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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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

For the last five years, off and on, he worked on Critter Crossfire , a turn-based tactics and first person shooter hybrid. In AAA, the roles are typically very specialized and each individual doesn’t have much room to experiment outside of their responsibilities. This game represents me as a developer”, he says. “I

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 2, 2019

From match-3 puzzlers to immersive first person space operas, video gaming is an art form as varied and valuable as literature, film, and theatre. At Heroic Labs , we see games development in a similar way. The rich variety of tooling available to games developers has delivered an explosion of creativity over the past decade.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Anyway I didn't mind the incompleteness so much because I was playing less for fun, and more "for work", as a first person game developer. They obviously couldn't make the big sprawling maps key to their studio identity, since those would required long multiplayer sessions with no real savegame support.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

An essential data platform for all mobile gaming studios. This strategy is supported by the structure of a 4X studio where the live service team is often separated from the core tech and the publishing team. A true masterpiece of an ad rivaling launch trailers from AAA games. Access all previous predictions here.

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Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

AAA game franchises are in the middle of a renaissance on mobile. At that time, Shenzhen-based Jade Studios created a massively multiplayer PC racing title for the Chinese market called QQ Speed. The studio then switched to developing content for mobile and created a pair of exclusive titles for China’s WeChat social platform in 2013.

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