Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2023

I'm shocked, shocked! Well not that shocked.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 22, 2023

We have our first new No.1 in the UK Boxed Charts, and it is Nintendo with its turn-based strategy RPG Fire Emblem Engage. The title's launch sales are 31% lower than what its predecessor managed (2019's Fire Emblem Three Houses). The new game has a more anime-style look to the graphics, which may have limited its Western appeal slightly. Yet even so, it is still the second biggest launch for the series in the UK, ahead of cult 3DS hit Fire Emblem Awakening.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Godot 4.0 is coming out soon. It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. Still, one of the biggest questions the community has is: How does it compare with mainstream commercial offerings? Godot 4.0 improvements. Rendering. Godot 4.0 has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Discover what’s inside the new Memory Profiler 1.0.0, which delivers improvements to the profiling suite, offers a more complete view of memory usage, and makes it easier to optimize performance or detect memory issues.

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Technology 136

Game Development for Beginners

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Unity Line Renderer is a powerful tool that allows you to create and render lines in Unity. You can use it to create a wide range of visual effects, from simple lines to complex shapes and patterns. The Line Renderer component takes in an array of points for customizing the shape of the lines.

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That One Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

A list of awesome packages that you most certainly will need when developing your own game engine. Make sure you check them out. The post C++ Packages for a custom Game Engine appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sadly, extinction is often cheaper than evolution in the video game industry. Iowa's Budcat Creations, famous for its work on Guitar Hero spinoffs, proves this.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2023

Welcome to our annual, highly anticipated, prediction series. Unlike the years before, we decided to really leverage our fantastic community of senior games industry folks to present you with trends that will shape our industry during the year. And we spiced things up by voting on the likelihood of each prediction. The likelihood charts you’ll find at the end of each prediction are generated from responses from the Deconstructor of Fun community.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Have a Unity-centered New Year’s resolution? We’ve curated seven resources to help you conquer new skills or improve upon existing ones in 2023.

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Games 142

Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data. To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data processing towards optimized tracing and shading of every hit that you encounter.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a rock musical film for this week’s Movie Monday. It’s Rock of Ages. Plot: The plot follows a couple of newcomers to the rock music scene of Los Angeles in 1987. Honestly, the movie isn’t that great, but it did have the seventh highest opening ever for a film musical before its eventual disappointing sales at the box office.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 10, 2023

Almost two dozen developers at Striking Distance Studios say they weren't included in the credits of the studio's debut game, The Callisto Protocol.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 16, 2023

Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard will face an antitrust challenge in the European Union, Reuters reported today. The news outlet's sources said the European Commission is preparing a statement of objections around the deal that it will send to Microsoft in a matter of weeks. It has previously set an April 11 deadline to make a decision on whether the acquisition can go through.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 2, 2023

On December 12th, just a few weeks ago, Supercell’s Brawl Stars shocked both their audience and the F2P devsphere by removing lootboxes. This wasn’t a small undertaking. Brawl Boxes had been there since the release of the game, and were an integral part of its progression and monetization systems. On top of that, lootboxes are considered one of the pillars of the F2P model both by its supporters and detractors.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this two-part interview, we discuss best practices for mobile UI design with Outfit7’s Aleksander Gregorka and Maja Nadvešnik, Samsung’s Søren Klit Lambaek, and Unity’s own Benoit Dupuis and Stefania Valoroso.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 6, 2023

The studio behind Cyberpunk 2077 has settled a class action lawsuit that was originally filed back in January 2021.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a new series that is sort of a LitRPG. It’s “Towers of Acalia Volume 1” by Atlas Kane! Plot: The plot is pretty basic, but it mixes the LitRPG and Cultivation genres fairly well, but the elements from both genres are very much watered down. It sounds much worse than the actual result is, but this might very well not be your cup of tea.

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Games 111

Game Developer

JANUARY 13, 2023

A week later, Wizards of the Coast speaks on the changes it originally planned to make for Dungeons & Dragons ' Open Game License.

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Games 339

GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 19, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox One year ago, we made some predictions on legal trends for 2022. Now it is time to look back and see where we have been right and where we have been wrong – and make some new predictions for 2023.

