Game Developer
AUGUST 27, 2024
Video game preservationist and historian Kelsey Lewin tells the story of how a mundane-sounding game full of bug-catching, letter-writing, and furniture-collecting became one of Nintendo's best-loved franchises.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 27, 2024
Workers at French studio Spiders have announced a strike planned for the week starting September 2. A committee representing employees has published an open letter via union STJV , going through the alleged issues at the Nacon-owned studio, spanning several years. 44 workers out of Spiders' 95 staff signed the Spiders Action Committee letter as of August 27, with the strike to take place on September 2 and 3 in front of Spiders' offices and online on a Minecraft server set up for the occasion.
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Game Developer
AUGUST 27, 2024
The Greedfall studio workers claim management refused to hear calls to improve its culture and alleviate working conditions that've caused burnouts and departures.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 27, 2024
Gamescom 2024 reached record numbers last week with 335,000 attendees from over 120 countries, its organisers announced. Attendance was up 4.6% compared to last year, which saw 320,000 in-person visitors at Cologne's Koelnmesse. There were 1,463 exhibitors from 64 countries at the German-based event, 71% of those being foreign exhibitors. More than 32,000 trade visitors attended Gamescom, with the largest increases from North America and Japan.
Game Developer
AUGUST 27, 2024
Franchise development director at Sumo Sheffield Steve Lycett dissects the history of racing games and how developers can steer their games to success.
Game Development News
AUGUST 27, 2024
Fresh from showing off the rubber-keyed wonder behind closed doors at this year’s gamescom, Plaion and Retro Games Ltd has announced the November launch of The Spectrum, a near-as-damnit recreation of the original Sinclair home computer from 1982 that arguably did more than any other piece of hardware to kickstart the UK games industry.
Game Developer
AUGUST 27, 2024
Square Enix's new shooter is ditching a paid model and the PlayStation+ requirement in an effort to add some more players to its ranks.
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Game Developer
AUGUST 27, 2024
Gamescom, the world's biggest games event, took place in Cologne from August 20-24, 2024. Omdia's games team was again in attendance and analyzed the highlights from the show.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 27, 2024
Capcom's Monster Hunter Wilds won big at this year's Gamescom Awards, taking home four awards last Friday. The upcoming title, which is due to launch in 2025, won Best Sony PlayStation Game and Best Announcement alongside the Most Epic and Most Entertaining categories. Supermassive Games' Little Nightmares 3 won Best Microsoft Xbox Game, Best Visuals, and Best Audio.
Game Developer
AUGUST 27, 2024
Former executives claim Xsolla CEO Aleksandr Agapitov has spent years putting millions from company accounts into his own and firing anyone who voiced concerns.
Indie DB
AUGUST 27, 2024
Season 1 officially ends on September 1st, and is now free to play. Take the opportunity to try out the game before joining the competition for real in the upcoming season. Direct deals have been added to give a taste of the more complex contract features.
Game Developer
AUGUST 27, 2024
The Florida-based studio has worked on notable titles including Risk of Rain 2, Fortnite, and Mortal Kombat 1.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 27, 2024
EA Sports College Football 25 debuted at No.1 in Newzoo's overall revenue charts for July, and also ranked at the top spot on PlayStation and Xbox. The latest instalment of the revived series was the best-selling sports game last month, according to Newzoo. Two more new titles appeared on the charts for July, including Nexon's The First Descendant, which ranked at No.5 and reached 10 million players in the week following its release on July 2.
Game Developer
AUGUST 27, 2024
The program is targeting startups 'at the intersection of tech and games.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 27, 2024
Steam reached just over 37 million concurrent users this weekend, breaking records for the platform. As reported by PC Gamer , Steam logged 37.2 million players for the first time on Sunday – up from its previous record of 33.2 million users at the start of the year. This new record came nearly a week after the release of Black Myth: Wukong , which became the best performing single-player game of all time on Steam with 2.13 million players at launch.
Game Developer
AUGUST 27, 2024
Consumers in the region will soon be asked to pay around 20 percent more for current-generation console hardware.
AWS Games
AUGUST 27, 2024
This blog was co-authored by Tim Edmunds, Technical Director, nDreams; Jamie Holding, Senior Principal Programmer, nDreams; and Nick Robinson, Technical Director, Near Light. Leading up to the launch of the multiplayer VR game Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord , the talented team at nDreams knew they needed to put the game through its paces at scale.
Game Developer
AUGUST 27, 2024
Oatmeal is out. Spicy appetizers and steampunk mechs are in.
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 27, 2024
Savvy Games Group and Xsolla have announced a partnership aiming at strengthening the games industry in Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East. The memorandum of understanding between the two companies will lead to the creation of an incubator, an accelerator programme, and the Xsolla Savvy Game Development Academy. The latter will be "nurturing talent and promoting game development as a viable career path" in Saudi Arabia, the announcement said.
Game Development News
AUGUST 27, 2024
We are delighted to announce our newest sponsor for the MCV/Develop Women in Games Awards 2024. Dlala Studios has spent the past decade focused on creativity, technical knowledge and producing high-quality, passion-driven work. If you haven’t checked out the finalists for the event yet, you can do so here.
Ask a Game Dev
AUGUST 27, 2024
It generally depends on how much we're willing to spend. We will often post jobs to VO hiring boards such as Bodalgo, VOPlanet, or Backstage. Those with smaller budgets often go through sites like Fiverr or Craigslist to find local help. Also, there's always word-of-mouth, referrals from friends, or even using the devs themselves to do the voice acting.
Cocos
AUGUST 27, 2024
I wanna sell some blockchain sdk, tool but seem like cocos store currently blocking that.
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