Game Developer

JULY 17, 2023

The agreement comes as Microsoft prepares to complete its acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 21, 2023

In early 2021, Cukia Kimani , co-founder of South Africa’s renowned studio Nyamakop , and a close-knit circle of four friends embarked on an extraordinary challenge that involved making 12 games in 12 months. What made their daring endeavour truly exceptional was not just the ambitious nature of their quest, but also the ingenious three-step process they implemented each month.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 21, 2023

One peculiar aspect of Microsoft's battle to stave off regulatory intervention in its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard – now seemingly in its final stretch, following the slapping down of the FTC's frankly ill-conceived case for blocking the deal – is that it has required the second largest company ever to exist, a $2.7 trillion dollar behemoth that rakes in profits of over $80 billion every year, to convincingly play an underdog role.

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Indie DB

JULY 21, 2023

Ill Tower is a dungeon-crawler / platformer with some roguelite mechanics. Climb, slide, fight the Tower’s guardians and try to recover your stolen soul.

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Game Developer

JULY 21, 2023

AI legislation is still a ways off, but companies such as Microsoft and Amazon say they have committed themselves to transparency and independent third-party testing for their individual AI technology.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 19, 2023

Image: Clone Drone in the Danger Zone – Doborog You don’t necessarily need to use an off-the-shelf matchmaker for your game. You might want to create your own. Here are the best practices. At some point, you’ll probably want a matchmaker for your multiplayer game. It’s a critical part of making sure that your players can actually join a match.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 21, 2023

76.1 million console and PC games were sold across Europe during the first half of the year, which is marginally up over the same period in 2022. The UK was the biggest European market for game sales, representing 15.3 million games sold, a rise of 5.5% over the same period in 2022. This is followed by Germany with 14 million games sold (down 11%) and then France with 11.1 million sales (up 8%).

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Game Developer

JULY 20, 2023

The FTC is suspending its administrative challenge to Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 17, 2023

Now that Mordhau has arrived on both PlayStation and Xbox , console players finally get the chance to hack & slash their way through medieval battlegrounds. The brutal and bloody combat game from Slovenian developer Triternion has already been very successful for the last 4 years on PC. To make everything working smoothly during the massive online battles requires some very specific skills from the developers.

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Rocket Brush Studio

JULY 19, 2023

Traditional coding development methods have limitations and challenges, as does coding with ChatGPT and that will be no different with ChatGPT-assisted coding. In this blog, we explore ChatGPT's immense promise, its ability to overcome coding constraints, how it enables developers to tap into its problem-solving potential, and its limitations.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 19, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Microsoft and Activision have agreed to extend the deadline for the platform holder's acquisition. The deal, first announced in January 2022, was due to be completed by July 18, 2023. However, regulatory hurdles have slowed the process and it was reported earlier this week that the two companies were negotiating an extension while they worked to address the remaining issues.

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Game Developer

JULY 20, 2023

Actors Victoria Atkin and Tim Friedlander are worried over how their voices are being cloned by fans using generative AI technology.

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Indie DB

JULY 21, 2023

Our team is enthusiastic about this new endeavor and aims to create an immersive and captivating gaming experience. Updates will be provided, and players are invited to join in shaping the future of the upcoming game.

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Cocos

JULY 18, 2023

Editor Introduction Many developers want to have as much uniqueness in their games as possible. Some with their art style, some with their music, and some with gameplay. Some developers share their uniqueness with the perfect font for their game, and some have played around with their font to make for some fun and interesting story-building. But finding that perfect one for your game might not be available or even created.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 19, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox How do you improve your creative process? Make lots of mistakes and create a bunch of problems. Whether you're right at the beginning of your creative career or experienced as heck, I hope there's something for everyone to learn here. We'll go through the philosophy of creative management, identify the key stages in creative ideation, setting a clear process, helping your team get the best from themselves and finally, p

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Game Developer

JULY 20, 2023

Following the DMCA takedown and subsequent legalese between Valve and Nintendo, Dolphin has given up on trying to release its emulation software on Steam.

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Indie DB

JULY 17, 2023

In todays update, we share with you the official gameplay overview trailer of Outliver: Tribulation where we go into some detail on what Outliver: Tribulation is about and what to expect during the course of the game.

