Niantic is laying off 68 employees after selling its game business for $3.5 billion
Game Developer
APRIL 15, 2025
The AR company has been cutting jobs to reposition its new-look business as a startup.
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Ubisoft releases open source tool to help devs tailor games for colourblind players
GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 15, 2025
Ubisoft has released Chroma, an open source tool that adds colour blindness filters to in-game content in real time, helping developers tailor games for those players.
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Report: Gamurs Group torches PC Invasion and continues layoffs
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APRIL 15, 2025
The media conglomerate behind Destructoid and Prima Games has seemingly axed more positions.
Announcing the 2025 Mobile AppDev Awards Finalists
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APRIL 15, 2025
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Ubisoft open-sources color blindness accessibility tool Chroma
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APRIL 15, 2025
The French publisher said it hopes developers will use the tool to design games with accessibility in mind.
The Variety of Design With Live Service Games
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APRIL 15, 2025
The Variety of Design With Live Service Games Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com With all the live service games I’ve played over the years and the research into my book on free-to-play design, I haven’t stopped to try and catalog the different content that can be made for mobile and live service, as … The post The Variety of Design With Live Service Games appeared first on Game Wisdom.
The huge, hidden web game market no one talks about (and how to get in)
Game Developer
APRIL 15, 2025
There's a hidden market of customers who want to play games on the web.
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Maybe you can answer this, but if you can’t I’d get why. I’m playing the superb Sin & Punishment 64 and I am aware this game was Japan only for 8 years before Nintendo pushed a localization. But even the Japanese original, from what I could find, the game was fully voiced in English. I’ve noticed a lot of Japanese games do this. I don’t mean to imply it’s a problem but how come many JP titles, even niche stuff that doesn’t make it here, have a lot of English voices/text?
Ask a Game Dev
APRIL 15, 2025
You actually stumbled upon a specific example of a game that was meant to be localized and released in the US, but the localization fell through. Sin and Punishment 64 was developed by Treasure and released in 2000. Treasure already liked using English language for some games - they also recorded Radiant Silvergun (1998) in English. Treasure had planned for a western localization too - the Nintendo E3 2001 press kit had a small section on N64 games that mentioned how Sin and Punishment was suppo
Orientation change stretches sprite briefly before scene loads in Cocos Creator 3.8.2
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APRIL 15, 2025
Hi everyone, Im working with Cocos Creator 3.8.2, and Im implementing orientation changes dynamically on Android when switching scenes. Heres the relevant code: director.loadScene(this.ReturnGameSceneName(), () => { if (sys.platform sys.Platform.ANDROID) { native.reflection.callStaticMethod( "com.cocos.game.AppActivity", "ChangeOrientation", "(Z)V", isLandscape ); } if (orientation macro.ORIENTATION_LANDSC.
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