Tue.Feb 06, 2024

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IGN workers unionizing to fight for better wages and job stability

Game Developer

A majority of editorial and creative employees at IGN are unionizing to secure better pay, protections from layoffs, and "measurable steps" to increase staff diversity.

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IGN workers unionizing

GamesIndustry.biz

A group of more than 80 IGN employees are headed for unionization, as the newly formed IGN Creators Guild today announced that more than 85% of the eligible members of that group have signed union authorization cards. The group is unionizing with the NewsGuild-CWA, and has said it expects IGN parent Ziff-Davis to voluntarily recognize the union, much as it voluntarily recognized its workers at Mashable and PCMag when they formed the Ziff Davis Creators Guild in 2018.

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Laralyn McWilliams, game designer, passes away at 58

Game Developer

During her 30-year career in games, McWilliams worked on a number of games such as Gears of War 4, Free Realms, and Deal or No Deal.

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Finding power in language with Chants of Sennaar

GamesIndustry.biz

2023 was a year brimming with remarkable indie games that left an indelible mark in many players' lives, not to mention wallets. With the market competition higher than ever, it‘s unclear how many brilliant titles don't even reach the public surface - as is always the case. One that did break through, however, was Chants of Sennaar, a love letter to communication and one of the most original games of last year's harvest.

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Square Enix reviewing production pipeline amid spluttering sales

Game Developer

The Japanese publisher hopes that bigger projects and less outsourcing could provide its video game business with a welcome boost.

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I accidentally Blender VSE

The Astronauts

Two months ago I started to contribute a bit of code to Blender’s Video Sequence Editor (VSE). Did you know that Blender has a suite of video editing tools? Yeah, me neither :) Even the feature page for it on the website looks… a bit empty lol. Do I know anything at all about video editing, timelines, sequencers, color grading, ffmpeg, audio mixing and so on?

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Free Realms creative director Laralyn McWilliams has died

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Career game designer Laralyn McWilliams has died at the age of 58. McWilliams passes away after her a long battle with cancer.

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Indie dev Threshold Games shuts down this week

Game Developer

Threshold's closure comes a month before it was set to officially reveal itself, and whatever it was working on, to the world.

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Nintendo profits rise to $2.7bn despite Switch sales slowdown

GamesIndustry.biz

Nintendo has released its financial results for the nine months ended December 31, 2023, in which it experienced an increase in sales and net profit – likely due to the Switch's last Christmas on shelves before its expected successor joins it later this year. While Nintendo saw a decrease in hardware and software sales, it provided a slight increase in its forecast for the full year.

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Report: Tencent wants to replicate Genshin Impact success with mobile version of Elden Ring

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The project has reportedly been in development since 2022 but is making slow progress.

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Tencent acquires controlling stake in Swords of Legends dev Wangyuan Shengtang

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Tencent has dramatically increased its stake in Wangyuan Shengtang, the Beijing-based developer behind action-RPG series Swords of Legends (or 'Gujian' as it is known in China). Using investment vehicle Guangxi Tencent Venture Capital, the company acquired 100% of Dongtai Yunpeng Culture Co on Friday, according to the South China Morning Post.

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Key Cyberpunk 2077 veterans join North American team to lead sequel development

Game Developer

Old heads who made Cyberpunk 2077 and its expansion are heading west to start early development on its sequel.

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Jobs Roundup: February 2024 | CD Projekt Red grows Project Orion team

GamesIndustry.biz

It can be difficult keeping track of the various comings and goings in the games industry, which is why we compile them in semi-regular round-ups. If you have new appointments or transitions in your company that belong here, please send the names of the appointees, new role and company, and prior role and company to newhires@gamesindustry.biz. CD Projekt Red announced a cohort of appointments for its leadership team in Boston to work on Project Orion.

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FOAMSTARS AVAILABLE NOW ON PLAYSTATION®PLUS

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Square Enix’s 4v4 Foam Party Shooter available at No Extra Cost until March 4 for PS+ Subscribers Season 1 “Starry Pop” kicks off today

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CVC Capital Partners is poised to acquire Jagex

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox CVC Capital Partners is reportedly in negotiations to purchase game studio Jagex. Per Sky News , £900 million is the amount of the deal to buy the developer from Carlyle Group.

