Game Developer

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Update : A spokesperson for Activision Blizzard confirmed employees would have to return to the office for three days per week starting in April.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Entire City of New York in 3D For Free from Geopipe You can now download all or part of the city of New York in 3D in a variety of file formats, from Geopipe completely free. They also have a Unity SDK although I could not make it work. Thankfully for Unity developers they have made a pair of city packs … Entire City of New York in 3D For Free from Geopipe Read More The post Entire City of New York in 3D For Free from Geopipe appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Whatever you think about Microsoft's arguments for letting its acquisition of Activision Blizzard advance, you can't fault its stage management. This week was crucial to the case it is making to the European Commission, which is one of the major remaining regulatory hurdles to the deal proceeding, and Microsoft orchestrated an impressive PR blitz for the occasion, most of it designed to underline a commitment to multi-platform releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The wait is almost over! With Godot 4.0 coming close to stable, we finalize our efforts to fix the remaining critical issues and add the last coat of polish with the first Release Candidate.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Video games today are far more immersive than ever, and that isn’t simply because consoles and PCs have gotten more powerful. A lot of the beauty and appeal in modern games comes down to a less quantifiable factor: Atmosphere. Atmosphere, when done right, can turn the bundle of programming, art, and sound that we call a video game into something so much more than the sum of its parts.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Max Inferno released A Little to the Left late last year, and artist, designer and company co-founder Annie Macmillan told Vince Pavey all about their work on the cosy puzzle game that has you sort, stack, and organise household items

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Written by Nebojsa Radovic and originally published on his Medium page. Follow Nebo on everything mobile growth > @eniac W hen AppTrackingTransparency was introduced, many predicted the doom and gloom situation and the death of mobile gaming. The changes shook up the mobile gaming ecosystem and, along with the current macroeconomic situation, had a devastating impact on the valuations of its key players.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox There's plenty of interesting stuff in the documents released by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about its investigation into Microsoft's attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard, but the titbit that has perhaps attracted most attention is Microsoft's admission that a game appearing on Game Pass negatively affects its sales for at least a year.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Best of POLYGON Game Dev Assets By Synty Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle for game developers, the Best of POLYGON Game Dev Assets by Synty bundle. This is a huge collection of low polygon art style 3D models in Unreal, Unity and Source (generally FBX) formats, meaning you can use them in Godot, O3DE or any other … Best of POLYGON Game Dev Assets By Synty Humble Bundle Read More The post Best of POLYGON Game Dev Assets By Synty Humble Bundle appeared first on

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Unity Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Unity’s Anthony Yakovlev and Siobhan Fitzgerald-Gibson share the latest updates to physics tools in the 2022.2 Tech Stream, including changes made based on direct customer feedback.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Private Division’s Michael Worosz and Blake Rochkind sat down with Vince Pavey to tell him all about Take-Two’s independent - but not indie - developer label

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Guesdon previously worked on Ubisoft Montreal's mid-range Assassin's Creed games, including Assassin's Creed IV and Assassin's Creed Origins.

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Deconstructor of Fun

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

2022 has been a tough roller coaster for blockchain games. It started very high fresh out of the Q4 2021 bull run with incredibly high investments like Animoca and Immutable X received. Then it ended up somewhere that I hope is near the bottom after one of the biggest scams in history with FTX in addition to the several other collapses like Luna and Celsius.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Nordic Game today released the results of an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against two staffers, with the external firm hired to look into the matter saying the event organizer has likely violated the Swedish Discrimination Act. In a summary of the investigation's findings , that external firm Gender Balance said it corroborated five accounts of sexual misconduct against a Nordic Game employee who had left the company by the time the investigation started.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Quaternius Free 3D Assets When it comes to free game development assets we live in bountiful times, as todays featured site Quaternius will demonstrate. Quaternius contains thousands of 3D assets, often game ready, rigged and animated in a wide variety of genres and themes. Like the similar asset packs from Kenney.nl, Quaternius assets are … Quaternius Free 3D Assets Read More The post Quaternius Free 3D Assets appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Lost Garden

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

I was noodling on an app design that helped folks create and manage small social groups focused on thoughtful writings and conversation. The joy of letter writing At one point, there were long form letters exchanged between experts in their field. Artists and writers would write to one another and share their latest struggles.

