Game Developer

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Less than a day after resigning from The Escapist, Yahtzee Croshaw and ex-EiC Nick Calandra have established a new site to pick up where they left off.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Journalists from The Escapist have resigned in response to the termination of its editor-in-chief Nick Calandra. On Monday, Calandra announced on X that he was fired for "not achieving goals" reportedly set by the Gamurs Group, which acquired The Escapist last year. "I was let go for 'not achieving goals' that were never properly set for us, and a lack of understanding of our audience and the team that built that audience," Calandra wrote.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The four-year-old studio founded by two of the Night in the Woods developers is closing down and cancelling its debut project Revenant Hill.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Ubisoft has conducted layoffs that have affected its VFX and IT teams. The Assassin's Creed maker said the move was attributed to reorganizing headcount in Hybride and its worldwide IT staff. Overall, 124 employees were affected by the job cuts.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The worker-owned publication was co-founded by Nathan Grayson, Gita Jackson, Riley MacLeod, and Luke Plunkett.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Nintendo has increased its profit forecast for the current financial year following a strong first half, boosted by the launch of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and The Super Mario Bros Movie. For the six months ended September 30, 2023, the platform holder reported a 21.2% year-on-year increase in net sales to ¥796.2 billion ($5.3 billion) and a 27% increase in operating profit to ¥279.9 billion ($1.9 billion).

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

At the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit in September, organisational psychologist Graham McAllister presented a talk entitled 'Game vision alignment: Its role in team effectiveness,' exploring how studios can improve their games by maintaining a clear vision of what they're creating. McAllister previously founded Player Research in 2012, a user research and playtesting studio, which he left in 2019.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

More layoffs befall Ubisoft, this time across its Canada-based studios such as Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Quebec.

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Game Daily

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

London-based developer and YouTuber David Akinola is working on a game called Nixie , that was the focus of a successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year. The game follows the life of Fiona Soul, a soup kitchen worker with hoverboard skills. It’s a game that Akinola says will “give the Black children of the next generation characters to fall in love with,” something he felt was lacking as he looked in vain for Black British characters in games, when he was growing up.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Switch hardware sales increased during the last quarter despite the console nearing the end of its lifecycle.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Author David Kaye is co-founder and General Partner at F4 Fund. This article originally appeared on his Substack Game Stuff. Specialist VC firms that fund game development are a relatively new phenomenon. Most of them were started in the 2010s, and most of those in the latter half of the decade. For our purposes, there are two important things to remember about the 2010s: It was a period dominated by low interest rates, which increased the risk appetite of all investors and allowed many new vent

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

At almost five years old, the Epic Games Store continues to not be a win for the Fortnite developer on a financial level.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The Epic vs Google trial has begun, with both sides making their opening statements on Monday, and Google quick to defend its 30% cut of all transactions for apps distributed via its Play store. According to The Verge , Google attorney Glenn Pomerantz described the 30% share as "a market fee, not a monopoly fee.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Salt and Sacrifice adds multiplayer to the 2D Souls-inspired model of Salt and Sanctuary. It wasn't an easy task.

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Keith Burgun

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

(Above: some WIP pixel art from Wizbane) You might have noticed I’ve been writing about and playing a lot of RPGs recently. Starting somewhere in 2020, I started this huge dive into the Final Fantasy series – strangely enough, starting with the XIII trilogy. Over the past year and a half I’ve been diving hard into a huge number of different RPGs: Nearly all the 1-player Final Fantasies, Dragon Quest, Trails in the Sky, the Tales games, Scarlet Nexus, a really cool Japanese GBA

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Programming should be seen as an act of service to writers, artists, and designers.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Kirsty Rigden will be taking over as the sole CEO of FuturLab following the retirement of founder James Marsden. Rigden started her role as FuturLab's CEO in September, having been a co-CEO since August 2022 and development director at the studio since 2010. Marsden founded FuturLab in 2003, and has overseen the development of games such as PowerWash Simulator, Peaky Blinders: Mastermind, and Velocity over the course of two decades.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Inevitable Studios' first game, Always in Mind, will launch its Kickstarter in the coming weeks.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox VR games company MyDearest has raised $7.8 million in a new funding round. With the investment, the firm aims to expand its game offerings to more platforms, such as Meta Quest and PlayStation 5, while also expanding its publishing operations.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This Power Blade-inspired action romp harkens back to the NES days in all the best ways.

