Game Developer

JANUARY 5, 2023

The FTC's new rule could greatly change the power that game developers have when transferring between studios.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Have a Unity-centered New Year’s resolution? We’ve curated seven resources to help you conquer new skills or improve upon existing ones in 2023.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 5, 2023

A settlement for $1.85 million has been reached for a class action lawsuit over Cyberpunk 2077. Originally received two years ago and filed in California , the suit alleged that CD Projekt Red misled investors about the state of the RPG on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles. In January 2021, the Cyberpunk 2077 maker received a similar lawsuit from the Rosen Law firm.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data. To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data processing towards optimized tracing and shading of every hit that you encounter.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 6, 2023

Microsoft previously claimed the FTC, which is attempting to block its purchase of Activision Blizzard, violated the U.S. Constitution.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

A selection of top tips from all five developer takeovers on Twitter in 2022, featuring everything from visual effects (VFX) to general Editor advice.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 6, 2023

Games are the most successful creative industry in the UK, bigger than TV, film and music. How often have you heard this statement to justify us as a sector? We all know and feel how the UK mainstream media, especially print, likes to portray us. Whether it’s The Sun declaring "Mum’s Guilt – I found my son in a trance at 2am hooked on his games console. and I felt it was my fault for buying it" or The Mirror's "Mum bans son, 12, from adult game – but husband’s decis

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Game Developer

JANUARY 3, 2023

After its sudden takedown in December 2022, Did You Know Gaming's video for the canceled Zelda tactics game is back up on YouTube.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 6, 2023

The studio behind Cyberpunk 2077 has settled a class action lawsuit that was originally filed back in January 2021.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 5, 2023

The US Federal Trade Commission today proposed a new rule banning US employers from using non-compete clauses in contracts with workers. The regulator called such measures that prevent employees from going to work for other companies in the same field for a certain length of time "a widespread and often exploitative practice that suppresses wages, hampers innovation, and blocks entrepreneurs from starting new businesses," and an unfair method of competition in violation of the law.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 6, 2023

After working as a freelance artist in Chile for almost ten years, Luis Inzunza felt he had reached the peak of what he could do locally, so he set his sights on a more global career. To achieve this goal, he knew he'd have to sharpen his digital illustration skills. Luis enrolled in the Advanced Digital Illustration Course at CG Spectrum and, before long, landed a job as a freelance digital illustrator at the global indie game dev studio Monumental!

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Game Developer

JANUARY 4, 2023

As AI tools have quickly become a controversial topic in the game industry, modl.ai aims to make AI tools that support developers, not supplant them.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 5, 2023

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. Star Trek: Prodigy ’s freshman season has been fairly consistently fantastic, and while I don’t think “ Supernova Part 2 ” quite lives up to the same level of quality, I do think the season’s final episode sets us up for a really fantastic coming season two. I therefore understand the choices that were made in the construction of the episode and story, but I’m not entirely certain that I agree with all of them.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 3, 2023

When it comes to capturing video games’ current zeitgeist, few do it better than Gamefam. That’s not to say the 2019-founded outfit is conventional or typical. Far from it, in fact. For one, the team largely focuses on making and publishing games and experiences delivered within metaverse gaming platforms. In step with that focus, Gamefam has established a deep understanding of the GenZ demographic’s needs and tastes, informing its work on live-operated original games, virtual

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Starloop Studios

JANUARY 5, 2023

Video games have come a long way since their inception. From simple pixel graphics to complex, life-like open worlds, the visuals of modern video games are unparalleled. Of course, this advancement wouldn’t be possible without animation and VFX (visual effects). Animation and VFX are two integral components of game design and development that contribute to [.].

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Game Developer

JANUARY 6, 2023

According to Focus, bringing Brennan on as CEO will help the company grow and achieve its own dreams of being a more high-profile publisher.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

Anthony Koithra loved his job at a big consulting firm but couldn't shake his fascination with filmmaking. As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. However, he soon realized there was only so much that YouTube tutorials could teach him.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we begin 2023, the economic headwinds against the UK are very strong, currently facing a triple whammy of economic pressures. According to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), inflation rose by 11% in the 12 months to November 2022. UK taxes are some of the highest on record; new analysis by the Tax Payers Alliance has found the five year average tax burden is at a 70-year high.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Ahead of this month’s DEVELOP/JOBS, Richie Shoemaker questions a number of recruitment experts, to see what how working and finding work in today’s games industry is changing and the issues studios and potential hires might have to face.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 5, 2023

