Game Developer

JANUARY 23, 2023

From Jade Empire to the Mass Effect series and some Dragon Age, Walters was involved in much of BioWare's big games over the years.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 22, 2023

We have our first new No.1 in the UK Boxed Charts, and it is Nintendo with its turn-based strategy RPG Fire Emblem Engage. The title's launch sales are 31% lower than what its predecessor managed (2019's Fire Emblem Three Houses). The new game has a more anime-style look to the graphics, which may have limited its Western appeal slightly. Yet even so, it is still the second biggest launch for the series in the UK, ahead of cult 3DS hit Fire Emblem Awakening.

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That One Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

A list of awesome packages that you most certainly will need when developing your own game engine. Make sure you check them out. The post C++ Packages for a custom Game Engine appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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The GameDev Guru

JANUARY 24, 2023

Curious how I get access to help out in AAA games?

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Game Developer

JANUARY 27, 2023

Now that GoldenEye 007 is widely available again on Game Pass, let’s look at its classic postmortem.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Unity announces that it is renewing and expanding its partnership with Google to support studios in the development and growth of live games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 27, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Skybound Entertainment has invested in Mega Cat Studios, the company currently working on upcoming RPG WrestleQuest. While Skybound did not disclose a figure, GamesIndustry.biz understands this is a multimillion dollar investment.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 27, 2023

Every quest has an end.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

From bringing products out of beta in June to releasing new and updated game samples, Unity Gaming Services made big strides in 2022. Read the blog to learn more.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 27, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox It's important to have realistic expectations about how financial reports from games industry companies are going to look in the coming year. We're already well into the realm of tough comparisons; the back half of 2022 saw the first reports coming out which really reflected the end of the pandemic period, and the accompanying drops in revenue that are the hangover to the massive boost video games saw during 2020 and 20

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with the second entry in a light novel series that I previously looked at the first volume of for this week’s Translation Necessary Thursday. It’s “Japan Summons: Volume 02” by Minorou. Plot: In Volume One of “Japan Summons,” all of Japan including its people and landmasses had been summoned into a brand new world.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 26, 2023

To fill out the hallways of a fully-interconnected USG Ishimura, EA Motive needed a host of fascinating new systems, says technical director David Robillard.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

We’re now just days away from the Release Candidate, working at full capacity on finalizing as many of the remaining high priority issues as we can. The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This beta includes quite a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Make AnimatedSprite’s playback API consistent with AnimationPlayer ( GH-71907 ).

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 25, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Despite increases in its overall revenue, Microsoft has posted declines from its Xbox division for the latest quarter of its financial year. While the company does not share specific revenue figures for each of its segments, it did report that gaming revenues were down 13% for the three months ended December 31, 2022, as were Xbox hardware revenues, with Xbox content and services revenues down 12%.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 27, 2023

Economic mechanics for this fantasy RTS are revealed

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Game Developer

JANUARY 23, 2023

Like the co-op games of the late 2000s and early 2010s, Microsoft reaches up to grab Sony's hand as the FTC's lawsuit looms over its Activision Blizzard acquisition.

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Cocos

JANUARY 27, 2023

First Person Demo.zip (3.3 MB) I’ve now updated the script to set the position of the player instead of using physics to move the player. Making the player control more conventionally. Use this for your player script: import { _decorator, Component, Node, game, input, Input, KeyCode, EventKeyboard, Vec3, CapsuleCollider, ICollisionEvent, RigidBody } from 'cc'; import { globalVars } from '.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 23, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Crystal Dynamics is ending support on Marvel's Avengers. The studio confirmed the information in a blog post published on Friday , following an article from Exputer , which had talked to sources close to the matter.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

3D lighting adds realism and depth to a scene while also enhancing the mood, tone, and ambiance of an unfolding story. This blog dives into the world of 3D lighting and shares some of the skills you need to become a 3D lighting artist. What is 3D lighting, and what does a 3D lighting artist do? 3D lighting involves simulating the behavior of light in a real-world or fantasy situation, including shadows, reflections, highlights, and color, using specialized lighting software and rendering tools.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 23, 2023

So far I’ve talked about Player Empowerment and One New Thing in the context of defining success. This week I want to talk about one of the coolest things that make games different than any other medium: we can let players walk in someone else’s shoes.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 26, 2023

