Game Developer

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Art tests in game dev often harm diversity and fail to reflect real skills. It's time to rethink their use and adopt more inclusive hiring practices.

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Art Dev Games 363

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 4, 2024

With over 2000 pitches flooding their inbox every year, Kepler Interactive is no stranger to reviewing a deluge of game ideas. The small team of six to seven professionals is tasked with wading through roughly 150 new concepts per month, determining which few might have the potential to become the next big title. “It’s truly crazy,” says Matt Handrahan , Senior Portfolio Manager at Kepler Interactive, “but we break it down to three or four a day, and you get through your quota.

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Prototyping Concepts Build Development 151

GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 4, 2024

A new survey has found that over half of gamers prefer to play single-player titles.

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Games 145

AWS Games

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Riot Games are calling on esports fans and builders alike to participate in the VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) Hackathon: Esports Manager Challenge. This new hackathon will put the latest generative AI tools in the hands of fans to unlock new ways to build and develop stronger esports teams. VALORANT is a tactical first-person-shooter game by Riot Games, combining precise gunplay with unique agent abilities in a strategic 5v5 format.

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Esports AI Build Agent 118

Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The game division's upper management reportedly kept going over and against each other, and Annapurna Interactive's staff were helpless to watch it happen.

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Games 360

PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Like most times in horror stories, it starts out as a normal night. A rookie zookeeper straps on their bodycam and begins making the rounds on their first-ever night shift. But soon, you discover that things are far from normal in this zoo. A terrifying parasite is spreading, mutating some of the animals into grotesque, blood-thirsty monsters ready to kill their way out of their cages.

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Animation Animation Horror Simulation 118

GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The creators of the Mario + Rabbids series and the lead designer of Red Dead Redemption have formed a new studio called Day 4 Night.

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Studios Development 145

Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The company has confirmed a 'small number' of roles will be eliminated.

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Indie DB

OCTOBER 2, 2024

After 9 whole years, I ported Mine Blocks 2 to HTML5 and released Alpha 0.8! Check out this video about it!

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Alpha 111

GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 1, 2024

South Korean publisher Krafton became the unlikely saviour of Japanese developer Tango Gameworks in August , following Microsoft's sudden decision to shutter the studio a few months earlier.

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Studios Development Games 145

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Tomasz Kaye had prior game development experience, with credits on Ibb & Obb and Chalo Chalo , but this time he went solo for his latest creation Axe Ghost. “It wasn’t exactly a deliberate choice,” he explains, “I had a small game idea that I wanted to finish and publish, and it seemed doable alone.” What started as a simple concept quickly turned into a game that challenges players with a mix of strategic depth and risk-reward mechanics.

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Dev Development Mechanics Writing 104

Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Edgeflow Studios' Breachway looks so danged beautiful in part because its development team includes trained architects.

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Studios Development 337

Indie DB

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Our newest chapter in Teeny Tiny Trains is live! Explore a new location in the family home, game mechanic & new train for your collection!

Mechanics 111

Mechanics Games 111

GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Sharkmob is facing layoffs at its London studio after cancelling one of the games it had in development, with an unknown number of jobs now at risk.

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Games Studios Development 143

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 3, 2024

We haven't slowed down and are bringing you another feature-packed update!

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Dev Feature 101

Game Developer

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Kwa provided art and model work for The Sims sequels and their expansions and Tribes 2 before pivoting to making award-winning, high-end luxury eyewear.

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Art 335

Indie DB

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Emberwake started as a hobby project—a scene of villagers around a campfire with a dynamic day-night cycle. After a period of being shelved, it was revived and evolved into a survival game where players guide villagers to keep the last ember burning.

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Games 105

GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Sony says that full-screen-sized promotional materials that appeared on PS5 dashboards following its latest update were added in "error" and have now been removed.

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Advertising 142

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Looking back at a year of XR development.

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Development 100

Game Developer

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The United States' Prohibition era has inspired creatives across the entertainment industry, but hasn't been featured in video games as much as you'd expect.

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Entertainment Feature Games 325

Indie DB

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

A new version of Project Helia (the ambitious indie MMO) has been deployed! Unlike previous releases which have focused primarily on gameplay and mechanics, this release focuses on atmosphere. With drifting soundscapes, mysterious relays, and reworked.

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Mechanics Indy 105

GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 4, 2024

As hints about the sales numbers for Star Wars Outlaws have trickled out through various different data tracking agencies, the depth of the crisis that has engulfed Ubisoft is slowly becoming clear.

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Data 138

Logic Simplified

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

This post was originally published on [ 22-06-2021 ] and has been updated on [ 30-09-2024 ] to reflect new information and insights. Smartphones are as much a tool for entertainment as they are for communication, and mobile games rule the roost for keeping users entertained. This is a win-win for both players as well as game app developers , because good game apps are forever in demand.

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Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Development 95

Game Developer

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The new book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment sheds light on how Blizzard's road to success was shaped by a chaotic workplace culture.

Entertainment 325

Entertainment 325

Indie DB

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Hello sand enjoyers! We have a new map and some updates for our 2-year anniversary of our release!

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 4, 2024

FromSoftware has announced that starting in April 2025, employees will receive an average basic salary pay increase of approximately 11.8%.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Gaming has always pushed the boundaries of graphics hardware. The most popular games typically required robust GPU, CPU, and RAM resources on a user’s PC or. Gaming has always pushed the boundaries of graphics hardware. The most popular games typically required robust GPU, CPU, and RAM resources on a user’s PC or console—that is, until the advent of GeForce NOW and cloud gaming.

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Graphics Render PC Console 92

Game Developer

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The move brings its starting wage in line with Capcom, Atlus and Konami.

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Indie DB

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The Mobius Machine Update 1.2.0 is live on Steam, Playstation5 and Xbox Series. This update adds new Workshop, new environment art, map layout improvements and much more.

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Art 105

GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Devolver Digital has formed a new games publishing label devoted to indie games that are based on movie, TV, comic book and other entertainment IP.

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Entertainment Indy Games 137

Nvidia

OCTOBER 1, 2024

At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters. At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters on Windows PCs. ACE is a suite of digital human technologies that provide speech, intelligence, and animation powered by generative AI.

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AI Engine Engineering Animation 89

Game Developer

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Game Bakers creative director Emeric Thoa explains why the studio built a limb-by-limb climbing mechanic from scratch.

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Mechanics Studios Games 322

Indie DB

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Dev diary diving deep into the morale mechanics in Kaiserpunk.

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Mechanics Dev 105

GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Epic Games is filing another legal complaint against Google as well as Samsung, claiming the latter's Auto Blocker is a barrier to alternative app stores and clashes with a jury verdict last year.

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Games Electronics 135

Game From Scratch

OCTOBER 4, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Visual Studio Code September 2024 Upgrade Microsoft’s popular open source editor Visual Studio Code just got upgraded with the release of the September 2024 upgrade. With this release comes several plumbing fixes including a move to ESM (ECMAScript Modules) as well as a switch from the Yarn package manager to NPM. Highlights of this release are: […] The post Visual Studio Code September 2024 Upgrade appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Code Studios 72

Game Developer

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Game director Max Ponoroff tells us how he was inspired by Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and a strange urge to wreck his own creations.

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Games 322

Indie DB

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The moment is here. Black One Blood Brothers Early Access 1.50 is almost live, and we’re eager to hear your thoughts and see you in action! Helios has worked tirelessly to integrate the most requested features and fixes from the Beta Test. A special.

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