GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Every outfit tells a story. Characters aren't just defined by their facial features or physique, a lot of who someone is and what they're about comes from their style and environment. I'm currently working on asymmetrical third-person horror title The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, based on the iconic film. My role has been primarily in environments and character, and I'm working to bring authenticity to every area of the game – including fashion.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Japanese developers, and the organizations supporting them, on Japan's slow but growing indie scene.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Top image: Pavel Danilyuk – Pexels You can call it a live compiling tool for Unity. Hot Reload lets coders skip Unity compile times for real-time updates while changing code. A feature Unreal devs are accustomed to, but has been a bottleneck for Unity development for years. Hot Reload works pretty much as you’d expect Unity’s default ‘hot reload’ functionality to work, but with significantly faster compiling and no domain reload so variables stay intact.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Best of POLYGON Game Dev Assets By Synty Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle for game developers, the Best of POLYGON Game Dev Assets by Synty bundle. This is a huge collection of low polygon art style 3D models in Unreal, Unity and Source (generally FBX) formats, meaning you can use them in Godot, O3DE or any other … Best of POLYGON Game Dev Assets By Synty Humble Bundle Read More The post Best of POLYGON Game Dev Assets By Synty Humble Bundle appeared first on

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Whatever you think about Microsoft's arguments for letting its acquisition of Activision Blizzard advance, you can't fault its stage management. This week was crucial to the case it is making to the European Commission, which is one of the major remaining regulatory hurdles to the deal proceeding, and Microsoft orchestrated an impressive PR blitz for the occasion, most of it designed to underline a commitment to multi-platform releases.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The reborn E3 won't have Nintendo in its lineup when it returns in June.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Max Inferno released A Little to the Left late last year, and artist, designer and company co-founder Annie Macmillan told Vince Pavey all about their work on the cosy puzzle game that has you sort, stack, and organise household items

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

EA DICE is building a new team to support Ridgeline Games in making a single-player Battlefield campaign. EA DICE is one of three EA studios that have been tasked with establishing the future of EA's shooter series. DICE was to focus on the multiplayer aspect. Ridgeline Games -- the new team led by Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto in Seattle -- is building the single-player campaign.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Next to VFX, online games may be the one area where superheroes one area keeping tripping on their capes.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let us know who is most deserving of an MCV/DEVELOP Award in this 25th anniversary year of celebrating the art and business of UK game development.

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Unity Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Unity’s Anthony Yakovlev and Siobhan Fitzgerald-Gibson share the latest updates to physics tools in the 2022.2 Tech Stream, including changes made based on direct customer feedback.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Microsoft is speaking to the media following a closed hearing at the European Commission, as the tech giant tries to convince the regulator to approve its bid to buy Activision Blizzard. The deal is facing opposition from regulators in Europe, UK and US. If you're a bit lost around what's going on, let's recap.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

More soldiers join the battlefield.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with another of the standout series from the Fall for this week’s Anime Sunday. It’s my “Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury” Episode 01 Impressions. Plot: This is a Gundam story, and thankfully for me it’s not nearly as dark as “Iron Blooded Orphans” was. It’s much more relaxed, though there are still plenty of action sequences.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Now the pandemic is done and dusted (in most parts of the world anyway) the world opens up again for international industry events and person-to-person deal making. What do development studios need to do to secure a deal with a publisher or investor? Klaas van der Stroom , Business Developer at Representing Games : “If you really want to build relationships go to the smaller events.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The 26th DICE Awards took place last night, with Elden Ring winning the coveted Game of the Year prize. FromSoftware's title also took home awards for Technical Achievement, Achievement in Game Design, Achievement in Game Direction, as well as RPG of the Year. But it's Sony Santa Monica's God of War Ragnarok the won the most awards, with seven prizes including Achievements in Animation, Art Direction, Original Music Composition, Audio Design, and Story.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Not Modern Warfare III , more like Modern Warfare II.5.

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Perforce

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Learn how the metaverse is being defined, what counts as a metaverse game, and how you can get started building in the metaverse.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Social media has a knack for bringing niche topics to the attention of a large audience. You thought you were alone in your appreciation of tie-dye or pop-its? Think again. Lately, we see more and more games inspired by these social media trends making it to the top charts in terms of downloads. AppMagic investigates the rise and fall, successes and failures of these specific types of games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

During this week's hearing in Europe over the Activision Blizzard acquisition, Microsoft made a case that -- when it comes to video games -- it is very much the small player. It showed a slide to highlight the market share of the console sector in Europe, revealing that PlayStation holds 80% of the market, whereas Xbox has just 20%. In the press briefing, Microsoft's Brad Smith went further: "Globally, it’s about 70/30.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Science fiction author Neal Stephenson gently criticized cryptocurrency in games in his DICE 2023 keynote.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Three RCs in a row! Yesterday's build introduced a GDScript regression, so here's a new release candidate to fix that.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Canadian video game studio Behaviour Interactive has announced that it has acquired Middlesbrough’s SockMonkey Studios

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Mario maker Nintendo has announced that it will not attend the Los Angeles-based Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). The platform holder formally confirmed its absence from this year's show with IGN.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Quell has raised $15.6 million to date.

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Perforce

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Can organizations in highly-regulated industries adopt Agile without compromising their need for traceability and documentation? They can — with Helix ALM.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with more of Lee Tae Ho’s adventures for this week’s Translation Necessary Thursday. It’s “Valhalla Saga Volume 02” by Chwiryong. Plot: This second volume continues after the first novel with Lee Tae Ho now basking in the glory of battles hard fought and in a relationship with a Valkyrie named Heda.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation seeks to remove Atomic Heart from digital storefronts within the country. As reported by PCGamesN , per Dev.ua , the department called on countries to throttle distribution of the game due to "its toxicity" concerns around user data collection, and the possibility that money spent on the game will ultimately fund Russia's war against Ukraine.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mabel Addis will posthumously receive the Pioneer Award, which honors breakthrough business, tech, and game design milestones. The award-winning game designer, level designer, and programmer John Romero will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on iconic and genre-defining first-person shooters.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Since NFT took the world by storm in 2021, they progressed beyond JPEG collectibles to establish themselves as a force in the crypto as well as Web 3.0 world. They have evolved into valuable assets with numerous applications in both the virtual and physical worlds. But now, the NFT era has been rising to its next better version with the introduction of NFT 2.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We're almost ready to release Godot 4.0! Barring any last minute critical regression, this RC should reflect what the 4.0-stable release will be.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Phil Elliott has been appointed CEO of indie publisher Modern Wolf, effective from March. Elliott had announced he was leaving Square Enix Collective two weeks ago on Linkedin. He had been at Square Enix's indie publishing label since 2013, when he joined as head of community. His role as director of indie publisher has been taken over by Timea Edvi, who has been at the Collective since 2016 and most recently was senior brand and marketing manager.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Press X to scare.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Flax Engine 1.5 Released The cross platform source available 3D game engine Flax Engine just released version 1.5. This is a fairly significant upgrade on the Flax Game Engine, which released v1.0 back in December 2020. The engine has come a long way in a short period of time. The 1.5 release adds networking … Flax Engine 1.5 Released Read More The post Flax Engine 1.5 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As the stable release is imminent, release candidates become more frequent to validate the last minutes fixes we had to make.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Hogwarts Legacy has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide in its first two weeks on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. The news was announced alongside Warner Bros Discovery's financial results for the nine months ended December 31, 2022, with the company adding that the fantasy action-RPG has also generated $850 million in sales since its launch on February 10.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Blossom is an exploration of childhood and labels through five life stages, all told through an interactive pop-up book controller.

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