iXie gaming

AUGUST 7, 2023

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) represent the cutting edge of technology, and some of the most immersive experiences in gaming by bridging the gap between digital and physical worlds. While this sub-category of gaming is still in its infancy compared to the industry as a whole and therefore has a much smaller market, it has some of the most ambitious ideas and principles driving each and every project.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 11, 2023

Blizzard Entertainment's hero shooter Overwatch 2 has only been on Steam for a day, and its existence on the storefront is a clash of reception.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 11, 2023

Image by pikisuperstar on Freepik Newzoo ’s latest Global Games Market Report gives an insight into the state of the worldwide games industry. First things first, the global games market will generate $187.7 billion in 2023, representing +2.6% year-on-year growth. Mobile accounts for the highest share of revenues, but a challenging privacy landscape will somewhat limit growth until 2026.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 11, 2023

Fear of missing out, or FOMO, is a key part of consumer psychology that just about any businessperson has learned about at some point. It's the reason why sales and special offers "must end soon"; it's the concept that underlies limited edition products, pre-order bonuses, and every wily form of artificial scarcity this industry has ever cooked up. Yet, for all that, any businessperson worth their salt knows how to manipulate FOMO in consumers, very few of them are immune to its effects in turn.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Video game development is a collaborative process that involves various people with specialized skills. The two most critical roles in this process are game artists and designers. Though both roles are essential, they have distinct responsibilities and roles. Since most of us are unaware of the process of creating a game, we usually confuse game design and game art as being the same.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 11, 2023

Altagram described the situation as "unfortunate and frustrating" and has pledged to update the game's credits.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 9, 2023

As if developing a game by yourself wasn’t daunting enough, Pat Naoum decided to completely handpaint his debut game The Master’s Pupil. That alone took him hundreds of hours and the whole project now sits at 7 years. But the end is here, the game is out now on steam. “The painting really comes down to uniqueness”, he says. “Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet.

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Perforce

AUGUST 8, 2023

Is GitHub safe? Learn about Git security issues, your Git access control options, alternative version control tools, and how to secure Git.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 9, 2023

Grand Theft Auto V is still bringing home the bacon, and there are signs that suggest a sequel could be imminent.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 7, 2023

Top image: Gnoumagbee and Teninke Camara It’s 3 am, and while the world sleeps, a creative force comes alive in the heart of Teninke Camara , the brilliant Creative Director and Founder of Blind Bend Studio. Born to parents who ventured from Guinea to France, Teninke’s artistic inspiration knows no bounds as she thrives in the late evenings and early mornings.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 11, 2023

Netflix has launched a game controller app on the App Store for iOS devices, suggesting its plans for a cloud gaming service may be taking shape. The Netflix Game Controller app will let subscribers play games on their TV using a gamepad interface. According to The Verge , launching a game through the app prompts users to connect their device, but currently displays "Netflix Games on TV are in beta" with potential device support limitations.

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Game Daily

AUGUST 7, 2023

Mighty Action Heroes is a new battle royale game for mobile, offering Web3 capabilities via blockchain-tradable, collectible NFTs. Players can earn, create, own and trade characters from the game, which is inspired by “the best of Hollywood, Bollywood, Hong Kong cinema, and beyond” GameDaily spoke to Simon Davis, co-founder and CEO at Singapore-based developer Mighty Bear Games.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 9, 2023

Netflix continues its gradual expansion into the video game space with an iOS controller app and a release on TV devices in the near future.

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Indie DB

AUGUST 6, 2023

After three years of development and more than a year and a half in Early Acces, the Alder Forge final chapter is released.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 11, 2023

You ever see something so awful that your first instinct is to show it to someone else, so they can share in how awful it is? Even though you know it's probably just going to make their day worse? I sure hope so, because that will make me feel a little better about showing you this: That's from Roblox's latest quarterly earnings report. I have seen companies shade every other line of the tables in their investor relations materials for readability in the past, but I've never before seen someone

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The Bottom Feeder

AUGUST 9, 2023

The one, the only, the original. If it looks good, you should write a copy of it. Everyone else has. Way back in February, I wrote a big article about indie phenomenon Vampire Survivors. It was a fun cheap game that is still fun and cheap. It's also a charming, scruffy take on the classic Twin-Stick Shooter genre, great for mindless gaming, with a price that is effectively zero.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 10, 2023

Players in China appear to have not felt much, if any, real restriction from the government limiting their playtime so severely.