The CMA will now publish the results of its investigation at the end of April, almost two months later than initially planned.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 3, 2023

Marking a year of new and evolving technologies, 2022 produced wide-ranging advancements and AI-powered solutions across industries. These include boosting HPC. Marking a year of new and evolving technologies, 2022 produced wide-ranging advancements and AI-powered solutions across industries. These include boosting HPC and AI workload power, research breakthroughs, and new capabilities in 3D graphics, gaming, simulation, robotics, and more.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 6, 2023

NetEase has announced the acquisition of Canadian game developer SkyBox Labs. Founded in 2011, the studio has co-developed titles such as Halo Infinite, Minecraft, and Fallout 76. SkyBox will continue to operate independently under the supervision of its founders Shyang Kong, Derek MacNeil, and Steven Silvester. Read more.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 6, 2023

We’re extending the deadline for nominations for MCV Women in Games 2023.

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Games 143

Game Developer

JANUARY 3, 2023

That's one way to ring in the new year.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Building video games has never been a simple task. You can have a brilliant idea for a game, but without the right skills, tools and resources, it can be near-impossible to tackle by yourself. Especially if we consider something as complicated and new as virtual reality. Not that this stopped Sergio Hidalgo. Being a one-man studio, Sergio managed to produce, release, and publish two successful VR titles.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 3, 2023

An update in YouTube's moderation policies has reportedly led to increasing demonetisation of gaming content on the platform. According to VentureBeat , YouTubers like Penquinz0 have noticed an uptick in demonetised videos after a policy update cracking down on game violence. Content creator RTGame has also shared his experience on Twitter , highlighting that the policy changes applied retroactively as well, demonetising several of his videos.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The year 2022 was very special for us. We reached a lot of milestones within Godot and also in the community. This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year. Godot 4.0. The work of Godot 4.0 begun in 2019 when I forked it after 3.1 was released with the hopes of rewriting the rendering architecture using Vulkan as a target API. I worked on it alone for a while, while it was just a graphics fork.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 6, 2023

Boen was best known as a character actor for TV and film, but also did voice work for World of Warcraft and Metal Gear Solid 2.

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Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Lights are one of the most important part of any game. With lights you can create a different athmosphere and make your games look stunning. Unreal Engine has the most advanced lighting system out of all game engines. Here are just a few examples of what you can do with Unreal Engine’s light system: In this post we’re going to go over the light system, explain how to use it along with different types of light we can use and we will implement all that a game scene which will allow you

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 3, 2023

Microsoft is now the second AAA gaming publisher to see unionization in its workforce, as Zenimax Workers United and the Communications Workers of America today announced that a supermajority of roughly 300 QA developers across Zenimax's US operations came out in favor of unionization. The developers gave their support either by signing a union authorization card or voting through an online portal.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The year 2022 was very special for us. We reached a lot of milestones within Godot and also in the community. This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year. Godot 4.0. The work of Godot 4.0 begun in 2019 when I forked it after 3.1 was released with the hopes of rewriting the rendering architecture using Vulkan as a target API. I worked on it alone for a while, while it was just a graphics fork.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 4, 2023

Pentiment game director Josh Sawyer breaks down the design logic behind the games' brain-teasing murder mysteries.

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Rocket Brush Studio

JANUARY 4, 2023

Automating repetitive tasks has revolutionized almost every industry by allowing workers to focus on high-value projects. For businesses that process massive amounts of documents, it is especially important to automate repetitive tasks. The financial industry deals with complex and large amounts of data hence accuracy and error-free operations are crucial requirements.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 2, 2023

The final UK boxed chart of 2022 has landed, and Sony's God of War Ragnarok ends the year on top. The new God of War has been a big hit over Christmas, boosted by a PS5 hardware bundle. It is actually the fourth biggest new game launch of the year (in terms of sales from physical retailers). God of War leapt two places despite sales falling 29% week-on-week.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Kaylynn Castleman, of Unity’s Diversity Recruiting team, shares a recap of her team’s experiences at various conferences in 2022.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 6, 2023

A new report from Omdia looks at download trends of the The Meta Quest app in 2022, which was up overall by 27% on 2021.

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Rocket Brush Studio

JANUARY 3, 2023

For many businesses and organizations, customer relationship management (CRM) systems are essential for managing customer data, organizing customer interactions, and driving sales. As such, the reliability of these systems is critical to business success. To ensure that a CRM system is working properly, it must be tested regularly for any problems or potential issues.

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