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ZeniMax will pivot Elder Scrolls Online to seasonal content in 2025

Game Developer

After eight annual expansions, Elder Scrolls Online is shifting to a seasonal structure so ZeniMax Online has a lighter load and can launch content when it's ready.

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QORPO brings generative AI features to AneeMate with AWS

AWS Games

Grabbing the attention of gamers is challenging in a crowded market, but QORPO s unique video gaming experiences stand out. Leveraging many managed services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), the game developer, publisher, and solutions provider accelerated creative game development for popular titles like Citizen Conflict. Most recently, QORPO integrated Amazon GameLift into its infrastructure to enable scalable cross-platform server hosting and matchmaking across titles.

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Sony to become largest shareholder in FromSoftware parent company Kadokawa

Game Developer

The company behind Elden Ring has strengthened its relationship with Sony.

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Year 11 of the Cogmind

Grid Sage Games

Another fruitful year is coming to a close! It’s once again time for our annual review to reflect on the year’s milestones and look ahead with renewed focus at the months to come. In terms of both technical achievements and content expansion, 2024 was a huge year for Cogmind… but first, the traditional opening collage, a quick visual summary of the year: Selection of images from the past year of Cogmind-related development as posted on this blog, forums, and social media (large

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Tencent removes directors from Epic Games after Justice Dept. inspection

Game Developer

The Justice Department voiced concerns that Tencent was being anti-competitive by appointing its own directors to Epic, which it only has a minority stake in.

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Microsoft Release Free GitHub CoPilot

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Microsoft Release Free GitHub CoPilot There is a new version of GitHub CoPilot that is completely free to use, no credit card or subscription required. The only requirement is a GitHub account and a compatible IDE ( Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code and JetBrains products as well as GitHub.com currently ). Details of the new […] The post Microsoft Release Free GitHub CoPilot appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Sony to become largest shareholder of FromSoftware parent Kadokawa Corporation

GamesIndustry.biz

Sony is increasing its stake in Kadokawa Corporation, which will make it the FromSoftware parent's biggest shareholder.

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Tencent directors step down from Epic Games' board after US Justice Department "expressed concerns"

GamesIndustry.biz

Two Tencent directors have left Epic Games' board of directors after the US Justice Department "expressed concerns" about their positions.

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Why Steam Remains On Top

Game Wisdom

Why Steam Remains On Top Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this quick thought, I talked about how despite all the competition, all the money thrown against it, Steam still is number one and if there is anything another store can do to take the crown away.… The post Why Steam Remains On Top appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Sonic musician suing Sega of America over song rights

GamesIndustry.biz

Sega of America is facing a lawsuit from one of its long-running musical partners: Johnny Gioeli, a member of the rock band Crush 40.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 dev 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

One last build before the holidays!

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Horizon: Forbidden West | Games of the Year 2024

GamesIndustry.biz

In late 2017, I interviewed Guerrilla Games' Jan-Bart Van Beek about his original pitch for what would become Horizon: Zero Dawn, how the studio designed this world, and the lengths the team went to in order to make this new IP stand out.

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Cocos Creator 3.8.5 forum version [released]

Cocos

@zhangxm @dumganhar Do we have a release date for v3.8.5? We are aiming to implement the payment system for our game in our next version and we would be very eager to use the feature.

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Australian games sector employment "steady" as industry generates $211.9m in 2024

GamesIndustry.biz

The Australian video game industry generated $339.1m AUD ($211.9m USD) in revenue in 2024.

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Cocos Creator 3.8.5 forum version [released]

Cocos

This release focuses on package size reduction, rendering pipeline improvements, and editor usability, alongside extensive bug fixes and platform compatibility enhancements. Continuous package size optimization: 2D empty project (default settings): Reduced by 360 KB. 3D empty project (default settings): Reduced by 384 KB. 2D project with essential modules (UI, Spine, audio, WebGL2 only, and wasm Brotli enabled): Reduced by 200 KB.

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Regulation galore: Legal trends to watch in 2025

GamesIndustry.biz

Early this year, we made some predictions on legal trends for 2024. Now it is time to look back and see where we have been right (+) and where we have been wrong (-), as well as making some new predictions for 2025.

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Bug in Label and RichText in Persian and Arabic Langauges

Cocos

I would also like a fix for this. It happens with other cases as well, if you have say $10,000, it will split on the $ or , characters.

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Activision confirms it has replaced Call of Duty Black Ops 6 voice actors during SAG-AFTRA strike

GamesIndustry.biz

Activision has recast some of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's voice actors amid the SAG-AFTRA strike.

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Cocos Creator 3.8.5 forum version [12.04]

Cocos

@zhangxm @dumganhar Do we have a release date for v3.8.5? We are aiming to implement the payment system for our game in our next version and we would be very eager to use the feature.

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Twitch watch time broadly stable in 2024 at 18.9bn hours

GamesIndustry.biz

Watch time on Twitch has remained stable year-over-year, with 18.9bn hours watched in 2023 compared to 18.5bn this year.

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native.Downloader is not a constructor

Cocos

I followed the instructions provided in the Cocos Creator documentation to integrate functionality using native.Downloader. However, when attempting to instantiate an object inside another class, I encountered the exception native.Downloader is not a constructor. import {native} from cc; //Inside class const down = new native.Downloader(); //Exception is throwing in this line of code.

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11 Bit Studios lays off unknown number of staff, cancels Project 8 console game

GamesIndustry.biz

Frostpunk developer 11 Bit Studios has cancelled the development of its first console-centric title, codenamed Project 8, resulting in an unknown number of layoffs.

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How can i fix button detection when screen size changed?

Cocos

Hello eveyone :slight_smile: I have an issue in cocos. How can i fix button detection when screen size changed?

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Moon Beast Productions secures $4.5m in seed funding

GamesIndustry.biz

Moon Beast Productions has secured $4.5m in seed funding.

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Cocos Creator 3.8.5 forum version [12.04]

Cocos

This release focuses on package size reduction, rendering pipeline improvements, and editor usability, alongside extensive bug fixes and platform compatibility enhancements. Continuous package size optimization: 2D empty project (default settings): Reduced by 360 KB. 3D empty project (default settings): Reduced by 384 KB. 2D project with essential modules (UI, Spine, audio, WebGL2 only, and wasm Brotli enabled): Reduced by 200 KB.

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