Game Developer

MAY 28, 2024

After years working in silence, Spiderling Studios has surfaced with with a surprise oceanic DLC that adds water physics to Besiege.

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Game Development News

MAY 28, 2024

Blaze Entertainment has announced that games industry veteran Dominic Wheatley has been appointed as its new Chairman. The announcement comes as the retro-focused Evercade platform reaches a milestone of selling over 1 million cartridges and prepares to launch a new Tomb Raider bundle pack over the summer.

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Game Developer

MAY 21, 2024

Over 22 years, PlayStation London broadened PlayStation's appeal with the SingStar games, along with its VR titles Blood & Truth and PlayStation VR Worlds.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 23, 2024

Atari has a picked up the Intellivision brand name and 200 games from Intellivision LLC. Details on the games were not shared, but Intellivision LLC will continue to develop the Amico games console separately with a license from Atari to distribute games on the platform. The Amico console was originally due to release in October 2020, but a lack of funds has caused a delay to the product and as of November 2023, the firm stated it didn't have the money needed to distribute the machine.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 22, 2024

Top image: Michael Schwalbe, portrait on his own website. Navigating the landscape of voice acting in the games industry can be daunting, especially in an era where traditional entry-level opportunities are dwindling due to the rise of AI. “The industry is really not in a healthy place at the moment”, says Michael Schwalbe , professional voice actor and director at What He Said Voiceovers.

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Cocos

MAY 23, 2024

LukeStapley: Server + Client + Frame Sync! Cocos Creator’s latest full-stack online game framework - free and open source! Introduction There have been more and more frame-synchronized online games in recent years, and there are many discussions and debates about the implementation of such games. The developer “One Brick Two Hundred” wrote a frame-synchronized online game framework in TypeScript and used the framework to create an online game demo, which is free to share with you.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 22, 2024

Nobody expected the success of Helldivers 2. The co-op third-person shooter, which was published by PlayStation and developed by Arrowhead Games, was released in February and has gone on to sell 12 million copies in three months. It is now PlayStation's fastest-selling game – bigger than God of War, or Spider-Man or Uncharted. "Depending on who you are, you’ll always point to different things [as to why it was successful]," says Arrowhead's chief creative officer Johan Pilestedt.

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Indie DB

MAY 21, 2024

The horror game Whispering Lane takes you to an abandoned house on Whispering Lane Street. Darkness reigns on the street, and strange noises stir unease among the neighbors. The main character, police officer Jackson Harrowfield, is sent to investigate.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 21, 2024

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio.

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Harold Serrano

MAY 26, 2024

One of the activities that I strongly dislike is creating a User-Interface. For a long time, the first version of my game engine lacked a UI. The only reason it had one was out of necessity, not because I enjoyed developing one. As you may recall, my last blog post mentioned my interest in learning about BRDF. Thus, I ended up developing a BRDF renderer.

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Game Developer

MAY 22, 2024

RS Gaming has been launched in partnership with ESL FACEIT Group, which is owned by Saudi state-backed investment fund PIF.

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Games 356

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 21, 2024

IGN Entertainment has acquired the Gamer Network family of digital brands for an undisclosed sum. As a result of the acquisition, some redundancies have been made across the UK-based organisation. Gamer Network’s publications are GamesIndustry.biz, Eurogamer (including six local language editions) , Rock Paper Shotgun, VG247 and Dicebreaker. The business also holds shares in Outside Xbox, Digital Foundry and Hookshot (which operates Nintendolife, PushSquare, PureXbox and Time Extension ).

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Indie DB

MAY 22, 2024

Version 1.3.0 is now here with new Game Mode, Weapons, Upgrades, Achievements and more! Starting off with a special 35% Sale on Steam.

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Games 92

Unity Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Unity Muse Chat lets you create real-time 3D experiences within the Editor by assisting with debugging and providing context-aware solutions to issues. Dive into the details of how the LLM pipeline delivers greater relevance and reliability.

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Debug Platformer Engine Engineering 77

Perforce

MAY 28, 2024

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Laboratory for Reliable Software developed a set of code guidelines for developing safety-critical code. The NASA power of 10 rules are intended to eliminate C coding practices that make it difficult to review or properly analyze with static analysis tools.

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Game Developer

MAY 23, 2024

The new DMCC Bill wants to stop companies like Google and Apple from playing favorites on their own stores and make sure they act in users' best interests.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 22, 2024

Arrowhead Games Studios has named Shams Jorjani as its new CEO, replacing company founder Johan Pilestedt in the role. Pilestedt will remain chief creative officer and chairman. The move follows the smash hit success of Helldivers 2, which has sold 12 million copies since it launched on PS5 and PC in February. Jorjani is a games business veteran and spent 12 years in senior leadership roles at Paradox Interactive.

