Game Developer

JANUARY 10, 2025

The two Sony-published titles are nominated for DICE's best game of 2024 alongside Indiana Jones, Balatro, and Black Myth: Wukong.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 6, 2025

Hungarian solo developer Csaba Putnai has poured over 3000 hours into his latest project, The Last Three. Its his second game after the release of his debut, Bob A Thousand Lives , which he developed in his forties. The Last Three is a game about the last stone tiger family that lives deep in a magical forest. They are the guardians of balance in the mystical creatures’ realm.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 21, 2025

EA Origin will shut down on April 17, 2025, as a result of Microsoft no longer supporting 32-bit software.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 6, 2025

NVIDIA today unveiled next-generation hardware for gamers, creators, and developersthe GeForce RTX 50 Series desktop and laptop GPUs. Alongside these GPUs, NVIDIA today unveiled next-generation hardware for gamers, creators, and developersthe GeForce RTX 50 Series desktop and laptop GPUs. Alongside these GPUs, NVIDIA introduced NVIDIA RTX Kit, a suite of neural rendering technologies to ray trace games with AI, render scenes with immense geometry, and create game characters with lifelike visuals

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 11, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Python Game Engines in 2025 Today we have compiled a list of the best Python game engines, frameworks and language bindings for game development in 2025. This is the first in a series of posts exploring the game engine options available for the most popular programming languages. We will eventually have similar guides for C#, […] The post Python Game Engines in 2025 appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

We have reached the first beta release for the 4.4 release cycle. This officially marks the start of feature freeze for 4.4. This means contributors are encouraged to focus their efforts on fixing regressions and other outstanding bugs. We wont risk merging any new features or risky bug fixes until after we release 4.4 and begin preparing for 4.5. We will aim to release 4.4 in around a month, but as usual, this timeline will depend on how quickly we are able to fix the outstanding bugs and what

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Game Developer

JANUARY 7, 2025

The tech and video game conglomerate has insisted the move is a 'mistake.

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Games 329

GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 15, 2025

Microsoft has announced another round of layoffs, affecting staff in its gaming, security, and sales divisions.

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Games 145

Game Development News

JANUARY 20, 2025

SoundLab, a Keywords Studio, is elevating its music division with the appointment of Savina Ciaramella as Sr.

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Studios Games Development 98

Indie DB

JANUARY 15, 2025

Updated controls customization and some little mechanic adjustments.

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Mechanics 103

Game Wisdom

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Marvelous Monetization of Marvel’s Contest of Champions Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com I’ve talked a lot about big names in the mobile and live service space: Digital Extremes, Grinding Gear Games, and of course the entire Hoyoverse. But there is one other game that has been one of the longest-lasting in the … The post The Marvelous Monetization of Marvel’s Contest of Champions appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 10, 2025

The company has rolled out a new harassment policy to shield its workers from bad actors.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 9, 2025

GameFromScratch.com LVR 3D Lua Game Development Framework Today we are checking out LVR, a free and open source 3D Lua game and VR development framework heavily inspired by LVE. LVE is a popular 2D game development framework, recently made famous for powering the smash indie hit Belatro. LVR takes the ease of use of LVE and brings […] The post LVR 3D Lua Game Development Framework appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Game Developers Conference released its annual State of Games Industry survey today, which found that one in ten developers were laid off in 2024. Overall, 41% of developers were impacted by layoffs last year compared to 35% in 2023.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 7, 2025

Written by Michail Katkoff , founder of Deconstructor of Fun and a games industry veteran with 15 years of experience in building, operating, and scaling games and game companies. Throwing out predictions is easy. Tapping yourself on the back for a correct prediction is rewarding. But being open about your track record is essential. We certainly dont always get it right.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 15, 2025

Were diving deeper into our decision to make the switch to the Godot game engine, and why its been a crucial move for the games future. We'll also have a look at how the updated graphics are coming along!

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Game Engine Graphics Engine Engineering 94

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 2, 2025

A new version of.NET is released in November each year, alternating Long Term Support (LTS) and Standard Term Support (STS) releases. The quality of all releases is the same. The only difference is the length of support. LTS releases are supported for 3 years, while STS releases are supported for 18 months. With the release of Godot 4.0, we moved our C# packages from targeting Mono to.NET 6.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 15, 2025

2025's IGF Awards nominees include Balatro, Indika, and UFO 50 in categories like Excellence in Design and Narrative.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 20, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Defold Engine Adds C# Support The nearly open-source free Defold game engine just released Defold 1.9.7 and the highlight feature of this release is C# support! This isn’t replacing Lua as the primary scripting language, in fact it’s not a scripting language at all, instead enabling you to easily make game extensions using the C# […] The post Defold Engine Adds C# Support appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2025

Sony has confirmed the cancellation of two unannounced live service titles from Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games.

