Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

After 30 years with Sony and 4 years as the boss of PlayStation, Jim Ryan is stepping down as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The winners of the 2023 GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards for the UK have been revealed, with the prizes given during a ceremony held today at BAFTA in London. The awards, now in their seventh year, aim to make the video games industry a better place to work in by celebrating the companies that best support their staff and address the issues that continue to be raised by games professionals around the world.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Triple-A games only really became $70 last year, but Capcom president Harushiro Tsujimoto believes they could stand to be priced a little higher.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

PlayStation CEO and president Jim Ryan will retire at the end of this year, the company has announced. He will be succeeded on an interim basis by Sony Group Corporation President, COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki. Totoki will assume the role of SIE chairman from next month. Ryan is a 30-year veteran of PlayStation. He joined the company in 1994 ahead of the release of the first PlayStation, and has since held senior roles launching PS2, PS3, PS4 and PS5, alongside the handheld PSP and PS Vita consoles

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Bringing Xbox to VR changes how cloud games can be played and helps the service branch out without Microsoft needing to create its own VR device.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Monopoly Go has been an instant success for Scopely. The game launched in April, and topped the US mobile charts in August. And this is during a time when the mobile market has been so hostile that mobile publisher Playtika has given up on new releases for the moment because it believes they just aren't economically viable. In speaking with Scopely's GM of Monopoly Go and VP of product Massimo Maietti, the game's success in the face of a challenging market is the first thing we ask about.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Though his time making Mickey Mouse games was short, Spector still thinks of the Epic Mickey series as a high point over his 40-year career as a game developer.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Days before EA rebrands the sports series with EA Sports Sports FC 24 , games with the FIFA title from the past decade have been abruptly delisted from digital stores.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Blizzard Entertainment has announced that Chris Metzen has been named as executive creative director of Warcraft. The news comes nine months after he returned to the company as a creative advisor on the Warcraft team. He returned to the studio six years after retiring.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The developers behind Alan Wake II discuss the series' big return and why second protagonist was needed to anchor the adventure of the titular writer.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Supercell is ready to move beyond mobile, as the company today confirmed that it has acquired a majority stake in Melbourne-based Ultimate Studio "to explore Supercell's ambitions to expand to other platforms." Ultimate is the studio behind the arcade-style racing game Hot Lap League, which is available on Steam for PCs and as a premium app on Google Play and the App Store.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Activision Blizzard appears to have laid off 10 employees in a restructuring of the Hearthstone team.

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The Astronauts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Previous post was about making Gaussian Splatting data sizes smaller (both in-memory and on-disk). This one is still about the same topic! Now we look into clustering / VQ. Spherical Harmonics take up a lot of space! In raw uncompressed Gaussian Splat data, majority of the data is Spherical Harmonics coefficients. If we ignore the very first SH coefficient (which we treat as “a color”), the rest is 45 floating point numbers for each splat (15 numbers for R,G,B channels each).

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The historical strategy game puts players in charge of one of the ancient world’s mightiest empires in new add-on

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Real Programming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It isn’t easy serving two masters! People with multiple passions often struggle to find enough time to devote to both. Kids who are hungry to learn computer programming need ample time to study, experiment, and play with the code. Coding is a discipline as open-ended as your skills and imagination. Once you grasp the fundamentals, kids can build things like their own games or custom Minecraft modifications.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Dive into a world drenched in war in this upcoming colony sim

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Image credit: Jamie Madigan Jamie Madigan is the host of popular podcast The Psychology of Video Games , and the author of multiple books that look into why people play games. His books include The Engagement Game: Why Your Workplace Culture Should Look More Like a Video Game, which looks at ways of applying lessons from the psychology of video games into being a better manager or leader through employee engagement, goal setting, feedback, training, competition and teamwork.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

With over 100 cards available, use your spells and creatures to defeat deadly Beasts in this dark-fantasy boss rush

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Stride For Unity Developers Ever since the massive backlash over the Unity Runtime Fee many Unity developers have been looking at the alternative game engines. To help users in this process we have started the __ Game Engine for Unity developers series starting with the Godot Game Engine, followed by the Defold Game Engine. … Stride For Unity Developers Read More The post Stride For Unity Developers appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Explore the wilderness, learn ritual magic, and craft potions to fight demonic hordes overrunning the lands!

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Activision Blizzard has laid off some developers from the Hearthstone team, the company confirmed to Kotaku senior reporter Ethan Gach. Gach reported last night that 10 people within the Hearthstone team were let go without notice as part of a restructuring. "Organizational changes were made to the Hearthstone team," an Activision Blizzard representative told Gach.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Take a closer look at games that make you flex your brain muscles!

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Sony has announced that it is investigating that a ransomware group claims to have breached its systems. As reported by Cyber Security Connect , the hacker group Ransomed.vc has taken credit for the alleged attack. The cohort claims the entertainment firm will not pay for the data; it is now for sale with no listed price tag.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Cross-platform mobile and PC MMORPG Tarisland to be scored by Three-Time Emmy Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated composer Russell Brower

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Nexon's MapleStory M has amassed $600 million in lifetime earnings. Per Sensor Tower , the MMORPG pulled in the consumer revenue figure from its launch date of October 13, 2016 to September 20, 2023.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

New demo version of cosy adventure lets you get a taste of the game and play along with your friends

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox On the 20-year anniversary of King, the firm has announced that Candy Crash Saga has earned $20 billion in consumer spending. The match-3 puzzle game initially launched in 2012 and has regularly seen new content updates.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Next month's console launch horrifies us on so many levels.

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Game Industry News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a Xianxia genre book for this week’s Bookish Wednesday. It’s “Fates Parallel Volume 01” by DarkTechnomancer. Plot: The plot of this first book is pretty amazing, though it does lean into certain stereotypical plot devices like the arrogant young master and inscrutable teacher. It also diverges quite a bit with the standout notable example that the story is about two girls, both of whom were forced to become criminals in order to survive, and the both of them e

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

PSVR2 version goes from strength to strength.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

My cocos creator version is 3.7.4 and my Xcode version is 14.2 When I build any project to iOS, cmake was failed. build log: 2023-9-27 10:03:35-debug: generateCMakeConfig, {“CC_USE_GLES3”:“set(CC_USE_GLES3 OFF)”,“CC_USE_GLES2”:“set(CC_USE_GLES2 OFF)”,“USE_SERVER_MODE”:“set(USE_SERVER_MODE OFF)”,“NET_MODE”:“set(NET_MODE 0)”,“XXTEAKEY”:"",“CC_ENABLE_SWAPPY”:“set(CC_ENABLE_SWAPPY OFF)”,“APP_NAME”:“set(APP_NAME NewProject_1)”,“COCOS_X_PATH”:“set(COCOS_X_PATH “/Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Open world survival title with a focus on time travel will be out on October 11th in Early Access. or will it?

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I use x-ray effect with 2 materials. 1 for x-ray, 1 for default. But i dont know how to pass them in the same MeshRender. Someone can help me pls.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

2D pixel-art horror adventure out in mid-October.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I use x-ray effect with 2 materials. 1 for x-ray, 1 for default. But i dont know how to pass them in the same MeshRender. Someone can help me pls.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Shy Cats Hidden Orchestra: A Musical Delight on Nintendo Switch!

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I use x-ray effect with 2 materials. 1 for x-ray, 1 for default. But i dont know how to pass them in the same MeshRender. Someone can help me pls.

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