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. Several exploration games also incorporate similar story designs.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Despite his credentials in game development—first as a programmer on Cadillacs & Dinosaurs and later in his role at Tesla where he hoped to feature titles like Cuphead as part of the Tesla driving experience—Mr.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

This officially marks the start of feature freeze for 4.4. We wont risk merging any new features or risky bug fixes until after we release 4.4 Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3 is jam-packed with new features despite having a much shorter development period than 4.3. release cycle. New in Beta 1!

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AWS Games

JUNE 20, 2024

In the highly competitive gaming industry, collecting and utilizing data has become a driving factor for game success. Game studios of all sizes have realized the immense value in analyzing player data to drive key business decisions. For developers, the AWS SDK can be integrated into your game to collect data.

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AWS Games

MARCH 11, 2025

They also have shared storage solutions, and other core features to streamline game development, including asset management, code collaboration, and project accessibility from anywhere in the world. We can test new features and capabilities while maintaining the performance and reliability our customers depend on.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 10, 2024

Fallout 4 was comfortably the best-selling game of April in the UK, according to the latest GSD data. However, it's worth noting that April 2023 featured the launches of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Dead Island 2, which boosted the market last year. It was a quiet month for game releases last month. In the UK, 2.23

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The summary report follows a project conducted between XpertHR and GamesIndustry.biz, which features UK pay data from over 3,000 employees. Those who participate data into the project can get a far bigger and deeper report. UK games companies can now download the free Salary Survey summary. You can download the report here.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Bringing Data-Driven Insights to Fans Providing a transparent, global ranking system for LoL Esports teams has been a long-standing challenge and priority for Riot Games. During the tournament, GPR data was integrated directly into the livestream, with casters and analysts using the rankings to enhance their commentary and storytelling.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 8, 2024

This is based on GSD data, which tracks all physical game sales plus digital game sales from most major publishers. It's a strong result when you consider November and December didn't feature too many big new releases. EA Sports FC 24 reclaimed No.1 1 for the month, and was boosted by some pre-Christmas sales activity.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Standard feature of the industry As painful as layoffs may be, the current wave of workforce reductions serves as further proof that they have become a standard feature of the gaming industry rather than an anomalous bug. The post The new normal • Video game layoffs are a feature, not a bug appeared first on PreMortem Games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 15, 2024

That’s according to GSD data, which tracks digital sales for most major games companies across the whole of Europe, and all physical game sales in all major European markets. By comparison, April 2023 featured the debut of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (which was No.1 April was a very quiet month for games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 27, 2024

Taking place on Thursday, April 11th, the event features sessions on data, politics, online safety, AI, discoverability and the jobs market. It'll even feature a session from GamesIndustry.biz on what is going on with the games market, and what might happen next.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 30, 2024

Accelerated networking combines CPUs, GPUs, DPUs (data processing units), or SuperNICs into an accelerated computing fabric specifically designed to optimize. Accelerated networking combines CPUs, GPUs, DPUs (data processing units), or SuperNICs into an accelerated computing fabric specifically designed to optimize networking workloads.

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Game Refinery

AUGUST 22, 2024

We launched the GameRefinery Live Events Tracker to provide an all-in-one platform that allows users to monitor their competitors and live events in real-time, get daily updates, and analyze the features and mechanics proving the most popular with players.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 22, 2024

The project began last year as a pilot programme, with the 2023 data featuring more than 3,000 employee salaries. Some of the data will also be shared at September's GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit. Games companies have until the end of the month to submit salary information for 2024.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 13, 2023

Based on her research into avatars she created a tool to turn 2D photographic data into 3D fully rigged and animatable digital characters. For example, our character blending technology is an amazing feature. Didimo can adjust some aspects of the workflow, features, and process to meet specific companies’ needs.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

We got to work with professional writers and craft stories featuring iconic characters. The FTUE, however, features a highly dramatic mini narrative driving a key conversion event. (At Last War featured dramatic characters and narratives to drive key conversion events, but lacked an overall story for the game.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Analyzing key data points throughout gameplay, the ‘Win Probability’ stat is designed to educate and inform fans as to how teams have fared when in similar competitive scenarios. This lets the Riot team focus on data exploration, modeling, and experimentation, and rapidly deploy models securely into production-ready environments.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The VCT is the official esports league for the game, featuring regional qualifiers, leagues, and culminating in a global championship. Participants will act as if they were hired as a data scientist on a new VALORANT Esports team and have been tasked by the team’s general manager to support the scouting and recruitment process.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Starting in 2017, Riot Games made the decision to decommission its physical data centers and move entirely to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Since then, 14 data centers have been closed, with data centers in Las Vegas and Chile shutting down in the past month. We wanted to be much more agile.”

