Game Developer

MARCH 7, 2024

Union workers and members get candid about the value of collective action within an increasingly hostile industry.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 6, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Capcom has announced it is increasing all employees' salaries in the coming financial year. The Japanese publisher said that it plans to raise pay by an average of over 5% in fiscal year 2024 (twelve months ending March 31, 2025).

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The GameDev Guru

MARCH 3, 2024

These are the tools that help us daily in our game performance consulting practice

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

With the annual Game Developer Conference (GDC) just days away, Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games is ramping up to host exciting technology demonstrations and programming focused on evolving industry trends, including generative artificial intelligence (AI). From March 18-22, AWS for Games invites developers to connect with its team and see new AWS for Games and partner solutions in action at the Play and Learn Lounge (Moscone Convention Center West Hall #WL2-4, level 2), and check out a range

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Game Developer

MARCH 7, 2024

EA boss Andrew Wilson said generative AI is something the publisher is 'embracing deeply.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 8, 2024

2.77 million video games were sold in the UK during February, a drop of 5.5% over the year before. This is based on data from GSD, which tracks digital game sales from most major publishers, and all physical sales. The notable absent game from the charts is Palworld, because the game's developer isn’t included in the GSD system. The 5.5% drop last month is actually an impressive result, because last year saw the blockbuster launch of Hogwarts Legacy, which was one of the biggest game relea

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The Bottom Feeder

MARCH 5, 2024

Hee hee! I’m just havin’ a little fun before I get started. The video game industry is seeing a big wave of layoffs and game company closures, and it may be that we have begun the long, slow, agonizing bleed of a recession. Alas, I feel compelled to write about it. It's a hard thing to write about. It's painful. Lost jobs mean real suffering.

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Game Developer

MARCH 4, 2024

The studio has reportedly laid off its development team and is now a one-person company.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 8, 2024

Another swath of Activision QA workers has unionized, as the Communication Workers of America announced today that Microsoft has voluntarily recognized a union for workers at Activision Central Quality Assurance. Approximately 600 employees in California, Texas, and Minnesota will be represented by the union, which the CWA says makes it the largest group of union-represented workers at any US gaming company.

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Concept Art World

MARCH 5, 2024

Concept Art World Two Dots Two Dots is a creative studio based in France and co-founded in 2012 by experienced concept and cover artist Seed Seven. It offers a large range of services: from creative concepts exploration to high resolution image and matte painting, from illustration and concept art to character design. Two Dots has a wide array of international clients in the entertainment industry, including video games and books. “We are a flexible outsourcing partner, able to understand

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Indie DB

MARCH 5, 2024

Merc Tactics, a turn based tactical strategy PC game.

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Game Developer

MARCH 6, 2024

The company will increase the base salary for graduate hires by around 27 percent at the start of the 2025 fiscal year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 8, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry. Warner Bros Discovery's gaming division had a pretty great year in 2023, thanks in large part to the success of Hogwarts Legacy, which was the first non-Call of Duty, non-Rock

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Retro Game Coders

MARCH 8, 2024

C64 programmers usually turn to CBM PRG Studio, and I even suggest it as a go-to (heh) in my C64 BASIC Programming course series , but it is only natively compiled for Windows. You can, with some effort, get CBM PRG Studio for Mac and Linux using Wine , but that is a lot of time and disk space to expend to get an IDE for a vintage computer working. Ideally we would be able to use a familiar, modern, cross-platform IDE.

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Indie DB

MARCH 5, 2024

Symbol of Sacrifice has officially announced the demo will be ready in May and is set to take part in the June 2024 Steam Next Fest. Alongside the announcement they also released their teaser trailer shown below!

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Game Developer

MARCH 4, 2024

Along with the settlement, Nintendo will have effectively wiped the Yuzu off the face of the internet.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 6, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Glow Up Games is one of the first all-women-of-color companies to have raised over $1.5 million in funding. This was revealed by co-founder Dr. Mitu Khandaker on stage at DICE 2024 during the studio's keynote, where she explained that the five years since the studio's establishment has been a multifaceted learning lesson for development and creative intention.

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Game Wisdom

MARCH 7, 2024

Getting to the Heart (of the cards) of Balatro Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com Balatro was one of many games I had a chance to check out from next fest that I knew was going to be a hit, but I was surprised to see how much of a hit the game became. Combining … The post Getting to the Heart (of the cards) of Balatro appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Indie DB

MARCH 4, 2024

Hi. I’m playing with some new screenshots of the game, so I decided that I will try to add some depth of field effect in the game, let’s see what I can get. Here are some results.

