GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Starfield was comfortably No.1 across Europe during its launch week, GSD data shows. The Xbox game, which is also on PC, became the fastest-selling new IP of the year, and the fifth fastest-selling game of the year overall. Its launch sales are ahead of Final Fantasy 16 and Resident Evil 4, but behind Hogwarts Legacy, Diablo IV, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Unity's updated Runtime Fee will no longer apply to games made on Unity Personal, and will only apply beginning with the next LTS version of Unity.

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

GameFromScratch.com AppLovin Launch Project Unifree Last week Unity announced their new Unity Runtime Fee, which was met with more or less universal hatred. News got worse after that, when it was discovered Unity had quietly altered their terms of service and that Unity reps were reaching out to clients saying they wouldn’t have to pay … AppLovin Launch Project Unifree Read More The post AppLovin Launch Project Unifree appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Tom Francis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Last week, Unity announced that they will soon start charging developers $0.20 each time their games are installed, past certain (high) thresholds. This came as a surprise to me and a few thousand other developers who chose Unity, invested in it, and paid for it in large part because they told us they wouldn’t take any of our revenue. The reaction has been huge, but it’s not clear yet if Unity will make it right.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Developers of indie puzzle game Orgynizer have claimed that Unity said organisations like Planned Parenthood are "not valid charities" and are instead "political groups." In a blog post, the EU-based developer LizardFactory said the plans to charge developers up to $0.20 per install if they reach certain thresholds would cost them "around 30% of the funds we have gathered and already sent to charity.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Embracer continues to enact layoffs at its various subsidiaries, with the newest round said to be hitting various departments at Crystal Dynamics.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It took Caleb Mantey , CTO and Co-founder of Ghanaian-based Relu Interactives , 5 years of constant rejection for his company’s innovative gamified simulation to catch a break. In August 2023, his breakthrough arrived in the form of a 150,000 Ghanaian Cedi (GHC) award and an additional 50,000 GHC personal contribution by the president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

2022 was a stellar year for Bandai Namco thanks to Elden Ring's critical and commercial success. As a result, 2023 felt like it was all going to be about maintaining that momentum. When we ask Bandai Namco Europe CEO Arnaud Muller about how well the company has managed to rise to that challenge this year, he first points to Elden Ring's DLC, the Shadow of the Erdtree, announced earlier this year and due to release soon.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Vladyslav Popushoi, Project Lead of the UE4 Department at Pingle Studio, shares his team's experience with their successful port of the PC version of Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach to Nintendo Switch.

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Using Asset Store Assets In Other Engines — Is It Legal? This is a question that comes up quite often in video comments, is it legal to use the assets from the asset store of one game engine, in a different game engine? Perhaps you want to take advantage of giveaways or sales that are happening on a game engine that … Using Asset Store Assets In Other Engines — Is It Legal?

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Dutch indie game developer Abbey Games has been on quite the journey since the release of their breakout hit, Reus , a decade ago. The studio has experienced the sweet taste of critical and commercial success but also suffered through disappointing sales results. Now, after a long wait, Abbey Games is back in action with the sequel Reus 2. Co-founder Adriaan Jansen reflects on the journey Abbey Games has taken since the release of the original Reus , stating, “We created 3 games in 10 yea

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Unity executives informed staff today about some of the planned revisions to the controversial Runtime Fee policy it announced last week, according to Bloomberg. In a recording of the all-hands meeting reviewed by the outlet, executives detailed a number of changes under consideration, including: While Unity CEO John Riccitiello acknowledged the company could have done a better job rolling out the Runtime Fee plan, he said, "I don't think there's any version of this that would have gone down a w

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Unity Create president Marc Whitten admitted that a year after promising to "talk more" with developers, the company still hadn't done enough listening.

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Re-Logic Make Huge Donation To MonoGame Perhaps the most uplifting story resulting from the Unity Runtime Fee fallout, was the announcement yesterday that Re-Logic, the maker of Terraria would be supporting Godot and FNA with large monetary donations. FNA is actually a fork of another popular open source game development project, MonoGame.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Joakim Achrén helps founders build successful games companies. He’s the lead of an angel syndicate specifically for games and an investor himself. To follow his work, subscribe to elitegamedevelopers.com/newsletter Here’s his advice for startups. In 2013, the investors asked for a data room when we raised the Next Games pre-seed. I was, “Doh, we are a new company, and there are no legal docs yet.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The European Games Developer Federation has voiced its concerns over Unity's Runtime Fee, talking about "looming game engine market failure." The EGDF published a statement on its website on Thursday , describing Unity's change as "unfortunate," adding that with these "sudden and drastic changes" the engine firm has "significantly damaged its reputation as a reliable and predictable business partner.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Outcry from the game development community has led to Unity rethinking its upcoming policy change, which it still insists will affect a small amount of users.

