Game Developer

MAY 30, 2024

'Cats are an animator's dream because they're arguably the most dynamic creatures on earth.

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Animation Animation 359

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 29, 2024

Microsoft has confirmed this year's Call of Duty will launch on Xbox Game Pass alongside its retail and digital versions. An Xbox Wire post added that players will be able to pre-install Black Ops 6 when it launches later this year. The game will be officially revealed during the Xbox Games Showcase on June 9, which runs during Summer Game Fest. Reports earlier this month suggested the new Call of Duty would be added day-and-date to Game Pass, with The Verge's Tom Warren reporting yesterday that

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Retail Games 142

Unity Blog

MAY 28, 2024

A deep dive into shader variants, plus some practical tips on how to reduce them to improve project build time and memory footprint.

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Nvidia

MAY 29, 2024

Join our contest that runs through June 17 and showcase your innovation using cutting-edge generative AI-powered applications using NVIDIA and LangChain. Join our contest that runs through June 17 and showcase your innovation using cutting-edge generative AI-powered applications using NVIDIA and LangChain technologies. To get you started, we explore a few applications for inspiring your creative journey, while sharing tips and best practices to help you succeed in the development process.

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Game Developer

MAY 30, 2024

900 layoffs and studio closures? It's all part of the plan for Sony.

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Studios 354

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 29, 2024

Earlier this year, Ubisoft told us that one in ten people who subscribe to its Ubisoft+ service are entirely new to Ubisoft's games. The data suggests some gamers are partially treating the service to trial or even rent a game they might be interested in, before unsubscribing. In October, Ubisoft saw a record number of subscribers who signed up, presumably, for Assassin's Creed Mirage.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 29, 2024

James Bendon always considered himself a hobbyist until he released his first commercial project, Dinkum. The game is an Australian take on Animal Crossing and really captures that laidback Down Under vibe. It took him five years to release the game in Early Access, and all that time, he worked on it by himself. But that’s just the way he likes it. “To be honest, I really like working alone,” he says.

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Game Developer

MAY 31, 2024

Follin and his brother Tim were well-known for their music in '80s and '90s games like Silver Surfer and The Incredible Crash Test Dummies.

Games 347

Games 347

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 28, 2024

Everyone has a favourite video game tutorial. Maybe it's the first hour of Fallout 3, which quite literally treats you as a baby, teaching you new mechanics at different stages of growth? Perhaps it's Half-Life 2's iconic tutorial that packs everything you need to know into four words and one empty can of soda? Whether you feel developers' fingerprints at the start of your virtual journey or not, tutorials are an essential part of the experience.

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Mechanics Game Designer Game Design Development 140

Logic Simplified

MAY 28, 2024

Unity calls its Asset Store ‘community-powered solutions for creators.’ Rightly so! Unity Asset Store contains art packs and tutorials to help you get started as a creator, and advanced solutions for complex projects. Any game developer who wants to build and enhance a Unity game can do so using its 3D models, audio files, animations, scripts, plugins, and so on.

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Indie DB

MAY 25, 2024

Experience a first person rogue-like dungeon crawler with turn based actions.

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Playtesting First person 102

Game Developer

MAY 28, 2024

'As a company, we need to constantly review our production capacities.

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Studios 348

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 31, 2024

The start of June in the games business feels increasingly like one of those archaeological sites where nothing remains of the original structure, but researchers can piece its shape together from the gaps it has left behind. E3 is gone, but we are left with all the various events and showcases that grew up around the show through its various incarnations and endless identity crises – and so, for the next two weeks, we'll be treated to a trade show's worth of announcements and updates on u

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 31, 2024

Godot 4.3 is ready for broad testing as we finalize the release.

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Beta Dev 84

Indie DB

MAY 25, 2024

Join Dr.

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Demo 97

Game Developer

MAY 31, 2024

'Guess what got hastily dumped at a random restaurant this morning? Welcome back stolen Playdates!

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 31, 2024

Embracer Group's latest financials showed the stark contract between two of the firm's biggest releases from its past fiscal year. On the one hand, Deep Silver's Dead Island 2 was the biggest seller, with three million sales and seven million players since its launch in April 2023. On the other, THQ Nordic's Alone in the Dark "performed below management expectations" after it debuted in March.

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AAA 137

Unity Blog

MAY 30, 2024

Unlock Unity DOTS secrets with this free e-book, perfect for advanced devs. Learn Unity 6 & DOTS 1.0 today!

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Technology Data Dev Development 82

Indie DB

MAY 28, 2024

"James" makes his second appearance and solidifies himself as an important voice within the UFO Disclosure movement. In this video he tells us about some of his experiences recovering alien artifacts while working for a classified group within the US.

