has launched a new games studio called Misfits Interactive. The new studio is currently working on two original user-generated content titles set for release this year, developed by a team of over 20 people. Chris Casanova has been appointed as head of interactive to lead the studio.
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GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 5, 2024
Nyamakop, arguably one of the most well known studios within South Africa, was founded in 2016, initially as a business endeavour to turn a university project into a commercial game, which became 2018's Semblance. "We You can read all our South Africa Games Week articles on this page.
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PreMortem.Games
MAY 8, 2024
This unique ability, previously unseen in Metroidvania games, represents a significant innovation for the genre that the creators at Canadian indie game company Lucid Dreams Studio so love. “In In the team, everyone is a fan of Metroidvania”, says Brand Manager Rayanne Berriche of Lucid Dreams Studio. “So
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GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 30, 2023
of players would be "motivated" to pay for environmental content in games if it adds to the experience. When asked whether they would like to see environmental content in the games they play, the respondents replied "Yes, definitely" at 35.4%, and "Maybe, if it fits the game's universe/narrative" at 46%. That left 13.5%
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Ask a Game Dev
MARCH 7, 2025
At an indie studio, they are probably looking for a broad set of experience, someone able to field many different types of tasks. 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.
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Game Refinery
MARCH 16, 2023
With over 90% of the top-grossing 100 iOS mobile games using seasonal events to boost their revenues, national holidays have become an essential part of LiveOps with players expecting an influx of new content as we approach the holiday seasons. Zombie Frontier 3’s Christmas content Event-related offers (e.g.,
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Game Development News
JANUARY 16, 2025
This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content. One of Romanias leading players in the video game development industry, AMC Studio, a Keywords Studio that specializes in 3D Art Services, is marking its nearly 30 years of activity by expanding its operations into Full Co-Development Services (Co-Dev).
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PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Polish indie studio Eleven Puzzles has been making a name for themselves as the creators of some fine cooperative puzzle games, like Unsolved Case and Unboxing the Cryptic Killer. Co-founded by Adrian Olczyk and Karolina Pytka, the fully remote studio has been crafting unique multiplayer puzzle experiences since its inception in 2020.
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Deconstructor of Fun
MARCH 13, 2025
From funding innovative game studios to pushing the boundaries of skill-based monetization, the initiative aims to bring fresh talent and new game genres into Skillzs ecosystem. Prepare for LiveOps Execution: Skillz prioritizes developers who understand the importance of ongoing content updates and engagement strategies. Lets dive in.
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PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 24, 2024
Developer Dmitriy Gusev , operating under the name Diedemor Studio, made this game by himself. I prioritize creating content based on what I believe will facilitate the games marketing efforts, he explains. All in Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio.
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PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
White Star Studio, a small and ambitious game development studio based in Shenzen, China, has captured the essence of ancient China in their game Thriving City. We were so excited to base our content around ancient China. The team of White Star Studios closely monitored the results of early playtest sessions.
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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. Running the studio itself is COO Harinder Sangha. Read more.
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PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 8, 2023
It may have been born out of necessity, but after two successful murder mystery games EQ Studios can now be considered somewhat of a specialist in this particular genre. Still, Fery Tomi, Director of the Las Vegas based studio, wants to keep all options open for the next project. But over the course of development, the narrative grew.
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Nvidia
MARCH 1, 2023
In addition, due to the topology creation process, 3D modeling is time consuming and has a high entry barrier for content creation. According to Ashot Gabrelyanov, CEO of Shapeyard development company Magic Unicorn, “As the web evolves, its content form does, too. This makes them inoperable with multiple platforms in the metaverse.
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PreMortem.Games
MAY 24, 2023
White Star Studio, a small and ambitious game development studio based in Shenzen, China, has captured the essence of ancient China in their game Thriving City. We were so excited to base our content around ancient China. The team of White Star Studios closely monitored the results of early playtest sessions.
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Ask a Game Dev
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Live services exist for single player game - any game with regular content updates and patching is a live service. Those content updates and patches are the "service" part - we have to build them, they go live and get pushed out to the public. Do studio leads make that kind of call, or project leads?
