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

Game Developer

'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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Scaravan 66 by Lithic Entertainment is a car-combat-roguelike straight out of hell

PreMortem.Games

With their second game, Canadian indie studio Lithic Entertainment takes a sharp turn from the tranquil charm of their peaceful city-building debut title, Dwarrows. This time they’re slamming the accelerator with Scaravan 66 , a high-octane car combat roguelike straight out of hell. At its heart is Lucky, an arrogant greaser trapped in a hellish nightmare of endless asphalt, monstrous foes and a shotgun-fueled quest for freedom.

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The former Hollywood exec looking to transform Sega into the next Disney

GamesIndustry.biz

As part of its latest financial report, Sega highlighted that it plans on building on the current momentum of its games business by "accelerating the transmedia development of the group's IP.

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Announcing Stars Reach

Raph Koster

I t’s been years of work, and we are far from done, but I am super happy to finally reveal what I have been working on at Playable Worlds: Stars Reach. This is the game I have wanted to make for nearly thirty years. It is the spiritual sequel to Ultima Online and to Star Wars Galaxies. It has in it all the lessons of all these decades of online game development — and it looks forward, not back, to reinvent what an online world can be.

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Affinity Offer All Products FREE For 6 Months

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Affinity Offer All Products FREE For 6 Months At this point we all know that Adobe screwed up and alienated a lot of their users, with many of those users left looking for Adobe alternatives. One of the biggest alternatives to Adobe, Affinity decided to kick ’em while they were down, offering their entire suite of products 50% […] The post Affinity Offer All Products FREE For 6 Months appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Streamline Evaluation of LLMs for Accuracy with NVIDIA NeMo Evaluator

Nvidia

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, from tackling complex coding tasks to crafting compelling stories to translating natural. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, from tackling complex coding tasks to crafting compelling stories to translating natural language. Enterprises are customizing these models for even greater application-specific effectiveness to deliver higher accuracy and improved responses to end users.

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Unity 6 Preview is now available

Unity Blog

Unity 6 Preview (formerly known as 2023.3 Tech Stream) is the last release of our development cycle for Unity 6 and is available for download now.

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

Game Developer

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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Phoenix Labs lays off staff, cancels games in major restructuring

Game Developer

Update: The studio behind Dauntless and Fae Farm has laid off an unknown number of employees and cancelled a game "mere weeks" away from launching in Early Access.

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Why art tests fail artists and the game dev industry

Game Developer

Art tests in game dev often harm diversity and fail to reflect real skills. It's time to rethink their use and adopt more inclusive hiring practices.

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Why Doesn't Everyone See the Importance of Preserving Our Past?

Game Developer

The Entertainment Software Association recently came out against the preservation of past games. This short post is a plea for common sense and a recognition of the importance of videogame history.

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

Game Developer

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

Game Developer

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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What happens when a secretive blockchain company buys your game studio

Game Developer

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

Game Developer

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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What are game developers getting out of Bluesky?

Game Developer

Game developers are among the millions users leaving X (formerly Twitter) and signing up for Bluesky. What are they getting out of the platform?

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'A rising tide floats all boats': Xbox on the universal benefits of accessible design

Game Developer

Xbox senior accessibility product manager Kaitlyn Jones and principal designer Chris Kujawski explain how the company is working to make video games accessible to all.

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

Game Developer

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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Kitfox co-founder says four-day weeks are 'unmatchable' when retaining employees

Game Developer

'For retention, four-day work weeks are unmatchable. When asked, half of Kitfox staff said they would need at least double [pay] to consider, maybe, going back to five days.

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Opinion: How will Project 2025 impact game developers?

Game Developer

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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Germany launches new funding program for indie dev founders

Game Developer

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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Exclusive: Unity is killing its controversial Runtime Fee

Game Developer

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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ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online

Game Developer

Libraries' attempts and proposed plans for archiving older games don't strike a chord with the ESA, which still thinks it remains publishers' burden.

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Obituary: Jim Ward, Dungeons & Dragons designer, died at age 72

Game Developer

Ward joined TSR during Dungeons & Dragons' first boom, and worked on several add-ons for the TTRPG, plus his own science-fantasy game, Metamorphosis Alpha.

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

Game Developer

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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Report: NetEase execs and employees arrested over alleged money laundering

Game Developer

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

Game Developer

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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All of Annapurna Interactive has resigned

Game Developer

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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Meta shuts down Quest developer Ready at Dawn

Game Developer

Across its 21-year lifetime, Ready at Dawn developed the Echo series for the Meta Quest, along with Daxter, various God of War spinoffs, and The Order: 1886.

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Ubisoft's Italian staff join French peers in striking return-to-office mandate

Game Developer

Like their coworkers in France, members of Ubisoft Milan are concerned about how the developer's three-day in-office policy will affect their day-to-day lives.

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Atari CEO wants Infogrames to become the ultimate preservationist publisher

Game Developer

'There's not a really strong moat around this space, so competition can increase rapidly and decrease rapidly. The ones that survive have a strong brand.

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Helldivers 2 is estimated to have sold 8 million copies (so far)

Game Developer

The sales numbers aren't guaranteed, but it's quite clear Helldivers 2 has captured the hearts and minds of plenty since its mid-February release.

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Game composer Nobuo Uematsu will retire after Fantasian's console launch

Game Developer

After nearly 40 years of composing music for games (and Square Enix and Final Fantasy specifically), Uematsu has reached the end of the road.

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Volition devs regroup as Shapeshifter Games after Embracer shuttering

Game Developer

"It's been five months since the closure of Volition, but I'm grateful to post that a group of us have re-formed as Shapeshifter Games.

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Study finds 21 percent of European devs laid off in past year

Game Developer

According the Big Games Industry survey, HR and QA have been hit hardest by layoffs within the European games industry between 2023 and 2024.

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Keywords tried to make a game using GenAI but said the tech was 'unable to replace talent'

Game Developer

'The best results and quality needed can only be achieved by experts in their field utilising GenAI as a new, powerful tool in their creative process.

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Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: Lost Crown team reportedly disbanded after disappointing sales

Game Developer

Despite strong reviews, Ubisoft reportedly decided to stop supporting Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown some time after its supposed underperformance.

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