GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Artisan Studios is setting up a development studio in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 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.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 2, 2023

There's an exciting new AAA game studio that's growing rapidly in Leamington Spa and already picking up awards. Lighthouse Games is a new development team set-up by Gavin Raeburn, the co-founder and former studio head of Forza Horizon developer Playground Games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 7, 2024

It’s no secret that game development has seen a massive expansion in scope in recent years. What would have once taken a development team three or four years to make now requires much more people, and four to six years to ship. Read more

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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. This studio will focus on fantasy combat sports.

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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. Running the studio itself is COO Harinder Sangha.

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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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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

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Los Angeles-based studio shared a statement on social media , citing a "lack of support for VR within the industry" as the main reason for closing its doors. "As As an AAA VR game developer, we are just not able to justify the expense needed going forward," the studio said. "[We]

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 5, 2024

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. And having 11 owned studios where we're not just a publisher of games but actually a developer of games, we think is a differentiative asset for us." Read more

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Starloop Studios

AUGUST 17, 2023

AAA game development is a complex process that requires well-oiled teamwork from an experienced team. The AAA game development process is an intersection of art, technical skills, writing, and many more disciplines.

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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

MARCH 27, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox In August 2023, David Vonderhaar announced he was leaving Treyarch , the Activision studio behind the Call of Duty: Black Ops series, after 18 years working on the blockbuster shooter franchise.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 23, 2023

Former EA DICE leaders have reunited to form Time To Kill Games, a new AAA studio based in Stockholm, Sweden. The developer is led by Lars Gustavsson, who up until November last year, ran the Battlefield series as creative director at EA DICE. It’s working on a new shooter built using Unreal Engine.

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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. According to reports, the game cost more than a quarter-billion dollars to develop and market.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 9, 2024

Given the widespread contractions the industry has seen in the past year and ProbablyMonsters' own willingness to part ways with Firewalk, it's interesting to see the company seemingly return to growing its development footprint, but Ryan tells GamesIndustry.biz it's far from unexpected. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 5, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Lighthouse Games has secured an unspecified investment from leading tech firm Tencent, financing its goal to become one of the UK's biggest AAA studios. It is currently working on an unannounced IP. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. It is a AAA fantasy shooter created by a 100-person dev team, led by a former Call of Duty creative director and published by EA. 469 isn't necessarily a bad spot.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 3, 2024

Every major studio I've worked at generally has their own automated build system. These build systems are not shared between projects at the same publisher. This is because each game has its own file structure, asset list, and scripts that must be processed alongside building the code in order to result in a functioning game build.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Netease has debuted its newest Western development studio, Spliced. 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.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 14, 2023

People Can Fly, the developer behind Outriders, has established a studio in Montreal. The Montreal studio will develop a AAA project led by creative director Roland Lesterlin. As reported by VGC , the new office joins the company's locations throughout Poland, England, and the US. Read more

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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

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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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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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 15, 2024

Virtuos has acquired the Los Angeles-based VFX studio Beyond-FX for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2015, Beyond-FX is a co-development studio that provides VFX for AAA games, having worked on titles such as Mortal Kombat 1, Valorant, and God of War.

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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.

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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. And it's a big studio with multiple teams. 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.

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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. Why did you become a solo developer? How do you stay motivated through (years of) development?

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AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

A mage, a hacker, and a barbarian walk into a bar… What sounds like the start of a joke is the ultimate vision for cyberpunk, blockchain collectible card game “Metropolis Origins”, created by game industry veterans at QXR Studios. Devine said, “Unreal is built around RESTful API so we can easily plug into the AWS API and make Lambda calls.

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Game Development News

APRIL 21, 2023

PlayStation Studios has acquired AAA multiplayer game developer Firewalk Studios

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 15, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Independent AAA studio Deviation Games has reportedly been hit by layoffs. VGC spotted several members of the team announcing via social media that they had been dismissed from the studio. 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

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Over the past twenty years, the scope, budget and audience expectations of games have inflated, and smaller studios are left seemingly locked in a cycle of diminishing returns on increasingly ambitious productions. Savvy studios seeking more immediate return on their investments might seek other, more cost-effective approaches to game design.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 4, 2024

This week, Chris Dring and James Batchelor are joined by Remedy communications director Thomas Puha, who talks to us about the studio reclaiming the publishing rights of Control, the success of Alan Wake 2, and the challenges of AAA development in general. Read more

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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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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. ALT It’s worth repeating - the vast majority of AAA games with 5+ years of dev time aren’t usually being fully built from start to finish.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

NetEase has added yet another studio to its development roster with today's unveiling of Worlds Untold, a new studio led by former BioWare developer Mac Walters.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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

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