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Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games

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The Unreal series may have been shelved years ago, but Epic is letting its first two installments live on through the Internet Archive.

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ZeniMax union workers strike in protest of Microsoft remote work and outsourcing policies

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ZeniMax Workers United-CWA members aren't happy with the decision making of parent company Microsoft.

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'Polish something that has never existed before:' Miyamoto explains how Nintendo is countering rising development costs

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'We believe that it is important to nurture developers who take this unique concept to heart.

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BioWare pulls back the veil on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's magical hair tech

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High-fidelity hair can be a tricky challenge in video games. BioWare's shown off its solutions for Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

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GOG expands preservation program to protect delisted games

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The company's recent efforts to protect and update older games will now include titles that get delisted from its store.

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WB Games Montreal lays off 99 developers

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Most of the impacted developers let go from WB Montreal were subcontractors through esteemed support developer Keywords.

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Ex-Humble Games staff form new publisher, Good Games Group

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Humble will use Good Games to continue supporting games it had already published prior to restructuring its staff in July.

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Microsoft CEO says Xbox is intent on manifesting a multiplatform future

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'We are focused on growing the platform and expanding to new ecosystems to engage as many gamers as possible.

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Riot Games lays off staff to 'solve challenges and build for the future'

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The developer is conducting layoffs across its League of Legends team in prepartion for the 'next phase' of the (almost) 15-year-old MOBA.

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European Court of Justice rules against Sony in PSP cheating lawsuit

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Sony lost the case against UK peripheral firm Datel, failing to ban Datel from marketing Action Replay products.

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Report: NetEase execs and employees arrested over alleged money laundering

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Two of NetEase's senior executives are implicated in the trading scheme, which is also said to have involved nearly 30 companies.

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Exclusive: Unity is killing its controversial Runtime Fee

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The company is reverting to a seat-based subscription model, but will be increasing the price of Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise in January 2025.

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All of Annapurna Interactive has resigned

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In a stunning turn of events appropriate for Hollywood, all workers and executives at Annapurna Interactive have resigned from the company.

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'This was essentially a two-week long DDoS attack': Game UI Database slowdown caused by relentless OpenAI scraping

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The free repository relaunched a few weeks ago to provide 'the ultimate reference tool for game designers.' Then OpenAI came knocking.

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Future Publishing signs content partnership with OpenAI

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The company behind Edge, GamesRadar, and PC Gamer will let OpenAI use its content to enhance the 'ChatGPT experience.

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Report: Annapurna Interactive collapse followed years of infighting by top execs

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The game division's upper management reportedly kept going over and against each other, and Annapurna Interactive's staff were helpless to watch it happen.

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Germany launches new funding program for indie dev founders

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The country's 18-month program will provide current and future studio founders with money and guidance to run their teams and help grow out the German game industry.

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Godot founders had desperately hoped Unity wouldn't 'blow up'

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Godot was a big winner when devs revolted against Unity's Runtime Fee—but its founders were worried about a surprise influx of users.

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Ubisoft employees in France called to strike over return-to-office mandate

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French union STJV is calling for the strike and has also raised concerns over wages and 'appalling' conversations with management.

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Ubisoft kills XDefiant and closes studios in San Franciso and Osaka

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Half of the XDefiant team are moving onto other projects, but 277 developers will "likely" be laid off.

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Korean devs report a burst of interest in single-player console and PC games

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Developers at Pearl Abyss, Round8 Studio, Shift Up, and other studios say developers and players in the region want to break out of the free-to-play market.

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Niantic's new AI model may have been built by unaware Pokémon Go players

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The AR developer has spent half a decade using its games and positioning tech to build a 'detailed understanding' of the planet.

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Patch Notes #4: Strange Scaffold rejected a 'culture of hope' to resurrect I Am Your Beast

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. explains how the famously efficient studio honed its process to build a goated shooter in nine months.

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Report: WB Discovery looking to sell off games, other divisions to prevent total breakup

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Game franchises like DC and Mortal Kombat may once again be up for sale as Warner Bros. Discovery tries to make some money.

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'This is just a death cycle': No More Robots gets candid about the state of indie publishing

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No More Robots founder Mike Rose explains how cynicism can ensure survival and offers indie devs some pitching advice.

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Why Animal Well's home-brewed engine was key to its success

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How an off-hours project, a rising YouTuber, and a unique Discord-driven release strategy came together for a game-of-the-year candidate.

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New York Times tech staff asks readers to not play its games as union strikes

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'Management is more willing to risk our election coverage than they are to agree to a fair deal with its workers. We stand ready to bargain and get this contract across the finish line.

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Update: Humble Games confirms layoffs amid 'restructuring', denies full shutdown

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Update: In a statement, Humble confirms layoffs at Humble Games but maintains that the publisher is still up and running. Update: Humble has now provided a statement saying Humble Games hasn't been shut down, but just restructured.

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SAG-AFTRA can now call immediate strike if game companies refuse AI protections

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The union is attempting to secure better wages, working conditions, and AI protections for voice actors and performers within the game industry.

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Phil Spencer: Indiana Jones' PS5 jump good for Xbox's health

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Xbox's new multiplatform push continues to be scrutinzed as the company insists it's needed to further make Xbox 'as strong as possible.

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Indie publisher Armor Games reportedly axes publishing team

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Ex-staff claim the publisher has eliminated its entire publishing team. If true, it's unclear what that means for the games Armor's expected to publish.

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Behaviour Interactive acquires Darkest Dungeon dev Red Hook Studios

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Days after shutting down Midwinter's 'Project T' and closing the studio, Behaviour Interactive has acquired another studio.

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Report: Microsoft shuts down DEI team, ex-lead claims similar programs at risk

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Diversity and inclusion initiatives could be facing the axe with large-scale conservative policy potentially on the horizon.

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What happens when a secretive blockchain company buys your game studio

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Former employees of Phoenix Labs and Rumble Games say they were told to keep blockchain platform Forte Labs' purchase of their employers an absolute secret.

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Opinion: How will Project 2025 impact game developers?

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The Heritage Foundation's manifesto for the possible next administration could do great harm to many, including large portions of the game development community.

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Nintendo's systemic policy of miscredting is harming external translators

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External translators who've worked on major franchises including The Legend of Zelda and Animal Crossing have been refused credits and locked into decade-long NDAs.

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Humble Games' recent restructure is hurting devs and their games

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Developers Squid Shock and Stairway are unable to push console updates, and the former is resorting to Patreon while looking for a solution.

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