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Unity Announce Massive Pricing Changes Unity started a firestorm off a week ago when they announced a poorly thought out and overreaching Unity Runtime Fee and to say that Unity developers didn’t like it would be a bit of an understatement. This was back on September 12th and finally on September 22nd they have announced … Unity Announce Massive Pricing Changes Read More The post Unity Announce Massive Pricing Changes appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Keith Burgun

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Feels like a “rare” few know about what an incredible game Diddy Kong Racing is. I mean, if you’re looking for a light, social party game, one where groups of players of vastly different skill levels can play together, then, as much as I hate to admit it, Mario Kart is better (that is, all of the Mario Karts except for Super and Super Circuit— more on that later).

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

10.7 million video games from AAA publishers were sold across Europe last month, GSD data reports. That's a rise of nearly 29% over August last year. It's an impressive result, especially as the big game of August - Baldur's Gate 3 - is not counted in this data as publisher Larian is not part of the GSD panel. Instead, FIFA 23 is No.1. The football game saw a particularly big spike in sales on Nintendo Switch, as the game was on offer via the Nintendo eShop.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Remote work has been an important part of game development in recent years, and Insomniac continues to stand by it.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The world of gaming is always on the brink of something new, something vast, something that promises to change how we play and interact in virtual spaces. I sat down with John Krajewski , the man behind the unique and forward-thinking game, Eco. The conversation shifted from the nuances of game development to the larger, looming concept of the “metaverse.” “I’m the founder and CEO of Strange Loop Games,” began Krajewski, detailing his journey from working on AAA tit

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Rocket Brush Studio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

AI and machine learning are game-changers in security testing, empowering teams to stay ahead of emerging threats. Automated scans and intelligent test inputs ensure robust and resilient security.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox It's been almost a full week since Unity announced its controversial Runtime Fee, and the developer backlash continues. Studios around the world have expressed concerns that the new fee – charging them every time their game is installed after January 1, 2024, providing they meet certain thresholds – threatens to jeopardise the health, or even existence, of their business.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

CEO Lars Wingefors thinks revenue programs like Epic Games' First Run program can help developers reduce the cost of bringing their games to storefronts.

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Concept Art World

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Concept Art World The Art of The Creator: Designs of Futures Past Dive into the making of The Creator, an original science fiction adventure from director Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Godzilla), with this deluxe behind-the-scenes book. Amid a war between humankind and rampant artificial intelligence in the not-too-distant future, Joshua (John David Washington) is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of the advanced AI.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Hello Cocos! I’m very glad to be back with you! Thank you for such a warm welcome! 6 years ago I worked on a project in Cocos2D-X, but was forced to switch to Unity due to the need for 3D. Now, after the death of the Unity, I’m glad to see how strong CocosCreator has become. Glad to join you again!

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The majority of Xbox Game Pass subscribers pay full price and use the service on console. That's according to a heavily redacted Microsoft slide deck , spotted by Tweaktown , which was among the latest wave of court documents to be released from the platform holder's legal battle against the Federal Trade Commission. Towards the end of the deck, Microsoft gave an overview of its digital gaming ecosystem as of April 2022, which showed that of the 33.6 million subscriptions on its Xbox consoles, 2

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Remnant II creative director David Adams discusses the path to making games as replayable as possible through procedural generation.

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Move From Unity to Unreal Engine in Minutes with Utu Due to the recent price changes at Unity more developers than ever are looking to move to another game engine. Of course if you have a game in progress or thousands of dollars in asset store assets, leaving isn’t a simple process. Today’s feature, the Utu Plugin goes a long … Move From Unity to Unreal Engine in Minutes with Utu Read More The post Move From Unity to Unreal Engine in Minutes with Utu appeare

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

#To help new users from Unity# We’re having our first megasale at the Cocos Store for new users from Unity, all our official items are free for the next 10 days! Reply in the comments about which resources you find useful, or what kind of learning resources you still need. Come check out our game projects, add-ons and more! #gamedev #gamestore Free Source Code （Limited Free for New Users） Cybepunk TPS Shooting Game： A third-person shooter game in Cyberpunk style, implemented with Cocos.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox At a glance The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has taken a significant step forward in approving Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and aims to make a final decision by October 6.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Thinking of making the switch from Unity? Here are some tips from a developer who's been through the process.

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Indie DB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With Gamescom and PAX West happening almost back-to-back, saying we've had a busy couple of weeks would be an understatement. However, these weeks were also very exciting and inspiring! These two events were the very first opportunity for us to share.

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