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Studios Games Development 129

The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 20, 2025

7thSage again. This time we’ll be creating some more UI elements. We’ve been working with stats for a few lessons now, and its time we created something to show at least some of them. We’ll create a pair of panels to show the character’s name, level, HP and MP values. We’ll be mostly using the primary panel for now. The secondary panel we’ll use later for the target of an action.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 3, 2025

A long road lies ahead for us and we have many new things in store for you in 2025. New dragons, new mechanics, new adventures and new lands to explore!

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Mechanics 97

Rocket Brush Studio

JANUARY 21, 2025

QA is vital in healthcare automation to ensure patient safety, data accuracy, and system reliability. Without proper QA, automation can lead to errors that compromise patient care. QASource provides tailored QA solutions to address these critical challenges.

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Data 59

Game Developer

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Hi-Fi Rush maker has entered a new era under the ownership of Krafton.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 17, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Godot 4.4 Beta Released Following 7 different Dev releases [ our coverage of Godot 4.4 Dev1 and Dev2, Dev3, Dev4 and Dev5 as well as Dev6 and the addition of Jolt Physics in Dev7 ] Godot 4.4 Beta 1 is here. This release adds a few more new features on top of the previously […] The post Godot 4.4 Beta Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 13, 2025

Last week, Swedish games firm Enad Global 7 (EG7) initiated the "wind down" of Toadman Interactive and laid off 38 employees from Piranha Games.

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Games 127

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2025

Why use UIDs in Godot? Until Godot 4.0, the engine exclusively relied on file paths to refer to scenes, scripts and other resources. While this means references in scenes and scripts use human-readable paths, these paths will break if files are moved to a different location in the project (regardless of whether the move was done using the FileSystem dock or outside Godot).

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Shaders Scripting Content Engineering 59

Indie DB

JANUARY 17, 2025

Prepare for Battle of Rovers, LandRockers groundbreaking multiplayer showdown a first-of-its-kind experience that sets the stage for epic interplanetary battles across new worlds.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 3, 2025

This might sound contrived, but one of the most valuable skills for any developer will always be communicating effectively. The vast majority of my work is collaborating with other people - people with differing attention levels, goals, personalities, priorities, and internal ways of thinking. Being able to understand their stated and unstated intentions and feelings is important, both for me to cooperate with them as people and also to do the work.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 10, 2025

Emrich previously designed tabletop and video games such as Master of Orion and Totaler Krieg, and coined the now famous strategy game term '4X.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 4, 2025

GameFromScratch.com New Blender Plugin Adds Photoshop Styling Painting There is a new plugin for Blender, Paint System by Tawan Sunflower that enables you to paint directly on your 3D models in Blender using a very familiar system to Photoshop users. Best of all the add-on is completely free although it does require a newish version of Blender to […] The post New Blender Plugin Adds Photoshop Styling Painting appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 13, 2025

Square Enix has updated its group customer harassment policy that protects its employees and partners.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 9, 2025

Game server infrastructure has reached a critical inflection point. Traditional virtual machine deployments are no longer sufficient for todays dynamic gaming environments that require live operations with fast, frequent, and efficient updates. Modern technologies, like Kubernetes, are empowering game operations teams to be efficient. Part 1 of this blog series explored how containerization and Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services (AWS) revolutionizes game operations with scalable solutions.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 14, 2025

In this update I will talk about the things I've been working on during the past months, including a new level, improved gameplay and graphics and other new features.

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Graphics Feature 89

Rocket Brush Studio

JANUARY 14, 2025

Choosing the right AI application testing partner can streamline development and ensure quality. This blog explores AI application testing companies, the latest tools, and emerging trends that are shaping the future of AI app testing and quality assurance.

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AI Quality Assurance Development 59

Game Developer

JANUARY 14, 2025

The latest project from Palestinian developer Rasheed Abueideh is entering production thanks to the power of crowdfunding.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 7, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Sky3D Add-On for Godot by Tokisan Games Today we are looking the powerful “new” Godot Sky3D add-on from Tokisan Games, the creators of the popular Terrain3D plugin. I air quotes around “new” because the Sky3D project is actually a revival of an earlier Godot 3 add-on by J. Cullar. That project however was abandoned, so Tokisan have […] The post Sky3D Add-On for Godot by Tokisan Games appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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