Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2024

The studio founder believes that bringing Baldur's Gate 3 and other Larian titles to subscription services could result in a critical failure.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 17, 2024

My first encounter with Cassie Simpson was during the inaugural Xbox Game Studios Game Camp Africa in 2023. What caught my attention wasn’t just her confidence on the panel but the fact that she was not only a student pursuing three majors at Wits University she was also the Lead Concept artist at Chroma Pixel Games , a game studio based in Zambia.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2024

"The need for Thunderful to enact these changes stems primarily from over-investments made in the last few years.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2024

Thunderful Group has announced a restructuring programme to decrease costs, which will include both "significant staff reductions" and potential divestments, the company said. Around 20% of its workforce will be affected, Thunderful said, with the firm hoping to see the effects of the restructuring on its finances from the second half of 2024. The aim of the restructuring is to improve the firm's competitiveness, Thunderful added, by lowering costs and re-focusing on areas that bring it the most

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Matthew Gallant, game director of The Last of Us Part II Remastered, explains why No Return won't receive any future content updates.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The US Supreme Court has denied requests for appeals from both Epic and Apple, maintaining the ruling from the original antitrust trial in 2021. A court order , spotted by The Verge , rejects the appeals, meaning that the case is primarily a win for Apple. The only one of Epic's ten counts raised during the case upheld by the courts is for the iOS firm to cease its anti-steering practices, preventing developers to linki

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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2024

The studio is known for working on narrative titles like High School Story and Hollywood U.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sparks of Hope was previously dubbed a flop by Ubisoft, but discounts and word of mouth have given it more of a fighting chance.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2024

Square Enix has confirmed that upcoming online shooter Foamstars includes AI-generated art. As reported by VGC , Foamstars producer Kosuke Okatani said the development team used generative AI tool Midjourney which generates art from text descriptions. "All of the core elements in Foamstars – the core gameplay, and the things that make the game enjoyable – those are all made by hand," Okatani said.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2024

The UK studio blamed the cuts on dwindling investment opportunities and the "challenging" industry landscape.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The list of games studios suffering layoffs continues to grow with California-based Pixelberry Studios the latest to dismiss some of its employees. Game Developer reported that an unknown number of staff have been made redundant at the Nexon-owned mobile studio, with many sharing their departure via LinkedIn.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2024

Everywhere is being developed by Build A Rocket Boy, the studio founded by former Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2024

Build A Rocket Boy today announced that it has closed a $110 million Series D funding round to help the studio launch a trio of "flagship" products. Those three projects are the open-world experience Everywhere, the story-driven action adventure MindsEye, and Arcadia, a set of user-generated content tools. The first episode of MindsEye will launch "in the near future.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2024

Supermassive's 2015 interactive game is the next PlayStation exclusive Sony is bringing to theaters.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2024

Support studio Pole to Win is the latest games firm to be hit by layoffs. According to a report by Kotaku , 45 people have lost their jobs. Former employees told the publication that the layoffs mostly affected QA staffers from outside the US, but other departments have also been affected. "PTW made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce in several countries where we operate," the company confirmed in a statement.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2024

Bethesda tries its hand again at bringing its Elder Scrolls franchise to mobile audiences.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 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 Despite being a straight-A student in school and going on to graduate with a first from Abertay University, Eilidh MacLeod – now a senior game designer at Media Molecule – never felt that she was good enough.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2024

Separating event tracking from character knowledge.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2024

EA Sports FC 24 is back at the top of the UK physical charts, pushing Hogwarts Legacy to second place. GfK's report showed the former FIFA title saw a 42% increase in sales mostly on PS4 and PS5 due to price promotions. Mortal Kombat 1 skyrocketed back into the charts at No.3 due to retailer discounts on PS5, followed by Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate No.4 with a slight decrease in sales by 27%.

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Rocket Brush Studio

JANUARY 17, 2024

Embrace a future where mobile app testing efficiency becomess a strategic force powered by advanced AI and ML. Unveil how these techrevolutionize the domain, ensure exceptional user experiences, and establishing quality standards.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2024

Netspeak Games yesterday confirmed in a blog post on the studio's official site that it has begun the consultation process to lay off 25 employees. Netspeak CEO Callum Cooper-Brighting said the Sunshine Days developer had difficulty finding new investment over the past year. "When we realised that without extra financial support (needed to combat the rise in price of [user acquisition] across all channels as well as to keep cash flowing for a game with a long payback period) and after considerin

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Indie DB

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Lab and Dungeons will be released on 17 Jan, 2024! We are so excited to show you the game with the new trailer and some screenshots!

