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JANUARY 2, 2024

All signs suggest it was a record-breaking year for new releases on Steam.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Sony has been fined €13.5 million by French antitrust regulator Autorité de la Concurrence , which has accused the company of "abusing its dominant position in the market" by restricting third-party PlayStation 4 controllers. Filed by the regulator last month following a referral from French controller manufacturer Subsonic, its investigation found that Sony put counterfeiting measures in place in November 2015 that caused third-party controllers to regularly disconnect from the conso

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Game Developer

JANUARY 2, 2024

Jukai Studio closed its doors hours after its publishing partner Versus Evil and two months after the launch of its debut game, Stray Souls.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2024

Jukai Studio announced its closure over the holidays, despite launching its horror survival title Stray Souls last October. In a statement shared to social media on December 22, the developer cited "many reasons" for its decision to shut down, including the closure of its publisher Versus Evil , cyberbullying, poor reception to Stray Souls, and bad sales.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 2, 2024

A legal battle that began in 2020 has finally come to an end.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2024

Square Enix will be actively pushing into the generative AI field, exploring how it can be used in the company's internal games development. The plans emerge from the Japanese publisher's annual New Year's Letter from its company president – this time penned by Takashi Kiryu, who took over from Yosuke Matsuda after the latter stepped down at the end of his ten-year tenure.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 2, 2024

French regulators learned Sony spent nearly a decade "abusing its dominant position" for PlayStation 4 controllers and harming third-party manufacturers.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 2, 2024

"I believe that generative AI has the potential not only to reshape what we create, but also to fundamentally change the processes by which we create.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Frogwares has announced that it is the sole publisher of The Sinking City. The developer of the 2019 eldritch horror will be publishing the title on all platforms.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 2, 2024

Sega is shaking up the leadership of its European division as it begins to revive old series like Shinobi and Crazy Taxi for a new generation.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2024

Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley and CTO Chris Kingsley have been made 'Commanders of the Order of the British Empire' in the King's New Year's Honours List. The co-founders of the UK game developer had already received OBEs (Officers of the Order of the British Empire) in 2019 (for Chris) and 2012 (for Jason). They've both received CBEs for services to the creative industries.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 2, 2024

Day of the Devs head curator Greg Rice jams with us about what game-focused events may look like in the coming years.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 2, 2024

Experimental horror survival with elements of science fiction and RPG. A story between life and death in a stylized game origami world. Bukkaku created by Lukas Reznicek in the game engine Unity.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 2, 2024

2023 may have just ended, but there's still awards for Baldur's Gate 3 to win.

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2024

The interesting gameplay of the camera’s perspective, to achieve the same visual performance of “Don’t Starve” We highly recommend watching the video as you read this tutorial to get a full understanding of the tutorial. Introduction The visual presentation of the game of Octopath Traveler and Don’t Starve is very interesting. You can clearly know that it is a 2D material, but it presents a feeling of a 3D world.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Sega Europe has announced some big changes to its leadership structure, including the return of former president Jurgen Post. Post rejoins as COO of West Studios and regional managing director as of today. He previously served as president and COO for Sega Europe from 2012 to 2017, during what the publisher described as a "period of exponential growth.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 2, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Unreal January 2024 Asset Giveaway It’s a new year and its time for the first Epic Games Unreal Engine asset giveaway for January 2024. The first Tuesday of every month Epic Games give away a number of Unreal Engines from the UE Asset Marketplace and January is no exception. This month we have 5 “Free … Unreal January 2024 Asset Giveaway Read More The post Unreal January 2024 Asset Giveaway appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2024

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. Technicolor Creative Studios has appointed Bill Polson as its new Chief Technology Officer.

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The Astronauts

JANUARY 2, 2024

I left Unity at start of 2022. So for this lazy Tuesday afternoon, figured I can share the rambles I wrote in my goodbye email. No big insights there, just old man reminiscing. And hey the text is already written, so that makes it easy to copy-pasta it into the blog: It’s now exactly 16 years of me working at Unity. And as everyone knows, if you don’t leave after 16 years, you have to wait until 32 years for your next chance (look, I don’t make the rules).

