Game Developer

JANUARY 20, 2023

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

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

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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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 16, 2023

Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard will face an antitrust challenge in the European Union, Reuters reported today. The news outlet's sources said the European Commission is preparing a statement of objections around the deal that it will send to Microsoft in a matter of weeks. It has previously set an April 11 deadline to make a decision on whether the acquisition can go through.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 18, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a new series that is sort of a LitRPG. It’s “Towers of Acalia Volume 1” by Atlas Kane! Plot: The plot is pretty basic, but it mixes the LitRPG and Cultivation genres fairly well, but the elements from both genres are very much watered down. It sounds much worse than the actual result is, but this might very well not be your cup of tea.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2023

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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

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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Game Development for Beginners

JANUARY 20, 2023

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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Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2023

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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

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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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

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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Game Errors

JANUARY 18, 2023

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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Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this year's GDC State of the Game Industry survey, we found more developers are moving to hybrid remote-office schedules; they're divided on the rise in major studio acquisitions; and their opinions on the use of blockchain technology in games are more complicated than they may seem at first glance.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 19, 2023

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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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

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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Game Errors

JANUARY 19, 2023

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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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2023

"Because Mr. Guillemot and his clique only understand the relationship of power, Solidaires Informatique is calling on the employees of Ubisoft Paris to go on strike.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 18, 2023

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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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 18, 2023

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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Rocket Brush Studio

JANUARY 17, 2023

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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Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2023

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

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Perforce

JANUARY 17, 2023

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

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

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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Rocket Brush Studio

JANUARY 18, 2023

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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Game Developer

JANUARY 17, 2023

Now that it's the most successful game in Ubisoft's 25-year-old city builder series, Anno 1800 is the first entry in the series to be ported to consoles.

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Perforce

JANUARY 19, 2023

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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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 18, 2023

Loot box researcher Leon Xiao has found that rating board warning labels about randomized loot boxes are being inconsistently applied. Xiao's latest study looked at the whether the North American ESRB and Europe's PEGI rating systems are applying the "In-game purchases (includes random items)" labels consistently. The labels were rolled out by both groups with essentially identical criteria after government scrutiny on loot boxes.

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The Bottom Feeder

JANUARY 18, 2023

The most important thing to know about Dungeons and Dragons is that all the coolest art for it was made before 1980. The big, fun news in the gaming world recently was that it looked like Wizards of the Coast (WotC for short, owned by Hasbro) was going to drastically change the Open Gaming License for Dungeons & Dragons. WAIT! COME BACK! Yeah, I know.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 16, 2023

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

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 19, 2023

GameFromScratch.com More Layoffs At Unity Last June Unity announced they would be laying off 4% of their workforce, or slightly over 200 people. A few days back Unity CEO John Riccitiello announced that Unity would be laying off an additional 284 employees. Unlike the earlier layoffs though, these ones are mostly from overlapping positions, most … More Layoffs At Unity Read More The post More Layoffs At Unity appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 18, 2023

The European Parliament voted today to adopt a report calling for the European Commission to address several issues in the games industry that it believes will better protect consumers, especially young people. The report was led by MEP Adriana Maldonado López, and secured 577 votes in favour, with 56 against and 15 abstentions. López made more than a dozen recommendations in her report, including a call for harmonised rules across the European Union's single market when providing clea

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Game Development News

JANUARY 17, 2023

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

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Game Developer

JANUARY 19, 2023

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

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Logic Simplified

JANUARY 18, 2023

Complete Project Details Genre Casual game Platform Android Project Duration 6 Months Our Team on Project Front-end Developer - 1 Back-end Developer - 1 UI Designer - 1 3D Artist - 1 Animator - 1 Game Architect - 1 Project Manager - 1 Quality Analyst - 1 Technology and Designing Tools Used Unity Gimp Blender Overview We, at Logic Simplified, got an opportunity to build an entertaining arcade-style 3D game featuring fast-paced action and humorous elements.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

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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