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Nvidia

JANUARY 17, 2024

The NVIDIA PyG container, now generally available, packages PyTorch Geometric with accelerations for GNN models, dataloading, and pre-processing using. The NVIDIA PyG container, now generally available, packages PyTorch Geometric with accelerations for GNN models, dataloading, and pre-processing using cuGraph-Ops, cuGraph, and cuDF from NVIDIA RAPIDS , all with an effortless out-of-the-box experience.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 17, 2024

I tried to play the game on my PC via Steam. Unfortunately, it was a frustrating experience because I kept encountering stuttering, low fps, freezing, and other performance issues while playing. So I tried some old methods and looked for fixes on various gaming websites. The most efficient solutions I discovered are listed below, but I would recommend playing the game on your mobile device for the time being.

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Cocos

JANUARY 17, 2024

With Cocos Creator 3.8.1 our last project reports a lot of errors. This device does not support WebGL2. That’s weird because 95% of browsers should be compatible with WebGL2. I found that the game is little lit slow during the first 10 seconds and 3D Particle Systems are not working. But after 10 seconds the game works well with all FX OK.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 17, 2024

I tried playing this game right after its official launch, and I had a lot of fun for a few hours. However, after I restarted my PC, Contain started crashing during the launch, while I was playing, on the loading screen, and randomly. So, I had no choice but to troubleshoot the problem. Fortunately, I’ve managed to pull it through, and below you will find the most efficient methods that have worked for me so far.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark Overview In my first blog project, the Tactics RPG, I included a lesson on pathfinding over a 3D board. In that project, we had some unique challenges thanks to a non-square board where tiles were optional. In addition we had to consider tile heights – and whether or not a unit could jump as high as needed.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 17, 2024

I tried playing Contain with my friends after the game officially launched, but I noticed various performance-related problems such as low FPS, stuttering, and screen freezing. Fortunately, by combining my previous experiences with the guidance of veteran players, I managed to fix the problems and boost my overall performance. You can find everything that worked for me so far below.

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Game Wisdom

JANUARY 17, 2024

Best Shooters of 2023 Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com 2023 was a year with a variety of shooters of all booming styles, and here are my favorites of the genre, not counting those that are still in early access at the time of me writing this. 1: Remnant 2 … The post Best Shooters of 2023 appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Cocos

JANUARY 17, 2024

With Cocos Creator 3.8.1 our last project reports a lot of errors. This device does not support WebGL2. That’s weird because 95% of browsers should be compatible with WebGL2. I found that the game is little lit slow during the first 10 seconds and 3D Particle Systems are not working. But after 10 seconds the game works well with all FX OK.

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Perforce

JANUARY 17, 2024

Helix Core Cloud is the fastest path to scalable version control for teams under 50. Learn about this new managed & hosted version control offering by Perforce.

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Cocos

JANUARY 17, 2024

Hello, I want to open a web page with external URL from the Android or iOS application. The window.open() doesn’t work with TypeScript. Is there a fonction to do this?

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Game Development News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Outright Games and Humble Bundle have extended the duration of the Heroes of Film & Television Humble Bundle

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Artoon

JANUARY 17, 2024

“Mobile app development” is not a new term. The emergence of new […] The post Why Has Outsourcing App Development Become a New Norm in the IT Landscape? appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Digital Ephemera

JANUARY 17, 2024

While I thought my work on Extwee would temporarily end with its newer 2.2.0 update , I’ve continued to work on the code and refine things based on some issues raised around edge cases using special characters in Twee output from Twine. This has meant returning to how I was testing different input and, accidentally, learning more about console testing in the framework I use named Jest.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sure. You can get a job as a [ producer ], a [ designer ], an [ artist ], or a [ tester ]. For a more detailed breakdown of many common development roles in the industry, [ read this post ]. As always the Game Career FAQ is always a helpful read. [ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] [ Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Cocos

JANUARY 17, 2024

Is it possible to check build type (for example, if it is debug build or not) via Typescript? For example, I want to turn on cheat menu for testing, by adding or removing cheat button from scene. Now I have to manually comment related code before building release version, and I’m looking for a way to automate this process.

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