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Pleasant – and Unpleasant – Surprises Await in Year 5 Season 3 of Tom Clancy’s The Division ® 2

Game Developer

In Year 5, Season 3: Hunters Are Now Embedded Within The Division; Massive Health Updates as a Result of Project Resolve

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Top Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Sessions at NVIDIA GTC 2024 Sessions

Nvidia

Join us in-person or virtually and learn about the power of RAG with insights and best practices from experts at NVIDIA, visionary CEOs, data scientists, and. Join us in-person or virtually and learn about the power of RAG with insights and best practices from experts at NVIDIA, visionary CEOs, data scientists, and others.

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Super Mario Bros. Wonder delivers record-breaking sales after over 10 million players ride the inchworm

Game Developer

The plumber and the pipe make history.

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Unreal February 2024 Asset Giveaway

Game From Scratch

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

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MEDIA ALERT: CROWDFUNDED MMORPG PANTHEON: RISE OF THE FALLEN INTRODUCES CONTENT SEASONS; ALLOWS ALL PLEDGES TO PLAY

Game Developer

Crowdfunded MMORPG opens content seasons to all pledges, regardless of level.

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Michael Blaker Looks Back at Those We Lost in 2023

Game Industry News

Hey all. I’m back with an important look at some of those amazing people that we lost last year. This is always a very sad column for me, and 2023 seemed to be particularly cruel in terms of taking those we admired. But everyone on this list leaves behind a great legacy which should be celebrated. I know I will miss people, but I am going to try and focus on the people who had a hand in the video game industry in some way or another.

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GIC’24 Introduces Early Bird Tickets

Game Developer

Accessibility, inclusiveness, and openness as guiding principles for the event

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Hello there. I have a question that still stuck in my mind lately. I have been playing games with an option to turn on “music player” or “custom radio station”. Games like GTA and Forza Horizon 3 (I think?) had this feature. My question is, how difficult is it to implement such feature? Because I rarely see this feature used these days. With the rise of music streaming platforms like Spotify or SoundCloud, wont it be easy to implement such feature?

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A jukebox feature isn't that difficult to build, it's just something that doesn't serve the intended experience for certain types of games. Games with a stronger focus on narrative will usually keep a tighter control of music in order to set the stage for the characters and their emotions, especially in narratively-important scenes. GTA straddles this line in their games - the jukebox is limited to gameplay only and does not break immersion during the story scenes.

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Prepare for a Mysterious Pixel-based Adventure: 'The Little Witch and the Lost Memories' Pre-Release Page is now on Steam

Game Developer

Studio Asahi Introduces Debut Game, 'The Little Witch and The Lost Memories

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On Your Tail is on IndieDB!

Indie DB

Our new open world / narrative / investigative / life-sim adventure On Your Tail finally lands on IndieDB! Can't wait to keep you all up to date on our progress!

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STEAM TRIGGER a new 2.5D Steampunk-Metroidvania game will be released in 2024

Game Developer

x-climb Inc. (Headquarters: Ginza, Tokyo; CEO Atsushi Iburi) will release a new 2.5D Steampunk-Metroidvania action adventure game "STEAM TRIGGER" on PC platforms and each consoles in 2024.

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Modification for AudioSource module (including native)

Cocos

take it easy @coimbra , you are not alone to feel that. That’s why I love open source I will try to update cocos source into 3.8.

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Paradox Announces Third Chapter of Updates for Crusader Kings III

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Chapter III Road Map Includes Two Expansions, The First One Coming March 04

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Alvara - Major updates

Indie DB

A list of all updates and new features in the game Alvara. A new member has joined the adventure! Come discover the game's latest additions!

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Pre-Registration Begins for Elesis(S), the Dark Alter Ego of Elesis!

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Pre-registration begins for the "dark alter ego of Elesis"

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Cocos Creator Firebase support

Cocos

I discussed the firebase supporting with google guys today. Both of us are short of resource to maintain a plugin. So we encourage if somebody can write a plugin and publish it to cocos creator store. But google guys can support firebase related questions. So if you guys have any firebase related issues, i can forward it to google guys.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Follow-up, codenamed Project Orion, grows in strength at CD PROJEKT RED North America

Game Developer

New team members join CD Projekt Red's follow-up to 'Cyberpunk 2077'

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Need Help With SDKs for Cocos Creator 3.X

Cocos

Sorry, there is no SDK for any of these services. A possible way to match your needs is to public Cocos Creator projects to Android Studio projects,and then integrate these services based on their SDK for Android.

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Official launch date for The Gauntlet on Steam

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Official launch date announced for 'fast-paced game of speed and skill.

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