Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2024

According to Unity, games that can be played "instantly" present new possibilities for game developers.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Lars Wingefors, the CEO of Embracer Group, has declared an end to the group's lengthy restructuring process that resulted in the loss of 1,400 jobs and the closure of three studios. In an investor call following last week's $460m sale of Borderlands developer Gearbox , Wingefors told investors: "Now we are ending the restructuring program [at the] end of March and we're now looking into the future.

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Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2024

The ESRB's facial recognition proposal may be rejected now, but it could send a new proposal to the FTC down the line.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

Ubisoft has announced another round of layoffs, with 45 staff affected across its global publishing and Asia-Pacific teams. As reported by GameSpot , the games firm said this was part of efforts to "streamline operations" across the company. "We are further reorganising our global publishing central and APAC structures to adapt them to the market evolution with a more efficient and agile approach," it said in a statement.

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Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2024

Developers Doug Sharp and Mark Roth walk us through the game's glorious past and promising future.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 2, 2024

Top image by Freepik. In the wake of 2023, a year marked by blockbuster game releases, the global PC and console gaming market is facing a period of moderation. While the industry still exhibits growth, the trajectory is more subdued compared to the rapid expansion seen in previous years. According to the latest PC and Console Gaming report by Newzoo , the PC and console gaming market generated $93.5 billion in revenue in 2023, representing a modest growth rate of 2.6% year-over-year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

The Portuguese games industry had a big presence at GDC last month, with over 50 delegates from 20 companies attending, 14 companies represented in the country's pavilion (its first ever at the event), and a reception organised at the Consulate General of Portugal welcoming over 100 attendees. This reflects Portugal's upwards trajectory over the past few years, as also evidenced by the opening of a games-specific co-working space in Lisbon a few months back.

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Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2024

Microsoft's AI-powered Virtual Support Assistant is said to help answer Xbox players' questions and refund games right from the Xbox website.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 2, 2024

The onboarding process is a little of everything you say. Whenever I start a new job, there's the new hire administrative tasks I need to get done like signing paperwork and doing harassment/DEI/office safety training and there's the actual "this is what they hired me to do" learning process where I learn how the workflow works so that I can start being productive.

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Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2024

Early startups without any funding are eligible for A16Z's program, which will run in LA from July 29-October 20.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

GamesIndustry.biz, TikTok and the National Research Group will host a free webinar next month on the new transformative landscape of mobile games and how to succeed within it. You can sign up here. TikTok and NRG will delve into the modern landscape of mobile gaming, drawing on key insights from their collaborative white paper, which you can also download for free right here.

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Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2024

Over a month after Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's release, Square Enix is making some additions to the ranks of its executive staff.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 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 Ember Trail's Cruz Segovia Ardiz, game director of the alien planet management game Distant Bloom , which launched on Steam last week. I was barely a teenager when I played Metal Gear Solid for the first time on my brand-new PlayStation console.

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Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2024

Pirhana Games explains how a linear campaign and new systems can help the franchise grow while keeping its core audience.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

The US Federal Trade Commission has denied an attempt to add facial age estimation technology to the list of acceptable forms of obtaining parental consent for collecting kids' information under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The application was jointly filed last year by the Entertainment Software Rating Board, SuperAwesome (which runs the free parental consent management platform Kids Web Services as well as kid-focused advertising and influencer marketing businesses), a

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Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2024

Landfall's free April Fools release went extremely well, and it seems poised to continue as Content Warning goes viral.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

Certain Affinity has laid off 25 US-based employees working in its business operations division. In a post to the developer's website on March 28, CEO Max Hoberman cited "an industry-wide slow down in the funding of new lead and co-development projects" and a "reluctance of third party investors" as the main reasons for the decision. "This has made it exceptionally difficult to sign new work or secure other forms of funding," he wrote.

