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Riot Games to lay off nearly 50 staff as part of "strategic shifts"

Game Developer

Layoffs are becoming a larger phenomenon in the industry, and Riot is no exception.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot 4.0 is coming out soon. It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. Still, one of the biggest questions the community has is: How does it compare with mainstream commercial offerings? Godot 4.0 improvements. Rendering. Godot 4.0 has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends.

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Vox Media is laying off 130 staffers

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Vox Media is laying off 130 employees, 7% of its workforce today, a decision attributed to economic challenges. As reported by CNN , the news comes from a memo CEO Jim Bankoff sent out to staff.

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Time is running out for nominations for MCV Women in Games 2023!

Game Development News

Nominations for the MCV Women in Games 2023 awards show will end later this week.

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Shocking: game devs still not that into blockchain

Game Developer

I'm shocked, shocked! Well not that shocked.

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Playcraft Now Available

Indie DB

The Unreal Engine powered game creation platform Playcraft is now available.

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Legal trends for the games industry to watch in 2023 | Opinion

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox One year ago, we made some predictions on legal trends for 2022. Now it is time to look back and see where we have been right and where we have been wrong – and make some new predictions for 2023.

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Tencent fired over 100 workers on suspicion of corruption in 2022

Game Developer

The company indicated there has been some nefarious activity within its video game business.

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How to Write a Software Requirements Specification (SRS Document)

Perforce

In this blog, our experts give tips for writing better SRS documents, including detailed software requirements specification examples.

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Riot Games lays off 46 staff as part of "strategic shifts"

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Valorant and League of Legends firm Riot Games joins the growing list of companies to have made redundancies in the past few weeks. The layoffs were first revealed by esports reporter Jacob Wolf via Twitter , before Riot confirmed the news in a statement to GamesIndustry.biz sister site Rock Paper Shotgun.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

With the first Godot 4.0 Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Fixes to CanvasItem draw methods to better handled lines of different widths and filled rectangles ( GH-41239 , GH-71623 , GH-71679 ).

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The Last of Us ' Bruce Straley wants more game industry unions

Game Developer

The unions of us.

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Getting Started with Unity Cinemachine

Game Development for Beginners

Unity Cinemachine was launched along with Unity 2017.1 and was immediately praised by developers. Unity Cinemachine made the Unity Camera smart and lot of camera tricks that required coding could be done with ease. But beginner Unity users still create these effects with code because they are not familiar with Cinemachine. In this tutorial, we.

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Microsoft laying off 10,000

GamesIndustry.biz

Microsoft is conducting layoffs for the third time since July, as reported by CNBC. This round of cuts is the largest of the three, with 10,000 employees being let go, which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella characterized as less than 5% of the company's total headcount in a memo to employees about the layoffs. "I'm confident that Microsoft will emerge from this stronger and more competitive," Nadella said.

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The Pioneers: Surviving Desolation

Indie DB

This innovative space-sim indie announces its release date

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Report: Development on Marvel's Avengers is ending at Crystal Dynamics

Game Developer

Crystal Dynamics' superhero-RPG is reportedly disassembling soon.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

With the first Godot 4.0 Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This week we release a new batch of improvements and fixes, as well as some new features.

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Google laying off 12,000

GamesIndustry.biz

Google is joining Microsoft and Amazon in instituting a wave of mass layoffs, as the company this morning said it would be cutting 12,000 jobs. As reported by CNBC , Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in a Friday morning memo that the cuts would begin immediately in the US, while other countries would take longer "due to local laws and practices.

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It Lurks

Indie DB

This noir horror RPG announces its Steam debut

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Report: 343 Industries taken off Halo development, will oversee series

Game Developer

The larger Halo franchise may receive another shakeup in the aftermath of layoffs and changing plans.

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What is architectural visualization? | Benefits & industries using it

CG Spectrum

Architectural visualization has soared in popularity over the past few years, riding the wave of technological advancements in 3D modeling and rendering. Used much more widely than its name implies, architectural visualization processes are employed across myriad industries — from building and construction to film and video games to product design and VR.

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Sony unveils additional titles to release in 2023 for its PlayStation VR2 console

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Sony has announced additional titles slated to launch in 2023 for its PlayStation VR2 console. The news comes months after the platform holder revealed its $550 price tag and February 22 launch date.

