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OCTOBER 30, 2024

More indie studios are being opened by established game devs, bringing with them a return to a leaner development process.

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MARCH 27, 2023

While making Just Dance 2023 , Ubisoft's Paris studio was reportedly hit hard with demanding management and burnout.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

These are a few of the developers wed like to send some kudos, for making the industry a better place in a very difficult year.

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APRIL 11, 2024

Unity's Runtime Fee debacle cost it the trust of several indie developers, and led to Slay the Spire 2 being made in Godot.

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JUNE 17, 2024

As the name suggests, the new studio is looking to help devs working on Unreal Engine projects.

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APRIL 17, 2024

With more than 70,000 units sold and over $500,000 in gross revenue dished out to developers through Catalog, Playdate continues to grow.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Amidst continued AI negotiations, SAG-AFTRA's locked down a way for developers to use digital voice replicas in future works.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Publishers on Steam can use a developer's name to link back to their own Steam page, a practice that means a developer's back catalog may not get full recognition.

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JULY 30, 2024

Developers Squid Shock and Stairway are unable to push console updates, and the former is resorting to Patreon while looking for a solution.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Motion Twin and Evil Empire are done working on the 2D roguelike, and are moving on to their own individual projects.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Barnyard Games' Matthew Armstrong says making games for Unreal Engine in Fortnite offers stability for workers burned out on long dev cycles.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

Those surveyed believe the controversial technology may make games cost less, but that may also come at the expense of overall quality.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Daybreak and one of its MMO subsidiaries are the newest developers to get swept up in the industry's layoff cycle.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Devs looking to port their Godot-developed game to consoles will have solutions as soon as October.

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JULY 10, 2024

Pixelberry wants to use Series to get highly requested features out the door, while Series is looking to add its proprietary Rho engine into the developer's pipeline.

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APRIL 19, 2024

'Any developer, anywhere, and in any language, deserves access to funding structures and opportunities to make great games.'

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AUGUST 14, 2024

Developers at Pearl Abyss, Round8 Studio, Shift Up, and other studios say developers and players in the region want to break out of the free-to-play market.

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JUNE 6, 2024

Summer Games Fest's pricing structure for trailers is pricey, and can help (or hurt) smaller developers marketing their game.

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MAY 29, 2024

LocalThunk shows how 2024's breakout deckbuilder evolved in the course of its three-year development.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Ex-developers from Ascendant Studios are developing a new game based on a third, unannounced Absurd property.

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DECEMBER 23, 2022

From Twitter's maelstrom to Stadia's death sentence to devs offering support to Ukraine, these are the events that shaped 2022.

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MARCH 6, 2024

The Canadian studio is also halting development on its early access RPG Unforetold: Witchstone.

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JUNE 2, 2023

Game developers Taylor McCue and Nilson Carroll released their third yearly Queer Games Bundle that features games and software made by LGBTQ developers.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

'Our goal is to provide more control to developers.'

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JULY 22, 2024

The new studio is already developing its first project, and will echo its founders' previous work in being a 'character-centric ' narrative game.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

As generative AI becomes a bigger presence in games, developers use the technology while remaining wary of its impact.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Ex-developers claim Firesprite's current situation is a 'sinking ship,' not helped by studio heads reportedly at the root of these problems.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Layoffs have hit the support developer that's been aiding with some of PlayStation's biggest franchises since 2007.

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JUNE 24, 2024

As the game indstry continues through these difficult times, those surveyed by the Game Developers Collective believe they know the real core problems of the industry.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

Atari has put out the call for any indie developer with a love for Bubsy to try their hand at revitalizing the dormant character.

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JULY 26, 2024

Canadian developer Lincoln McCulloch, working under the studio name Uncle Grouch Gaming , spent the last five years creating the upcoming Dungeons & Kingdoms. The fact that it took him over five years to get to the point that it’s nearly ready for Early Access is largely due to learning the ropes of game development along the way.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The four-year-old studio founded by two of the Night in the Woods developers is closing down and cancelling its debut project Revenant Hill.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

The developer behind Quantum League and Champions of Regnum may have also had to cut staff at least two other times in 2023.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Microsoft wants its Xbox developers to use AI in their quest and narrative design, and eventually leverage that technology out to third-party studios.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Almost two dozen developers at Striking Distance Studios say they weren't included in the credits of the studio's debut game, The Callisto Protocol.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Owlcat Games' new publishing label wants to help narrative developers thrive in a saturated market.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With the new funding, Codecks aims to beef up staff and create new features to help game developers to keep track of their workload.

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