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Unity Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

An announcement about changes to Unity’s support for Ziva VFX, Ziva Real-Time, Ziva Face Trainer, and related Ziva products.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox You can now watch or download the latest episode of our GI Microcast, which offers a quick dive into the biggest stories of the past week. This week, we discuss the ongoing conversations around Xbox - from Chris' recent revelation that developers are finding it hard to justify supporting the platform, to Xbox boss Phil Spencer's suggestion that the console could open up to third-party stores.

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Indie DB

APRIL 2, 2024

Hey, hey, hey, it's us My Next Games again, because it's time to tell you what we've managed to do recently and to introduce some of the things we're currently working on!

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Games 84

GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Moonton Games and Riot Games have signed a settlement regarding their years-long dispute on IP rights. The League of Legends maker has also withdrawn its lawsuits with the move.

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Indie DB

APRIL 2, 2024

"Sheol: Chronicles of the Underworld" introduces players to a captivating multiplayer role-playing card game set in the depths of the Underworld. As contenders vie for the prestigious title of Ruler of the Underworld, they embark on an adrenaline-fueled.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Frontier Developments has sold the publishing rights of RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 to Atari. The total sale price of the licensing rights was agreed upon at $7 million.

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 2, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Unreal April 2024 Asset Giveaway It is time for the first Epic Games Unreal Engine asset giveaway for April 2024. The first Tuesday of every month Epic Games give away a number of Unreal Engines from the UE Asset Marketplace and April is no exception. This month we have 5 “Free for the Month” assets, […] The post Unreal April 2024 Asset Giveaway appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Newzoo's latest report says that global consumer spending for PC and console gaming received a 2.6% increase, totaling $93.5 billion in 2023.

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 2, 2024

GameFromScratch.com BabylonJS 7 Game Engine Released The popular Babylon JS Game Engine for creating 3D games that can run on the web just released Babylon 7. Key features of this release include: Key Links BabylonJS Homepage Babylon 7 Release Notes GitHub Repository You can learn more about Babylon 7 watching the following video or clicking the […] The post BabylonJS 7 Game Engine Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 2, 2024

As a non-technical person at a studio, backends never really entered my sphere of interest. It was something I comfortably left for the CTOs and Tech Leads to worry about. Yet as my level of seniority increased, I quickly found myself in a position where I had to approve budgets for backend investments. In practice, this meant putting my name on a dotted line without understanding the details nor the different options our studio had.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

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Starloop Studios

APRIL 2, 2024

AI game development is becoming more and more prevalent in the gaming industry. As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced, developers find new and novel ways to incorporate it into their game development processes. Though it’s unlikely that AI will replace human game developers, AI in game development has a practical role. Magic Media and [.] The post AI in Game Development appeared first on Starloop Studios.

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Cocos

APRIL 2, 2024

Hello, I am having a problem with the inspector not showing the slots for the classes I have declared. I am having trouble seeing the class slots in the inspector. First, I create three classes “GameManager, AllManager, and Test”. The contents of the classes are as follows. Since this is for verification purposes, the contents of each are meaningless, but we expect that the following statement will add references to all three classes, including confidence, in all three classes.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

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AWS Games

APRIL 2, 2024

With the rising popularity of generative artificial intelligence (AI), companies are exploring foundation models (FMs) and realizing the immediate benefit they provide to their business. FMs are large machine learning models that are pre-trained on vast amounts of data, which can perform many tasks such as text, code, and generate images. As more companies train unique models or fine tune FMs, and deploy applications powered by these models, the need to operationalize model processes and follow

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Cocos

APRIL 2, 2024

Hello i’m new on Cocos Creator and also type script. I’m trying to make array of class but i couldn’t done it. Because of the simple error down below. [Scene] Cannot read property ‘constructor’ of undefined [Scene] Value dump failed. When i tried to change the values o editor it resets to 0. The code is down below; VideoControllerData.ts; import { Vec2, _decorator } from 'cc'; const { ccclass, property } = _decorator; @ccclass('VideoControllerData') export class VideoControllerData { @property({

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 2, 2024

A new node is on its way to help with parallax in 2D.

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