Grand Theft Auto V has been released on PC and many players are encountering not opening issues that are preventing them from being able to play the game. Also, there are issues with GTA 5 mods on Xbox One. Some players are encountering GTA 5 not launching on PC and the game simply won’t start, they click Play in Steam and other launchers like Epic Games or Rockstar launcher.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 27, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox GamesIndustry.biz Game Changers is a series of profiles on the groups and individuals going the extra mile to make the games industry a better place. These interviews encompass folks from around the world helping to improve conditions and attitudes towards diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, mental health and more.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

KitBash3D’s Mission to Minerva Challenge wrapped up in December, with the winners announced earlier this month. Following the competition closely, CG Spectrum was wowed by the creative stories told through such a high caliber of concept and in-motion work — futuristic settlements sprawling across extraterrestrial landscapes draped in dramatic light and shadow, with fantastical creatures lurking in between!

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Game Developer

JANUARY 27, 2023

Party on, Tango.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 27, 2023

Dragon Ball Xenoverse Connection Issues are affecting a lot of PlayStation and Xbox players of the game, many of them reported that they can’t connect to the server or that the servers are already full others are getting disconnected from the server. The most common Dragon Ball Xenoverse errors on PlayStation 3,4 and Xbox One consoles are: players can’t connect to the server, and they receive this error “DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE-Server is not available.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 27, 2023

Did you know that GamesIndustry.biz has never done reviews? We have a Critical Consensus recurring feature that rounds up other people's reviews, staff Game of the Year write-ups , and our Why I Love series of developer-penned pieces on games, so we're not completely devoid of subjective assessments of game quality. We've even toyed with a non-traditional substitute for reviews.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 24, 2023

GameFromScratch.com 10x C++ Code Editor The 10x Editor is a new (currently in beta) code editor for the C++ language. It is only available for Windows right now, with other platforms intended to come later, you can download it for free during the beta process. The entire mantra of C++ is performance and simplicity. It … 10x C++ Code Editor Read More The post 10x C++ Code Editor appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 25, 2023

"It’s been so exciting to play in the space between printmaking and games and where they can visually overlap.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 26, 2023

Assassin’s Creed Unity is reported by many players to encounter a lot of crashes. The most reported are crashes on startup, on loading screen, during gameplay, and in the first mission. Assassin’s Creed Unity random crash and crashes every 15 minutes are also reported issues that are making the game unplayable. Assassin’s Creed Unity crashes on startup : may be caused by outdated drivers, problems with the game’s configuration files, or with the game’s installation

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Neil Druckmann has confirmed that Naughty Dog's Uncharted franchise is done. In an interview with Buzzfeed , the game director and co-creator of the Last of Us TV show explained that the series reached its end.

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Starloop Studios

JANUARY 24, 2023

Animation and visual effects are two of the artistic pillars of game development. Though both processes can be associated with each other, ultimately, they’re different disciplines that accomplish different objectives for video games. On the most basic level, animation refers to the movement of objects and characters, whereas VFX refers to actions, polish, immersion, and [.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 26, 2023

Devs weigh in on the uptick in harassment aimed at creators.

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Perforce

JANUARY 23, 2023

As the amount of code in vehicles increases, so will cyber threats. Two WP.29 UNECE regulations specifically address cybersecurity concerns and provide guidance for automotive manufacturers.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2023

When we ask Gamesight CEO Adam Lieb and CMO Nicole Yang what's the big story in the world of game advertising, the answer they give is very clear: TikTok. "TikTok went from having virtually no publishers working with it two years ago to a platform now that is in almost every game marketer's budget somewhere," Lieb says. "I don't know I've ever seen anything grow as fast, in terms of both prevalence and the percentage of companies on TikTok, as well as the size of budgets folks are putting into t

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Game Errors

JANUARY 23, 2023

For Honor is one of the most played games of this year, but as with every game, some issues of the beta are not yet fixed, and the game still suffers from errors. For example, For Honor crashes are experienced by a lot of players at the moment. They can be either at startup or randomly through the game. Besides that, users also complain about launch issues, framerate issues like low fps or drops, and other minor bugs.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 23, 2023

Diemer has been brought on to help guide Ubisoft's social experiences in its future games.

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Perforce

JANUARY 23, 2023

Merge conflicts occur when multiple competing changes are submitted to a given file or set of files. Read to find out how to avoid a merge conflict in Git and best practices around merge conflicts.

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