GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 10, 2023

Some of the leaders behind the Forza Horizon series have formed a new AAA games studio in Leamington Spa called Maverick Games. The team is led by studio head and creative director Mike Brown, who was previously the creative director on the Forza Horizon franchise.

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GameDev.Net

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I'm trying to get ballpark figures on a) how much time and b) how many designers are used when producing additional single player or multiplayer maps for 3D games that fall in the AAA category ("higher development and marketing budgets than other tiers of games", definition taken from ([link] Sorry if this is a very wide question, but I would like (..)

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Game Development News

MARCH 28, 2023

Playground Games’ founder and former studio head Gavin Raeburn has announced that he has set up a new game development studio

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Unity Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Learn how Monster Closet Games maximizes efficiency with engine-agnostic DevOps solutions and automations, including Unity Version Control and Backtrace.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2023

AAA dev really tries not to spend that much time in preproduction because the plan should already mostly be in place by the time we begin - we know what kind of game we’re making and we have a solid idea for what kind of gameplay we’re trying to build out.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 21, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox CCP Games has raised $40 million in its latest financing round, and will be dedicating these funds to the development of a new blockchain-based title.

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GameDev.Net

JANUARY 19, 2023

Nowadays, gaming is all about AAA online shooters and mmorpgs, and we’re left with Super Mario and Sonic The Hedgehog. Games involving exploring big lush-organic environments, collecting coins and power stars, using the classical double-jumping and enemy-whacking. The gameplay of YinYang Night of the Devlings

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Starloop Studios

JANUARY 12, 2023

It has become an integral part of game development, from small-scale indie gems to AAA blockbusters. Visual effects in modern gaming can be a transformative process that brings a title’s presentation and immersion to the next level. Though VFX can be viewed as a broad term in gaming and entertainment, it has particular effects on [.].

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2023

Back when AAA games could be developed by a fairly small ( [ Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered? In addition to the rise of mobile, the relationship between a movie tie-in console game’s development cycle and the movie itself was already fraying in the mid to late 2000s.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 26, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Creating Terrain in Godot Tutorial We recently discussed using the Godot Game Engine for AAA games, specifically areas it needs to improve and one of the most obvious is in terrain support. Out of the box the Godot game engine has no support for creating terrain.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 6, 2023

This data is for all physical games, plus AAA titles from most major publishers (courtesy of GSD). At a glance The UK games market posted strong sales in February due to the performance of two products: Hogwarts Legacy and PlayStation 5. million console and PC games were sold across the UK during February, up 11% over the year before.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 11, 2023

It has worked on a wider range of titles, from AAA blockbusters like The Last of Us: Part 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 to mobile hits such as Episode and Monster Train. Based in Madrid and Manila, Secret 6 is outsourcing firm that provides 3D and 2D art, QA services, and full game development support. Read more.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s a AAA game built by an enormous team that was generally positively reviewed, but clearly had its flaws. That puts Halo into the same bucket as most major AAA games - Call of Duty, FIFA, Assassin’s Creed, and so on. It’s certainly a morale hit when that happens, but no can hit 100% with every shot forever.

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Game Writing Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Does Visceral's closure prove AAA single-player games are dying? : A worth-your-time conversation relating to the closing of Visceral Games.

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Starloop Studios

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In our experience working on everything from AAA titles to smaller-scale projects, a common thread are the stages of game development. The game development pipeline is a lengthy process. Though we’ve seen on some productions that there can be extra layers of complexity to it, the stages of game development remain the same [.].

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 17, 2023

Astrid is described as a AAA open-world survival game, and it is currently in pre-production. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 23, 2023

The Lego Group and 2K Games have today announced their long-rumoured multi-title partnership – and both firms tells GamesIndustry.biz that debut title Lego 2K Drive not only represents what to expect from this deal, but also the true potential for Lego in the realm of video games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 30, 2023

The fact that a small game from a small team took Game of the Year titles everywhere, not just AAA titles," he says. "It Yet, after all this time, it is still Thatgamecompany's seminal 2012 release that he feels had the most impact on his career and remains his favourite among all the games he has worked on.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This is based on GSD market data, which tracks all physical game sales across major European countries, plus digital game sales from most major AAA publisher. million games were sold across Europe last month, a drop of 19% over the same period the year before. Full details at the bottom of the article. There was no comparable game in 2023.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 3, 2023