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2024

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. Natalya Tatarchuk has announced that she is Activision's newest chief technology officer.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 2, 2024

SEGA Europe has announced changes to its executive leadership structure

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Rocket Brush Studio

JANUARY 2, 2024

This new blog will delve into the fundamentals of endurance testing, including essential monitoring procedures, testing methods, real-world examples, and tools.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 2, 2024

If you encountered either stuttering or freezing while playing Rust, don’t worry. I ran into the same issues and managed to fix them quite easily by using my previous knowledge and some help from veteran players from the gaming communities. How to fix the stuttering and freezing issues in Rust? Before trying the more detailed fixes, try to solve the stuttering and freezing issues in Rust by going through the workarounds below: Run the Game as Administrator: Boost your Rust performance by r

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2024

Hi everyones, I have a problem with Editbox of cocos on web mobile. My game build to web mobile platforms with landscape orient ,and when i editing label on editbox while my phone is portrait.The label disappear utitl editbox cancel like the image i post here. I hope someone can help me with this probem. My cocos version is 2.4.6. Thanks all!

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Game Wisdom

JANUARY 2, 2024

Best Action Games of 2023 Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com There were a lot of fantastic action games this year and the runners-up and best of this time all stand out takes on the genre. For the runner ups, you can check them out in the video. 1: Armored Core … The post Best Action Games of 2023 appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2024

Greetings, fellow developers. The ejs template files have entries like. I would like to edit the content of these includes. Where can I find them? I looked at the cocos-engine repo for these entries but didn’t find anything. Thanks in advance!

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 2, 2024

There's no special difference behind the scenes between developing free and paid DLC. My salary and compensation doesn't change depending on the kind of content I work on. All DLC development pulls from the same "ongoing development for the game" budget, be it free or paid. Paid content funds the ongoing development and free content is created primarily for player retention.

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2024

As the title suggests, my requirement is to preview the project in a mode similar to the published web-mobile version, which resizes the canvas when the window is resized. I attempted to customize the preview template using index.ejs. However, it is only designed to add things. After tracing through the engine code, it appears that screen-adpater.ts might be related to this issue.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2024

Hogwarts Legacy ends 2023 as the UK’s biggest physical video game. It means EA Sports FC 24 was unable to catch Warner Bros' Harry Potter spin-off. Hogwarts Legacy launched in February on PS5, PC and Xbox Series S and X, while EA’s football title landed in September. It is the first time in a decade that EA’s football game, previously operating under the FIFA licence, isn’t the UK’s top boxed game.

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2024

Hi, I’m trying to create a common module for my multiple projects, so I can share assets between them (prefabs, code, media…). As suggested by cocos devs on other posts, I’m trying to achieve this by creating a new extension and mounting a shared assets folder following the documentation on “Extending the Database (DB)”. I’ve added the assets folder with readonly=false, so I can drag and drop assets between the current project and the common extension. package.json: "contributions": { "asset-db"

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2024

I’m attempting to make a UI mask with a sprite stencil. I have a shader that I’ve made that essentially takes the sprite and adds a glitchy effect to it… (like a static glitch on a hologram display) It works great with sprites and does exactly what I want it to do. It does a great job taking the edges of a sprite and distorting them a little bit in an animated way.

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2024

cocos2d-js-min.aa282.js:1 TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading ‘getExtension’) at 303.n._initExtensions (cocos2d-js-min.aa282.js:1:901819) at new i (cocos2d-js-min.aa282.js:1:900677) at Object.initWebGL (cocos2d-js-min.aa282.js:1:629068) at Object._initRenderer (cocos2d-js-min.aa282.js:1:138397) at Object._initEngine (cocos2d-js-min.aa282.js:1:133500) at Object.

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