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Unity Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Together, Unity and Wētā Digital have been working to bring Wētā tools – including those used to make Avatar: The Way of Water – into the hands of developers and creators. With the first being released this year, learn more about what’s to come.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Publishing the provisional findings of its investigation into the merger, the CMA said it believes the move will harm Microsoft's rivals and "result in a substantial lessening of competition.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Hey all. I’m back with the final set of chapters in a Gundam Wing and Seed crossover that’s one of my favorite Fics for this week’s Synth Saturday. It’s Chapters 26-32 of “New Battlefield” by operation.meteor. Plot: This is the Bloody Valentine War’s final set of chapters in the story, and it really does get amazingly epic.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Microsoft has been issued with a formal antitrust warning from the European Union concerning its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Sources told Politico a statement of objections was sent to the Xbox firm on Tuesday, in which the European Commission's antitrust enforcers detailed their concerns over the $68.7 billion deal.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Wwise Now Free for Indie Developers In the news that isn’t new category, audio middleware maker Audiokinetic have added a new free “Indie” tier to Wwise. Wwise is an audio middleware solution, similar to FMod (who also added a free indie tier back in 2020), that is available on most major game engines and supports all … Wwise Now Free for Indie Developers Read More The post Wwise Now Free for Indie Developers appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Rocket Brush Studio

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Mobile applications are now an essential component of businesses, and you are unlikely to get more than one chance to ensure the high quality of a client's online experience and establish a desired consumer trust. This is the reason you should evaluate your software for user experience.

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Unity Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Unity Engineering Manager for.NET Compilers and Runtimes Josh Peterson walks through some of the recent changes the team has made to marshal string data across the managed/native boundary in a GC-safe way for the new CoreCLR garbage collector.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Prior to their leaving, both Chester and Dunham were key marketing and publishing staff for Epic Games.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a DreamWorks animated movie from 1998 for this week’s Movie Monday. It’s The Prince of Egypt. Plot: This movie is an animated adaptation of the Book of Exodus. I will note that this is one of the few films that got approval from various theological scholars. To help with the film’s accuracy, DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg consulted with hundreds of theological and religious scholars including Christian, Jewish, and Muslim experts as well as Ar

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Sony has unveiled its financial results for the three months ended December 31, 2022 – which is its Q3 for FY2022 – with God of War Ragnarok driving a very strong quarter for PlayStation. Sony saw a healthy increase in sales compared to the same period the year before, which it attributed to "significant increases" in its Game & Network Services segment.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Godot Engine arrives to the Google Play Store with an official beta release of the Godot Editor for Android! With the UI adjusted to work better on a tiny screen, you can try your hand at making games on the go.

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The Astronauts

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Introduction and index of this series is here. In the previous parts we saw that using generic data compression libraries, we can get our 94.5MB data down to 33.8MB (zstd level 7) or 29.6MB (oodle kraken level 2) size, if we’re not willing to spend more than one second compressing it. That’s not bad, but is there something else we can do?

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Unity Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As we look forward to seeing what real-time 3D (RT3D) creators will produce in 2023, the Unity Social Impact team reflects on highlights from the past year across the industry.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Reviving a class series is a careful balance of appealing to players both new and old. Here's how Tribute Games approached it.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with another of the standout series from the Fall for this week’s Anime Sunday. It’s my “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury” Episode 01 Impressions. Plot: This is a Gundam story, and thankfully for me it’s not nearly as dark as “Iron Blooded Orphans” was. It’s much more relaxed, though there are still plenty of action sequences.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Canadian developer Phoenix Labs will go back to being independent following an investor-backed management buyout. According to GamesBeat , Phoenix Labs' founders will take the company private now that it's spun out of its parent company, Garena. Garena is itself owned by Singapore-based Sea, which commented: "We have been steadfast supporters of Phoenix Labs since its earliest days and will continue to be strong advocates for their team and their work going forward.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 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. This beta adds audio blending in AnimationTree, fixes GDScript typed arrays, and refactors high quality texture import to enable ASTC support.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We’ve taken the opportunity to talk to Liz Prince, business manager at Amiqus about the company’s thoughts on Women in Games and what more can be done for inclusion in the future

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