The Quest for Cosy | A Deep Dive into Cosy Gaming
Game Developer
MARCH 1, 2024
Cosy gaming has always been and will continue to be a hotbed for creativity and fun both for players and developers.
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Brazilian games industry grew by 3.2% in 2023
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 1, 2024
The number of studios in the Brazilian games industry grew by 3.2% in 2023, from 1,009 studios in 2021 to 1,042 in 2023. This is according to the Second National Survey of the Game Industry, conducted by the Brazil Games export program in partnership between Abragames and ApexBrazil, which surveyed 309 developers, 214 freelance professionals, and 80 digital game service and development support organisations.
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How Final Profit: A Shop RPG uses every element in the pursuit of endless (immoral?) cash
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MARCH 1, 2024
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What led to Sony laying off 900 people? | This Week in Business
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MARCH 1, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox 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. Sony Interactive Entertainment this week announced plans to cut 900 workers from the PlayStation payroll , or about 8% of its global workforce.
Indie dev Keoken Interactive conducts staff layoffs
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MARCH 1, 2024
CEO Koen Deetman says the cuts come after trying to prevent them from hitting the staff 'as long as humanly possible.
Nintendo's Yuzu lawsuit puts emulation in the spotlight | Opinion
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 1, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The name Nintendo conjures up many different associations for different people. Most of those are probably centred around nostalgia and fun, which is exactly what the company would want you to associate its name with; but in recent years, the association with the word "litigious" has become increasingly strong.
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Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios
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As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. The duo had recently departed from Relic Entertainment, where they had worked on titles such as Age of Empires 4 and Company of Heroes 2, to establish their own company, Lifetap Studios.
UK indie Radical Forge laying off 'handful' of workers
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MARCH 1, 2024
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Balatro runs into rating trouble
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MARCH 1, 2024
Playstack says its roguelike card game Balatro has run into a ratings problem resulting in it being "temporarily removed from sale on a number of digital stores in some countries on console platforms." "This is not an issue with the stores themselves, however a reaction to an overnight change to Balatro's age rating from 3+ to 18+ by a ratings board without any advance warning, due to the mistaken belief the game 'contains prominent gambling imagery and material that instructs about gambling,'"
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MARCH 1, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Next week is South Africa Games Week on GamesIndustry.biz. Deputy editor Marie Dealessandri spoke to a range of developers from the country to discuss the opportunities and challenges across South Africa, what companies are doing to cater to a global audience, how they're bringing both African content and talent to other markets, and what lies ahead for the games industry in South Africa.
A Game Urbanism Bibliography
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Radical Forge lays off "handful" of staff
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MARCH 1, 2024
Indie studio Radical Forge has been hit with a round of layoffs, with an unspecified number of employees affected. A spokesperson tells GamesIndustry.biz that the team were notified yesterday that "minor restructuring" was to take place within the company. "This will mean that there will be a handful of people whose roles or skill sets are no longer needed on current or upcoming projects, and their contracts will end earlier than anticipated," the spokesperson said.
Sprite Fusion – Easy to Use Map Editor with Godot and Unity Support
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GameFromScratch.com Sprite Fusion – Easy to Use Map Editor with Godot and Unity Support Today we are checking out Sprite Fusion, a free to use browser based Tilemap editor. Sprite Fusion has integrated export for Unity and Godot, as well as GB Studio, PNG and JSON. Key features of Sprite Fusion include: Key Links Sprite Fusion Homepage Discord Server Editor App Link Alternative 2D […] The post Sprite Fusion – Easy to Use Map Editor with Godot and Unity Support appeared first on
City State Entertainment is now Unchained Entertainment
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MARCH 1, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox City State Entertainment has rebranded into Unchained Entertainment. Founded in 2011 and based in Virginia, the company is overseen by Mark Jacobs.
Explainer: What Is Stream Processing?
Nvidia
MARCH 1, 2024
Stream processing is the continuous processing of new data events as they’re received. A lot of data is produced as a stream of events, for example financial. Stream processing is the continuous processing of new data events as they’re received. A lot of data is produced as a stream of events, for example financial transactions, sensor measurements, or web server logs.
Managing your game studio on AWS part three
AWS Games
MARCH 1, 2024
Game studios need scalable and efficient management processes to evolve their operations. In our previous posts , we discussed the importance of AWS Control Tower , resource tagging, cost allocation and more. In part 3, we discuss managing Infrastructure as Code and how your studio can use it to create your game’s infrastructure. We will walk through a demo to deploy a multiplayer game in your AWS environment.
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MARCH 1, 2024
Hey all, I’m back with a rather weird entry in the Pokemon series that is often forgotten for this week’s Retro Game Friday. It’s the Pokemon Trading Card Game for the GameBoy Color. Plot: The plot is similar to the more mainline Pokemon games, though instead of capturing various Pokemon it’s all about collecting the various cards to play the trading card game version of Pokemon.
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MARCH 1, 2024
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The Ultimate Node Logger Handbook for Developers in 2024
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This is more of a legal question than anything, But there is this old game that was on the gamecube that my brother and I played when we were kids, The developer and the publisher both went out of business, if I were to figure out a way to port the game to UE5 and release it for free, would I get in trouble or since I would be doing it for free would I be legally in the clear?
Ask a Game Dev
MARCH 1, 2024
Standard disclaimer - I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. I am only a game dev speaking from my experience as a game dev about a hypothetical situation. Even if the developer and publisher have gone out of business, somebody probably still owns the rights to the game. If you remake an existing game using their assets and/or copyrighted material, you are still using somebody else's IP without the owner's permission and that's illegal.
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