EA will spend over $125 million laying off 5 percent of its workforce
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The publisher is implementing a sweeping restructuring plan that will also result in project cancellations and office closures.
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EA cutting 5% of workforce
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Electronic Arts today announced that it is laying off approximately 5% of its employees as it leans in on the parts of the business it feels will be the most successful in the years to come. In its most recent annual report, the publisher gave its headcount as 13,400 as of the end of March 2023, which would put the job losses around 670 people. The cuts are just one part of the company's restructuring plan, which also includes closing some offices and sunsetting certain live games, like the prev
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Remedy Entertainment gets Control's full franchise rights from 505 Games
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Remedy now has full power over both the Alan Wake and Control franchises, and can do with them as it pleases.
Remedy acquires full Control rights from 505 Games for €17m
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Remedy has reacquired the rights to its hit action game Control from 505 Games. The Finnish video game developer now owns the rights to the hit 2019 action game, alongside its upcoming sequel and the multiplayer co-operative spin-off game Condor. 505 Games will continue as the publisher of the original Control until December 31, 2024. The cost of the deal is €17 million, which is the amount that 505 Games had invested in the development of Control 2 and Condor.
Nintendo is gunning for Switch emulator Yuzu with new lawsuit
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
'With Yuzu in hand, nothing stops a user from obtaining and playing unlawful copies of virtually any game made for the Nintendo Switch.
Cloud Imperium reportedly hit with layoffs
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has reportedly laid off an unknown number of staff. As reported by Game Developer , former employees have shared that they have been made redundant on LinkedIn, including level designer Dane Kubicka , Austin QA lead Vincent Sinatra and Austin senior QA analyst Andrew Rexroth. Star Citizen's game director, Todd Papy, also left the company last week according to his LinkedIn profile.
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Polaris design retreat papers explore colonial-free design, prioritization frameworks, and more
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TRY AGAIN: How frustrations with game development lead to a platformer about game development frustrations
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NetEase opens new AAA studio BulletFarm led by Treyarch vet David Vonderhaar
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FEBRUARY 28, 2024
NetEase Games has opened another new studio in the West in the form of BulletFarm, and has hired Call of Duty veteran David Vonderhaar to lead the team. BulletFarm is headquartered in Los Angeles but positioned as a remote-first studio, and is already working on a AAA game built in Unreal Engine 5. The only details of the game shared so far are that it is a first-person title set in an original universe, and will be focused on co-operative gameplay.
NetEase hires veteran Call of Duty designer to lead new triple-A studio
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The games industry moves pretty fast, and there's a tendency for all involved to look constantly to what's next without so much worrying about what came before. That said, even an industry so entrenched in the now can learn from its past. So to refresh our collective memory and perhaps offer some perspective on our field's history, GamesIndustry.biz runs this monthly feature highlighting happenings in gaming from exactl
What surprising series influenced the design of Forza Motorsport? Dark Souls
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FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Turn 10 game director Andy Beaudoin says Motorsport and From Software's games are both about 'mastery.
Nintendo files lawsuit against Yuzu emulator creators
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FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Nintendo of America is taking legal action against the developers of the Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu. As reported by Game File's Stephen Totilo , the suit was filed with the US District Court of Rhode Island on February 26.
Google Play Games aims to capture Android and iOS mobile game revenue on PC
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Google Play Games is a defense strategy against competing storefronts that host PC ports of mobile games, ensuring Google continues to capture revenue from users who abandon mobile to play on PC.
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How Graphite Labs created a Pong-like in qomp2
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Deck Nine Games cuts 20% of its staff
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FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Life Is Strange: True Colors developer Deck Nine Games has cut 20% of its total workforce. As reported by Eurogamer , approximately 30 employees have lost their jobs as a result. "Like many others in the games industry right now, Deck Nine has been affected by the games industry's worsening market conditions," the studio wrote in a statement on X.
Black Desert Online nets €2 billion and 55 million players
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FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The first (and only) game from Pearl Abyss has hit a pair of high benchmarks ahead of its 10th birthday.
Tekken boss says microtransactions are prevalent because dev costs are larger
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FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Tekken series boss Katsuhiro Harada says rising development costs have necessitated the inclusion of microtransactions in the series' latest outing, claiming the cost of making these games is ten times higher than during the 1990s The comment comes from Harada, who was responding to a social media user lamenting the inclusion of items such as paid costumes in the fighter.
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Rocket Brands has opened up Skape.gg and Cre8tor to the public
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FEBRUARY 28, 2024
daisyH: o *= vec4(1, 1, 1, alpha); Thanks. Now I understand that this o *= vec4(1, 1, 1, alpha); is rgba. But I don’t understand whether these are rgba textures or just rgba colors that are superimposed on top of the texture. I tried to display in the picture the movement pattern of drawing the appearance of pixels. The beginning of the movement of pixels depends on the color saturation and tends to display colors next to a circle.
Marcus Lehto leaves EA studio he founded
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FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Ridgeline Games founder Marcus Lehto has left the EA studio working on the Battlefield franchise. Lehto, who formed the studio in 2021 , issued a statement on social media in which he confirmed that he left the studio on his "own accord." "This was a very tough decision for me to make," Lehto wrote. "I want to thank the Battlefield community for allowing me to listen to you while I was able.
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FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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G’day GameDev. I am in my late 30’s and considering returning to school to study Game Design. I currently have no applicable/transferable knowledge, skills or experience and I will be 40 years old when I have finished my studies and looking to find my first job in the industry. Am I too late? Will I be wasting my time (and money) trying to enter the industry at that age?
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There's some major questions that you need to answer for yourself. First and foremost, I think it really depends on what your own goals and responsibilities are. What is it you want to do with your life? Do you have any other major goals outside of your career? Is doing game design professionally what you really want, or would doing game design as an amateur hobbyist be enough?
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