Game Developer
MARCH 13, 2024
'The best results and quality needed can only be achieved by experts in their field utilising GenAI as a new, powerful tool in their creative process.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 14, 2024
Embracer has sold Saber Interactive for $247 million. As announced by the firm in a statement published today, it has agreed to divest selected assets from Saber to Beacon Interactive, a new company founded by Saber's co-founder Matthew Karch. Saber will retain a number of studios as part of the sale, including: Nimble Giant, 3D Realms, Sandbox Strategies, New World Interactive, Slipgate, Mad Head Games, Fractured Byte, and DIGIC.
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Nvidia
MARCH 14, 2024
Mixture of experts (MoE) large language model (LLM) architectures have recently emerged, both in proprietary LLMs such as GPT-4, as well as in community models. Mixture of experts (MoE) large language model (LLM) architectures have recently emerged, both in proprietary LLMs such as GPT-4, as well as in community models with the open-source release of Mistral Mixtral 8x7B.
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 15, 2024
In Guntouchables by Danish indie developer Game Swing , enemies randomly power up from the upgrades that a team of four players can’t lift out of the levels. This leads to some unexpected and quite frankly, explosive situations as the game progresses. Game Swing was founded in 2013 by five Danish game design students. Back then the company was called Reign Bros, but a few years later they decided to change the name.
Game Developer
MARCH 11, 2024
Steam and Discord are being used as a home base for hateful reactionaries to single out and harass game developers.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 15, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox VR game studio Thirdverse has announced that it has secured $3.3 million in a funding round. The investment was via a third-party allotment of shares underwritten by Nissei Capital and VeriServe.
AWS Games
MARCH 12, 2024
More than entertainment, video games unite people across the globe with common interests. It’s that sense of community that drives Freedom Games to support indie developers in bringing their titles to players worldwide. Established in 2020, Freedom Games has built a platform that supports many indie studios every year, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing the core infrastructure.
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Game Developer
MARCH 14, 2024
Respawn gets caught up in EA's recent layoff wave, with the brunt of it seemingly going to the Apex Legends team.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 13, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox It's been well established by now that things are tough in the games industry at the moment. Rather than future growth, many business leaders are focused on ensuring their business simply survives through 2024, with the ongoing wave of mass layoffs and closures a sign of how many are struggling.
Nvidia
MARCH 11, 2024
Today, NVIDIA, and the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) announced the AOUSD Materials Working Group, an initiative for standardizing the interchange of materials in. Today, NVIDIA, and the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) announced the AOUSD Materials Working Group, an initiative for standardizing the interchange of materials in Universal Scene Description, known as OpenUSD.
Indie DB
MARCH 13, 2024
The award-winning Call of Duty Rio is becoming a full game on Unreal Engine 5. This time focused on the best graphics available on modern PCs and Consoles and without the limitations of a mod. Returns, continuing the incredible bloody saga in the city.
Game Developer
MARCH 15, 2024
The sales numbers aren't guaranteed, but it's quite clear Helldivers 2 has captured the hearts and minds of plenty since its mid-February release.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 9, 2024
New AAA game developer Deviation Games is closing, the studio announced. It was formed in 2020 by Jason Blundell and Dave Anthony, two development veterans best known for the Call of Duty: Black Ops franchise. By 2021 it had over 100 employees, and the studio signed a deal with PlayStation to create an original AAA IP for the company. But the project hit challenges.
Nvidia
MARCH 11, 2024
GPU-driven rendering has long been a major goal for many game applications. It enables better scalability for handling large virtual scenes and reduces cases. GPU-driven rendering has long been a major goal for many game applications. It enables better scalability for handling large virtual scenes and reduces cases where the CPU could bottleneck a game’s performance.
Game Industry News
MARCH 13, 2024
Hey all, I’m back with the fourth entry in Jia and Eui’s adventures for this week’s Bookish Wednesday. It’s “Fates Parallel Volume 04” by Dark Technomancer. Plot: This volume starts off with a bit of a time skip after the fallout at the end of the third volume, which makes sense given where Jia and Eui ended up. Still, we get to see Jia and Eui’s growth over the time skip of a couple years, and how much the world changed afterwards.
Game Developer
MARCH 12, 2024
'We're confident it's possible to create triple-A quality games with smaller, focused teams.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 13, 2024
When GamesIndustry.biz reports on Circana, it's usually the tracking firm's reports on US consumer spending in the past month. But when we speak with Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, our first question is about what he sees happening in the months to come. "Right now my most optimistic outlook is down about 2%," Piscatella says. "If you start looking a little bit on the more pessimistic side, you're looking at down about 10%.
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 11, 2024
When the Kickstarter campaign ended, cozy adventure game Mika and the Witch’s Mountain by Spanish indie developer Chibig didn’t just achieve its goal. It pulverised it! The team had asked for a modest €40,000 to complete the game’s development, but managed to raise a whopping €1,300,368. Clearly, people loved what they saw in that little witch that is flying around on her broom, delivering packages.