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Horror 94

Game Developer

MAY 29, 2024

Here, we share the development insights and lessons learned from the journey of SOUL COVENANT, highlighting both successes and challenges.

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Development 347

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 30, 2024

Sony Interactive Entertainment has given an update on its console business, revealing that 50% of its users are now on PS5, with the other half on PS4. In a company briefing, the platform holder said that PS5 is already on the brink of surpassing the revenue of PS4, and operating income is already bigger at $10 billion. In fact, the firm says that PS5 is the most profitable console generation so far.

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Console Entertainment Platformer Games 136

Perforce

MAY 28, 2024

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Laboratory for Reliable Software developed a set of code guidelines for developing safety-critical code. The NASA power of 10 rules are intended to eliminate C coding practices that make it difficult to review or properly analyze with static analysis tools.

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Code Development Software 81

Indie DB

MAY 26, 2024

Coming soon: Quad-Anti Air-Aicraft guns to WWII Online! Here's a first look at the Polsten's devastating power against a BF-109.

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Game Developer

MAY 29, 2024

'We have found several significant errors and inaccuracies.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 31, 2024

ZeniMax Studios workers are now covered by Microsoft's labour neutrality agreement with the Communications Workers of America. The CWA announced yesterday that, as a result, all ZeniMax staff can now make their choice about collective bargaining, with Microsoft legally bound to take a neutral approach to the unionisation of its staff. ZeniMax Workers United-CWA member Page Branson commented: "Thousands of our ZeniMax co-workers now have a free and fair path to organise together for better workin

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Communications Studios Media 135

Game From Scratch

MAY 30, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Helix Code Editor In a similar vein to NeoVim today we look at the Helix text editor. This is a terminal based code editor heavily inspired by the classic Vi/Vim text editors using a nearly identical control set while including more features out of the box than most of the other Vim alternatives. […] The post Helix Code Editor appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Code Feature 81

Indie DB

MAY 31, 2024

Finally, Kill The Climbers is now available on Steam in Early Access!

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Game Developer

MAY 29, 2024

The final shortlist includes notable titles like A Highland Song, Chants of Sennaar, Jusant, and more.

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Games 336

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 30, 2024

Drag Her, a 2D hand-drawn fighting game featuring a roster of real-life drag artists, launched its Kickstarter campaign back in February 2022 with a modest and cheeky funding target of $69,000. Yet despite meeting its goal, on May 15 2024, developer Fighting Chance Games announced the game's development had been officially shut down citing "a simple lack of funding.

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Fighting Communications Indy Games 133

The Bottom Feeder

MAY 29, 2024

(On the advice of my lawyer, publicist, and priest, I offer no opinions on the cover art.) Way back in the day, Dragon Magazine was the official magazine for Dungeons & Dragons (and occasionally other RPGs). I still have a pile of my old issues, and they reliably make fun reading. At the time, tabletop RPGs were very much in their infancy. Everyone was trying to figure out how to make them work.

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Fighting Baking Writing Balance 80

Indie DB

MAY 31, 2024

Big strides have been made for the game to which makes it closer to the main release in June.

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Games 86

Game Developer

MAY 31, 2024

'Looking ahead, the Safety Advisory Council will primarily be made up of individuals who serve as Twitch Ambassadors.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 29, 2024

Amazon will be publishing Maverick Games' debut title. The unannounced driving game will be open world and narrative-led, and release across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Co-creator of TV show Skins, Jamie Brittain, is on board as the game's lead writer. Maverick was founded by Playground Games' veterans in January 2023. It is run by COO Harinder Sangha and studio head and creative director Mike Brown, and currently employs around 60 people in Warwick, UK.

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Open World Games PC Studios 131

Rocket Brush Studio

MAY 29, 2024

Discover the top outsourced QA testing companies in the USA in 2024 and learn why QASource should be your preferred partner. Read our blog now.

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Software Quality Assurance 74

Indie DB

MAY 30, 2024

The newest patch for Synthaar, V0.0.4, features many bug fixes, quality of life additions, and more.

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Bug Feature 85

Game Developer

MAY 30, 2024

The last update for Redfall closes the book on the vampire shooter and the studio behind it.

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Studios 321

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 31, 2024

Twitch is reportedly terminating all members of its Safety Advisory Council team. According to an email seen by CNBC , staff were allegedly told their contracts would end today and that they would not receive payment for the second half of the year per an internal agreement. A spokesperson told CNBC that the Safety Advisory Council will continue, but will be "primarily made up of individuals who serve as Twitch ambassadors" who will "offer fresh, diverse perspectives.

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Media 130