Video game sales jump 20% in Europe during September | European Monthly Report
GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 10, 2024
17.6 million PC and console games were sold across Europe last month, according to the latest GSD figures.
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Disco Elysium writer launches third splinter dev, Summer Eternal
Game Developer
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Other former ZA/UM staff and Disco Elysium writers have banded together to form Summer Eternal, an 'art collective/RPG studio' hoping to continue Elysium's legacy.
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Rebots by FlatPonies launches after 6 years “We’re ready for more ambitious projects”
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 7, 2024
FlatPonies , a Copenhagen-based game development studio, is finally launching Rebots , a first-person automation game that invites players to explore a universe full of quirky robots and expansive worlds. With over six years of development behind them, Lead Producer Regő Porkoláb has learned some valuable lessons. “Don’t make a game for six years!” “Rebots came from a simple concept.
Budget-Friendly Serialization & Deserialization
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Konami replaces EA as FIFA's esports partner
GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 10, 2024
FIFA has announced a partnership with Konami to continue its FIFAe World Cup esports tournament, using the publisher's free-to-play title eFootball.
Ex-Humble Games staff form new publisher, Good Games Group
Game Developer
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Humble will use Good Games to continue supporting games it had already published prior to restructuring its staff in July.
Hypercasual games market continues to decline, but still nearly 3 billion installs this quarter
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 11, 2024
According to the AppMagic numbers, this quarter, the hypercasual games market shrunk by 12%—down to 2.98B total installs compared to the previous quarter. The case is about the same for YoY dynamics—the market went down by a similar percentage from its 3.4B downloads in Q3 2023. The YoY dynamics are also comparable to the previous quarter: Tier-1 West faced the largest decrease at 18% YoY, followed by Tier-1 East with a 16% drop—and all other countries with their 7% slowdown.
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Book Excerpt: Game Economy Design: Metagame, Monetization and Live Operations
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
'This book provides a comprehensive overview of game economy design. The reader will gain insights into the components that form a game economy, how these components are utilized to shape a metagame experience and how monetization is integrated into this.
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Anima Flux Releases New Official Trailer
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OCTOBER 11, 2024
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Saudi Arabia trims stake in Nintendo
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OCTOBER 8, 2024
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New lawsuit alleges Ubisoft shared user data with Meta
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O3DE 24.09 Released
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
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Hidden Pass Skirmishes v0.4.13!
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
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Ex-Disco Elysium devs form Longdue, focused on "innovation and trailblazing, not replication"
GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 11, 2024
A group of developers who previously worked on the acclaimed Disco Elysium have formed a new studio in the UK, Longdue.
NaturalMotion reviewing UK and US teams ahead of possible layoffs
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
'To operate efficiently, we have made the difficult decision to review our UK and US operations, which may impact a number of roles in the US and UK.
The Best Game Development Frameworks in 2024
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Broke Protocol - Now FREE
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OCTOBER 8, 2024
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OCTOBER 9, 2024
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Tequila Works lays off 'small number' of staff after cancelling project
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OCTOBER 7, 2024
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343 rebrands as Halo Studios, working on multiple Unreal Engine 5 games
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Tomb Raider franchise tops 100 million copies sold
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Chronicles of Vaeltaja's v.0.7.3
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GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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I’ve occasionally seen this common bug in several games where a character gets stuck in what seems to be the center of the map, doing a T pose. Is this is a common output of several different types of errors? If so, have you ever hidden the origin of the map under a hill, or made it hidden to the player somehow, so bugs like that are not spotted, even if they occur?
Ask a Game Dev
OCTOBER 11, 2024
You're right - the T-pose (or its cousin the A-pose) is usually the default pose we put a model in when a particular pose or animation isn't working. The T-pose exists mostly because artists can see all parts of the model by rotating, moving, and zooming the camera, so they can fix up any odd texturing issues on the model. The purpose of using the T-pose for the default is because it is instantly and visibly recognizable to just about anyone that it doesn't belong there.
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OCTOBER 9, 2024
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