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iXie gaming
MARCH 2, 2025
Titles like Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Genshin Impact have redefined player engagement through frequent content drops, seasonal events, and community-driven updates. How do top game studios maintain a constant flow of high-quality assets without bottlenecks? Game studios face several key challenges that can hinder scalability.
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Ask a Game Dev
OCTOBER 23, 2023
We usually try to schedule performance capture sessions as early as we can because they involve aligning many separate schedules - the capture studio, the actors, and the developers who need to oversee all of the action. They can modify, update, and change the list up until the deadline, but it's pencils down once the session begins.
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PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Founded in 2018 by CEO Senad Hrnjadovic, SenAm Games is an independent game development studio based in Munich, Germany. He continues, Video games are the most influential media of our time, but Islamic content has been painfully neglected. True to Islamic tradition, Muhammad will not be depicted visually or audibly in any form.
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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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Ask a Game Dev
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
If studios don't do these things well , then they'll do them badly. Most game studios don't have the option of firing and forgetting their game launches and moving on. Veilguard's developers actually wanted to do post-launch content; it was an executive decision not to do it. That's a situation where everyone loses.
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PreMortem.Games
MARCH 13, 2023
The Netherlands may be a small country, but there are many talented studios making amazing games. Like Sony Worldwide Studio Guerrilla Games that recently delivered the critically acclaimed PSVR2 title Horizon: Call of the Mountain. Dutch Indies Like Paladin Studios. It’s a fully animated social game for mobile and desktop.
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GamesIndustry.biz
MAY 13, 2024
Hulst is CEO of the newly named Studio Business Group, which includes all of PlayStation’s first-party teams, plus covers the development of PlayStation IP onto other mediums, such as TV and film. Hulst was already head of PlayStation Studios. ” Read more
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Ask a Game Dev
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
This is because a given project is at its maximum headcount right before it ships - you need all hands on deck during full production, building and validating all of the content in the game. There needs to be other projects in development to pay for those people after the game launches.
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PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 9, 2024
And thats precisely what Shalin Shodhan is doing with his studio, Masala Games. While there certainly are games which feature India as a setting, both from Indian studios and international companies, they tend to focus on fantasy or mythical aspects of the nation. He returned to Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India and founded Masala Games.
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AWS Games
MARCH 13, 2025
Wednesday, March 19 Effortless Game Launches: How League of Legends Runs at Scale on AWS 10:30am to 11:00am | Room WH2011 Discover how Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends and VALORANT, revolutionized their game server infrastructure with AWS. Experience, exploreand PLAY!
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Ask a Game Dev
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
For your first question about what kind of non-creation teams there are: Game dev studios typically have internal support teams - back end, build, IT, user research, etc. that are primarily there to support game development and content creation efforts.
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AWS Games
MARCH 6, 2025
Jackbox Games is a Chicago-based game studio best known for its lineup of popular party-game hits such as Quiplash , Fibbage , Drawful , Trivia Murder Party , and more. This means that the studio can look into licensing games from other developers in the future, if they choose to do so.
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Deconstructor of Fun
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Dylan Tredrea is a product & publishing consultant with over 12 years of experience in mobile free to play games at studios such as Disney, Rovio, Zeptolab, & CrazyLabs. Beyond Cutscenes : Todays dramatic content isnt yesteryears skippable cutscenes. Narrative content, on the other hand, is virtually unconstrained.
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PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Typically highlighting a game’s mechanics in their raw form, even before content and visuals receive their final polish. Aim to show off a vertical slice that is about 80% mechanics-focused and 20% content-focused. Publisher demos are tailored for pitch meetings and potential partnerships.
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GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 3, 2024
There's no shortage of success stories surrounding Baldur's Gate 3, and Larian Studios creative content manager Ben Maltz-Jones added to the stack in a Game Developers Conference session titled "Roll Play: The Strategy Behind Baldur's Gate 3 on TikTok." million likes spread across more than 100 TikToks uploaded to the site.
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