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Games 139

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

After a short end-of-year break, and then a lot of heavy merging work prior to 4.0 beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! Our contributors could fix many of the new regressions quickly, and we merged another big batch of important fixes and improvements. As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

Kent-Erik Hagman, associate design director at Second Dinner, goes behind the scenes on making MARVEL SNAP ’s new Battle Mode.

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Games 138

CG Spectrum

JANUARY 6, 2023

After working as a freelance artist in Chile for almost ten years, Luis Inzunza felt he had reached the peak of what he could do locally, so he set his sights on a more global career. To achieve this goal, he knew he'd have to sharpen his digital illustration skills. Luis enrolled in the Advanced Digital Illustration Course at CG Spectrum and, before long, landed a job as a freelance digital illustrator at the global indie game dev studio Monumental!

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 22, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a look at a series from this past Fall for this week’s Anime Sunday. It’s my “Eminence in Shadow” Episode 01 impressions. Plot: This first episode is an introduction to the main character who is a boy named Minoru Kageno (though his first name does change to Cid when he ends up reborn in an alternate world).

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Game Developer

JANUARY 11, 2023

Developer Counterplay has implored the Duelyst community to "modify, extend, and remix to your heart's content.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Vox Media is laying off 130 employees, 7% of its workforce today, a decision attributed to economic challenges. As reported by CNN , the news comes from a memo CEO Jim Bankoff sent out to staff.

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Media 144

Game Development for Beginners

JANUARY 20, 2023

Unity Cinemachine was launched along with Unity 2017.1 and was immediately praised by developers. Unity Cinemachine made the Unity Camera smart and lot of camera tricks that required coding could be done with ease. But beginner Unity users still create these effects with code because they are not familiar with Cinemachine. In this tutorial, we.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

A selection of top tips from all five developer takeovers on Twitter in 2022, featuring everything from visual effects (VFX) to general Editor advice.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

We’re now just days away from the Release Candidate, working at full capacity on finalizing as many of the remaining high priority issues as we can. The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This beta includes quite a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Make AnimatedSprite’s playback API consistent with AnimationPlayer ( GH-71907 ).

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 5, 2023

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. Star Trek: Prodigy ’s freshman season has been fairly consistently fantastic, and while I don’t think “ Supernova Part 2 ” quite lives up to the same level of quality, I do think the season’s final episode sets us up for a really fantastic coming season two. I therefore understand the choices that were made in the construction of the episode and story, but I’m not entirely certain that I agree with all of them.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 5, 2023

The FTC's new rule could greatly change the power that game developers have when transferring between studios.

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Studios Game Developer Game Development Development 359

GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 5, 2023

A settlement for $1.85 million has been reached for a class action lawsuit over Cyberpunk 2077. Originally received two years ago and filed in California , the suit alleged that CD Projekt Red misled investors about the state of the RPG on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles. In January 2021, the Cyberpunk 2077 maker received a similar lawsuit from the Rosen Law firm.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 30, 2023

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a complex first-person shooter video game that is popular among gamers. As with any well-known game, many players encountered issues when launching it or during gameplay. If you’re on this article, you probably encountered Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Random “insufficient free disk space ” error when you are playing the campaign.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

From bringing products out of beta in June to releasing new and updated game samples, Unity Gaming Services made big strides in 2022. Read the blog to learn more.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

With the end-of-the-year celebrations past us, we are ready to get back to work and continue our regular Godot 4.0 beta releases. Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with the second entry in a light novel series that I previously looked at the first volume of for this week’s Translation Necessary Thursday. It’s “Japan Summons: Volume 02” by Minorou. Plot: In Volume One of “Japan Summons,” all of Japan including its people and landmasses had been summoned into a brand new world.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 23, 2023

From Jade Empire to the Mass Effect series and some Dragon Age, Walters was involved in much of BioWare's big games over the years.

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Games 319

GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Valorant and League of Legends firm Riot Games joins the growing list of companies to have made redundancies in the past few weeks. The layoffs were first revealed by esports reporter Jacob Wolf via Twitter , before Riot confirmed the news in a statement to GamesIndustry.biz sister site Rock Paper Shotgun.

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