Game Developer

APRIL 4, 2024

Antoniades co-founded Ninja Theory two decades ago.

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 1, 2024

As the world spins into chaos, the one constant that brings stability into your world is knowing that grumpygamer.com will always remains April Fools' joke free.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 3, 2024

In a moment of dissatisfaction, while working at a prestigious engineering company in Turkey, Dorothy Orina made a decision that changed the course of her career. Although she enjoyed her time in Turkey and her engineering studies, she decided to leave both behind to pursue her passion for game development. Today she works at Maliyo Games, based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 4, 2024

Everyone’s favourite candid games exec, Phil Spencer, was in the news last week discussing the concerning ‘lack of growth’ in video games. He’s said it before and he’s not wrong. It’s one of the two big factors behind the industry-wide layoffs we’ve been reporting on (the other being the rapidly rising cost of everything).

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Game Developer

APRIL 4, 2024

Lead sound engineer Junya Osada says making a procedural sound system allowed Nintendo's sound team to work more closely with other departments.

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Concept Art World

APRIL 3, 2024

Concept Art World Edouard Caplain Edouard Caplain is a concept artist and art director currently based in Paris, France where he works at DONTNOD Entertainment. Edouard has worked in the game industry for companies like The Creative Assembly/SEGA, Ignition London, Frontier Developments and White Birds Productions. Link: Portfolio | Twitter | Instagram All images © Edouard Caplain Yang or their respective copyright holder.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 31, 2024

As the world spins into chaos, the one constant that brings stability into your world is knowing that grumpygamer.com will always remains April Fools’ joke free.

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Game Developer

APRIL 5, 2024

Small but mighty.

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Game Development News

APRIL 5, 2024

This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content.

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Keith Burgun

APRIL 4, 2024

With the Kickstarter right around the corner, today I’d love to introduce you to my favorite friend in the Spellstorm cast: Bunny Wizard ! Bunny is a very positive and optimistic guy. Bunny’s Story One day, Bunny Wizard was flying around in a fancy new automated blimp. He was headed to see a concert in Goldenbridge when the blimp he was on took a very bad route to get there, one that passed right through the Spellstorm.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Lars Wingefors, the CEO of Embracer Group, has declared an end to the group's lengthy restructuring process that resulted in the loss of 1,400 jobs and the closure of three studios. In an investor call following last week's $460m sale of Borderlands developer Gearbox , Wingefors told investors: "Now we are ending the restructuring program [at the] end of March and we're now looking into the future.

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Game Developer

APRIL 2, 2024

According to Unity, games that can be played "instantly" present new possibilities for game developers.

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Indie DB

APRIL 1, 2024

Take control of a Modu - an alien creature with an ability to grow different organs.

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Retro Game Coders

APRIL 3, 2024

Web browsing with the C64 is not really ideal, but that doesn’t mean you can’t interact over the web using your Commodore 64. Huh? What? Yes, that is right, we can hook up our C64 to the web and do interesting stuff! If you haven’t already, check out how we get a C64 on the internet using a WiFi adapter. C64 WiFi and Vice Emulator Once you have a WiFi adapter, you might find it handy to get your Vice emulator talking to it rather than code directly on your C64.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

Ubisoft has announced another round of layoffs, with 45 staff affected across its global publishing and Asia-Pacific teams. As reported by GameSpot , the games firm said this was part of efforts to "streamline operations" across the company. "We are further reorganising our global publishing central and APAC structures to adapt them to the market evolution with a more efficient and agile approach," it said in a statement.

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Game Developer

APRIL 3, 2024

Tears of the Kingdom technical director Takuhiro Dohta and lead physics programmer Takahiro Takayama share secrets from developing the game's amazingly complex physics system.

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Indie DB

MARCH 30, 2024

Unreal Physics is a free to play exploration of in-game physics like never before, this dynamic 3D sandbox features a mesmerizing collection of demos, showcasing stunning visuals and realistic simulations. It's a playground of endless possibilities where.

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Perforce

APRIL 5, 2024

Unity and Unreal have some new competition. Meet Godot, a 2D and 3D game engine. Learn what Godot is, and how it compares to engines like Unity and Unreal.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

The Portuguese games industry had a big presence at GDC last month, with over 50 delegates from 20 companies attending, 14 companies represented in the country's pavilion (its first ever at the event), and a reception organised at the Consulate General of Portugal welcoming over 100 attendees. This reflects Portugal's upwards trajectory over the past few years, as also evidenced by the opening of a games-specific co-working space in Lisbon a few months back.

