Game Developer

MAY 9, 2023

Here's why Guerrilla Games decided to advance Aloy's story in Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores —even though it's DLC.

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Unity Blog

MAY 9, 2023

In this blog, Unity’s Kristijonas Jalnionis walks through updates he has made to the original Sponza environment to help Unity developers.

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Game Developer

MAY 9, 2023

The media funding body is offering non-repayable grants of up to $150,000 per year to studios operated by First Nations people.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Nintendo reported declines across the board in its financial results for the twelve months ended March 31, 2023, with gross profit down 6.4% to ¥885.4 billion ($6.6 billion). The Switch firm attributed part of its lower performance to hardware issues, particularly the troubles it has had with semiconductor supplies.

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Game Developer

MAY 9, 2023

The Nintendo Switch just topped 125 million lifetime sales, but Nintendo seems to think the console has peaked.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2023

Since the open beta launch of Black Desert Online in 2014, Pearl Abyss has been synonymous with its flagship PC MMORPG. But the Korean company has been working to grow its business, opening offices in North America and Europe, bringing Black Desert Online to consoles and mobile, and more recently announcing plans for three new games: Crimson Desert, DokeV, and Plan 8.

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 9, 2023

The Transformative Landscape of Game Development: A Deep Dive with Willem Delventhal As a digital ecosystem thrives and transforms at a rapid pace, a recent conversation with game designer and educator Willem Delventhal offered insights into the evolving realm of game development. From the nuances of technological advancements to the ideological tug of war between indie creators and corporate giants, the discussion spanned a variety of pertinent topics within the gaming industry.

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Game Developer

MAY 9, 2023

Prominent Flash game designer (and current Armor games CEO) Jon Cooney on creating The Elephant Collection for Steam and the importance of preserving titles from a particularly creative era.

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Game Errors

MAY 9, 2023

Friday the 13th: The Game is one of the most anticipated horror titles of this year, maybe of all time. Some players are receiving the following error “Database Login Failure, Verify Internet Connectivity” Apparently, this is another server issue and because of that, you are unable to log in to the game. This occurs on the following devices: PC PS4, PS5 Xbox One If you are one of the users experiencing this issue, you’ve come to the right place because we will help you fix your

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Game Developer

MAY 9, 2023

Game Freak teams with Private Division in what marks the Pokemon developer's first collaboration with a western publisher.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Private Division, a Take-Two subsidiary, has announced a new publishing partnership with Pokémon developer Game Freak. The company will publish Game Freak's new action-adventure IP, Project Bloom.

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Game Developer

MAY 9, 2023

Nintendo's ongoing post-launch support for Mario Kart 8 appears to have paid off, as the six-year-old racer continues to dominate the Nintendo Switch's sales chart.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2023

PlayStation has revealed a new initiative to support emerging independent game makers in India. The India Hero Project offers developers funding and resources to help developers bring their games to market, including financial help (a minimum of $100,000), marketing, access to dev kits and tech support, plus other promotional opportunities. Developers in India can also make use of PlayStation Studios' internal resources and expertise.

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Game Developer

MAY 9, 2023

This is the first time Sony has discussed the sequel's sales performance.

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Rocket Brush Studio

MAY 9, 2023

Mobile testing of Salesforce applications is crucial for businesses to effectively manage their customer relationship management (CRM) activities. However, the increased number of features within the Salesforce mobile app poses a challenge in ensuring that it performs optimally. The conventional manual testing approach, involving verification on all potential devices and operating systems, can be time-consuming and prone to errors, ultimately resulting in quality issues and delayed delivery.

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Game Developer

MAY 9, 2023

The popular battle royale is the only thing Krafton's new financial report doesn't play coy about.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Captain Velvet Meteor was the second game released by the cross-continental indie gaming studio Momo-pi. Founded in 2018 but working together on a small prototype project in the years leading towards the group’s official foundation, this loose collective of developers has crossed cultures from Europe to Japan and worked on award-winning titles for both mobile and consoles, both alone and with major Japanese publis

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Game Developer

MAY 9, 2023

The India Hero Project will provide successful applicants with funding, development resources, and more.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox EA released its fourth quarter and 2022 fiscal year earnings report today, with full-year revenues up 6% to reach a total of $7.4 billion. While the company's Q4 period saw revenues up less than 3%, it also saw a bump of 11% year-on-year for net bookings driven by the EA Sports FIFA series.

