Hasbro to lay off 1,100 employees through 2024
Game Developer
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Longtime employees for Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering have been hit hard by Hasbro's new string of layoffs to close out the year.
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E3 is dead. Now what?
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox After more than two decades as the industry's most prominent trade show, E3 is dead. Its demise is unsurprising (even expected, depending on who you talk to) but this still marks a significant moment, and one that saddens much of the games industry and the media.
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Embracer reportedly cuts staff at 3D Realms & Slipgate
Game Developer
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Slipgate and 3D Realms may be the newest developers to get caught up in Embracer's reductions as 2023 comes to a close.
Baldur's Gate 3 | Games of the Year 2023
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 14, 2023
This article discusses a minor spoiler, an item unrelated to the main quest appearing in the game's Act 3. Read at your own peril. This is the least and most surprising Game of the Year piece I have ever written. Coming into the year, I knew Baldur's Gate 3 would be my Game of the Year. It's the latest title in my favourite franchise, following up on my favourite games of all time.
Donut Dodo does arcade like the classic games did
Game Developer
DECEMBER 14, 2023
How creator Sebastian Kostka is making sure certain arcade conventions don't go the way of the dodo.
Game sales dip but PS5 drives console market up 60% | European Monthly Charts
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Europe posted a solid month for video game sales during November, driven by Call of Duty, EA Sports FC 24 and PS5. 24.6 million video games were sold across tracked European markets, a rise of 20% over the year before. However, this is because November 2023 was a 'five week' month compared with the four weeks of November 2022. If we just look at the same four week period, sales were actually down slightly by 2%.
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Niko Partners: Asia and MENA spending $78.5bn on in-game purchases in 2023
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 14, 2023
A new report from Niko Partners has found in-game purchases accounted for 87.8% for the $89.4 billion gaming market share in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Of the $78.5 billion spent on in-app purchases, premium games accounted for $7.8 billion while $3.1 billion was spent on subscriptions. The report said that 62.3% of those surveyed bought premium games in the past 12 months across all platforms.
New dev Barnyard Games formed to make games within Fortnite
Game Developer
DECEMBER 14, 2023
With Fortnite now focusing on user-generated content, industry devs have formed Barnyard to get in on the trend.
Deploy Unreal Engines Pixel Streaming at scale on AWS
AWS Games
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Unreal Engine , created by by Epic Games, is one of the most advanced tools for creating and rendering photo-realistic visuals and immersive experiences. This is needed to power the latest games and the Metaverse. Traditionally, such experiences required a thick client, a desktop computer for example, with a discrete GPU. Unreal Engine’s Pixel Streaming allows the running of Unreal Engine applications on a server in the cloud and streaming its rendered frames and audio to browsers and mobile dev
Thunderful chief games officer departs amid leadership reshuffle
Game Developer
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Chief games officer, Agostino Simonetta, joined the company from ID@Xbox in 2021 but is now bowing out.
Barnyard Games secures $3.4m in seed funding round
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Newly established Barnyard Games has raised $3.4 million in a seed funding round. The studio aims to develop AAA Epic Games on the Unreal Engine for Fortnite.
Realtime Rendering With OpenGL – A Students Perspective (Week 10)
Game Developer
DECEMBER 14, 2023
"The next week I started to explore putting fog into my render engine.
Godot Google and The Forge Partner to Improve Vulkan Support
Game From Scratch
DECEMBER 14, 2023
GameFromScratch.com Godot Google and The Forge Partner to Improve Vulkan Support The Godot Foundation just announced a new 3 way partnership between Godot, Google and game engine experts The Forge to improve Vulkan support on mobile devices in the Godot game engine. Details of the announcement from the Godot blog: We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Google and The Forge to … Godot Google and The Forge Partner to Improve Vulkan Support Read More The post Godot Google and
Realtime Rendering With OpenGL – A Students Perspective (Weeks 5 - 6)
Game Developer
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Manipulating the first pass.
Lueur and the Dim Settlers
Indie DB
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Lueur and the Dim Settlers has a DEMO on IndieDB, give it a try! A Miniature survival builder perfect for short and relaxing gaming sessions. Rebuild and manage your realm, collect resources and decide the fate of your people. Explore the darkness and.
MyGamez closes €1.5m in new funding round
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox MyGamez has received €1.5 million in a private financing round. The investment round included participation from Supercell co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, Small Giant Games co-founder Timo Soininen, Reworks co-founder Ilkka Teppo and ex-Riot China head of operations Daniel Wang.
Announcing a collaboration with Google and The Forge
Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 14, 2023
We are excited to announce that we have partnered with Google and The Forge to bring some helpful performance optimizations to our Vulkan mobile backend.
