Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2024

'We aim to make sure everyone receives fair compensation for their work and the value they provide.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 27, 2024

Update : Gameloft has confirmed layoffs to GamesIndustry.biz , with a spokesperson saying it was "necessary" for the studio to "implement a reduction in workforce" due to the current situation of the games market. "As a company, we need to constantly review our production capacities," the statement read. "After careful consideration and in response to the ever-changing market conditions we are facing, it has become necessary to implement a reduction in workforce.

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Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2024

Weeks of racist backlash over Assassin's Creed Shadows prompted Guillemot to speak out and encourage the larger industry to not let this behavior stand.

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JUNE 27, 2024

The first ever Gamescom Latam is off to a strong start in São Paulo, Brazil, with over 100,000 consumers and some of the biggest companies in games in attendance. Announced earlier this year , the event is the result of a merger between Gamescom and the long-running Brazil Indie Games Festival (or BIG Festival). It opened with a business-only day yesterday (Wednesday, June 26) and runs through Sunday, July 30.

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Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2024

Dr Disrespect's sponsors should have seen his behavior coming from a mile away.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 27, 2024

Without a doubt, one of May's surprise hit games has been Little Kitty, Big City. Released on May 9, the wholesome adventure game about a cat looking for its way home has been massively successful, selling over 100,000 units within the first 48 hours of release, and garnering over a million plays on Game Pass. As of this writing, it also continues to hold strong among the top five downloadable titles on the Nintendo eShop.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 27, 2024

Bethesda Game Studios Montreal has filed to unionise with the Communications Workers of America. The BGS Montreal union announced yesterday in a thread on social media that they filed for certification with the Quebec Labour Board. "As a union, we will strive to make BGS a supportive workplace that fosters creativity and talent," it wrote. "This will allow us to keep creating some of the best video games in the industry in the jobs and studios we all love.

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Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2024

Microsoft claims the partnership will create a 'low-cost' route into the Xbox ecosystem.

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Games 272

GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 27, 2024

Chinese company Perfect World has reportedly laid off thousands of employees. According to Game Developer (translating a report from Chinese publication The Paper ), the firm has made extensive cuts across its offices in Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu. Most departments were reportedly impacted, apart from its esports segment.

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Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2024

An expanded budget range for game projects lets union actors lend their voice or physical performance to more games from developers outside the triple-A sphere.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 27, 2024

More players are choosing to use a controller while playing games on Steam, according to Valve. In an update issued by Valve , it found that since 2018 daily average controller use has increased from 5% to 15%, with 42% of these sessions involving Steam Input, which allows players to use different types of controllers. There are over 300 supported controllers that players can use on Steam.

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Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2024

Hard as it may be, Elden Ring's expansion has brought in plenty of sales and builds on the base game's two-year success.

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Lost Garden

JUNE 27, 2024

I presented the Kind Games paper at GDC 2024! I found out afterwards that it ended up being a completely full session with (checks analytics) 140 people in the audience and 94% of respondent rating it Excellent. 6% rated it only Good. Well, at least there’s still room for improvement.

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Games 91

Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2024

Introducing a new race in Dwarves of Runenberg meant paying careful attention to balance and putting weight in community feedback.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 27, 2024

More players are choosing to use a controller while playing games on Steam, according to Valve. In an update issued by Valve , it found that since 2018 daily average controller use has increased from 5% to 15%, with 42% of these sessions involving Steam Input, which allows players to use different types of controllers. There are over 300 supported controllers that players can use on Steam.

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Games 80

Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2024

If Amazon is going to make it in video games, Hartmann thinks the company has to build out its own talent and open strong in the PC and console worlds.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 27, 2024

Often, one of the biggest problems in game development is knowing what you are meant to be creating. Organisational psychologist and Team Sync founder Graham McAllister has been grappling with how to identify and solve this issue in recent years, inspired by Jason Schreier's article on the troubled development of Anthem for Kotaku. But the problem is not unique to that game.

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Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2024

Instead of waiting at the top of the month for the most-played Steam Deck games, Valve has just made a new chart for players to track in active time.

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Games 165

Indie DB

JUNE 27, 2024

The Mobius Machine Update 1.1.0 is live on Steam, Playstation5 and Xbox Series. This update adds new bosses, new itema, new shortcuts and maybe even a possibility to change the fate of our intrepid explorer.

