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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 13, 2024

When the allure of game development clashes with the necessity of a traditional job, the only choice is to juggle both endeavors simultaneously. And that’s exactly what Jason Larabie did. Operating under the name RodentGames, Larabie has taught himself the necessary skills to create his upcoming game Artificer’s Tower, a happy mix of base building, management sim and boss battles.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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%.

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 13, 2024

Before we get grim, remember this: The goal is creation. Everything else follows that. Figure out what you NEED to actually make the art. Anything else is just a bonus. Last week, I wrote a blog post about how the video game industry seems to be entering a sad and painful period of contraction. I've been writing these State of Indie posts for a long time.

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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.

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Rocket Brush Studio

MARCH 12, 2024

Data is perhaps the best resource that has guided business decisions since commerce was invented. Today, we have capabilities that allow us to store, analyze, and derive actionable insights from business information. It has allowed companies to adapt their business plans to meet changing consumer needs and predict future trends. However, with these innovative processes and technologies come new problems for us.

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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.

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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!

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Game Developer

MARCH 14, 2024

Paul Hart and Lee Williams talk about designing a dungeon crawler around words and how they designed systems for combat and general play around players being able to type or say anything.

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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.

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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.

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Indie DB

MARCH 15, 2024

We have released a demo of our game, where characters like Alice from Wonderland and Little Red Riding Hood fight Count Dracula and other representatives of the forces of evil.

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Game Developer

MARCH 13, 2024

Stephen Gillmurphy and Tommy Tone talk about using the naturally-frayed edges of long-term serial narratives to explore absurd, hilarious, and creepy situations in Anthology of the Killer.

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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.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 14, 2024

Game development is no longer just a one-man show – or even a one-studio spectacle. The seismic size of games these days means that the crafting of fantastical, virtual realms is easily a multi-team endeavour. Fortunately, developers can turn to partners, such as external developers , to realise their most ambitious projects. One rapidly growing model is external development, which sees a studio turn to one or more companies to assist with game creation.

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