Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

Square Enix has confirmed developer Toylogic "experimented" with Midjourney to create in-game album artwork.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 16, 2024

182 million PC and console games were sold across Europe in 2023, a rise of 1.7% over the year before. This is based on GSD data, which tracks all physical game sales across major European markets, and digital sales from most major games publishers across every country in Europe. As usual, EA's football game leads the sales by a comfortable margin. EA Sports FC 24 sold 9% fewer units in 2023 compared with FIFA 23 in 2022, but when you factor in the rebrand and the fact there was a World Cup in D

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Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

With PTW's newest cuts, the game industry is at nearly 3,000 layoffs, and it's only halfway through January 2024.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 16, 2024

26.6 million PC and Console games were sold across Europe in December, according to the latest GSD data. December 2022 was a 'five week month', so if we align the weeks, we can see that sales improved 3.6% compared with the same period in 2022. This data covers all physical game releases in major European markets, and digital game sales from most major publishers.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

The French publisher has some interesting ideas about what needs to happen for its streaming service to take flight.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 16, 2024

This article is part of our Get into Games special , offering students insight on life in the games industry and advice on how to get into the business Diversity and representation has greatly improved in games over the past decade, but there is still much to be done for underrepresented groups working in the games industry. Following the first UK Games Industry Census published in 2022, completed by over 3,200 workers, the UK industry is still predominantly young, white and male.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Last of Us Part II Remastered's game mode No Return let Naughty Dog show off the true power of its combat and AI systems.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

Netflix is leaving its interactive specials behind as it tries to figure out how to fill a niche in the crowded games market.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 16, 2024

LKA-developed title Martha is Dead will get a film adaptation. The feature film will be led by Swedish production company Studios Extraordinaires in partnership with the Italian studio and the game's publisher, UK-based firm Wired Productions. Studios Extraordinaires' André Hedetoft and Andreas Troedsson will act as co-directors on the film. Hedetoft is also behind the script, while Troedsson will also handle the movie's cinematography.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Supreme Court broke the yearslong legal stalemate between Epic and Apple, just not how either of them likely wanted.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 16, 2024

The organizers of the Game Developers Conference today revealed the nominees for the 24th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, which will be held at the conference on March 20. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Baldur's Gate 3 racked up the most nominations with each being short-listed for seven awards, including Game of the Year. Cocoon was another oft-nominated choice, up for five categories and securing a Game of the Year nomination of its own.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

Certain Affinity and 343 Industries' open secret was a battle royale game for Halo Infinite that's now reportedly dead and gone.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft overtook Apple as the most profitable company at the end of last Friday's trading session in the US. As reported by CNBC , Microsoft's lead came as a result of an event that took place in San Francisco where the company spoke about artificial intelligence, highlighting an increase of traffic on GitHub which Microsoft acquired in 2018 for $7.5 billion.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

The reborn publisher has already helped a group of former Zachtronics developers establish a new studio called Coincidence.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox During November, Twitch reached 1.8 billion hours watched in viewership. The figure represents a 4% increase compared to November's 1.73 billion, according to Stream Elements and Rainmaker. gg's State of the Stream report. The month of December is a day longer than November.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

Moving is one of the top life stressors but sometimes well worth it in the scheme of upward career mobility and gaining a wealth of experience that wouldn’t happen while staying in one place.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Tandem Events is now open to speaker submissions for Develop:Brighton 2024

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Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

The longtime Call of Duty support studio once had ambitious plans, including a spinoff for the series' Zombies mode and reviving a classic Raven property.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 16, 2024

GameFromScratch.com GodotOS – The Godot Powered Operating System GodotOS is here, the worlds first Godot game engine powered operating system! Ok, it’s a fake operating system, or more accurately its a system shell, written entirely in GDScript. You can even write your own hosted applications for the Godot OS using GDScript. Details of GodotOS from the GitHub page: … GodotOS – The Godot Powered Operating System Read More The post GodotOS – The Godot Powered Operatin

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Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

Capcom says the fighter used eSports tournaments as a springboard to success.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2024

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Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2024

The 2024 Game Developers Choice Awards finalists have been revealed, and it looks like the lands of Hyrule and Faerun may be poised for an epic showdown: along with an adventure across worlds within worlds.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox China-based internet and gaming firm Tencent dramatically cut the number of investments it made last year. The South China Morning Post reported that the company agreed upon 39 investment contracts with 37 businesses last year, primarily in the video games, healthcare and corporate services sectors.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 16, 2024

Veriscape is an 2D indie game developed by GAMINATE where it’s unique feature lies within the stages that are generated using music! The game is a side-scrolling and rhythm type game, where controls are very simple but players will have to react fast.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 16, 2024

In this blog, we will dive into the significance of load testing a game backend, and how AWS for Games partner, Pragma , successfully load tested one million concurrent users (CCU) on their managed game backend platform that runs on AWS. Creating smooth gameplay is just one part of the game creation equation. Every game has a complex web of elements that play important roles in delivering a perfect player experience.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 16, 2024

Players can now pre-register on our website for the closed beta of our upcoming game Forgotten Skies. Registered players will receive confirmation and will be notified as soon as the Forgotten Skies closed beta begins.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2024

It depends a lot on the game and the music. There's a sliding scale of the importance of licensed music ranging from being core to the game on one end all the way to being a marketing flex that is otherwise unnecessary for the game itself on the other. Licensed music was one of the core elements that made Guitar Hero work. Licensed music added a huge amount of ambience to a game like GTA Vice City.

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Cocos

JANUARY 16, 2024

cocos creator: 3.8.1 有没有办法设置修改这个WrapMode的默认值? 现在默认是 Loop , 可以设置默认为 Normal 吗? 要不然每导入一个模型都需要手动的改一次.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 16, 2024

Game testing is an essential process that defines how players will play and enjoy the game. This, in return, determines the game’s performance in the market. However, testing your game can be challenging due to the many testing processes involved. As a result, companies often outsource gaming services to an external partner to help them with the testing process.

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Cocos

JANUARY 16, 2024

Wow, this is a time-saver! Thanks so much for sharing this solution. I’m pretty sure will help lots of developers to ship their games to native platforms!

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 16, 2024

2023 has been a year that the gaming industry and community won’t forget. It brought up new trends, innovations, and even issues that shaped the industry. From releasing the most highly rated games in 20 years to the increasing adoption of transformative technologies in game development , this year has made us see new solutions in the industry. As we celebrate these achievements, we need to ask ourselves, “What were some of the games that stood out in 2023?

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Cocos

JANUARY 16, 2024

Wow, thanks so much! Indeed, I was not able to find much information about it and got confused if such logic would need to be done on the C++ side of the project or if the TS codebase would solve it. Now I know Regarding the keyboard key, I feel that the event-based system does not always work great while I was testing it, so I was curious if you had to do any fine-tuning on your side, but seems you didn’t.

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Cocos

JANUARY 16, 2024

Hello hallo, we are the development team of the indie game InOutPath, and as the development of the game is getting better and better, we have now made the Steam page of InOutPath available. The address is as follows: Switch on Steam InOutPath (steampowered.com) A lot of emotions as a member of an indie game team. Thank you to the cocos team for providing a great engine that allowed us to build this game without technical constraints, and to use our creative space and abilities as we pleased.

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Cocos

JANUARY 16, 2024

@qq544430497 Thanks so much for sharing this! Indeed, I’m trying lately to get more of the deep gist of Cocos. Even though I’m aware that effort is being made to implement native threads into the engine, my question is more specific about using web Service Workers for web games with Cocos Creator. More specifically how I should behave and best practices while building a worker.js file that contains Cocos Creator objects/class references.

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