Game Industry News
MARCH 9, 2024
Hey all, I’m back for this week’s Synth Saturday with a Fic that is easily one of the best I’ve read and fuses together two separate settings incredibly well. It’s Chapters 1-5 of “As N Approaches Infinity” by Corisanna. Plot: This Fic is a fusion between the Bleach and Madoka Magica settings, and it does so very well. It takes place before the final timeline of Madoka Magica’s anime, and it details a time when the time traveling Homura Akemi is so broken and despondent at her failur
Game Developer
MARCH 11, 2024
'We all want to build long term, sustainable careers in this industry and having a seat at the table.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 15, 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. After six years of purchasing a variety of developers and publishers, Embracer Group this week confirmed its first sale.
Perforce
MARCH 14, 2024
Compliance management is a top concern for most businesses. Learn how to manage a compliance workflow to meet standards around data and user privacy.
Real Programming
MARCH 15, 2024
Parents enroll their children in after-school programs for two main reasons. They want them to learn something important that they’ll use later, in life or their careers. But more than that, they want them to have fun and enjoy their childhoods. In over twenty years of teaching kids to code, RP4K has found that these two things are deeply connected.
Game Developer
MARCH 12, 2024
The company recently told investors the shooter was performing at 'significantly lower levels' than expected, and now it's looking for a new CEO.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 12, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Experienced veterans from EA's Respawn studio have formed a new AAA team called Giant Skull. The developer is led by Stig Asmussen, who is best known as the game director for 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and 2023's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Giant Skull has an office in LA, although employs people from around the world.
Indie DB
MARCH 12, 2024
Endzone 2 Announcement! Survivors, the time has come to surpass the confining limits of these lands. Our brightest minds have constructed machinery that allows us to break free and venture beyond our borders!
Game From Scratch
MARCH 13, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Godot 4.3 Has a New FBX Importer With the release of Godot 4 the built in FBX importer was removed and replaced with FBX2glTF. This gave better results than Godot 3.x FBX importing but was a pain to work with. Thankfully with the release of Godot 4.3 (starting with Godot 4.3 Dev 4) we have a new […] The post Godot 4.3 Has a New FBX Importer appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
Game Developer
MARCH 14, 2024
The deal includes 38 ongoing development projects and studios such as 3D Realms, Slipgate, New World Interactive.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 13, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Roar Games has received an investment of $1.5 million from The Games Fund. As reported by VentureBeat , the studio was established in 2023 by the founders of the production firm Zheeshee.
Indie DB
MARCH 14, 2024
Explore Plague: London 1665 - a historical tale unfolds. Demo in April/May, release this year. Join us at Steam Next Fest in June. Stay tuned for updates!
Game From Scratch
MARCH 15, 2024
GameFromScratch.com TerraBrush C# Based Terrain Add-On For Godot One of the major missing features of the Godot game engine compared to it’s peers is the complete lack of a Terrain system. Thankfully there are several add-ons and extension to address this shortcoming. Today we are looking at TerraBrush, a heightmap based terrain system for Godot 4.x created using […] The post TerraBrush C# Based Terrain Add-On For Godot appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
Game Developer
MARCH 12, 2024
The one-of-a-kind British programmer behind Gridrunner, Tempest 2000, Polybius opens up about his life, his relationship, and the future.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 13, 2024
Epic Games has announced new pricing for its Unreal Engine for developers outside the gaming industry. As detailed in a blog post , when Unreal 5.4 engine is launched in late April, Epic will introduce a new "seat-based" subscription for industries outside game development. The annual cost of this subscription is $1,850 per user, providing access to Epic's Unreal Engine, its real-time visualisation tool Twinmotion, and photogrammetry software RealityCapture.
Indie DB
MARCH 12, 2024
Quilts and Cats of Calico - the cozy puzzle game of sewing quilts and attracting cute feline furballs to them - is out now on Steam!
Game From Scratch
MARCH 11, 2024
GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine Project Titan Epic Games have just announced the launch of Project Titan. Project Titan is a 10 week long game jam using Unreal Engine for creating an open world, open source project. If you participate in Project Titan you also get a 6 month subscription to Substance Painter and Substance Modeler from […] The post Unreal Engine Project Titan appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
Game Developer
MARCH 11, 2024
Deconstructeam speaks about the reasons why they made players craft their own tarot cards, and how that very player creativity creates tighter connections to their story and world.
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 15, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox It's almost twenty years since Steam evolved from being an automatic patching system for Valve's games into being a digital storefront for third parties, heralding the true arrival of the digital distribution era that had been forecast for years prior. We're now all living in the future that Steam ushered in, for better or worse.
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