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Hooded Horse co-founder says publishers should ditch 'horrible' recoup clauses to help devs

Game Developer

"It's fundamentally stupid to have recoup terms where publishers protect all of their downside risks and recover all the money first.

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PlayStation names Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino as its new CEOs

GamesIndustry.biz

Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino will jointly succeed Jim Ryan as the CEOs of Sony Interactive Entertainment. Hulst is CEO of the newly named Studio Business Group, which includes all of PlayStation’s first-party teams, plus covers the development of PlayStation IP onto other mediums, such as TV and film. Hulst was already head of PlayStation Studios.

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Steam suddenly banned in Vietnam

Game Developer

Valve's platform has been inaccessible in Vietnam for a few days now, but it's anyone's guess as to why, or if it'll return.

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The closure of four studios casts a shadow on Microsoft’s commitment to innovative content

PreMortem.Games

Layoffs and studio shutdowns are barely newsworthy anymore, considering their frequency. It nevertheless came as a surprise when Microsoft emailed everyone about the planned shutdown of four Bethesda Studios last week: Arkane Austin (maker of Redfall), Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush, The Evil Within), Alpha Dog Games (Mighty Doom), and Roundhouse Studios.

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Accelerate Generative AI Inference Performance with NVIDIA TensorRT Model Optimizer, Now Publicly Available

Nvidia

In the fast-evolving landscape of generative AI, the demand for accelerated inference speed remains a pressing concern. With the exponential growth in model. In the fast-evolving landscape of generative AI, the demand for accelerated inference speed remains a pressing concern. With the exponential growth in model size and complexity, the need to swiftly produce results to serve numerous users simultaneously continues to grow.

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Lexip and Overload PR proudly sponsoring this year’s MCV/DEVELOP Awards

Game Development News

We have another award sponsor to announce ahead of this year’s MCV/DEVELOP Awards. Actually, make that two: top gaming accessories brand Lexip and equally lofty PR outfit Overload PR.

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Square Enix embarking on "aggressive multiplatform strategy" as profits drop 70%

GamesIndustry.biz

Square Enix has released its financials for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, with the results largely below what it had previously forecasted. As a result, the firm is set to implement a brand new strategy going forward, hoping to achieve "stable profit generation" in its digital entertainment segment by 2027. Square Enix's digital entertainment sales were ever so slightly up, mainly thanks to its HD Games sub-segment, the firm said.

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Brunelleschi is Back: Source Code

Indie DB

Like a phoenix from the ashes, Brunelleschi is coming back. We're resurrecting and rebuilding the source code for new features and better-than-ever performance.

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Epic Environments Mega Humble Bundle

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Epic Environments Mega Humble Bundle The Epic Environments Mega Bundle is now live on Humble Bundle. This bundle contains mostly 3D environment assets from FreshCan3D but also contains a few 3D characters from Yarrawah. The environments are a mix of Unreal Engine and Unity assets, however using the links below you can easily export them […] The post Epic Environments Mega Humble Bundle appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Voting for the MCV/DEVELOP Awards ends Monday – last chance to decide the winners!

Game Development News

The headline pretty much says it all; that if for some bizarre reason you’ve been holding back on voting in this year’s MCV/DEVELOP Awards, time is running out.

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Exploiting Fear to Create Good Horror Games

Game Developer

Developers Jade Jacson, Steve Kirby and Kelvin Moore dive into horror as a genre, why we like to be scared and how game developers can exploit our deepest fears to create a wide range of scares.

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Fallout 4 rules the roost in April | UK Monthly Charts

GamesIndustry.biz

Fallout 4 was comfortably the best-selling game of April in the UK, according to the latest GSD data. It was a quiet month for game releases last month. In the UK, 2.23 million games were sold, which is a drop of over 7% over the year before. However, it's worth noting that April 2023 featured the launches of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Dead Island 2, which boosted the market last year.

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The Minesweeper

Indie DB

One private; no guns; just your wits and trusty mine detector. Your mission is to clear a path through the minefields in the Great Desert. In most levels, you will have to find a mine detector to clear the mines, or carefully navigate through the field.

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about the Hades 2 shadowdrop. I’ve seen a lot of people talking about how that impacts indies launching in the same window and how that invalidates months/years of preparation on their part. isn’t there anything an indie impacted by something like this could do? isn’t possible to just delay the launch a few weeks/months?

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Of course a studio can delay the launch, but a launch delay will have its own set of consequences. Remember, no game launches in a vacuum. Timing is the key factor. The most obvious consequence goes back to the adage "Time is money". The developers working on the game need to pay rent and buy food. The studio needs to pay those developers during that time to keep them employed.

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Indie Postmortem 2: Geneforge 2 - Infestation. Avoiding Utter Disaster.

The Bottom Feeder

I really hate making screenshots, but sometimes I capture something that looks pretty cool. This is the second part of the design/marketing/release process for our newest indie RPG, Geneforge 2 - Infestation. The first part is here. TL;DR: We’ve been making indie games for a living for 30 years. Here’s how we manage it. Phase 16-18 - Actually Doing PR For Real.

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EA boss thinks ads in triple-A games would be 'meaningful' growth driver

Game Developer

Wilson wants EA to be 'thoughtful' with how it puts ads in its games, but can that be done when ads are already interruptive?