Microsoft is now the second AAA gaming publisher to see unionization in its workforce, as Zenimax Workers United and the Communications Workers of America today announced that a supermajority of roughly 300 QA developers across Zenimax's US operations came out in favor of unionization.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The studio is working on "a world class online gameplay experience" using an original IP, and current job listings call for people with experience working on AAA games and large-scale teams of at least 100 people. Netease has debuted its newest Western development studio, Spliced.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 12, 2023

It tracks all physical sales in major European countries (see list below), and digital sales from most major AAA publishers (the main exception is Nintendo, which doesn't share digital data) in every territory across Europe. This is according to the latest GSD data, which tracks physical and digital game sales across Europe. Read more.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Krafton's 2023 marked the beginning of a major push beyond PUBG for the publisher, with the company pushing into new genres and platforms, most notably with the arrival of its AAA console and PC horror title The Callisto Protocol. Read more

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

So… for a moment, let’s put aside the fact that the purpose of a publicly traded company like most AAA game publishers (Nintendo, Ubisoft, Take Two, EA, Activision, Sony, Microsoft, etc.) is to earn money for its shareholders.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 28, 2023

My current employer is well-known in the AAA franchise space so we tend to get a lot more applications than the studios I’ve worked for with less notoriety. The type of role also varies a lot - QA and design applicants are legion, while rarities like engine programmer or technical artist are often unicorns.

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Played with Fire

APRIL 14, 2022

As game fans, we can choose from both big AAA productions and less known (but not always) indie productions. Although they are often devoid of loud releases from the AAA sector, they still gain unflagging popularity. Many players are already bored with the secondary nature of AAA games and the lack of innovative ideas.

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Concept Art World

JANUARY 13, 2021

He has worked on games titles such as Ghost Of Tsushima , EVE Online , Dust 514 , World of Darkness and various other AAA games. Mitchell Mohrhauser is a concept designer and illustrator working in the game industry. He is currently working as a Senior Concept Artist at Sucker Punch Productions and freelancing as an illustrator.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 24, 2023

Its star Frey Holland, portrayed by Ella Balinska, a Black woman, is the lead actress of a AAA JRPG. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The Luminous Productions-developed Forspoken is not only a new IP and but a rarity.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To make a AAA Call of Duty for Switch (which I assume is the suggestion) will take years. It's a great PR move, and one that has the added benefit of highlighting Nintendo Switch as a legitimate platform for mature-rated games (note: The Brazil regulator approved the deal, citing Nintendo Switch as a successful console without Call of Duty.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 6, 2023

I was working at a AAA studio that was building a smaller-scope lower-budget title when the publisher had an executive leadership shuffle. The former VP in charge of our division was replaced and the overall mandate was changed to focus on projects with larger scope.

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Moonmana

JULY 25, 2022

AAA video game development trends. AAA games 2022 are considered to be the most eye-catching, comprehensive and top-notch video games played on PC and consoles, as Games radar says. Forbes also argues that some of AAAs are integrating NFTs therein. This enormously fuels the industry of video game development.

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

the customer service workers), AAA dev teams usually have tools engineers build custom game-database tools to enable support team members to do their jobs. As always, whenever somebody has full access to run queries on the database, they also have the power to do a lot of damage. ALT For those who are less technically-inclined (i.e.

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OPM Jobs

MARCH 31, 2023

We all remember the times where the focus of most AAA game studios seemed to be to fulfil the fantasies of cis men. Slowly companies started to realise they were ignoring a huge potential audience. And that audience began realising that they deserve that representation. Most of industry knows this and are ready to change.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 10, 2023

It has an amazing open world that you can zip around using magic and is one of the biggest AAA titles to feature the Isekai or transported to another world plot device that has infected Anime and Light Novels the past eight years or so. It’s a game that I’m really, really looking forward to.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2022

More than anything else, a AAA game should be a self-contained experience that is both playable and enjoyable for a first-time player. And if so, what needs to be sacrificed for that acknowledgement? Remember - the critical path and narrative of the game must take precedence over side content. Anything else is icing.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

AAA Game Art Studio. AAA Game Art Studio is willing to take on all difficulties as long as they are connected to outsourcing game art. Specialties: – Low Polygon Modeling, High Polygon Modeling, Textures: photo source or hand-painted, Digital Sculpting, Target Rendering, Rigging and Animation, and Concepts.

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Topics discussed in this episode : 0265: Art Boost | Sculpting AAA Realistic Characters with Lisa Loseva. As always, I was blessed to talk to leaders of their discipline and navigated through their unique stories of how they were able to grow their branding. As you can see, they know their stuff!

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