Game Developer

MAY 21, 2024

Over 22 years, PlayStation London broadened PlayStation's appeal with the SingStar games, along with its VR titles Blood & Truth and PlayStation VR Worlds.

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Games 342

PreMortem.Games

MAY 24, 2024

Jason Nicot , a French solo game developer operating under the name Choose Red , recently announced his latest game Sanctua. In this co-op multiplayer game a group of players have to work together to escape a cursed tomb. But with one of the players corrupted, escape is easier said than done. Since childhood, Nicot always had a fascination with video games, but when it was time to pick a career, game designer wasn’t on the radar.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 21, 2024

IGN Entertainment has acquired the Gamer Network family of digital brands for an undisclosed sum. As a result of the acquisition, some redundancies have been made across the UK-based organisation. Gamer Network’s publications are GamesIndustry.biz, Eurogamer (including six local language editions) , Rock Paper Shotgun, VG247 and Dicebreaker. The business also holds shares in Outside Xbox, Digital Foundry and Hookshot (which operates Nintendolife, PushSquare, PureXbox and Time Extension ).

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Real Programming

MAY 23, 2024

Every parent wants to prepare their kids today for the world of tomorrow. For many, this means ensuring they understand the digital technology dominating today’s economy, culture, and just about everything else. That’s why online coding classes are so popular, but which one should you take? RP4K has a summer coding class program that lets students take a deeper dive into coding.

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Game Developer

MAY 20, 2024

Two years into being Nintendo's global president, Iwata looks ahead to the company's strategy with the Nintendo Wii and DS, and its console competition.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 22, 2024

Top image: Michael Schwalbe, portrait on his own website. Navigating the landscape of voice acting in the games industry can be daunting, especially in an era where traditional entry-level opportunities are dwindling due to the rise of AI. “The industry is really not in a healthy place at the moment”, says Michael Schwalbe , professional voice actor and director at What He Said Voiceovers.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 23, 2024

Atari has a picked up the Intellivision brand name and 200 games from Intellivision LLC. Details on the games were not shared, but Intellivision LLC will continue to develop the Amico games console separately with a license from Atari to distribute games on the platform. The Amico console was originally due to release in October 2020, but a lack of funds has caused a delay to the product and as of November 2023, the firm stated it didn't have the money needed to distribute the machine.

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Game Developer

MAY 22, 2024

RS Gaming has been launched in partnership with ESL FACEIT Group, which is owned by Saudi state-backed investment fund PIF.

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Games 348

PreMortem.Games

MAY 21, 2024

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 22, 2024

Nobody expected the success of Helldivers 2. The co-op third-person shooter, which was published by PlayStation and developed by Arrowhead Games, was released in February and has gone on to sell 12 million copies in three months. It is now PlayStation's fastest-selling game – bigger than God of War, or Spider-Man or Uncharted. "Depending on who you are, you’ll always point to different things [as to why it was successful]," says Arrowhead's chief creative officer Johan Pilestedt.

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Game Development News

MAY 20, 2024

Karta, an award-winning metaverse studio pioneering the world of in-game experiential marketing, announces new hires from Tommy Hilfiger, Epic Games and Emperia.

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Game Developer

MAY 20, 2024

The IndieDev program will grant £15,000 / €15,000 to the seven studios in the island of Ireland to generate ideas and create game prototypes.

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Indie DB

MAY 21, 2024

The horror game Whispering Lane takes you to an abandoned house on Whispering Lane Street. Darkness reigns on the street, and strange noises stir unease among the neighbors. The main character, police officer Jackson Harrowfield, is sent to investigate.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 22, 2024

Arrowhead Games Studios has named Shams Jorjani as its new CEO, replacing company founder Johan Pilestedt in the role. Pilestedt will remain chief creative officer and chairman. The move follows the smash hit success of Helldivers 2, which has sold 12 million copies since it launched on PS5 and PC in February. Jorjani is a games business veteran and spent 12 years in senior leadership roles at Paradox Interactive.

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Indy Development Studios PC 145

The Astronauts

MAY 20, 2024

You know Playdate, the cute yellow console with a crank? I think I saw it in person last year via Inês, and early this year they started to have Lithuania as a shipping destination, so I got one. And then what would I do with it? Of course, try to make a demoscene demo :) First impressions The device is cute. The SDK is simple and no-nonsense (see docs).

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Game Developer

MAY 22, 2024

Nakao played the mentor figure Genda in the Judgement series, and previously appeared in Godzilla movies throughout the '90s and early 2000s.

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Indie DB

MAY 22, 2024

Version 1.3.0 is now here with new Game Mode, Weapons, Upgrades, Achievements and more! Starting off with a special 35% Sale on Steam.

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Games 95

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 21, 2024

PlayStation's London Studio has officially closed its doors today. The Sony subsidiary posted an official statement on social media , marking the end of its more than 20-year operations. "For over twenty years London Studio has been home to some exceptionally talented and wonderful people in the games industry," said the studio.

