The Bottom Feeder
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Now it is time to decide who MUST love me. (All articles this month are to get attention to our new Kickstarter. If you like weird, retro indie games or RPGs, it’s worth a look.) Video games function best as power fantasies. This is a statement that can generate controversy, though fifty years of video game history show that it is true. We've seen debates about whether video games can be art.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Comments made by Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Ybarra during a company town hall reportedly outraged developers and cratered morale.
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GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox There's plenty of interesting stuff in the documents released by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about its investigation into Microsoft's attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard, but the titbit that has perhaps attracted most attention is Microsoft's admission that a game appearing on Game Pass negatively affects its sales for at least a year.
Game Designing
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Video games today are far more immersive than ever, and that isn’t simply because consoles and PCs have gotten more powerful. A lot of the beauty and appeal in modern games comes down to a less quantifiable factor: Atmosphere. Atmosphere, when done right, can turn the bundle of programming, art, and sound that we call a video game into something so much more than the sum of its parts.
Game Development News
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Private Division’s Michael Worosz and Blake Rochkind sat down with Vince Pavey to tell him all about Take-Two’s independent - but not indie - developer label
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Update : A spokesperson for Activision Blizzard confirmed employees would have to return to the office for three days per week starting in April.
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Roblox released its fourth quarter full-year financial earnings for 2022 today and the firm saw jumps in revenue and bookings while losses deepened significantly.
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Unity Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Together, Unity and Wētā Digital have been working to bring Wētā tools – including those used to make Avatar: The Way of Water – into the hands of developers and creators. With the first being released this year, learn more about what’s to come.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Apex Legends ' new season is bringing all the players to the arena.
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
The UK Competition and Markets Authority's provisional report on the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard acquisition includes an admission from Microsoft that putting games into its Game Pass subscription service cannibalizes sales of those titles. "Microsoft also submitted that its internal analysis shows a [redacted]% decline in base game sales twelve months following their addition on Game Pass," the CMA noted in its report.
Game Development News
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Nearly 25 years after launching as OPM Response, OPM have changed their name to One Player Mission
Game Industry News
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
Hey all. I’m back with the final set of chapters in a Gundam Wing and Seed crossover that’s one of my favorite Fics for this week’s Synth Saturday. It’s Chapters 26-32 of “New Battlefield” by operation.meteor. Plot: This is the Bloody Valentine War’s final set of chapters in the story, and it really does get amazingly epic.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
The ICO's suggestion for game developers aim to keep the large number of young game players in the UK safe.
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Embracer Group has published its financial report for Q3 FY 22/23, which is the three months ended December 31, 2022. Net sales : SEK 11.6 billion ($1.
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
IndieGameBusiness has just released its updated directory with over 500 video game publishers. The best thing about it? Besides the fact that it has 500 game publishers in alphabetical order with links and the platforms they primarily release on? It’s free! Get your digital copy here. Game consultant Jay Powell is the driving force behind IndieGameBusiness.
Unity Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Unity Engineering Manager for.NET Compilers and Runtimes Josh Peterson walks through some of the recent changes the team has made to marshal string data across the managed/native boundary in a GC-safe way for the new CoreCLR garbage collector.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Saudi Arabia's state-backed PIF investment fund continues to put its money into a variety of big-name video game studios.
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Reports have emerged that Saudi Arabia has once again increased its stake in Nintendo. Saudi Arabia-based Twitter account BRHM reported today the nation's Public Investment Fund now owns 7.08% of the Mario maker, with Trading View reporting the same figure. The Fund previously took a 5.01% stake in Nintendo back in May 2022, and increased this to 6.07% just last month.
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
In Backfirewall players deal with a sassy self-aware smartphone operating system that faces replacement by a superior and far better optimized successor. It’s a tragicomic adventure that really makes you feel for programs that have their code erased and replaced on a regular basis, all in the name of technological progress. The game is the debut of Swiss indie game studio Naraven Games.