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Game Developer

APRIL 1, 2024

With solid reviews and during a busy release period, Unicorn Overlord may be Vanillaware's fastest-selling title yet.

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Unity Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

An announcement about changes to Unity’s support for Ziva VFX, Ziva Real-Time, Ziva Face Trainer, and related Ziva products.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 5, 2024

We have returned from the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, so let's talk about it!

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 3, 2024

There's no shortage of success stories surrounding Baldur's Gate 3, and Larian Studios creative content manager Ben Maltz-Jones added to the stack in a Game Developers Conference session titled "Roll Play: The Strategy Behind Baldur's Gate 3 on TikTok." Since taking over the official Larian Studios TikTok channel in September of 2022, Maltz-Jones has grown the account from 591 followers to more than 280,000, with a cumulative total of 4.7 million likes spread across more than 100 TikToks uploade

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Game Developer

APRIL 1, 2024

Ubisoft makes its first layoffs of 2024 by cutting staff across its global publishing teams.

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Indie DB

APRIL 2, 2024

Hey, hey, hey, it's us My Next Games again, because it's time to tell you what we've managed to do recently and to introduce some of the things we're currently working on!

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 2, 2024

The onboarding process is a little of everything you say. Whenever I start a new job, there's the new hire administrative tasks I need to get done like signing paperwork and doing harassment/DEI/office safety training and there's the actual "this is what they hired me to do" learning process where I learn how the workflow works so that I can start being productive.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 3, 2024

Gearbox Entertainment has announced an unspecified number of redundancies following its sale from Embracer last week. As reported by Eurogamer , the studio said the layoffs weren't linked to the development of future titles, such as Borderlands 4. "The Embracer Group will continue to report on their restructuring program that impacted some parts of Gearbox that are not tied to the development of Gearbox Software games," it said in a statement.

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Game Developer

APRIL 3, 2024

The unbelievable stunts players pulled off in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild drove the Tears of the Kingdom team to make an even more open-ended game experience.

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Indie DB

MARCH 31, 2024

We invite you to participate in testing of the new custom map editor! You can help us by trying out the test version as we want to hear your feedback on the current set of features.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 2, 2024

Top image by Freepik. In the wake of 2023, a year marked by blockbuster game releases, the global PC and console gaming market is facing a period of moderation. While the industry still exhibits growth, the trajectory is more subdued compared to the rapid expansion seen in previous years. According to the latest PC and Console Gaming report by Newzoo , the PC and console gaming market generated $93.5 billion in revenue in 2023, representing a modest growth rate of 2.6% year-over-year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 5, 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. When I was in grade school, one of my teachers had a poster on the wall with a quote on it from an author.

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Game Developer

APRIL 1, 2024

Unity wants to prove its commitment to transparency by sharing AI training data with developers concerned about copyright violation.

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Indie DB

APRIL 2, 2024

"Sheol: Chronicles of the Underworld" introduces players to a captivating multiplayer role-playing card game set in the depths of the Underworld. As contenders vie for the prestigious title of Ruler of the Underworld, they embark on an adrenaline-fueled.

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Game Development News

APRIL 4, 2024

Sumo Group’s Jenny Muhlwa talks to MCV/DEVELOP about a new programme to help developers evolve into great game industry leaders

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 3, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The assumption of many is that the Japanese games industry, and indeed that of much of Asia, is a unique, indecipherable entity compared to the more easily understood and integrated dynamics of gaming in Western countries. Mobile gaming has a foothold around the world, but the rise of gacha gaming in Japan in particular feels unparalleled to trends witnessed elsewhere, where many major franchises like Uma Musume: Pretty

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Game Developer

APRIL 1, 2024

Whitehurst and chief product and technology officer Marc Whitten discuss Unity's plans to rebuild trust with developers after the 2023 Runtime Fee fiasco.

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Indie DB

APRIL 3, 2024

Tribe Nation, upcoming Gaelic Wars-based RTS, is introducing UI. New trailer and screenshots with resource management mechanics, world map and battles with UI.

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