Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Unity's updated Runtime Fee will no longer apply to games made on Unity Personal, and will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

2022 was a stellar year for Bandai Namco thanks to Elden Ring's critical and commercial success. As a result, 2023 felt like it was all going to be about maintaining that momentum. When we ask Bandai Namco Europe CEO Arnaud Muller about how well the company has managed to rise to that challenge this year, he first points to Elden Ring's DLC, the Shadow of the Erdtree, announced earlier this year and due to release soon.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Unity Create president Marc Whitten admitted that a year after promising to "talk more" with developers, the company still hadn't done enough listening.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox At a glance The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has taken a significant step forward in approving Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and aims to make a final decision by October 6.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Eiji Aonuma recently revealed that Nintendo currently has no plans to release additional content for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. This decision marks a notable departure for both a blockbuster game and a major first-party Nintendo release.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Unity has unveiled its planned changes to the controversial Runtime Fee policy that would charge developers fees on a per-install basis. Unity Create president Marc Whitten detailed the changes in a blog post , starting with the removal of the Runtime Fee for any games built on a Unity Personal license. Additionally, the company is changing some of the Unity Personal terms.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It took Caleb Mantey , CTO and Co-founder of Ghanaian-based Relu Interactives , 5 years of constant rejection for his company’s innovative gamified simulation to catch a break. In August 2023, his breakthrough arrived in the form of a 150,000 Ghanaian Cedi (GHC) award and an additional 50,000 GHC personal contribution by the president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The transfer of Activision Blizzard's cloud streaming rights to Ubisoft might have won over UK regulator the CMA.

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Unity Announce Massive Pricing Changes Unity started a firestorm off a week ago when they announced a poorly thought out and overreaching Unity Runtime Fee and to say that Unity developers didn’t like it would be a bit of an understatement. This was back on September 12th and finally on September 22nd they have announced … Unity Announce Massive Pricing Changes Read More The post Unity Announce Massive Pricing Changes appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

"Our team is looking forward to supporting Japanese developers on both creative and technical needs.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry. With a name like "This Week in Business," the expectation is that we talk about things that happened this week.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Before another Steam Deck hits the market, Valve wants to ensure its performance is matched up with its battery life.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

For all the interest piqued by the information accidentally revealed in Microsoft's FTC submissions this week , there's little in the way of surprising revelations in these documents. In fact, if you'd been asked last week to predict Microsoft's hardware and software strategy over the coming years, pretty much the safest, most default answers would have lined up perfectly with the plans that emerge from the court filings.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The GTA+ service is getting a new lease on life as Rockstar begins adding its back catalog to draw in subscribers.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The finalists for the special awards at the UK GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards 2023 have been announced. Ustwo has been nominated in five categories, while Sumo and Rocksteady are both up for three. PlayStation London are listed in two categories. These are the finalists for our Special Awards only, which are for excellence in specific areas.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Hunt is best known by his online persona "Dav0r" and for creating the iconic Tool Gun for Garry's Mod.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A Steam Deck 2 is not likely to be released until late 2025 or beyond, according to Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais. In an interview with The Verge , he attributed this to whether battery life technology will improve enough not to be affected by a higher device performance.

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Unity Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

An open letter from Marc Whitten to the Unity community in September 2023.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A new report from recruitment agency Values Value and career platform InGame Job, says that European game professionals' salaries is determined by location. The Big Games Industry Employment Survey 2023 is based on a survey of 1,184 respondents regarding the European games market.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It's long overdue for the second Godot 4.1 patch release! This release candidate contains a number of important fixes, including performance and stability improvements, so let's give it a good test.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

ReedPop, events organisers and publisher of sites such as GamesIndustry.biz , has announced the results from the first year of its audience platform Engage. The data platform, which was developed in response to the demise of third-party cookies, saw year-on-year increases in performance across click-through rates (CTR), video completion rates (VCR) and viewability.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Hi everyone, I want to load JsonAsset from server using assetManager like this : assetManager.loadRemote (endpoint, { ext: ' json' }, (err, jsonAsset) => { if (err) { // failure statement return; } // success statement }); Is it possible to get status code such as 200, 404, or 500 via a callback? Thank you in advance.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Wicked Saints Studios raised $3.5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round co-led by Riot Games and Oregon Venture Fund. The round also included investments from Bronze, 1Up, Precursor, Authentic, Origins, Mini Fund, Cap Table Coalition, Gaingels, and Rogue Women. With pre-seed funding, the studio has raised an overall total of $4.6 million, which will go towards bringing its blended-reality mobile game World Reborn to market in 2025.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Hi all, I’m new to Cocos. Our team is looking for a new home after what happened to Unity. We’re trying out Cocos Creator and liking it. Over at Godot reddit, someone posted a detailed break-down of why Godot’s engine bindings will result in some bad performance. I can’t post the link, but you can search for “godot is not the new unity the anatomy of a godot api call” I’m a technical designer / application engineer, so I don’t like to work in engine code, but I also care a lot about performan.

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Game Wisdom

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

6 Pro Tips & Hacks for Successful Online Casino Gambling Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com Online casino platforms are doing their best to stay on top of their game, and even though there aren’t many new casino games popping up, there are a few ways you can perfect your gameplay. To get on top of … The post 6 Pro Tips & Hacks for Successful Online Casino Gambling appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Moonmana

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Unity: Depression, suicide and resuscitation Install fee is not a coincidence Many perceived the recent news of the introduction of the Unity Install Fee as an insult to developers, a loss of trust, a stab in the back, and a slap in the face to the entire community. However, if we look at the events of the past two years that have occurred within Unity, we can see that this is not a random occurrence, a management mistake, or a sudden thirst for more profit.

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Game Wisdom

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Kasey Ozymy and The Pulsating RPG Design Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this Perceptive Podcast, I sat down with RPG designer Kasey Ozymy to talk about working in RPG Maker and designing Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass. We discuss RPG design and making something that stands out from … The post Kasey Ozymy and The Pulsating RPG Design appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Never stop learning for when we stop learning we stop growing and this motto has stood Sankar Pandiyaraj, Test Lead at iXie , in good stead throughout the course of his life. Like all gamers, Sankar’s love for gaming started at an early age with Mario, Super Mario and City Racer. His love for gaming was so high that when he found out that Indium , iXie’s parent company had a gaming division he jumped at the opportunity to turn his love for gaming into a career.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Install the.d.ts from this npm module could solve the issue npm @types/facebook-instant-games TypeScript definitions for facebook-instant-games. Latest version: 7.1.2, last published: 8 days ago. Start using @types/facebook-instant-games in your project by running `npm i @types/facebook-instant-games`. There are 2 other projects in the npm.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The FC 24 game crashing on PC is an issue many players have reported since its recent launch. As the latest installment in the popular FIFA football series , interruptions from unexpected crashes can frustrate dedicated fans. Identifying the causes and applying the proper fixes is key to enjoying FC 24’s exciting matches and the ultimate edition without annoyances.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Hi @SantyWang , we’re facing similar issues both in Cocos 3.7 and 3.8. Any information when this is supposed to get fixed. Our release is blocked because of this issue.

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Indie DB

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The OG infinite rythmic runner latest installment is here.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Thanks for sharing, Cocos Creator is focusing both on Web and Mobile native, we are a mobile first engine, otherwise the engine repo won’t have 50% of the code in C++.

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Artoon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The name Artoon Solutions instantly comes to mind when discussing expert Call […] The post Choose Best Call Break Game Development Company appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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