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Why Doesn't Everyone See the Importance of Preserving Our Past?

Game Developer

The Entertainment Software Association recently came out against the preservation of past games. This short post is a plea for common sense and a recognition of the importance of videogame history.

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Zoochosis by Clapperheads will make you fear those lovely animals in the zoo

PreMortem.Games

Like most times in horror stories, it starts out as a normal night. A rookie zookeeper straps on their bodycam and begins making the rounds on their first-ever night shift. But soon, you discover that things are far from normal in this zoo. A terrifying parasite is spreading, mutating some of the animals into grotesque, blood-thirsty monsters ready to kill their way out of their cages.

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Inside Rare’s new solar-powered Barn X

GamesIndustry.biz

About a year ago, one of Rare's fans noticed something on Google Maps. The Xbox developer's offices are at the heart of Manor Park, a huge area of land surrounded by trees, ponds and greenery, which the studio fully owns. It moved there in 2001 and the complex is made up of a central building and four barns – A, B, C and D. Then last year, Google revealed the existence of a fifth barn, and one substantially bigger than all the others.

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Brackeys Returns – Making Godot Tutorials

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Brackeys Returns – Making Godot Tutorials Brackeys is perhaps one of the largest, if not the largest, tutorial YouTubers for the Unity game engine. In 2020 Brackeys suddenly called it quits posting a goodbye video on YouTube. That seemed to be the end of this influential channel, until the entire Unity runtime fee fiasco occurred and […] The post Brackeys Returns – Making Godot Tutorials appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online

Game Developer

Libraries' attempts and proposed plans for archiving older games don't strike a chord with the ESA, which still thinks it remains publishers' burden.

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Dungeon Inn - Demo Update 2

Indie DB

Dungeon Inn - Demo Update: Changed UI/UX at 'Manage Inn' New Events, Fame, Inn Ability, New language Added(French)

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Call of Duty and Diablo boost Microsoft's gaming revenues, but Xbox sales continue to fall

GamesIndustry.biz

Microsoft has released its latest financial results, showing significant growth in gaming revenues — thanks in no small part to the acquisition of Activision Blizzard. However, Xbox hardware sales continue to decline and saw the steepest drop since the Xbox Series X and S launched in 2020, down 31% year-on-year. The company's overall revenues were up 17% to $61.9 billion, primarily due to growth in Microsoft Cloud which saw revenues rise 23% to $35.1 billion.

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Atari relaunches Infogrames, immediately buys Totally Reliable Delivery Service

Game Developer

Infogrames has returned and is eager to acquire some franchises.

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Cthulhu's Reach now in Early Access

Indie DB

Our journey with 'Cthulhu's Reach: Devil Reef' has led to our most ambitious game yet. After nearly two years of work, we're exploring new features and engaging the community through Early Access, aiming for a release around Steam Scream 2024. Our project.

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FTC bans non-compete clauses

GamesIndustry.biz

The Federal Trade Commission today published a final rule banning non-compete clauses in contracts. "Noncompete clauses keep wages low, suppress new ideas, and rob the American economy of dynamism, including from the more than 8,500 new startups that would be created a year once non-competes are banned," FTC Chair Lina M. Khan said in announcing the rule.

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All Unity Muse are capabilities now available in the Editor, plus 3 new updates

Unity Blog

Unity Muse users can now use all 5 AI capabilities in the Editor to complement your creative process & streamline development – plus, check out 3 new features.

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Raph Koster wants developers to get back to 'the game of making games'

Game Developer

Veteran game designer Raph Koster thinks there's a lot of room to explore what "fun" is in game design.

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Letters & Legends available to wishlist

Indie DB

Letters & Legends is now available to view on Steam, Epic Games, and Itch.io, ready to go live on 26 April 2024!

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Embracer Group splits into three: Everything you need to know

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Embracer Group has announced its split into three separate companies. The three entities created will independently publicly listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. These companies are currently being referred to as Asmodee Group, Coffee Stain & Friends, and Middle-Earth Enterprises & Friends – although the latter two will be given a new name at a later date.

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A Command & Conquer Retrospective

Game Wisdom

A Command & Conquer Retrospective Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com For my RTS book I am writing, I decided to take it upon myself to replay the entire Command & Conquer series as I only played bits and pieces of them back in the day. Returning to the game that … The post A Command & Conquer Retrospective appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Alone in the Dark dev Pieces lays off staff following revival's release

Game Developer

The remake of the original 1992 Alone in the Dark only just released this past March, but Embracer's not said much about how well it has (or hasn't) sold.

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Major Marble now on IndieDB and Steam

Indie DB

Complete challenging puzzles in Puzzle Mode or create awe-inspiring tracks in Sandbox Mode. Customize your courses and enjoy fully simulated physics!

