Game Developer

JANUARY 3, 2024

Three days into the new year, and 3D Realms and Slipgate have may have already laid off more staff after its cuts at the end of 2023.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 3, 2024

Based in the city of Ohrid in North Macedonia, the two brothers Bobby and Zhanko Mojsovski work hard on their next game, the bodycam survival-horror shooter Chasmal Fear. Working under the name of MystiveDev the Mojsovski-brothers actively include the player community in almost every aspect of development. “Our games are made for the players. They know what’s good and what needs to be improved, so we listen to them.” “My brother and I have been working together on video games f

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 3, 2024

Every year, we turn to a panel of trusted analysts to ask them what they see coming down the road, and ask them to assess their predictions from the previous year. This year we've got all of last year's participants returning: Niko Partners' Lisa Cosmas Hanson, Midia Research's Karol Severin (offering the firm's take alongside Perry Gresham), Kantan Games' Dr.

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Concept Art World

JANUARY 1, 2024

Concept Art World Jeong Won An An Jeong Won An a.k.a. Maggi is a professional concept artist and illustrator from Seoul, South Korea. Jeong has worked in the game industry for projects such as HanbitSoft’s MMORPG Sword of the New World (Granado Espada). Link: Portfolio | Twitter | Instagram All images © Jeong Won An or their respective copyright holder.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 5, 2024

Netflix's games service may be due for a change in the near future as the streamer considers charging for games or in-game ads for different subscription tiers.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 5, 2024

Top image: The Wandering Village by Stray Fawn Studios was one of the selected games last year. The off-site GDC event European Game Showcase 2024 is coming to San Francisco once again this year. It’s an event where 30+ European developers get to showcase their latest games to the press, publishers, and strategic partners. The event will be held at Swissnex located at Pier 17 in the Embarcadero, San Francisco during GDC.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 5, 2024

UK developer Bossa Studios has laid off around one third of its staff, GamesIndustry.biz has learned. Sources shared a list of 19 people that were affected by the redundancies, mostly in QA and production roles as well as non-UK employees. Bossa Studios has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that it did dismiss a number of staff at the end of 2023, and that 40 people remain in the studio.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 3, 2024

Ansell co-made the original Warhammer and lead Games Workshop's decades-long focus on it and its spiritual sequel, Warhammer 40K.

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Cocos

JANUARY 2, 2024

The interesting gameplay of the camera’s perspective, to achieve the same visual performance of “Don’t Starve” We highly recommend watching the video as you read this tutorial to get a full understanding of the tutorial. Introduction The visual presentation of the game of Octopath Traveler and Don’t Starve is very interesting. You can clearly know that it is a 2D material, but it presents a feeling of a 3D world.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 5, 2024

A former Activision executive has sued the publisher in California state court accusing the company of age discrimination and violating the state's whistleblower protection law, as reported by Law360. The suit was filed earlier this week by a 57-year-old former tech executive who worked for the company from 2014 until being laid off as part of a restructuring in the Activision Blizzard's Central Tech department last August.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 4, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Blender Controls in Godot 4.2 One of the most exciting new features in the recent Godot 4.2 game engine release was the addition of Blender style transformation hotkeys. You need to configure this feature yourself, but the video below shows you step by step how to do so. At first glance the Blender hotkeys may … Blender Controls in Godot 4.2 Read More The post Blender Controls in Godot 4.2 appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 2, 2024

"I believe that generative AI has the potential not only to reshape what we create, but also to fundamentally change the processes by which we create.

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Perforce

JANUARY 4, 2024

Unreal Engine architecture visualization uses game engines to present a hyper-realistic 3D rendering to stakeholders and clients. Learn about UE archviz features and real-life examples.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 4, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A Little To The Left did have a small following before its appearance during a Wholesome Direct. The cozy puzzle game about organising household items was created by Max Inferno, a development team consisting of Anne Macmillan (art and animation) and Lukas Steinman (design and programming).