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Cocos

JULY 15, 2023

Editor Introduction Many developers want to have as much uniqueness in their games as possible. Some with their art style, some with their music, and some with gameplay. Some developers share their uniqueness with the perfect font for their game, and some have played around with their font to make for some fun and interesting story-building. But finding that perfect one for your game might not be available or even created.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 19, 2023

FIFA 23 has once again returned to the No. 1 spot in the UK physical charts, and there's also a surprise return from another EA title. EA Sports' final FIFA saw a 6% increase in sales last week, having received a 21% boost in last week's charts, GfK reported. Meanwhile, Battlefield 2042 has re-entered the charts at No.5, with a large increase in sales due to a price promotion on consoles.

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Game Developer

JULY 20, 2023

GGWP's AI moderation platform leaves limited access and is now free for all game developers to be used for their in-game player communities.

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Indie DB

JULY 19, 2023

Twisted Science introduces Tv Channels gameplay modes. Throughout the gameplay of Twisted Science you'll be directed to different Tv Channels, these channels will usually have their own events transpiring.

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Unity Blog

JULY 21, 2023

In this guest post, Whiteboard Games details the history of the studio’s first commercial release and shares the technical thinking that went into the game’s unique approach to color.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 19, 2023

The GamesIndustry.biz team continues to grow as we are this week joined by Tanya Machinjike. Marking her games industry debut, Machinjike has previously held sales roles at various engineering firms, as well as in Higher Education marketing at The Student Room. She takes on the role of account manager, and will report to George Corner. Corner, meanwhile, has been promoted after less than two years as a trade event account manager for ReedPop, now taking on the role of sales manager for GamesIndu

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Game Developer

JULY 19, 2023

PC games tend to thrive over on Steam, and the platform's popularity may be what Overwatch 2 (and other Blizzard games) need at the moment.

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Indie DB

JULY 20, 2023

Hello everyone! We've shown a lot of artwork for our RTS game Space Tales, but we haven't discussed about the lore that much yet. It's time to change this!

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Unity Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Discover five reasons interactive, digital twin technology is essential to marketing success in the manufacturing sector.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 21, 2023

Borderlands' film adaptation will hit theatres on August, 9, 2024. The release date was revealed by Deadline , which noted that the screenplay was co-written by Eli Roth (of Hostel and Cabin Fever fame) and Joe Crombie. It's unclear who Crombie is — reports emerged that it's a pseudonym used by Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin (also co-creator of the Last of Us TV adaptation), but this was debunked by Variety , who talked to Mazin directly.

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Game Developer

JULY 19, 2023

Microsoft president Brad Smiths says the extension will allow both companies to address the final regulatory issues.

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Indie DB

JULY 20, 2023

A multiplayer, open-world survival crafting game where you can ⚔️battle, ?‍?farm with your friends?‍?‍? or mysterious collected creatures in a vast world?️!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 19, 2023

We are ready to share the first batch of improvements coming to Godot 4.2 later this year with the release of the first dev snapshot!

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 18, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox EA, Bungie, and Kongerate alums have formed a new games studio Look North World. The developer was established by Alex Seropian, Jay Pecho, Patrick Moran, Kyle Marks, Aaron Marroquin, and Prashant Patil.

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Game Developer

JULY 19, 2023

With their matchmaking issues now resolved, older games like Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 have grown in sales and player numbers.

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Indie DB

JULY 16, 2023

Are you ready to blast through the first episode? There are 10 levels and 2 secret levels filled with action and secrets.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 21, 2023

A new batch of backported fixes for Godot 4.0 is ready for testing! Even if you aren't able to move to Godot 4.1 just yet, we can't leave you without support and improvements.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 18, 2023

Almost 20 major UK games companies have already signed-up to a new pilot programme to benchmark in the video games industry. The project is being run by GamesIndustry.biz and our sister company XpertHR, which currently offers the same service across a number of different industries. The project is designed to help companies pay their teams fairly and retain talent.

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Game Developer

JULY 19, 2023

Developers can start accessing tools optimized for the Apple Vision Pro headset.

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Indie DB

JULY 18, 2023

Last month, we revealed Chicken Police – Into the HIVE! to the world. So we think it's about time we dive into the birth of Chicken Police, Clawville and the world its set in, as well as the making of the reveal trailer!

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