GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 16, 2023

The veterans who left Need for Speed developer Criterion in December last year have reunited to form a new AAA studio: Fuse Games. The team is in the process of finding an office in Guildford, and will adopt a hybrid working approach. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 9, 2024

New AAA game developer Deviation Games is closing, the studio announced. It was formed in 2020 by Jason Blundell and Dave Anthony, two development veterans best known for the Call of Duty: Black Ops franchise. But the project hit challenges. But the project hit challenges.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 18, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox At a glance Joseph Staten, a long-serving Halo developer, has joined Netflix to head up a new AAA project. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

NetEase Games has opened another new studio in the West in the form of BulletFarm, and has hired Call of Duty veteran David Vonderhaar to lead the team. BulletFarm is headquartered in Los Angeles but positioned as a remote-first studio, and is already working on a AAA game built in Unreal Engine 5.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Game creators today, release a large number of video games based on the taste and budget of their customers. Some of these games are not as famous as their creators and publishers would like, while others are increasing in fame and sales. Now, when you think about high-end games, you think about AAA.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 5, 2024

The gaming business of Warner Bros. Discovery has been historically focused on AAA console games, but the company's CEO and president of global streaming and games JB Perrette wants to change that. Read more

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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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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 12, 2024

I've seen plenty of programmers who had experience working at smaller or mobile studios move to AAA games and many go in reverse. When we hire engineers for game dev, be it AAA or indie, we look for candidates who can work with a team and have a knack for solving problems with performant, legible, and elegant code.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A team of game developers who have worked on various AAA titles such as Mass Effect, The Witcher, and Doom Eternal have unveiled Fun Dog Studios. The studio is a minority-led and completely employee-owned game developer. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 17, 2023

Fresh out of school Kaighen Finley started his own web & game development company Team iNtuition. Just to be on the safe side he mainly focused on web development, but his heart was not in it. It took him 4 years to create his game and in that time he learned some valuable lessons. “If Test its feasibility.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Chaosmonger Studios , based in Tallinn, Estonia, is a multimedia production company specializing in everything from documentaries, science fiction films and animations to music video, graphic design and video games. His latest game Three Minutes to Eight is a real tour de force, both in storytelling and visual flair.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 31, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Video games don't have many Samoan characters that come to mind. He is not only another character from a little-known background, but he's also one of the few Oceania characters in AAA title. Read more

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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. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

PUBG developer and publisher Krafton has opened its first Canadian studio, GamesIndustry.biz can reveal, with the unveiling of Krafton Montreal. 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.

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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

APRIL 12, 2024

The move to $70 price points for AAA games has made consumers very conscious of how many self-styled AAA games are actually just AA-tier games tottering around in heavy make-up and their older sister's high heels. Read more

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AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, a seismic shift that was certainly felt at the 2024 Game Developer Conference (GDC) held last week in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center. Check it out , and follow the recap below for a full rundown of AWS for Games activities at GDC 2024.

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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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Starloop Studios

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The game development pipeline is a lengthy process. In our experience working on everything from AAA titles to smaller-scale projects, a common thread are the stages of game development.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 7, 2024

Industry veterans Tina Merry and Carina Kom have formed a new studio, Simply Sweet Games. Headquartered in British Columbia, Canada, Simply Sweet Games is a fully remote studio that is currently developing its inaugural mobile title – the roguelike word puzzle Criss Cross Castles. Read more

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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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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 18, 2024

Rocksteady co-founders Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker have created a new London-based studio, called Hundred Star Games. As reported by Polygon , which found the company's Great Place to Work profile , the studio is set to make AAA titles, employing 100 developers. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A new union survey raised further concerns about crunch culture in game development, with more than half experiencing crunch in the past two years. 57% of those surveyed said they most recently worked on an AAA game. 57% of those surveyed said they most recently worked on an AAA game. Read more

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Tiny Hydra

JUNE 17, 2021

At first, games were just games. Good games, bad games; big games, little games. 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.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2023

It really depends on the game. For a game within a franchise that has a strong release schedule like FIFA, preproduction can be as short as 4 months as the developers figure out what they have the time to do. Only a handful of game franchises are exceptions to this - Elder scrolls, GTA, whatever Riot or Valve are doing, etc.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It feels like alchemy when considering the most recent port of the game to a handheld device was the cloud version on Nintendo Switch.

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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.) In your “simple example”, we spent $60 million on development. At $60 per game, that’s just 1 million units that need to be sold, right?

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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

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. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In Europe, Immortals of Aveum was the 469th best-selling game of 2023. If you're a small developer making a game on a tight budget, 469th position could be perfectly profitable. Immortals of Aveum was not made by a small developer. And a month after the game was released, developer Ascendant Studio laid off 40 employees.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Newly established Barnyard Games has raised $3.4 The studio aims to develop AAA Epic Games on the Unreal Engine for Fortnite. million in a seed funding round. Read more

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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. He added that few people who play indie games would define themselves as indie gamers. For consumers, we actually need to separate it less and less.

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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

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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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2024

This post was from Nine Bows, a developer of Cocos Creator in the Chinese forums. From now on, web games can also be made with graphics as good as AAA-level games! Cocos Creator 3.8…is The global glow is beautiful! First, look at my test to do the effect of the picture: 1.

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2024

This post was from Nine Bows, a developer of Cocos Creator in the Chinese forums. From now on, web games can also be made with graphics as good as AAA-level games! Cocos Creator 3.8…is The global glow is beautiful! First, look at my test to do the effect of the picture: 1.

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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. Of course, Insomniac's games aren't exactly 100-hour epic RPGs. It's a question I've encountered a few times in recent years. And it's a big studio with multiple teams.

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