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The US is banning TikTok, could Fortnite and League of Legends be next? | This Week in Business

GamesIndustry.biz

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. The US government this week said it will ban TikTok if the platform isn't sold in the next nine months.

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Key Takeaways from Embedded World 2024

Perforce

Where is the future of embedded software development headed? At the annual Embedded World conference, we met with the diverse embedded community to discuss emerging trends and technologies, as well as the wide array of tools available that accelerate development.

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Microsoft is cutting jobs at Bethesda France

Game Developer

The redundancies are part of the 1,900 layoffs announced by Microsoft in January.

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Morels: The Hunt 2 released

Indie DB

We are extremely excited to announce that Morels: The Hunt 2 is officially live and released on Steam!

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How accessible are game engines, and how much is still to be done?

GamesIndustry.biz

Game development is, in some ways, more accessible than ever. Between the ease-of-use of engines like RPG Maker to the release of titles like Game Builder Garage that gamify the act of development itself, there are countless ways into game development that do not require previous experience of coding or design. The opportunity for creation with engines like Unreal, Unity and more is enormous.

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Following a disappointing yard sale Embracer is now splitting the company

PreMortem.Games

Embracer’s three-way split is actually the financially mature thing to do. Quick thoughts by Joost van Dreunen. This week Embracer announced that it is going to split into three separate publicly-listed game companies: Asmodee Group, Coffee Stain & Friends, and Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends. Clearly, the Swedish gaming conglomerate was struggling in its form as a federation of different projects and properties.

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Kazuma Kaneko, longtime Atlus artist, departs after 35-year run

Game Developer

During his Atlus tenure, Kaneko touched everything from Persona to Shin Megami Tensei and Soul Hackers to even Devil May Cry.

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Murder On Space Station 52

Indie DB

I break down the process of taking my physical hand-drawn art and creating an in-game scene for my upcoming game Murder On Space Station 52.

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Atari relaunches Infogrames, acquires Totally Reliable Delivery Service

GamesIndustry.biz

Atari has announced the revival of the Infogrames brand, relaunching it as a publishing label. Infogrames will focus on publishing and acquiring IP, the first of which being Totally Reliable Delivery Service, which it purchased from Tiny Build. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but Atari said it includes the 2019 game, its trademarks, and "underlying property.

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Losing your Religion with arthouse adventure Indika by Odd Meter

PreMortem.Games

If Triple-A games are the equivalent of Hollywood blockbuster movies and indie games are comparable to independent films, then you could call Indika by Odd Meter an arthouse experience. The game, centered on a nun grappling with the voice of the devil within her, deviates from the standard in almost every aspect. This is very intentional, according to Founder and Game Director Dmitry Svetlow.

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Lars Wingefors says splitting Embracer was for the greater good.of business

Game Developer

The companies that previously made Embracer's games portfolio are also tasked with paying off its $1.5 billion debt.

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Xenoids v0.25

Indie DB

Survival horror Xenoids has been updated to version 0.25.

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Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors: "I'm sure I deserve a lot of criticism"

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Lars Wingefors, CEO of the Embracer Group, has acknowledged the backlash against himself and his company in the wake of mass layoffs and studio closures. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz after the group announced it would be split into three , Wingefors told us he has been "taking a lot of hits and criticism, both internationally and in Sweden.

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What is FlatBuffers?

That One Game Dev

FlatBuffers is a serialization library developed by Google. In this article I will talk a bit more about them and about binary serialization. The post What is FlatBuffers? appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors hopes to stick around until at least 2041

Game Developer

Fresh from cutting 1,400 jobs and shuttering numerous Embracer studios, Wingefors reassures investors he's here for the long haul.

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Siphonopolis is now free

Indie DB

You can now experience surreal underwater bullet hell for the economical price of 0$

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"We never really thought anyone was going to make a Playdate game"

GamesIndustry.biz

It's now been two years since the hotly anticipated launch of Panic's handheld, the Playdate. 70,000 units had been sold as of February 2024 , and Panic revealed a few more stats about its cranky yellow console last week , to celebrate its anniversary. 150,000 games have been sold since the March 2023 launch of the Playdate storefront, Catalog, representing $544,290 in revenue for the developers behind them.

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C64 Text Adventure Game Programming Tutorial

Retro Game Coders

We wrote a kind of C64 text adventure in the previous part of this series, but it was more of a “choose your own” adventure kind of style. Now let’s take a look at writing a true text adventure for the Commodore 64 using BASIC. C64 text adventure game There is a lot of benefit to writing these kinds of games, even if the game itself is not the end result you are working towards.

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Before Your Eyes writer-directors open new studio Nice Dream

Game Developer

The LA-based studio is working on a spiritual successor to Before Your Eyes called Goodnight Universe.

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Project Utgardr - Suspended Caves

Indie DB

A new section of Project Utgardr is now available for early access.

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