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NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4 Errors: Quick Fixes

Game Errors

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 may have errors or bugs, as with any game. These can range from minor issues, such asgameserrors or sound problems, to more major issues such as crashes or game-breaking bugs. Some errors can be caused by specific hardware or software configurations on the player’s computer. The most common NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4 errors that players complained about are: Crashes, Launch Issues, and problems with the FPS Drops.

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Ubisoft confirms arena battler codenamed Project Q has been cancelled

Game Developer

Project Q was announced by Ubisoft last April and was pitched as a team-based PvP experience.

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What Is the Future of Software Development?

Perforce

The future of software development is happening all around us. From biotech advances to autonomous vehicles, software advances everyday. See the top predictions for software development in 2023 and beyond.

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GDC Survey: 53% of devs support unionization efforts

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The Game Developers Conference published its annual State of the Industry Survey today, showing continued support by respondents regarding unionization efforts. Of the more than 2,300 developers who answered the survey, 53% responded that the video game industry should unionize.

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Civilization 6 Graphics and Performance Issues [Quick Fixes]

Game Errors

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is a complex and detailed game that can be challenging to run on certain hardware or software configurations. However, it’s not considered a problematic game. Like any other game, it can have some bugs and glitches, problems that players may experience with the game’s graphics or visual elements, such as low frame rate, stuttering, or graphics not displaying correctly.

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African mobile game publisher Carry1st nets $27M in funding

Game Developer

Carry1st, which published Call of Duty: Mobile in South Africa, plans to use its newly raised money to license more games and develop its own.

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How to Effectively Implement a CI/CD Pipeline (Infographic)

Rocket Brush Studio

Organizations should understand how the CI/CD pipeline works before implementing a framework that could help them streamline production processes to reduce bugs and release software products faster. For a successful implementation, technical teams need to be mindful of how DevOps and agile methodologies work together to support an effective CI/CD pipeline.

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Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings leaves after 25 years

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Reed Hastings, Netflix's co-founder, has exited from the firm after 25 years. In the announcement , Hastings said he would pivot to an executive chairman role.

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The 6 fundamentals of art every artist must learn (with examples)

CG Spectrum

Throughout your art journey, you’ll continually return to the fundamentals of art. Many core elements of art will remain consistent, no matter what form or medium you use. In this article, we’ll discuss the six fundamental principles of good art and explore some of the career paths that rely on these core principles. What are the 6 fundamentals of art?

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Google lays off 12,000 employees in a week of mass layoffs

Game Developer

More layoffs across the tech industry.

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Why Businesses Should Invest in ETL Automation?

Rocket Brush Studio

ETL automation is rapidly becoming an essential part of any modern business's toolkit. This process enables businesses to extract, transform, and load data from multiple sources into a single system, allowing for faster and more efficient data analysis. This kind of automation also helps businesses save time and money by eliminating manual processes such as data entry and data cleansing.

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GameSpot and Giant Bomb latest affected in wave of media layoffs

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox GameSpot and Giant Bomb are the latest media publications to be struck by layoffs. The news emerged last night, with various members of both teams announcing they were now unemployed via social media. Kotaku reported the layoffs were announced to staff during an unscheduled company-wide meeting led by Perkins Miller, CEO of the sites' parent company Fandom.

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Fan Collective Unimatrix 47 Explores Trek’s Occasional Veering Into Not So Boldly Going Territory

Game Industry News

This week, I’m going to do something a bit different with the weekly column because we’re still in the break period between the end of Prodigy and the premiere of Picard ’s third and final season. I want to use this space to touch on a question that seems to be percolating through the zeitgeist of a lot of modern, post-Berman Trek , which is what happens when the ideal doesn’t quite turn out to be all it’s cracked up to be.

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Scenario Inc rolls out generative AI tool targeted at game devs

Game Developer

Scenario. Inc describes its tool as a "generator of generators," that lets devs iterate on 2D art assets trained on their own art datasets.

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Creating fantastic stories and more: Peter Jackson

Filmustage

Art by @nadi_bulochka The finale of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy was released 20 years ago, but it is still one of the most beloved films worldwide. Thanks to Peter Jackson's directorial style, we never tire of revisiting these films repeatedly. It is amazing how bizarre and unusual the fate of Peter Jackson was. Ever since he was a kid, he has loved the cinematography, and he's tried his hand at a lot of genres, including B-movies.

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