EA desperately wants investors to know it's on the generative AI bandwagon
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
EA execs say the technology is at the 'very core' of its business and could propel user generated experiences to new heights.
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Blurring lines: How AAA and indies can benefit each other | Opinion
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
As an industry, we're currently caught in a perfect storm of rapidly-evolving technology and the spiraling demands of modern AAA games, with a huge number of developers working for years to meet the level of scale and fidelity audiences have grown to expect.
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Report: Behaviour Interactive shutters Midwinter Entertainment after scrapping Dead by Daylight spinoff
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'My time with Midwinter Entertainment has come to an abrupt end due to the studio closure.
Midwinter reportedly shut down following Project T cancellation
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
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Square Enix: Final Fantasy XVI and Final Fantasy Rebirth 'did not meet our expectations'
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Both Final Fantasy titles and Foamstars didn't meet the sales targets Square Enix set for them, and its entire HD games section operated at a loss.
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Hi, The camera follows late and with jerkiness the player in update() i’m simply setting the velocity value and getting it’s updated position to set to camera node import { _decorator, Camera, Component, EventKeyboard, input, Input, KeyCode, math, Node, RigidBody, RigidBody2D, Vec2, Vec3 } from 'cc'; const { ccclass, property } = _decorator; @ccclass('cubeMovement') export class cubeMovement extends Component { public rigidBody:RigidBody2D; left right speed.
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I’m willing to accept that AAA games should often be sold at a higher price to help deal balance the increasing cost of development. Do you think that companies would do better to raise prices quickly and wait out the sticker-shock or to try and raise prices very slowly to attract less attention?
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
I'm pretty sure that, as an industry, we've mostly already moved beyond that. Haven't you noticed just how many AAA game releases these days aren't about a single sale but live service? The live service model is the price increase. The cost of development for AAA fidelity games is mostly too high now to be profitable on their own. The only real exceptions are grandfathered franchises (e.g.
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[Open Source] Rouglite Hack-n-Slash game
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