Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2024

"It's been five months since the closure of Volition, but I'm grateful to post that a group of us have re-formed as Shapeshifter Games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2024

Electronic Arts released its earnings report for Q3 FY24 (the three months ended December 31, 2023), with the firm seeing modest top-line growth but a more considerable jump from the bottom line that was higher than the company's outlook range. The numbers EA saw at least some growth from all its key performance indicators during the holiday quarter, but the publisher was likely most pleased by EA Sports FC.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2024

Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice drove the studio to success after hitting the ground running on Meta Quest and PlayStation VR 2.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2024

There are a few things you can pretty much always count on with a Nintendo system. The first-party software will be excellent. It will be cheaper than the systems it is competing against.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2024

"We have found ourselves at a loss as our competitors continue to produce new products.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2024

The latest episode of the GamesIndustry.biz Microcast is available to download now, with the video version available imminently. First, we discuss the Eidos Montreal layoffs and the cancellation of a new Deus Ex title , as well as the implications for the future of this franchise - and many of the other franchises, such as fan favourite (and Chris favourite) TimeSplitters, whose future depends on the outcome of the Embracer Group restructure.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2024

Kwalee has announced that it's taken a stake in French mobile studio 8SEC following a €1.5 million investment. Kwalee's CFO Matthew Farrow and its VP of mobile publishing John Wright will also be joining 8SEC's board. The company will remain independent and continue operating from its two studios, in Paris and Lyon.

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Game Developer

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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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Loric Games has secured $4 million in its latest funding round. The investment led by 1AM Gaming, along Hiro Capital, will go towards the studio's ongoing game development.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2024

The new studio is already at work on its debut project, known simply as Hornet.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 30, 2024

If you really wanna go nuts, try to define what a “game” is. I mean, Hidden Object Games barely even count as an activity. And yet, we know they are games, because they have “game” in the name. One of the great (?) things about making and writing about games for 30 years is the patterns you get to see. Arguments that come up again and again.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2024

"It was a natural next step for us to build a publishing arm–one that that works in synergy with our studios to bring their works of art to market.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2024

In a talk during our GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit late last year, games industry comms veteran Cat Channon gave pointers about communication through change, and how to take into account the human impact of change when sharing information with staff, whether about layoffs, big M&A deals, or real-world calamities that might be affecting staff. Channon has over 30 years of experience in games, most recently as EA's vice president of global corporate communications where she was supporting a team

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2024

Popping colors, fish swimming on cliffs, and vaporware vibes all make Twilight Oracle feast for the eyes as well as the brain.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Reimagining games, apps, and experiences with Unity visionOS

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2024

"We believe very firmly that there is an incredibly underrated console opportunity in Africa.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Aonic has revealed Megabit, its new publishing arm, to support its development studio portfolio. Megabit will focus on publishing services for Aonic's first and third-party game makers.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2024

The purpose of this article is to share tips to help level up and accelerate the African gaming industry in order to see increase in its economic growth.

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Perforce

JANUARY 30, 2024

What is linting? Linting is the process of checking code for programmatic and stylistic errors. Compare basic lint code tools to advanced static code analyzers.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2024

Extremely OK likes to commemorate Celeste's birthdays with new ways to play the game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Xbox president Sarah Bond has spoken out against Apple's changes to iOS, saying the new policy designed to comply with the European Union's Digital Markets Act is a "step in the wrong direction." While the iOS firm is opening up its mobile ecosystem to allow third-party app stores , as required by the DMA, but it's introducing a 17% commission fee on all transactions for companies that use it, as well as a "core technol

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2024

The problem of experience points in cinematic gaming narratives.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 30, 2024

GameFromScratch.com GB Studio 3.2 Released GB Studio, an amazingly easy to use but comprehensive game engine for creating retro GameBoy-style games, just released version 3.2. This is the first major update since GB Studio 3.0 was released all the way back in 2022. When I say create “GameBoy-style” games, that’s misleading. This game engine can … GB Studio 3.2 Released Read More The post GB Studio 3.2 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Reimagining games, apps, and experiences with Unity visionOS

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Filmustage

JANUARY 30, 2024

Welcome to the glitzy realm of the Academy Awards, where cinematic mastery converges with moments of pure hilarity. Filmmakers often find solace in the laughter that punctuates the serious business of moviemaking. On the eve of the new Ceremony, we explore the Oscars Fun Moments, proving that Academy Awards Humor can be just as entertaining as the movies they honor.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 30, 2024

New video will showcase many of the updates that have been released in 2023, as well as what we have in store for 2024.

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CrazyLabs

JANUARY 30, 2024

OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, have recently launched their latest AI user interface (UI) tool known as GPTs. These are ‘specialized’ ChatGPTs designed for specific tasks and can be filtered based on the number of users per task. The GPTs Store (Preview in the image below) is a collection of GPTs that enables users to […] The post The 5 Best GPTs for Game Developers appeared first on CrazyLabs.

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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. It uses specialized hardware to offload demanding tasks to enhance server capabilities.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Game design software does play a pivotal role in bringing the digital world to life, which allows game developers and designers to create immersive and engaging experiences. The world of game design is a captivating landscape brimming with possibilities. However, it becomes difficult for a developer to choose one software from many. With a plethora of engines and tools, choosing the right one has become complex.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 30, 2024

NVIDIA AI Workbench is now in beta, bringing a wealth of new features to streamline how enterprise developers create, use, and share AI and machine learning. NVIDIA AI Workbench is now in beta, bringing a wealth of new features to streamline how enterprise developers create, use, and share AI and machine learning (ML) projects. Announced at SIGGRAPH 2023, NVIDIA AI Workbench enables developers to create, collaborate, and migrate AI workloads on their GPU-enabled environment of choice.

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Game Wisdom

JANUARY 30, 2024

Game Design of the Month With Monster Hunter World Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this episode of our game design of the month discussion, Tomo and I talked about Monster Hunter World and how Capcom took their niche series and made it mainstream.… The post Game Design of the Month With Monster Hunter World appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Cocos

JANUARY 30, 2024

You can work on the.ts files, as stated on 3.8 here Cocos Creator 3.8 Manual - Engine Customization Workflow C:ProgramDatacocoseditorsCreator3.8.1resourcesresources3denginecocosaudioaudio-source.ts Here I searched for ‘volume’, then copy/paste/renamed to ‘pitch’ every occurence (all but @tooltip('i18n:audio.volume') which is here C:ProgramDatacocoseditorsCreator3.8.1resourcesresources3dengineeditori18n[langCode]localization.js if you may).

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Game Wisdom

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gabbing About Game Engines Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" The rise of public game engines over the 2010’s changed how many people create games, and for this week’s key to games cast, we’re talking about the current options and what does your game engine of choice … The post Gabbing About Game Engines appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Cocos

JANUARY 30, 2024

This will do it. Will fail if cameras ortho height is changed. I only tested in ‘preview in editor’ mode. @property({ type: Node }) public gameCam: Node; onLoad() { this.node.on(NodeEventType.TOUCH_START, this.onTouch, this); } onTouch(event: EventTouch) { let childnode: Node = event.getCurrentTarget(); let touch: Vec2 = event.getUIStartLocation(); let node: Vec3 = childnode.getWorldPosition(); let camera: Vec3 = this.gameCam.getPosition(); console.log(`touch coords to node origin:${(touch.x - n

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