Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
Riot's women staff saw the majority of its $104 million settlement, which arose from a 2018 lawsuit alleging the studio's yearslong culture of sexism.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Focus Entertainment released its third-quarter earnings report, posting a 43% decrease; this was partly attributed to no major releases during the three months ending December 31. The games firm also announced that on April 1, it will be rebranding to Pullup Entertainment.
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Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
"Consolidation of wealth and power inevitably breeds complacency and contempt for workers and consumers.
PreMortem.Games
JANUARY 23, 2024
The Powell Group , a full-service game consultancy, and Representing Games , the agency label of game industry matchmaker MeetToMatch, are collaborating. By joining forces the two companies will leverage their complementary strengths to create an allround agency for publishers and developers alike. The collaboration between The Powell Group and Representing Games will focus on providing support for developers and publishers, assisting them in growing their company.
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
Asking the right questions about the nature of humanity helped expand upon the game's humble arcade origins.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 2024
Consulting firm Nordicity is well-versed on the subject of tax credits for the games industry. It has worked with trade groups around the world, helping them explain to legislators how tax breaks can help make their regions more competitive. It has also worked on the other side of the equation, helping governments that are either exploring the idea, or have already settled on tax breaks but need help with the logistics of implementing them.
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
"Some of the significant investments we've made aren't paying off the way we expected them to.
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Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
The South Korean publisher attributed the closure to "market changes" within the metaverse industry.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 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 When thinking about the games industry, we naturally think about the people and companies making the games, and so assume it's an industry only for those with hard technical skills. But as a £7.05 billion industry in the UK alone (based on the UK Consumer Games Market Valuation in 2022 ), there's many moving parts that make up the industry t
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
NVIDIA's AI tech can't beat out improv performances from real actors.
OPM Jobs
JANUARY 23, 2024
It is with a heavy heart that I share some difficult news regarding the future of One Player Mission. After careful consideration and evaluation, it is with great sadness that I must announce my decision to cease trading. This has been an incredibly challenging decision for me, and it comes after thorough examination of all available options. As we move into 2024, despite our best efforts I cannot see how OPM can remain profitable and overcome the difficulties that have arisen in the games indus
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
Focus' name change comes amid reorganizations and an expected slump for 2023-2024's third quarter.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The IWGB Game Workers union saw its membership increase by nearly half from December 2022 to December 2023. As reported by The Observer , people have joined in response to the mass wave of layoffs across gaming.
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
After killing the Overwatch League late last year, Blizzard is rebirthing Overwatch 2's esports scene with a brand new league.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 2024
League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced that it's laying off 11% of its workforce, representing 530 employees. The layoffs primarily impacted teams "outside of core development," CEO Dylan Jadeja said in a lengthy update on Riot's website. The employees affected will receive a minimum of six months of severance pay, a cash bonus, and extensive support including hardware if needed, job placement services, additional pay for health insurance, and more.
Game Developer
JANUARY 23, 2024
The mobile RPG launched less than three years ago.
Perforce
JANUARY 23, 2024
IEC 81001-5-1 is a healthcare standard that goes beyond covering medical devices, addressing cybersecurity at every phase of the SDLC for various types of health software. From medical diagnosis software to yoga apps, IEC 81001-5-1 helps organizations ensure software security.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 2024
The global games market is expected to generate $189.3 billion in 2024, Newzoo estimated in its latest report. Exploring upcoming trends, the data firm indicated that the market recovered last year and will slowly grow in 2024 and beyond. The compound annual growth rate from 2021 through 2026 was estimated at 1.3%. Newzoo said the market generated an estimated $184 billion in 2023, a small 0.6% increase over 2022, which itself was down 5% year-on-year.
Indie DB
JANUARY 23, 2024
Showcase of a new area: Hillstowe Abbey - A hamlet rests near, where inhabitants lend a helping hand to pilgrims - "The Name of the Rose" vibes here.
AWS Games
JANUARY 23, 2024
In this blog, we explore the challenges Gaggle Studios faced with DDoS attacks due to the success of their online game, ‘Goose Goose Duck.’ We’ll delve into how they navigated these challenges and implemented effective mitigation strategies. ‘Goose Goose Duck,’ a game of social deduction created by Gaggle Studios, stands out in the online gaming realm.
Indie DB
JANUARY 23, 2024
Madrigal Wraith combat test, the scythe weapon ground strike was a lot of tricky work using animation events to trigger all the fx etc, it also has a damage collider attached to the prefab projectile trail which follows the trajectory to damage the player.
Game Development News
JANUARY 23, 2024
One Player Mission (OPM, formerly OPMJobs and OPM Response) has announced its decision to close down after 26 years of providing recruitment services to the UK games industry
Juego Studio
JANUARY 23, 2024
Accessibility is crucial to building high-quality and popular games in today’s era. As the technologies evolve, there is a paradigm shift towards creating cross-platform games among developers to cater to the growing demand.
Ask a Game Dev
JANUARY 23, 2024
Whenever I do solo dev work, the feature that always takes the longest and tends to require the most work to get something playable by actual players is the UI. Building out the gameplay features is always a lot of fun, but you can only go so far by fiddling with variables and restarting. There's always a significant amount of UI groundwork that needs to be done in order to make a game playable at all, just because of how much information needs to be conveyed to the player.
Game Wisdom
JANUARY 23, 2024
The Darkest of Difficulty Design Discussions Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this roundtable discussion, our group talked about Darkest Dungeon 2 and the rise of difficult games. Why it’s a lot harder than you might think to make a hard game, and what are the reasons and … The post The Darkest of Difficulty Design Discussions appeared first on Game Wisdom.
Game Development News
JANUARY 23, 2024
Here are the key upcoming events and releases to mark in your calendar for January 2024
Cocos
JANUARY 23, 2024
Is it possible to serializable for Generic type? @ccclass('Dictionary') export class Dictionary<K> { @property([String]) keys: string[] = [] @property([K]) //Can not do this, cause K is a type, not a value value: string[] = [] } After this, I have a component storage the Dictionarty value @ccclass export class DComp extends cc.Component { @property(Dictionary/**<cc.Component>**/) dic: Dictionary<cc.Component> = new Dictionarty<cc.Component>(); } So, the DComp only
Game Development News
JANUARY 23, 2024
Paul Gouge and Alex Rigby have announced that they’re opening a new mobile free-to-play game studio
Cocos
JANUARY 23, 2024
I use Creator 3.8.0 and for some reason, for last couple of days, when I’m trying to build native Android app, after “Build” step, there’s no files in ‘buildandroiddatasrccocos-js’. Make step works fine, but after that I have broken APK which shows only black screen, because it couldn’t load ‘srccocos-jscc.js’. I tried turning on “MD5 Cache” Build option and then I got error ‘’[Assets] ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename ‘[PROJECT_PATH]buildandroiddatasrccocos-jscc.js’ → ‘[PR.
Cocos
JANUARY 23, 2024
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