Game Developer

JANUARY 22, 2024

According to the GDC 2024 State of the Game Industry report, about a third of game developers were affected by a layoff in 2023.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 22, 2024

All of his life Csaba Putnai has had a fascination for games, but he was well in his forties when he took the step to actually develop a game himself. His debut game Bob: A Thousand Lives , a dark themed action game about a boy that has to escape his all-consuming past, was released last year. “After the loss of my father, I began working on the Bob project and realized that the story and concept had been with me for years”, he says.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2024

This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry. It was another brutal week in the industry right from the start, with Riot Games laying off about 530 people on Monday while reciting a lot of the familiar lines we've been hearing for the past year.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 26, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Apple Introduce New Run-Time Fee In response to the EU’s newly instated Digital Markets Act, Apple have just implemented a new Unity-like run-time fee for developers that wish to take advantage of the laws new provisions. The DMA or Digital Markets Act aims to provide the following benefits: In what can only be described as … Apple Introduce New Run-Time Fee Read More The post Apple Introduce New Run-Time Fee appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 26, 2024

"Your livelihood is not protected without a voice on the job.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2024

Physics-based 2D platformer Bionic Bay is a collaboration between the Finnish one-man-studio Mureena and Taiwanese indie game company Psychoflow Studio. The game started as a demo shown on Reddit, but picked up momentum when Badland art director Juhana Myllys offered to mix and match his distinct artwork with the gameplay. “Back in 2019, I was wasting time on Reddit and came across a short clip from a demo in r/indiegaming”, says Myllys.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 25, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Following news that Microsoft laid off 1,900 staffers from its games division, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) said that the move has not impacted any of the staffers it represents. The CWA represents some employees from Microsoft divisions, including ZeniMax Studios and Activision Blizzard.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 25, 2024

Don McGowan, the former Bungie CLO who pursued Destiny 2 cheaters and players that threatened his coworkers, wants developers to fight for their rights.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

Bukola Akingbade is many things. She is a mother to three. A role that she holds dear and that inspired her to establish her company Kucheza Gaming. She is also a marketer, entrepreneur and trained architect. In 2020 she decided to channel her decade-plus entrepreneurial experience into her current venture leaving everything behind to focus on gaming.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 23, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Focus Entertainment released its third-quarter earnings report, posting a 43% decrease; this was partly attributed to no major releases during the three months ending December 31. The games firm also announced that on April 1, it will be rebranding to Pullup Entertainment.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 22, 2024

For Indie Filmmaking, the magic of crafting a cinematic vision often clashes with the harsh reality of limited resources and tight timeline production. Budgets are lean, teams are compact, and every minute counts. Time is not merely a metric; it's a precious commodity, demanding strategic allocation and unrelenting efficiency. Resourcefulness becomes a badge of honor, as filmmakers explore innovative solutions to achieve cinematic alchemy within budgetary and temporal constraints.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 25, 2024

January 2024's layoffs continue with alleged cuts at Reikon, which released its debut game Ruiner in 2017.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Our neural engine for bring AI models to Unity – Unity Sentis – announces a new integration with Hugging Face, plus some product updates for the tool.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 22, 2024

The current turmoil in the video games industry will continue all year and likely into 2025, games industry leaders have told GamesIndustry.biz. Speaking to us privately, publishing, development and investment heads have said that continued high interest rates, oversaturated video game stores and cautious investors will result in more restructures, layoffs and closures.

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Perforce

JANUARY 23, 2024

IEC 81001-5-1 is a healthcare standard that goes beyond covering medical devices, addressing cybersecurity at every phase of the SDLC for various types of health software. From medical diagnosis software to yoga apps, IEC 81001-5-1 helps organizations ensure software security.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 26, 2024

App Store devs interested in using third-party services in the EU will need to agree to new terms, and a fee that could eventually cost them €0.50 per install.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 22, 2024

The story behind SciPlay's evolution in the realm of social casino gaming is guided by a commitment to player-centric experiences and a pioneering spirit. In the recent podcast, Mishka has a chat with the CEO of SciPlay, Josh Wilson , tackling the intriguing question of how the company achieved substantial growth in the social casino market amidst an industry decline and post privacy changes.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 24, 2024