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Unity Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Unity Muse Chat lets you create real-time 3D experiences within the Editor by assisting with debugging and providing context-aware solutions to issues. Dive into the details of how the LLM pipeline delivers greater relevance and reliability.

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Game Developer

MAY 24, 2024

"When I talk to [developers] I tell them it's a little unfair to judge us by Manor Lords–in the way that you're being way too favourable towards us.

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Indie DB

MAY 19, 2024

Brian over at Burgee Media has captured some raw footage of two different styles of combat in Erenshor, and he wants to share them with you!

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Simulation Media 84

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 23, 2024

Sega veterans Jarvis Crofts, Luke Greenaway, and Mark Dallamore have formed a new publisher-agency hybrid, Alibi. Based in London, Alibi draws on the three co-founders' experiences in data analytics, publishing, and more to help support developers in pitching and publishing games. GamesIndustry.biz spoke with two of its founders, CEO Jarvis Crofts and CSO Luke Greenaway, about the formation of Alibi and why they believe a publisher agency hybrid is a sustainable way forward in the industry.

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Game Industry News

MAY 23, 2024

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS After having narrowly escaped the Breen at the Archive, Discovery finds itself stranded as the crew conducts repairs. Back at Federation HQ, Saru reunites with T’Rina as they both meet with President Rillak, who only has bad news for them. The Breen are en route to retrieve the technology and likely to arrive first. Captain Burnham pushes Stamets to jump, even if the jump is imperfect.

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Game Developer

MAY 21, 2024

The developers at Humble Reeds talk about how they wove conservationism into the game's mechanics without bogging the them down in the complexities of environmental care.

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Mechanics Development Games 272

Indie DB

MAY 22, 2024

Nibble & Byte is releasing a jam packed quality-of-life update for their demo release in preparation for their 1.0 release in June.

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Demo 84

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 23, 2024

Relic Entertainment has partnered with UK-based investment firm Emona Capital to become fully independent after being sold by Sega in March. As reported by Game Developer , the studio has secured funding to stay independent through Emona Capital. The investment firm will support the developer's current portfolio and will assist in creating partnerships with other publishers.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 23, 2024

For developers in the trenches like me or my team, it's a fairly common occurrence that individual contributors will not be able to finish certain tasks by a given deadline. Sometimes the estimates and the actual work needed are nowhere near congruent, sometimes there are dependencies that took longer to work out than expected, sometimes there are unpredictable events like system outages or developers needing to take a medical leave of absence.

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Game Developer

MAY 24, 2024

From TimeShift to Space Marine 2, Saber Interactive's in-house technology and international operations are what's kept it alive and thriving, says CEO and co-founder Matthew Karch.

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Studios Technology 264

Game From Scratch

MAY 22, 2024

GameFromScratch.com 25 Game Engines in 25 Minutes Today we are going to take a look at 25 different game engines in 25 minutes (ok, 28 minutes…). The only criteria to show up on this list is the engine is primarily 3D and has a world or level editor. If there is interest we may do a similar […] The post 25 Game Engines in 25 Minutes appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Engine Engineering Engine Games 69

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 20, 2024

After the annus horribilis that was 2023 and with the rough start that in many ways characterized 2024, it's probably fair to say that many people are worried about the state of the industry and how it could move forward. At Reboot Develop Blue 2024, a panel tackled this very topic and argued that, while the industry has hit rock bottom, it is ready to go back up.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 20, 2024

They're not wrong in that building such things isn't free. However, you're also right in that we on the dev side should be thinking about better ways of doing this - there isn't only one solution to these problems. Whatever final solution we implement doesn't have to be the most expensive means of doing so. It's actually up to us to think of better/more efficient ways of doing the things we want to do.

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Game Developer

MAY 21, 2024

IGN Entertainment has also laid off an undisclosed number of Gamer Network workers in the UK.

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Entertainment 349

Indie DB

MAY 24, 2024

Test your deception skills in this thrilling first-person multiplayer game.

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Games 96

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 24, 2024

The enormous wave of layoffs, studio closures, and corporate consolidations which hit the games industry last year is by no means over – but it does appear to have crested, at least, with the pace of such announcements starting to slow down as we've entered the second quarter of this 2024. The knife will still fall in some painful places before this is over, but at last we're also starting to see early signs of recovery – green shoots amidst the rubble, with new studios being formed

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 22, 2024

Honestly, there are only two requirements to avoid an acquisition: The studio's controlling stakeholders/majority owners want the company to remain independent and do not want to cash out The company remains financially stable enough not to need a bailout If the studio ownership decides they want to retire or cash out, they will be open to opportunities to sell.

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Game Developer

MAY 23, 2024

The new DMCC Bill wants to stop companies like Google and Apple from playing favorites on their own stores and make sure they act in users' best interests.

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Indie DB

MAY 23, 2024

In this feature focus we'll take a close look at one of the Missions coming in the next release of Alone.

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Feature 81