Unity Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Spurred by a Unity-funded grant, Senior Solutions Engineer Krystal Cooper shares her path to becoming the first Expert in Residence (EIR) in Atlanta and launching a pilot program aimed at serving underrepresented creators from within Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
The Public Investment Fund also holds stakes in other major players including Nintendo, Capcom, and Embracer Group.
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
The UK regulator has summarised six meetings it held with Xbox rivals as part of its investigation into the proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition. The six companies are either an existing competitor or a potential competitor in "console gaming services or cloud gaming services," the CMA explained. Out of those six companies, half of them believe that if Microsoft was to complete its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, it would harm competition.
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
As if developing a game by yourself wasn’t daunting enough, Pat Naoum decided to completely handpaint his debut game The Master’s Pupil. That alone took him hundreds of hours and the whole project now sits at 7 years. But the end is near, the game will release on steam sometime in the foreseeable future. “The painting really comes down to uniqueness”, he says.
Game Errors
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
The remake of the game made it look and feel more awesome than the classic version of the game from 1998 it, but like any other game, it has some errors and issues. The most common Resident Evil HD Remaster Issues that players complained about are Random Crashes: Resident Evil HD Remaster crashes at startup Performance Issues: Lag, Stuttering, Low FPS Black Screen Below you can find these glitches detailed and solutions on how to fix them.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Firaxis says farewell to its studio head and creative director of XCOM and Marvel's Midnight Suns.
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Sega Sammy has announced that it will be increasing the salaries of its workforce in Japan. The games firm said that on July 1, employees will see a 30% bump in their wages.
Game Development News
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Who better to cut through the noise of recent and future industry history than gaming’s elite PR professionals?
Starloop Studios
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
The complexity of porting games is often overlooked and considered to be a simple case of bundling a game together and making it available on other platforms. The reality of porting games is that it’s a significantly more complicated process than it seems, especially seeing as every platform has its intricacies to navigate. To overcome [.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Ukraine-based Frogwares released another video documenting its struggles of developing a game during an active war.
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Morale at Activision Blizzard took a hit this week, which is probably a lead we could have used for any This Week in Business column of the past year and a half. This time the problems stemmed from a Blizzard Entertainment all-hands meeting that was reported on by Game Developer. The intent of the meeting was to discuss the results of an internal employee satisfaction survey, but whatever those results were, Blizzard president Mike Ybarra put on a performance that probably made them worse.
Cocos
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Preview Here : Preview Link Introduction to UVs The reason for naming it as UV is that X, Y, and Z have already be used by 3D coordinates. In order to distinguish it from 3D, so it is named as UV. Among them, U refers to the horizontal axis, V refers to the vertical axis, and the range of UV is 0 to 1. ) The vertical axes of textures and picture pixels is shown above, when sampling textures in shaders, that is from top to bottom, which is top-right corner.
Game Industry News
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
HERE THERE BE SPOILERS “ The Next Generation ” makes a bold move as a title for the first episode of the new third season as it alludes not only to the series that gave us Picard, Riker, and Crusher but also hints at the events that are coming down the proverbial pike. From our introduction to villainous new aliens to the mission Picard undertakes to save an old friend, something is for sure about to happen.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Things are looking up for Ubisoft in its third quarter.
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Activision Blizzard is mandating a partial return to the office. As reported by VGC , the return was first made public by purportedly unhappy employees posting anonymously about the change in policy.
Game Development News
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
We’ve taken the opportunity to talk to Liz Prince, business manager at Amiqus about the company’s thoughts on Women in Games and what more can be done for inclusion in the future
Game Errors
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen was released on Steam and by now the game received a lot of good reviews. However, you can suddenly get Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen crashing on PC according to other players. Dark Arisen is a huge open-world game in which players start an epic adventure with three AI companions called Pawns. As we said, there are a few issues with the game that makes it hard to play due to errors such as fatal error failed to open the file on Dragon’s Dogma.
Game Developer
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
A well-crafted musical score has the power to completely transform the player's gaming experience, adding depth, mood, and emotional impact to the game's world.
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