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

which is the Release Candidate : all features are in place, the most critical regressions have been tackled, and so were confident that its now ready for production use. beta 1 blog post , so if you havent read that one, have a look to be introduced to the main new features added in the 4.4 feature release. in the previous 4.4

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 6, 2025

After we finish creating both files and adding their data, we’ll come back and fix it so Godot is not seeing them as translations, which ironically, will return them to having a red X as their icon. The next two arrays store the data we load in from the.csv files. As well as activate any features attached.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 11, 2023

UK sales of video games and consoles rose during the first quarter of the year, according to the latest market data from GSD and GfK. GSD data shows that game sales (including physical and digital downloads) rose 1% compared with the same period last year, with just under eight million games sold.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Efficient movement and synchronization of enormous media assets, including high-definition video and complex Unreal Engine data is important. Some organizations use a hub-and-spoke model, with one main region for uploading data and multiple regions for reading only.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In our last update, we elevated Filmustage by introducing powerful new features like Call Sheets and Budgeting tools that quickly became essential for filmmakers. Thats why weve refined these beloved features to make them even more efficient and lightning-fast. Yet, we never stand still.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

year-over-year from 2021 to 2022 (TikTok Internal Data, 2022) – makes it the perfect place to find inspiration for casual and hyper-casual mobile games. In the casual/hyper-casual space, we see this happen via three major feature areas: meta layers, social and LiveOps. Meta layers. The adoption of meta elements has increased.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Studio Deloryan relies on secondary research, gathering data from scientific articles, historical records and expert consultations. Ultimately, in such cases, we prioritise features that enhance player happiness as we tend to call it, Roodhooft continues.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That's according to data from research firm PitchBook, as featured in a Polygon report on discrepancies in investment support for marginalized developers. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox In 2021, five women-founded studios received $1.2 million in funding, compared to the $4.1 Read more

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 3, 2024

We both share the same responsibilities and brainstorm ideas together based on previous data and research on the market. A standout feature of Chasmal Fear is the multiple player choices system and randomized events. This approach allowed them to create a compelling gameplay loop and build a captivating story around it.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 10, 2023

Coming in hot off our studio's best launch to date, I wanted to share thoughts and comparisons on our two similar and successful announce-to-launch campaigns for Rockfish Games' flagship titles, Everspace and Everspace 2.

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Game Refinery

APRIL 6, 2023

Publishers and studios are constantly looking for new ways to improve these, whether it’s with more powerful ad creative to boost UA or by adding new gameplay mechanics and features to improve player retention. The game also started running UA creatives and changed its Appstore page featuring gameplay from these levels.

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 13, 2020

How I Gathered Data on Favorite Board Game Components. Nevertheless, I still think this data is useful and actionable whether you’re making a $10 game or a $200 game. How I Cleaned Up the Data. If you’ve ever worked with a large data set, you know that you can’t just pop it into Excel and make a pivot table.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

beta 1 blog post , so if you havent read that one, have a look to be introduced to the main new features added in the 4.4 for the first time, youll want to get a condensed overview of what new features you might want to make use of. feature release. Highlights We covered the most important highlights from Godot 4.4 rc2 snapshot.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

This starts from mesh instance selection and their data. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data processing towards optimized tracing and shading of every hit that you encounter. Instance data generation. It may be a good idea to perform static and dynamic object data processing in parallel on the CPU.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

A group of security professionals and data scientists, they aim to identify and address risks related to technical vulnerabilities, harm and abuse scenarios, and other security challenges in ML systems. NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip Architecture In-Depth Take an in-depth look at the architecture and features of the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For quick answers, refer to our PDF featuring the essential data points from this article: GDEV x InvestGame – Feature #5 For a comprehensive analysis, let’s delve into the detailed investigation below. This timeframe allowed us to select the most accurate data using our proprietary deals database. What do we have so far?

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

million video games were sold across the UK during January, the latest GSD data shows. Whereas this January didn't feature such a significant game release. Tracking all physical games, plus digital downloads from most major publishers (see list below), sales are down slightly on last year (a drop of 4.4%).

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