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.” The real issue in the industry is not the concentration of content creators under publishing labels, but rather the shift in economic power towards platform holders.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony's Helldivers 2 was the big winner of the 2024 TIGA Awards, taking home the Best Technical Innovation and Game of the Year prizes last night.

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Game Wisdom

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

From Casual Jumping to Casual Cleanup Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" The weekly indie showcases highlight the games we play on stream, all games shown are either press keys or demo submissions. 0:00 Intro 00:14 Anomaly Agent 2:16 Ak-Xolotl 4:35 Ve Than: Divine Guardian 6:12 Dream of the … The post From Casual Jumping to Casual Cleanup appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Only a week or two after confirmation that Microsoft is working on a handheld Xbox device , we now have reports that Sony is also in the early stages of developing a new portable device – its first foray into this market since the discontinuation of the ill-fated PS Vita five years ago.

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Jesper Juul

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

On the occasion of my upcoming book Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer , I am writing The History of the Commodore 64 in Twelve Objects , posted weekly from November 1 st , 2024: Object #5: Zzap!64 and other Magazines On the magazine cover, a spaceship swoops across the glowing city, laser beams across the sky summarily disposing of enemy crafts.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Why I Love is a series of guest editorials on GamesIndustry.biz intended to showcase the ways in which game developers appreciate each other's work. This entry was contributed by Mladen Bošnjak, creative director at Misfit Village, currently working on their SCP based thriller Go Home Annie for PC and Consoles.

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Juego Studio

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Video games of today are living, continuously evolving things with thriving communities, frequent updates, and exciting events. The reason for this is implementation of LiveOps strategy.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Does Cocos Creator support exporting to nintendo and playstation? On older posts and news i saw that it support, but current documentation does not list those platforms as support.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The majority of the most popular games on Android fail to disclose that they contain loot boxes in UK ads, violating regulations set by the Advertising Standards Authority.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The weirdest coding hack I’ve ever seen myself was in a very popular first person shooter series whose engine my studio was using for a different game. At one point, the animation system pulled a very specific hard-coded string from the string table (the repository used to hold all of the pieces of text in the game for translating and such) and cast it to animation data (i.e. it declared “Whatever it was, we don’t care.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Hi.I have been trying to login to the store and have been unsuccessful so far. Even trying to create a new account does not work. Clicking on the register button after filling the details has no response. Anyone facing smilar issues?

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