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Indie DB

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Festive Season is here, so it is time to cozy up on the couch and play some of your favorite games with friends and family. And because it is the season of giving, we would like to gift all the fans of our franchise a huge brand-new patch for We.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 2, 2024

Jukai Studio closed its doors hours after its publishing partner Versus Evil and two months after the launch of its debut game, Stray Souls.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 2, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Unreal January 2024 Asset Giveaway It’s a new year and its time for the first Epic Games Unreal Engine asset giveaway for January 2024. The first Tuesday of every month Epic Games give away a number of Unreal Engines from the UE Asset Marketplace and January is no exception. This month we have 5 “Free … Unreal January 2024 Asset Giveaway Read More The post Unreal January 2024 Asset Giveaway appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2024

Sony has been fined €13.5 million by French antitrust regulator Autorité de la Concurrence , which has accused the company of "abusing its dominant position in the market" by restricting third-party PlayStation 4 controllers. Filed by the regulator last month following a referral from French controller manufacturer Subsonic, its investigation found that Sony put counterfeiting measures in place in November 2015 that caused third-party controllers to regularly disconnect from the conso

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Indie DB

JANUARY 1, 2024

We are pleased to announce the release of Matali Physics 6.4, the significant step on the way to the seventh major version of the environment. Matali Physics 6.4 introduces a number of improvements and fixes to Matali Physics Core, Matali Render, Matali.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 4, 2024

The initiative allows eligible studios to claim a 20 percent tax rebate and is worth $40 million per annum.

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The Astronauts

JANUARY 2, 2024

I left Unity at start of 2022. So for this lazy Tuesday afternoon, figured I can share the rambles I wrote in my goodbye email. No big insights there, just old man reminiscing. And hey the text is already written, so that makes it easy to copy-pasta it into the blog: It’s now exactly 16 years of me working at Unity. And as everyone knows, if you don’t leave after 16 years, you have to wait until 32 years for your next chance (look, I don’t make the rules).

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2024

Square Enix will be actively pushing into the generative AI field, exploring how it can be used in the company's internal games development. The plans emerge from the Japanese publisher's annual New Year's Letter from its company president – this time penned by Takashi Kiryu, who took over from Yosuke Matsuda after the latter stepped down at the end of his ten-year tenure.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 5, 2024

This update features new mission, replays, and new model and capabilities for Xanthous resourcer, mission briefings and more.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 2, 2024

French regulators learned Sony spent nearly a decade "abusing its dominant position" for PlayStation 4 controllers and harming third-party manufacturers.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 3, 2024

It can be hard to keep up with everything the Unity community is creating. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this roundup of highlights of games made with Unity in 2023.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Last week, a government official was removed from one of China's regulatory agencies following a dip in gaming stocks in response to new game proposals. As reported by Reuters , per sources familiar with the matter, the withdrawn individual was head of the publishing unit of the Communist Party’s Publicity Department.

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Indie DB

DECEMBER 31, 2023

New update for Hero's Story has been released! It includes new boss, in-game cutscenes and localization system.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 2, 2024

Sega is shaking up the leadership of its European division as it begins to revive old series like Shinobi and Crazy Taxi for a new generation.

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Keith Burgun

DECEMBER 30, 2023

One of the principles that has been important to me over the years, which I have talked about a lot, is the idea that strategy games should always be moving toward their conclusion. In a way, this extends from the basic Clockwork Game Design model. In this model, you have a goal, and a “core mechanism” which has two parts: a core action and a core purpose.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Frogwares has announced that it is the sole publisher of The Sinking City. The developer of the 2019 eldritch horror will be publishing the title on all platforms.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 1, 2024

A relentless environment where resource management is the key to survival.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 3, 2024

Capcom's 2018 hit RPG Monster Hunter: World has been building up its PC player base as interest for Monster Hunter Wilds grows.

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Game Refinery

JANUARY 4, 2024

Dive into some of the most popular and successful ways app developers implement season-based systems in mobile games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 3, 2024

ID@Xbox has been accused of using AI art to promote indie games. On December 27, ID@Xbox shared a post asking its followers what their favourite indie games of 2023 were, accompanied by an image of a wintery scene. The post was subsequently removed following a poor reception, but the post was screenshotted and shared by other users to highlight the suspected use of AI.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Hey all, I’m back with another entry in a series I covered a while back for this week’s Retro Game Friday. It’s Front Mission Evolved. Plot: The plot and characters of this entry in the Front Mission series are okay, but there is a reboot of the entire setting including outer space as a major battlefront this time around with the story opening with an attack on an orbital elevator.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 3, 2024

The nascent collection includes pitch decks for titles like Cosmoteer and Wargroove.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 4, 2024

CG Spectrum students continue to impress us with their creativity and talent! Too good not to share, we collated some of the outstanding work our virtual production , digital painting , animation , 3D modeling , visual effects , and game development students created throughout 2023. A big shout out to the CGS mentors — film and game industry experts who have supported our students throughout their studies, providing them with personalized feedback, valuable tips and tricks, and unique industry i

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