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Reforged Studios acquires Ground Shatter and Extra Mile Studios

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Ground Shatter is led by founder and director James Parker, and is the developer behind roguelike deck-builder Fights in Tight Spaces. Extra Mile Studios is led by Bobby Farmer, and is known for providing co-developer services on Revolution Software's Broken Swords series. Read more

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Content studio Offbrand launches games publishing label

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Announced at IGN Live , content creator Ludwig Ahgren shared that he was partnering with Jason "Thor" Hall, founder of independent studio Pirate Software. Offbrand Games' first title is the sequel to Aether Studio's fighting platformer Rivals of Aether, which initially launched in 2017. Read more

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Doing this on anon for obvious reasons but is there any chance of getting hired as an entry level game dev in 2025? I’ve been unemployed for nearly two years since graduating from uni and I’m just getting rejection after rejection from game companies. All the posts are looking for senior devs, team leads, or managers. I have friends who’ve given up on the industry entirely. Is there any hope? Or am I fighting a losing battle here…

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Engineering could mean working in simulation software, B2B stuff, graphics, user interface, server engineering, and so on. Designers are probably the hardest to find something nearby, a UX designer position or maybe working in training/simulation software or casino games would be a decent fit.

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Some Scattered Thoughts About Hades

The Bottom Feeder

It's a 2020-vintage roguelike, which means: A bunch of rooms with fights. Subscribe now Spiderweb Software creates turn-based, indie, old-school fantasy role-playing games. It did well enough over long enough to get a sequel, but I'm still writing about the old original one. You get money to buy randomly selected upgrades.

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Lords of the Fallen Is Crashing: Check These Fixes

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The Demonic Rhogar army is re-emerging and Harkyn must fight them in order to save the world. DriverFix is a software program designed to scan a computer’s hardware components and identify any outdated or missing device drivers. However, like any other game, crashes are common on Lords of the Fallen.

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Picking Apart Baldur's Gate 3, Part 3 (The Only Thing You Should Care About: Loot.)

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A Few Final Comments When a computer RPG has a very complex terrain system with lots of elevations, it becomes tempting to have every fight be complex with a spread of enemies at all sorts of different heights. I found fights in BG3 where it became really hard to target the high-up enemies. Also, casting fireball is fun. Nicely done.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 developer outlines new tools to fight online cheats

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 developer Treyarch has tweaked its anti-cheat systems and banned another 136,000 players across Black Ops 6 and battle-royale spin-off, Warzone. Read more