Game Developer

DECEMBER 20, 2023

From Unity's botched Runtime Fee to Embracer going scorched earth on its own development studios, here are the events that shaped the game industry in 2023.

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Game Developer

JULY 13, 2023

nDreams is the world's largest virtual reality game developer outside of Meta and Sony. Here's how the studio has managed to grow in a still-burgeoning market.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

'Disruptive Games has sadly had to let go of many amazing, talented game developers.'

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The melodic fantasy adventure is Summerfall Studios' debut title.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 7, 2024

But not in the world Tomasz Ostafin, founder of indie studio Petums , is creating. Pirofauna is the second game by tiny indie studio Petums. The first game Papetura was successful enough for Ostafin to make game development his full-time occupation. Petums is actually just me.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 5, 2023

The FTC's new rule could greatly change the power that game developers have when transferring between studios.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

In response to a comment by Bill Markus, the co-founder of Dogecoin, that gamers have become “ideologically captured,” Elon Musk announced that his firm xAI will open a game studio. Musk states: “ Too many game studios that are owned by massive corporations ,” and that said studio will “ make games great again.”

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Game Developer

JUNE 26, 2023

In his brief time with video games, de Senneville formed two game development studios and partnered with publishers such as Interlay and Electronic Arts.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It's been a bad year for game developers, and studios making live service games have taken some vicious body blows.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 15, 2024

This book brings together the knowledge and perspectives of numerous past and present games industry leaders and practitioners to form a clear picture of how leadership operates in a game development studio.'

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 30, 2024

But those games were licensing deals, externally developed by Scopely and Larian Studios, respectively. And despite the success of those partnerships, Hasbro is actually investing considerably in building out its own internal development. Read more

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Ryan Burnett, president of Respawn's Wisconsin-located satellite studio, shines a light on how the state holds benefits for game developers.

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Game Developer

MARCH 14, 2023

The newly formed Gas Giant Games will make their presence known at next week's Game Developer's Conference, where it'll show off its first project to court publishers and investors.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 7, 2024

In Creatures of Ava by Spanish indie studio Inverge Studios , players take on the role of Vic, a young explorer stranded on the planet Ava alongside her companion, Tabitha. Creatures of Ava is a project born from the desire to create a game similar to Slime Rancher.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 2, 2024

Mobile and indie game developer Paladin Studios has ceased its operations. Paladin's announcement attributed the decision to the studio's lack of work. "We We unfortunately failed to land enough work to cover our burn-rate. Yesterday we hit an inflection point for our financial security," it said. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

BitCake Studio , an indie game development studio based in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th year in the industry. Eduardo Lamhut, the company’s main Game Designer and Creative Director of the upcoming game Atomic Picnic , explains how the company started. There was a bunch of things she wanted in the game.

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Game Developer

JUNE 14, 2024

How and why did we, as a small studio, end up with a visual novel side series? Now that What Lydia Knows is complete, I wanted to share our process, what our motivations were, and how it’s changed our company’s approach to game development. And was it worth it?

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

Fresh out of school Kaighen Finley started his own web & game development company Team iNtuition. Just to be on the safe side he mainly focused on web development, but his heart was not in it. Initially, I wanted to build games, but invested my eggs in web development first because I thought I was being pragmatic.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 18, 2024

A new AAA studio has launched, composed of industry veterans from EA, Sony, Blizzard, Disney, Apple, and Google. Founded in October 2023, Muddy Robot Games is led by former International Game Developers Association president Chris Hood.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I asked a selection of my nDreams colleagues, from across disciplines and development studios, what excites them as game developers about the Apple Vision Pro. Here’s what they had to say.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A team of game developers who have worked on various AAA titles such as Mass Effect, The Witcher, and Doom Eternal have unveiled Fun Dog Studios. The studio is a minority-led and completely employee-owned game developer.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 10, 2024

Series Entertainment has acquired story-driven, episodic mobile game studio Pixelberry. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The list of games studios suffering layoffs continues to grow with California-based Pixelberry Studios the latest to dismiss some of its employees. Read more

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This article covers five key aspects—production, community, development, storytelling, and updates—valuable for both indie and AAA game developers.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The role-playing musical made in Melbourne won Game of the Year at this year's Australian Game Developer Awards , in addition to Excellence in Accessibility and Excellence in Music, and has been a critical success since its release in August. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 11, 2023

Development services provider Virtuos has announced the launch of a new studio in Warsaw, Poland. The new branch of Virtuos Labs is one of three, joining established studios in Lyon and Montpellier, and aims to have a team of 35 people by the end of the year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Los Angeles-based studio shared a statement on social media , citing a "lack of support for VR within the industry" as the main reason for closing its doors. "As As an AAA VR game developer, we are just not able to justify the expense needed going forward," the studio said. "[We]

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company specializing in everything from documentaries, science fiction films and animations to music video, graphic design and video games. His latest game Three Minutes to Eight is a real tour de force, both in storytelling and visual flair.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 21, 2024

When Ulas Karademir last worked at IO Interactive, it was a Square Enix-owned, Danish game developer that made Hitman. He left in 2014, and has since held numerous senior roles at Unity, before joining Crytek co-founder Cevat Yerli to build an engine for distributed development (RealityOS). Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 6, 2024

So far during this South Africa Games Week special, we've highlighted some established studios – Nyamakop , 24 Bit Games , as well as Sea Monster Entertainment and Free Lives to be published later this week – and a more recent studio founded by South African industry veterans ( Six Peaks Games ).

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Microsoft's recent layoffs resulted in 86 redundancies at game developer Toys for Bob. As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle , per state filings, the studio behind Spyro Reignited Trilogy also saw its physical office closed. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 3, 2023

Josh Salley has always been a big fan of gaming, but thought that game development was out of his reach. “I I just assumed game development involved writing code all day.” I have always been a huge gamer, but never imagined I want to actually make games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Game development and porting studio SneakyBox is expanding into Poland. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A new report from Griffin Gaming Partners says that 95% of game makers are developing or maintaining a live service game. The 2023 Game Development Report, made in partnership with Rendered VC, surveyed 537 studios from across the globe.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Summerfall Studios' Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical was the big winner of today's Australian Game Developer Awards, winning Game of the Year as well as Excellence in Accessibility and Excellence in Music. Meanwhile, the coveted Studio of the Year accolade was awarded to Melbourne-based firm PlaySide Studios.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Evil Dead: The Game developer Saber Interactive has a new chief narrative officer: Craig Sherman. We discussed why studios might need this kind of role.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 31, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Ex-Mojang Studios and Toca Boca staffers have formed a new game development studio, Roro. It was founded by CEO William Sampson and Robin Flodin, whom is joined by Kristoffer Jelbring. Read more

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