Report: Blizzard is laying off almost 140 workers in Ireland
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
It's claimed the company has refused to negotiate with union representatives since announcing the cuts.
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Investors on the state of video games: "We are investing, but the bar is so much higher"
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FEBRUARY 19, 2024
It's been a perfect storm. The global economic situation is tough, interest rates have risen, people's disposable income has taken a hit, and there has been economic damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the dream of globalisation has been ended with destabilisation in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And then in games, sales are falling, the number of launches has risen, the big live service titles are sucking up hours out of the market, there was too much venture money spent on
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Report: Nintendo's rumored Switch successor will now launch in 2025
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Rumblings had suggested the next-generation device would debut in 2024, but those plans might have changed.
When it comes to copy writing (for press and pitches) forget the fluff and start to BLUF
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FEBRUARY 19, 2024
This article is part of the game-dev advice newsletter Levelling the Playing Field by Rami Ismail. If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. The newsletter is free but you can support the existence of LTPF with a small subscription fee. A pattern most of us learn in school holds us back from writing clearly.
Baldur's Gate 3 and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 big winners at 27th Annual DICE Awards
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
The prestigious Game of the Year prize was handed to Larian's acclaimed RPG.
Activision reportedly laying off more than 130 people from Ireland branch
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Activision Blizzard is reportedly planning redundancies at its Irish office located in Blackpool, Cork. As reported by the Irish Examiner , Irish deputy prime minister Michéal Martin said 136 people would be affected by the reported cuts. The Cork office employs an estimated 200 people and was originally established in 2007. Activision has not responded to the reports.
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Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The successor for the Nintendo Switch may not arrive until early next year. That's according to the anonymous sources behind various media reports, including Bloomberg , who claim Nintendo has been telling games publishers that its next console will not be on shelves by the end of 2024, as originally targeted.
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Monumental to acquire Game Circus
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The cost of any content in game dev is directly proportional to how much new stuff needs to be created for that content. In order to create a basic conversation cutscene to put into a game, we would need: A narrative designer to write the script for the cutscene A cinematic designer to script out the cinematic - which characters speak, in which order, with what timing, in which location, and what other actions they would take over the course of the cutscene Animations for the characters to play
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