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Indie DB

MAY 28, 2024

Dive into "Snaps," an anime-themed FPS with immersive town life. Explore 14 shops offering various upgrades and interact with dynamic NPCs. Enjoy functional books and working computers, adding depth to the game. Experience new mechanics where cultists.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 28, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Choosing Your First Game Engine When just starting out in game development, one of the hardest and most immediate decisions you will have to make is “What Game Engine Should I Start With?” Of course, as the saying goes, you don’t know what you don’t know, making it almost impossible to make such a decision […] The post Choosing Your First Game Engine appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 23, 2024

For developers in the trenches like me or my team, it's a fairly common occurrence that individual contributors will not be able to finish certain tasks by a given deadline. Sometimes the estimates and the actual work needed are nowhere near congruent, sometimes there are dependencies that took longer to work out than expected, sometimes there are unpredictable events like system outages or developers needing to take a medical leave of absence.

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Game Developer

MAY 21, 2024

The developers at Humble Reeds talk about how they wove conservationism into the game's mechanics without bogging the them down in the complexities of environmental care.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 23, 2024

Sega veterans Jarvis Crofts, Luke Greenaway, and Mark Dallamore have formed a new publisher-agency hybrid, Alibi. Based in London, Alibi draws on the three co-founders' experiences in data analytics, publishing, and more to help support developers in pitching and publishing games. GamesIndustry.biz spoke with two of its founders, CEO Jarvis Crofts and CSO Luke Greenaway, about the formation of Alibi and why they believe a publisher agency hybrid is a sustainable way forward in the industry.

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Indie DB

MAY 22, 2024

Nibble & Byte is releasing a jam packed quality-of-life update for their demo release in preparation for their 1.0 release in June.

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Game Development News

MAY 28, 2024

The latest issue of MCV/DEVELOP is available to read online now, with print editions working their way through the mail as we speak. Yes, that is Forza Motorsport on the cover. No, it’s not burning up the charts.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 22, 2024

GameFromScratch.com 25 Game Engines in 25 Minutes Today we are going to take a look at 25 different game engines in 25 minutes (ok, 28 minutes…). The only criteria to show up on this list is the engine is primarily 3D and has a world or level editor. If there is interest we may do a similar […] The post 25 Game Engines in 25 Minutes appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

MAY 24, 2024

A pair of lawsuits allege Meta, Activision, and rifle company Daniel Defense are partially responsible for the carnage in the Uvalde school shooting.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 21, 2024

PlayStation's London Studio has officially closed its doors today. The Sony subsidiary posted an official statement on social media , marking the end of its more than 20-year operations. "For over twenty years London Studio has been home to some exceptionally talented and wonderful people in the games industry," said the studio.

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Indie DB

MAY 25, 2024

Experience a first person rogue-like dungeon crawler with turn based actions.

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Game Development News

MAY 27, 2024

The 20th anniversary edition of Nordic Game Conference from May 21 till May 24 was a big success, with many brilliant speakers and attendees from all over the world. More than 2500 attendees visited the live event, either physically in Malmö, or online via the Nordic Game Discord.

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Cocos

MAY 27, 2024

Uncaught TypeError: contact.getWorldManifold is not a function this is cocos creator 3.8.2 I have no idea what the problem is Hope someone can help me *I found the problem onBeginContact(selfCollider, otherCollider, contact){ const wm = contact.getWorldManifold(); } onBeginContact should be like this.

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Game Developer

MAY 23, 2024

Despite its allegedly troubled development, Ubisoft's free-to-play shooter has become its fastest game launch to hit the 1 million player mark.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 23, 2024

Embracer has released its full-year financial results, showing a rise in overall sales despite a slow final quarter. The company reported net sales of SEK 42.2 billion ($3.9 billion) for the full fiscal year, a rise of 12% year-on-year. Sales for the three months ended March 31, 2024 came in at SEK 8.9 billion ($830.9 million), down 5% compared to the same period last year.

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Indie DB

MAY 24, 2024

Test your deception skills in this thrilling first-person multiplayer game.

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Games 93

Game From Scratch

MAY 25, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Visual Studio 17.10 Released This week at their BUILD developer conference Microsoft have released Visual Studio 17.10. Highlights of the 17.10 release include: Key Links Visual Studio 17.10 Release Notes Visual Studio Homepage You can learn more about the Visual Studio 17.10 release in the video below. The post Visual Studio 17.10 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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