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Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2024

Exploring how a game studio’s physical layout cultivates team camaraderie and efficient development.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 27, 2024

Roblox is working towards providing players the ability to create characters and objects with "4D generative AI". In a recent post to its blog , the developer explained that 4D generative AI will focus on interactivity when creating people, objects, and environments. These 4D generative AI tools aim to make 3D objects more dynamic by using generative AI text or voice prompts to create a drivable race car, for example.

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Game Developer

JUNE 27, 2024

Valve has assured developers the tool has been 'engineered for performance.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 27, 2024

Microsoft and Amazon are partnering to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to more devices: specifically, the latest models of Amazon's Fire TV Stick. The Xbox firm announced in a blog post that the Xbox app will be made available on Fire TV in 2 selected markets from next month, enabling anyone with an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership to access the cloud gaming titles in Microsoft's library.

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Retail Games 74

AWS Games

JUNE 27, 2024

When developing multiplayer games, you are constantly creating new game client and game server builds. Being able to test the latest changes quickly is important for getting feedback on feature updates and bug fixes. This fast iteration cycle allows you to keep developing without interruptions. There are many aspects to automating the build and deployment cycle, and in this video walkthrough, we’re focusing on fast game server build updates using Amazon GameLift Anywhere, and the recently launch

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2024

Recently, Katsuhiro Harada of Tekken fame posted a [ lengthy tweet ] where he talked about what happened to the Soul Calibur franchise, the team, and the less-visible effects of companies growth and change over time. Harada is a good guy and I very much appreciate his candor and willingness to talk to the public. His English tweets can be a little difficult to parse though, so I thought I would offer my interpretation of what he said, based on my own understanding of game dev, the industry overa

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Cocos

JUNE 27, 2024

@Azaratur @gandangf @quriouschirag @haroel @Lukeluo Sure, here is the translation of the text into English: We have implemented logic to monitor unresponsive programs for timeouts. Please refer to this PR. On Android, it may be necessary to change SIGUSR1 to SIGUSR2. Explanation: The provided text discusses a mechanism for monitoring the responsiveness of programs and handling timeouts.

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Real Programming

JUNE 27, 2024

Kids learn a lot more than the course material from their classes. The class may revolve around learning French, science, literature, history, or whatever else, but students absorb many indirect, secondary lessons. The public school system is designed not merely to impart domain knowledge to kids, but to help them socialize and collaborate with their peers, to become more engaged citizens , neighbours, and people.

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Perforce

JUNE 27, 2024

Quality gates stop poor quality code from proceeding to the next stage of development. Learn about what is a quality gate, how quality gates work in the DevOps pipeline, and how static analysis tools enforce high quality code.

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Code Development 52

Game Development News

JUNE 27, 2024

Ahead of what is anticipated to be XR’s biggest holiday season to date, a new industry-focused alliance has confirmed both its formation and exhibition plans for Gamescom 2024 today.

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Studios Games 52

Cocos

JUNE 27, 2024

@Azaratur @gandangf @quriouschirag @haroel @Lukeluo Sure, here is the translation of the text into English: We have implemented logic to monitor unresponsive programs for timeouts. Please refer to this PR. On Android, it may be necessary to change SIGUSR1 to SIGUSR2. Explanation: The provided text discusses a mechanism for monitoring the responsiveness of programs and handling timeouts.

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Game Development News

JUNE 27, 2024

With recollections of last week’s awards being boxed up in preparation for more permanent storage in the brain’s long-term memory, thoughts turn to the next event in the MCV/DEVELOP calendar: the Women In Games Awards 2024.

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Cocos

JUNE 27, 2024

I try to build web mobile platform. This is error logs: Assets] EPERM: operation not permitted, open ' tempasset-dbassets9595f4ee22-8eb4-4d4a-8945-df8e56f806fdbuild1.0.1debug.

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Artoon

JUNE 27, 2024

Introduction Building a travel website using React JS is not just about […] The post How to Build a Good Travel Website with ReactJS: Comprehensive Guide appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Cocos

JUNE 27, 2024

I try to build web mobile platform. This is error logs: Assets] EPERM: operation not permitted, open ' tempasset-dbassets9595f4ee22-8eb4-4d4a-8945-df8e56f806fdbuild1.0.1debug.

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