Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Eiji Aonuma recently revealed that Nintendo currently has no plans to release additional content for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. This decision marks a notable departure for both a blockbuster game and a major first-party Nintendo release.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 20, 2023

PlayStation has agreed to acquire Firewalk Studios, the AAA multiplayer developer that is working on a live service game for PS5 and PC. Firewalk was set-up in 2018 as part of ProbablyMonsters (a collective of AAA game developers).

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Currently employing 12 staff, the team hopes to grow to 150 people within the next three years, adding another AAA studio to the already competitive Montreal development scene. Read more

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Starloop Studios

AUGUST 29, 2023

With AAA console game developers focusing on ensuring their games are more immersive than ever, intersecting gameplay and narrative has never been more crucial. Though the vast majority of games have a story, very few of them allow for meaningful gameplay and story integration.

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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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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 17, 2023

Prytania Media has announced the opening of two new AAA development studios: Fang & Claw and Dawon Entertainment. The latest additions to Prytania Media will join sister studios Possibility Space and Crop Circle Games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 27, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A new AAA development studio has opened doors in the UK hub of Leamington Spa, helmed by the former studio head and co-founder of Forza Horizon creator Playground Games.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

With the rise of the gaming industry, two distinct categories of games have emerged: AAA games and mobile games. As a result, mobile gaming is pushed aside in favor of AAA titles, which have their own position in the market. Now, when you think about high-end games, you think about AAA. Can Mobile Games Be AAA?

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

For example, I think fighting games that aren't Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat have little chance of AAA success nowadays. Basically, AAA budgets can't exist if enough people aren't actively interested in the type of game and willing to keep playing it for a long time. UFC/MMA, PGA golf, WWE wrestling, skateboarding, etc.).

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

AAA games like Assassin's Creed Mirage and the remake of Resident Evil 4 will soon be available to play on iPhone 15 Pro. Announced during Apple's Wonderlust Event , a new A17 Pro chip has enabled support for games previously only available on console and PC.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). Is solving these problems enough for Godot to become a top AA / AAA game engine? Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0,

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 11, 2023

Chris Charla, strategic director of Microsoft's indie programme ID@Xbox, says the need to separate indie titles from AAA is diminishing in many regards.

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Game Developer

MAY 31, 2023

Epic Games, the publisher behind Alan Wake 2, a premium single-player game on consoles and PC, is defying consumer expectation by releasing the game as an exclusively digital release.

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Game Wisdom

MARCH 27, 2023

Diablo 4’s Beta Shows the Horror of Modern AAA Design Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com It’s been a rough couple of years for Blizzard Entertainment, going from one of the premier studios in the world to one mired in controversy, scandals, lawsuits, and destroying years’ worth of goodwill with their fans.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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.) Marketing AAA games is expensive. You’re totally into this new AAA game, so you pick up a brand new copy for $60 at your favorite local game store.

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Tiny Hydra

JUNE 17, 2021

Then came the rise of the AAA game. Suddenly a game either was or was not AAA. The post Game Classification: Defining AAA, AA, and III Games appeared first on Tiny Hydra. Inevitably, other classifications followed. In this article, we try to dig into what those are and what they mean.

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Tiny Hydra

JULY 8, 2021

AAA games make up the minority of games released each year, but receive the vast majority of news coverage, consumer hype, and cultural mindshare. Because of that, you’d assume that anyone would be able to definitively say which games are and are not AAA, right? Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Weirdly enough, I was playing Fable 2 on Tuesday night, using my phone and Xbox Cloud Gaming. I've barely used the service since it went into beta – in fact, I don't regularly play any games on my phone – but I thought I'd give it a go and see how well it ran.

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Game Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

” The post How live subscription games squeeze traditional AAA releases appeared first on GameDaily.biz | We Make Games Our Business. It comes from new releases, existing live service games, new season and DLC releases and new additions to subscription services.”

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 10, 2023

The AAA developer is based in Seattle, and it's creating an original third-person single player game based on Marvel's Black Panther franchise. EA announced in 2021 it was forming a new AAA studio in Seattle, led by Kevin Stephens who is the former VP and studio head of Monolith Productions.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Since 2017, the company has acquired almost 90 businesses, ranging from smaller developers like Zen Studios, to AAA studios such as Gearbox and Crystal Dynamics, to non-games firms like tabletop leader Asmodee, comics publisher Dark Horse Media, and even Lord of the Rings owner Middle-Earth Enterprises.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Leaked Microsoft documents have revealed the estimated costs of putting third-party games on Xbox Game Pass.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Mirage is one of the few AAA video games to feature Arabic audio and text.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While tools have improved dramatically, allowing smaller teams to produce more graphically and mechanically complex games than ever before, producing equivalent experiences to AAA mega-studios is still prohibitively expensive.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The developer will expand into publishing its titles, in addition to developing what it says will be "the first AAA titles in the GCC region." The Canadian-based company plans to employ over 200 developers in its new offices, collaborating with local artists across the MENA region to develop new IPs. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

million video games from AAA publishers were sold across Europe last month, GSD data reports. That's a rise of nearly 29% over August last year. It's an impressive result, especially as the big game of August - Baldur's Gate 3 - is not counted in this data as publisher Larian is not part of the GSD panel. Instead, FIFA 23 is No.1.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox When you play Resident Evil Village on an iPad Pro, it's flabbergasting to believe that this is Capcom's latest mainline entry running natively on a mobile device, looking every bit as good as its home console counterparts.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox As a AAA single-player Souls-like, Lies of P is a leap into uncharted territory for both its publisher, Neowiz, and developer, Round8 Studio.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It refers to the fact the PlayStation studio will have released three major PS5 games in three years, while other AAA developers have yet to manage one. It's a question I've encountered a few times in recent years. Of course, Insomniac's games aren't exactly 100-hour epic RPGs. And it's a big studio with multiple teams.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

While the studio is headquartered in Vancouver, Worlds Untold is billed as a fully remote studio, and it will work on "AAA action-adventure games with an emphasis on narrative and worldbuilding."

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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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Starloop Studios

MAY 4, 2023

With every new console generation comes the anticipation of next-gen games and the experiences they can bring to players. The arrival of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S was met with similar excitement and curiosity as to what the new console generation would bring. At Magic Media, we are well-versed in [.]

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The market is so saturated, that every little defect becomes an ‘elephant in the room’ for players that often compare a low-budget indie title to AAA games. The more you raise the bar, the more you risk disappointing somebody, especially if you don’t have AAA budgets.”

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 5, 2023

However, managing influencer campaigns manually can be a daunting task, especially for AAA publishers who aim to reach millions of potential players at the same time. Jorge Tavera is the Global Influencer Strategy manager at Deep Silver, the AAA publisher within the media company Plaion (formerly Koch Media).

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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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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 19, 2023

Forspoken is one of the few AAA video games within the past five years to have a Black female protagonist. If there continues to be slow growth in the development of Black-led characters, the AAA sector of the games industry will continue the fragmentation of its Black consumers.

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