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Microsoft's mystifying mismanagement | This Week in Business

GamesIndustry.biz

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. The big news this week was Microsoft taking an axe to the ZeniMax studio system , shutting down Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks, Redfall studio Arkane Austin, and Mighty Doom maker Alpha Dog Studios.

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Unity CREATE Head Marc Whitten Resigning

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Unity CREATE Head Marc Whitten Resigning The last major player in the entire Unity run-time fee fiasco, Marc Whitten, head of Unity CREATE (the division responsible for the Unity game engine) has announced his resignation. Marc was famously the person who stepped forward to apologize for the entire fiasco and may or may not have been […] The post Unity CREATE Head Marc Whitten Resigning appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Lost Paws v0.7.2 is now out!

Indie DB

The next big update for Lost Paws is now out! This update is focused on many quality-of-life changes, a graphics and environment upgrade, and most importantly a complete overhaul to the UI.

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Omeda Studios swaps out ‘Predecessor’ backend in less than five months using Amazon GameLift and Pragma

AWS Games

It’s hard to overstate the dedication of Omeda Studios developers working on the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game “Predecessor.” Its core team has developed the game since 2018, even though the studio was officially formed in 2020. Made by fans, for fans, “Predecessor” was born out of the ashes of “Paragon,” a MOBA game developed by Epic Games from 2016-2018.

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It looks like WB is returning Adult Swim-published games back to devs

Game Developer

Most of the games at risk of being lost forever are now back on Steam (at the very least) and back in their original creators' hands.

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Devolver co-founder says large-scale game dev "crushing under its own weight a little bit"

GamesIndustry.biz

It's been a difficult stretch for the industry, so when we speak with Devolver Digital co-founder Nigel Lowrie at the Game Developers Conference, our first question is fairly open-ended: What is happening? Lowrie mentions the well-established impact of the industry's pandemic boost receding, but believes there have been compounding factors impacting different aspects of the industry as well.

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Visual Studio Code TODO Management

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Visual Studio Code TODO Management We recently did a video about making Godot more organized featuring a plugin that handled TODO and FIXME comments automatically. I was asked “What about if I work in Visual Studio Code?” which is probably the most popular code editor today. Therefore we today are going to be looking at […] The post Visual Studio Code TODO Management appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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This Thing Of Ours out soon

Indie DB

After years of hard work, we're happy to announce that This Thing Of Ours is officially coming out on May 11th 2024!

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PR Panel 2024: Stefano Petrullo, Renaissance

Game Development News

In the Feb/Mar issue of MCV/DEVELOP we featured our annual PR Panel, bringing together the good, the bad (in a good way) and the beautiful people of games PR to give us their take on what’s been going on in our beloved industry over recent months.

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Why does EA think in-game ads are better business than a Mandalorian game?

Game Developer

Chasing in-game advertising while canning games like Respawn Entertainment's Star Wars first-person shooter seems downright bananas.

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Why Sweden's games industry is still growing

GamesIndustry.biz

Despite the many difficulties the games industry faces around the world, Swedish developers are feeling somewhat optimistic as the local development scene continues to experience rapid growth. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz , Dataspelsbranschen spokesperson Per Strömbäck says the general state of the Swedish games industry is "good", with the number of people working in the industry having grown from 2,500 to 8,500 people in the last decade.

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e-on VUE, PlantFactory and PlantCatalog Now FREE

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com e-on VUE, PlantFactory and PlantCatalog Now FREE The e-on software developed VUE, PlantFactory and PlantCatalog CG applications have just been made completely free. VUE is an application for creating virtual worlds and landscapes similar to Gaea or Terragen, while PlantFactory is more akin to SpeedTree. Owner Bentley Systems have decided to cease development on these applications and […] The post e-on VUE, PlantFactory and PlantCatalog Now FREE appeared first on GameFro

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Drag[en]gine 1.22 Released

Indie DB

New game engine release combined with upgraded Visual Studio Code DragonScript extension.

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Why has every with some kind of “designated climbable ledge” mechanic seemingly settled on marking such ledges with yellow?

Ask a Game Dev

When we create a visual style for a game, we must establish a visual language. This means visual indicators that the player can recognize and understand. Here is an example of visual language that you might recognize: Each of these blocks provides gameplay context to the player upon seeing them. They each have different behaviors and the player can determine what each of them means by their visual cues.

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Report: Xbox bracing for more cuts after studio-hoarder Microsoft claims it's spread too thin

Game Developer

Microsoft has spent billions on studio acquisitions but appears to be crumbling under its own weight.

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Nintendo: No Switch 2 before April 2025

GamesIndustry.biz

Nintendo has suggested that the successor to the Switch will not arrive before March 31, 2025, indicating an April release at the very earliest. In the Q&A transcript of this week's earnings call — translated by GamesIndustry.biz — Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa told investors: "The sales forecasts for this period do not include sales of the Nintendo Switch successor device.

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Make Godot Engine More Organized with TODO Manager

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Make Godot Engine More Organized with TODO Manager A follow up on our earlier discussion on how to improve the Godot game engine (by making it prettier), today we look at another handy plugin that makes Godot more organized. If you are used to littering your code with TODO or FIXME type comments, this handy add-on helps you […] The post Make Godot Engine More Organized with TODO Manager appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Pale Coins - April Update

Indie DB

The new demo version 1.3.0 was released, a discord server for Pale Coins is now available and several other things have been added.

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