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Game Developer

MARCH 8, 2024

At nearly 20 years old, Adult Swim Games was one of the more consistent third-party publishers around.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 6, 2024

A new chart from the Entertainment and Retail Association has revealed the digital and physical sales splits for the 20 best-selling games in the UK. The data is based on GSD and GfK figures, and shows that there is still a substantial number of games sold via physical stores. EA Sports FC 24, which was the best-selling game in the UK last year, sold 2.395 million units in 2023. 67.2% of the sales (1.61 million) came via PlayStation Network, Steam, Xbox Live and Nintendo eShop, while 786,000 (32

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 8, 2024

This article is written by Diana Levintova from AppMagic. Top image: four of KAYAK’s hypercasual games. There has been a lot of talk about the future of Hypercasual games: how the market has been in stagnation, making studios slowly but steadily look for opportunities in the fraternal Hybridcasual. Leading Japanese publisher KAYAC has another opinion however.

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Indie DB

MARCH 2, 2024

Pale Coins is an Action RPG set in a fantasy world with challenging combat, open world exploration and a variety of items. Traverse old forests, dark caves, weathered ruins and unknown places, to find the Champion's Coin and fulfill your greatest wish.

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Game Developer

MARCH 6, 2024

The media company will close down over the next several months as WB figures out what to do with properties like RWBY and Gen:Lock.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 4, 2024

You can read all our South Africa Games Week articles on this page. Africa Games Week held its sixth edition last December, welcoming over 1,980 attendees to Cape Town. Over 360 companies were represented, and 93 speakers contributed to the conference track. Over on the showfloor, more than 250 African games were showcased, the organisers said.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Following another big week in terms of headcount reductions, interactive entertainment is on track to shed a record number of jobs in 2024. Before the news cycle had fully absorbed Sony’s announcement that it was letting go of 900 people, Electronic Arts released a similar statement regarding the termination of about 5 percent of its total headcount, approximately 670 jobs.

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Indie DB

MARCH 7, 2024

Write to us your impressions of the trailer, any questions and wishes.

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Game Developer

MARCH 6, 2024

Like with the original Final Fantasy 7, PlayStation will be the only console home for Square Enix's remake games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 6, 2024

You can read all our South Africa Games Week articles on this page. After seven years in business, Annapurna Interactive made its very first acquisition last year: South African studio 24 Bit Games. While seeing Annapurna jump onto the M&A bandwagon might seem surprising, this specific acquisition makes a lot of sense considering the very close relationship between the two companies.

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Perforce

MARCH 7, 2024

Learn why SAP testing is more critical than ever, and explore how Perforce and Worksoft can help address your most pressing SAP testing challenges.

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Indie DB

MARCH 8, 2024

Build your team of mechanics and work together to repair and deliver as many cars as possible before the time runs out! Playable with up to 4 players, locally or online, Mechanic Heroes will make you love mechanics or simply hate your friends. Forget.

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Game Developer

MARCH 5, 2024

Small Radios Big Televisions has been made available for free on PC as a result of the delisting.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 8, 2024

You can read all our South Africa Games Week articles on this page. Every single studio we talked to at Africa Games Week mentioned it at some point, and shared their own story of how the studio helped them, worked with them, or simply encouraged them: Free Lives is not only the poster child for the South African industry, but also undoubtedly a powerhouse in supporting all of those that have followed in its footsteps.

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 7, 2024

GameFromScratch.com W4 Games Launch W4 Cloud Complete Godot Multiplayer Solution W4 Games, a company formed by several key Godot developers to create a commercial ecosystem around the Godot game engine, just launched their second product (the first being W4 Console) W4 Cloud. W4 Cloud is a complete multiplayer stack for the Godot game engine providing the following features: The project […] The post W4 Games Launch W4 Cloud Complete Godot Multiplayer Solution appeared first on GameFromScra

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Indie DB

MARCH 6, 2024

In this post we will talk about the survival side of Obitus. We talk about the inventories, foods and campfires.

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Game Developer

MARCH 6, 2024

The Canadian studio is also halting development on its early access RPG Unforetold: Witchstone.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 6, 2024

Spearhead Games is ending production of Unforetold: Witchstone, which launched on January 4, and is laying off the majority of its staff. In a statement shared on LinkedIn , the Montreal-based developer said production on the game will end indefinitely on March 8, as will its Discord server. "The past few weeks have been challenging, as the combined impact of financial prospects that did not materialise have put us in a difficult position," it said.

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