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MAY 9, 2023

How the game was designed to motivate players through systems and environment.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox PUBG publisher Krafton's Q1 2023 earnings was up 3% year-over-year, reaching $408 million in consumer spending.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

Written by Laura Taranto and Ahmetcan Demirel , both senior product leaders with vast experience in casual games. Tune in to the Deconstructor of Fun podcast where Laura co-hosts the notorious This Week in Games (TWIG) segment and make sure to read Laura’s previous analysis: Royal Match - The New King from Turkey? the editor’s note: Why should you care about Dream Games?

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2023

Screen Australia has announced the creation of the First Nations Game Studio fund, with applications already open. Announcing the initiative yesterday , the funding body said it will support studios "currently operating and primarily under the leadership and creative control of First Nations people." The fund will particularly be targeting established studios that "invested in creating a culturally safe space for First Nations people to grow their skills in game development.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 9, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Cyclops Level Builder For Godot Cyclops is a new free and open source add-on for the Godot game engine that enables rapid level creation. This enables you to rapidly block-in or white box levels in Godot, with tools for block creation, quick texturing, snapping and more. Cyclops is hosted on GitHub and is released under … Cyclops Level Builder For Godot Read More The post Cyclops Level Builder For Godot appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 Release Notes Download Cocos Creator 3.7.3 from the Cocos Dashboard. ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., and added new interfaces, such as addRenderTarget、addDepthStencil, etc. Which are used for improving JS memory recycling. ● Custom Render Pipeline added support for Offscreen Window & RT Raster ● The renderer component now provides a clearer Materi

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Game Errors

MAY 9, 2023

Many players complain about Minecraft Legends low memory warning that pops up randomly and makes the game unplayable. This issue is known to the team developing the game, but until they patch it, you can follow our ultimate list of solutions. Are you having performance issues when playing this strategic spinoff of the famous sandbox game? Learn how to increase FPS in Minecraft Legends.

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Game Wisdom

MAY 9, 2023

Double Reviews of Dungeons of Aether and Wall World Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" This is a double review of Dungeons of Aether and Wall World, played with a gift key and press key respectively. 0:00 Intro 0:22 Dungeons of Aether 5:31 Wall World … The post Double Reviews of Dungeons of Aether and Wall World appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 9, 2023

No. This is because E3’s importance is no longer the fact it’s a lot of companies all gathering in one place anymore. E3’s actual importance is the calendar date that it was held - mid June. Even if E3 were to go away permanently, we would likely still see large publisher announcements and press conferences happen during the time E3 used to be held, because game publishers still need to market and announce new games.

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Game Errors

MAY 9, 2023

Elden Ring is a new but very interesting game by FromSoftware available on different platforms, but several of its players have reported that Elden Ring keeps crashing on the PC both at startup and during gameplay. In this article, we have discussed a series of troubleshooting methods you should perform to get rid of the crashing problem and have the best experience with the Elden Ring game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2023

GamesIndustry.biz parent ReedPop just made it easier for you to keep up with things in the business of video games. Today we've added the ability for you to follow topics on all of our sites. Use it to follow video games, companies, or the biggest stories in the industry (for example, the Microsoft ABK acquisition ). Simply use the 'Follow' button next to each tag at the bottom of the article.

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Game Errors

MAY 9, 2023

If you are wondering why is the Age of Wonders 4 multiplayer not working, you are in a good place! We discovered the most common causes and compiled a list of solutions you can apply to fix the issues with AoW 4 multiplayer effortlessly. If none of the games work on your PC, learn what to do when games aren’t launching. Why is Age of Wonders 4 multiplayer not working?

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Game Daily

MAY 9, 2023

Narrative games festival LudoNarraCon 2023 concluded yesterday. Once again, the event – organized annually by indie label Fellow Traveller – brought together panels and talks, as well as presentations and sales of games that focus on storytelling. One of the featured panelists was Ron Gilbert, a veteran and legend of videogame storytelling, whose credits include LucasArts’ Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island as well as Total Annihilation (Cavedog) and The Cave (Doubl

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Game Errors

MAY 9, 2023

The PS5 error WS-116520-5 usually comes with the ‘Something went wrong’ that doesn’t reveal much. We did our investigation and proudly presented you with the most common causes and solutions for this network-related issue. Are you experiencing issues with starting games on your console? Read what to do when games don’t launch on PS5.

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Game Development News

MAY 9, 2023

Hui Yun Tay, transfer and asset coordinator at Liquid Violet, tells us about being persistent and passionate in a job where communication is super important

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