Godot New Global Illumination System – HDDAGI
Game From Scratch
DECEMBER 14, 2023
GameFromScratch.com Godot New Global Illumination System – HDDAGI Godot lead developer Juan Linietsky recently tweeted several tweets about a new global illumination system for Godot, HDDAGI, or Hierarhcial Digital Differential Analyzer Global Illumination. This is meant to be a drop in replacement for SDFGI (Signed Distance Fields Global Illumination) released in Godot 4.
Stephen Totilo launches Game File
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Career games journalist Stephen Totilo has gone independent and unveiled Game File. The new website will be a reader-supported platform and newsletter covering video games.
Returnal Can’t Handle the Risks of Roguelite Design
Game Wisdom
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Returnal Can’t Handle the Risks of Roguelite Design Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com Returnal was a game I was very eager to play given the chance — a third person roguelite shooter from Housemarque who have made a name for themselves with high action and arcade design. Returnal is their biggest reach yet … The post Returnal Can’t Handle the Risks of Roguelite Design appeared first on Game Wisdom.
Kojima Productions and A24 to adapt live-action Death Stranding movie
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A24 and Kojima Productions, led by Hideo Kojima, have announced that they will be teaming up to produce a live-action Death Stranding movie. Death Stranding was released in 2019, and in November 2022, it amassed a player count of more than 10 million.
Fan Collective Unimatrix 47: What Do Electric Picards Dream of?
Game Industry News
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Star Trek as a franchise has spanned nearly six decades, so one would assume that attitudes about society and representation would have changed over time. Certainly, female costumes have acquired far more fabric as the years have marched onward, and ideologically, we’ve seen a great number of changes. However, I want to use today’s column to discuss one in particular as it strikes me as an interesting alteration, and that is the differences in how Trek has defined what it is to be human.
Thunderful shakes up leadership team
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Thunderful has reshuffled its leadership, with chief games officer Agostino Simonetta leaving the company and four new executives appointed. VP of studios Claire Boissiere has been promoted to executive vice president of studios and development. She will continue being Jumpship's studio director in addition to her new position. Thunderful's VP of marketing Harriet Hughes has become its new executive vice president of publishing.
Game Monetization – How to Make money from your games
Juego Studio
DECEMBER 14, 2023
While video games are all about fun and entertainment to users, there is an intricate business perspective to it for developers.Game monetization strategies are determined ahead of the development and launch to ensure the game fetches ample revenue shortly.
House Flipper 2 Not Working: How to Fix It Efficiently
Game Errors
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Don’t be alarmed if you experience issues while playing House Flipper 2, such as crashing, won’t launch, being stuck on the loading screen, stuttering, lagging, or low FPS. I ran into similar problems when I initially started playing the game. Yet, thanks to my past knowledge and various methods I learned from veteran gamers, I was able to solve them quickly.
R Mahjong – Riichi Mahjong for 4 players with strong mahjong AI
Cocos
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Since the old topic is closed, I’ll open a new one. A new version (version 2.0+) of R Mahjong - Riichi Mahjong for 4 players has been released. Main innovations in this version are: R Mahjong now has a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) called SUO (Super Oracle), based on neural networks. How strong is artificial intelligence? In my estimation, the AI has a strength equivalent to 6.8-7.0 stable dan (as defined on tenhou).
I want to become a systems designer one day, what’s the best but realistic way to get there? (I don’t have a systems preference i.e player abilities vs economy, I just like systems).
Ask a Game Dev
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The best way to get better at being a systems designer is to design game systems for games. This doesn't have to be designing systems for video games - a lot of system designers I know are extremely proficient card, board, and tabletop game designers too. Remember, the purpose of system design is to create an elegant set of game rules that convey a game experience to the player.
Top 3 Ways To Stream The Latest Esports Matches
Game Wisdom
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Top 3 Ways To Stream The Latest Esports Matches Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com Esports and traditional sports have many key differences. One of the biggest relates to how matches and events are broadcast. In a traditional sport – like soccer – each league negotiates the streaming rights with big broadcast companies. These deals … The post Top 3 Ways To Stream The Latest Esports Matches appeared first on Game Wisdom.
SpriteRender sorting layer
Cocos
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Hello everyone. How do I sort my sprites into layers? I read about the sorting component, but I have prefabs that have a lot of nodes, I will have to add this component to all these nodes. If I want to change the layer, I change it again on all nodes. In Unity, you just needed to change the position of the parent object along the z axis to achieve the same effect.
Uses Of React.js in Front-end Development in 2024
Artoon
DECEMBER 14, 2023
React.js for Front-end Development is one constantly evolving technology trend that is […] The post Uses Of React.js in Front-end Development in 2024 appeared first on Artoon Solutions.
Video Player cannot show with other UI
Cocos
DECEMBER 14, 2023
I have a VideoPlayer node and a simple picture on that node. When i play VideoPlayer, the sprite node always hidden. Some one help me fix that pls. I use CC 3.7.
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Perforce
DECEMBER 14, 2023
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