It is beginning to look like 2025 is shaping up to be one of the biggest years in video games, if not the biggest. Let us start with the obvious: the release of GTA 6. When it comes to the most successful video entertainment products of all time, for many franchises like Star Wars, the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Avatar or maybe Mario come to mind.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Powell Group , a full-service game consultancy, and Representing Games , the agency label of game industry matchmaker MeetToMatch, are collaborating. By joining forces the two companies will leverage their complementary strengths to create an allround agency for publishers and developers alike. The collaboration between The Powell Group and Representing Games will focus on providing support for developers and publishers, assisting them in growing their company.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 26, 2024

The PUBG publisher reportedly failed to investigate an alleged assault and terminating the victim months after reporting it.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 24, 2024

Hello everyone! The Dough Demo is now live on Steam!

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 22, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Paul Gouge and Alex Rigby have quite the track record. The pair set up their first mobile games studio, BattleMail, in 2001 and sold it to (M)Forma a year later. Shortly after, they formed Rockpool Games, made the J2ME edition of Worms, and sold the developer to Eidos/Square Enix in 2007.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 24, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Godot Gets Free Nintendo Switch Port Until now, if you wanted to port your Godot game engine developed game over to the Nintendo Switch, you either did the work yourself or broke out your credit card and either subscribed to W4Games Consoles or used a porting service such as Lone Wolf Technologies or Pineapple Works. Thankfully, … Godot Gets Free Nintendo Switch Port Read More The post Godot Gets Free Nintendo Switch Port appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 25, 2024

The company spent $68.7 billion on its merger with Activision Blizzard but claims it must now implement a "sustainable cost structure.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 23, 2024

Showcase of a new area: Hillstowe Abbey - A hamlet rests near, where inhabitants lend a helping hand to pilgrims - "The Name of the Rose" vibes here.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 25, 2024

THQ Nordic and Embracer subsidiary Black Forest Games has reportedly cut 50% of its workforce. As reported by Kotaku , the layoffs were announced yesterday with a source alleging that the developer's creative directors and "if not all" managers will keep their positions. GamesIndustry.biz has reached out to Black Forest Games and Embracer Group for more information regarding the layoffs.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 22, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Moving FROM and TO The Unity Game Engine Moving your game assets to and from the Unity game engine has become easier thanks to a pair of “new” addons supporting popular open formats. The first add-on is gltFAST and it supports important and exporting using the gltf open standard. The second add-on is OpenUSD, supporting the USD open … Moving FROM and TO The Unity Game Engine Read More The post Moving FROM and TO The Unity Game Engine appeared first on GameFr

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Game Developer

JANUARY 25, 2024

Known for remaking the Destroy All Humans games, Black Forest may be the next studio to get hit hard with reductions.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 21, 2024

The Chemical Age brings Petroleum Refinery, Chemical plant, and new resources such as Ethylene, Alcohol, and good ol'toxic into the game. And 20 % off this week on Steam and Epic!

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2024

Square Enix has revealed that several people have been criminally charged for distributing counterfeit merchandise in China. In a press announcement , the publisher detailed that nine people were charged in May 2023 in Guangdong province. Six were involved with distributing the products, while three were charged for manufacturing. Counterfeit products involving Final Fantasy and Nier: Automata characters were seized as a result.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

BAFTA-winning indie developer Tomas Sala, winner of the CommUnity Choice Award at gamescom 2023, shares the development process behind his new game, Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Pokemon-esque survival title also eclipsed 1.29 million concurrent users on Steam.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 21, 2024

New Enemy projectiles, Airdrops and Airstrikes, Allies and Research projects.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 23, 2024

Games recruitment specialist One Player Mission (OPM) will close down after 26 years. The agency currently employs 15 people. Managing director Kim Parker-Adcock said that with the current situation in the games industry, she "cannot see how OPM can remain profitable".

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2024

Godot 3.6 is still in development, slowly but steadily! This snapshot updates toolchains for official builds and adds official Linux ARM binaries, among other improvements.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 23, 2024

NVIDIA's AI tech can't beat out improv performances from real actors.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 22, 2024

Details and accompanying videos from the recent interview that Valentin the Mad from Random Madness had with us about Obscurity: Unknown Threat and its development.

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