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Indie DB

AUGUST 6, 2023

Explore 'Enemy Alien,' a solo-developed adventure game crafted using the Visionaire Engine, featuring classic adventure elements and a thrilling shooting twist.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 11, 2023

During our time at the First Playable event in Florence, we spoke with nine Italian game developers of all different shapes and sizes. We met with a bunch of small, independent teams creating artistic, personal passionate projects. And we sat down with larger developers who are part of bigger groups, such as Ubisoft and Embracer. Stormind doesn't fit into either of those categories.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2023

GodotCon 2023 needs participations

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Game Developer

AUGUST 8, 2023

In this classic GDC design talk, designer Stone Librande shows how-to make effective, concise one-page game design documents.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2023

The purpose of IP law is to protect the creators of intellectual property. Without IP law protections, there is little to stop those with more money/resources from simply taking whatever good ideas from their creators and making their own version of the product without ever paying the original creator or giving them any credit for coming up with the idea.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 10, 2023

The third and final DLC for Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope arrives this month, and for developer Ubisoft Milan it involves the return of an old friend. The DLC is titled Rayman in the Phantom Show and, as the name suggests, sees the return of Ubisoft's limbless platforming star. And this character holds real significance for the team in Milan. "We managed in some way to go back to where we started," says producer Cristina Nava.

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Artoon

AUGUST 7, 2023

Fitness App Development is growing in popularity like none other. In 2022, […] The post How Much Does It Cost To Build A Fitness App? appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 8, 2023

At one stage, Larian wondered if the title's early access success might actually hold it back.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2023

One month into the release cycle for Godot 4.2, things are well under way. This third dev snapshot features a lot of improvements to C# and rendering.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 10, 2023

PlayStation 5 sales continue to accelerate in the UK on the back of its new £399 price point. The deal started two weeks ago and had an immediate impact, with console sales jumping by 75% in that first week. Now into the second week and sales continue to climb, with PS5 units up 59% (revenue is up 51%). Last week was the biggest week of the year so far for PS5 sales in the UK.

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Indie DB

AUGUST 6, 2023

Erenshor is created for the nostalgic gamer who no longer wants to commit to online or scheduled play times, it offers unrestricted exploration, Simulated players, strategic battles, and countless weapons, armors, and spells to discover.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Commerce Commission found them merger is "unlikely to substantially lessen competition.

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Unity Blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

Keep up with everything that the Unity community is creating (and achieving) with this roundup of highlights from July 2023.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 10, 2023

China has imposed strict game time limitations for minors partly out of concern they could develop addictions, but a new paper published in Nature Human Behavior found no evidence that the rules have had any impact on excessive gaming at all. The researchers partnered with Unity to examine more than 7 billion hours of playtime and around 2.4 billion Chinese gamer profiles from mid-August of 2019 to mid-January of 2020, a span of time that includes the imposition of an hour-and-a-half daily playt

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Indie DB

AUGUST 7, 2023

Cornucopia - an immersive 2.5D farming sim with 50+ NPCs, innovative compost system, unique card system, 200+ recipes. Befriend, date, marry, and have children with 31 NPCs. Attend festivals, auction animals, fish, craft, and play mini-games. In-depth.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Previously owned but slightly more affordable, Valve says its limited line of refurbished Steam Decks will have the same support as a fully new handheld.

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Unity Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Unity Wētā Tools bring together award-winning solutions from Wētā Digital, Ziva, SpeedTree, and Unity for character, environment, and compositing. Discover how this product suite can transform creativity.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Tetris Effect writer Dan Ackerman has filed a lawsuit against Apple and The Tetris Company for allegedly adapting his book without permission. In a complaint issued to a Manhattan federal court on August 8, Ackerman claimed the Apple Original film Tetris had "the same feel, tone, approach and scenes" as his 2016 book The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized The World, including direct adaptation of "specific chapters and pages.

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Indie DB

AUGUST 7, 2023

How new characters are created as part of the expanded story in Serania - Path of the Scion (desktop version).

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Game Developer

AUGUST 7, 2023

Former Campfire Cabal executive producer Bruno-Christian Belibou claims everybody at the studio has been laid off.

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