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Rocket Brush Studio

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Analysts predict AI's market size in software testing will reach an impressive $4 billion by 2024. But the impact of all this AI is tied to the precision and robustness of the underlying models.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Epic Games and Google both laid out their opening arguments in a San Francisco court on Monday, marking the beginning of the long-awaited antitrust trial that started with the removal of Fortnite from Google Play in 2020. The Verge reported that Epic was the first to make its opening statement with lead attorney Gary Bornstein first directing the jury's attention to Google's dominance on Android, accounting for over 90%

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Indie DB

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The minimalist tower base defense game COLONY DEFENSE is now on Steam. If you have made any other plans for 2024. you shouldn't. The game is highly addictive.

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Game From Scratch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Unity Update Licensing Terms In the aftermath of the Unity Runtime Fee fiasco on the of the major changes announced by Unity Create head Marc Whitten was: We will make sure that you can stay on the terms applicable for the version of Unity editor you are using – as long as you keep using … Unity Update Licensing Terms Read More The post Unity Update Licensing Terms appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Nintendo is returning to live-action films with a new movie based on The Legend of Zelda, the company announced today. Nintendo is co-financing the production with Sony Pictures, but the Mario maker will be putting up more than half of the money for it. Sony Pictures will distribute the final product worldwide. The film is being produced by Nintendo and Arad Productions, with Nintendo representative director Shigeru Miyamoto and Arad Productions chairman Avi Arad listed as producers.

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Game From Scratch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Unreal November 2023 Asset Giveaway It is time for the November 2023 Unreal Engine asset giveaway. The first Tuesday of every month Epic Games give away a number of Unreal Engines from the UE Asset Marketplace and November is no exception. This month we have 5 “Free for the Month” assets, that are yours to … Unreal November 2023 Asset Giveaway Read More The post Unreal November 2023 Asset Giveaway appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Laid-off employees of Keywords Studios are planning to strike outside BioWare Edmonton's headquarters today. As Game Developer reports, the group consists of the unionised Dragon Age QA team , who were let go in September after BioWare decided not to continue its contract in August. Members will strike on November 7 outside BioWare Edmonton from 11am to 12pm MST.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

More critical fixes are coming your way on the road to Godot 4.2 stable, including smoother transition for 3D projects made in 4.1.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Final Fantasy creator Square Enix released its financial earnings for the six months ended September 30, 2023. Square Enix's Digital Entertainment division is broken down into HD Games, MMO, and mobile/PC browser sub-segments.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

You can use { worldPosition : new Vec3(x,y) } in tween too. (as i checked 0 as 3rd argument is not necessary) But anyway converting from Vec2 to Vec3… const worldLocation = new Vec3(event.getUILocationX(), event.getUILocationY()); tween(node).to(0.1, {worldPosition: worldLocation}).start(); I can not find any Event type that returns Vec3. Also if parent of the Node have the same size as World and anchor point in 0,0 (0.5,0.5 is by default) - node’s local coordinates should be the same as world a

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Former Kotaku, Vice, and The Washington Post journalists have launched Aftermath. Aftermath is an independent, subscription-based site and podcast covering internet culture and video game news.

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Indie DB

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The game now has a Steam Page! Wishlist it now and follow for more updates!

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For example, I want a scroll view that doesn’t allow users to scroll by mouse wheel / 2 fingers scroll (for apple mouse), but users can still scroll by touch down and then drag the area of the scroll view, is there anyway to set this?

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Artoon

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Node.js is a powerful and versatile JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 […] The post Why to Use Node js For Backend Development Services? appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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