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

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.

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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. Initially, I wanted to build games, but invested my eggs in web development first because I thought I was being pragmatic.

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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.

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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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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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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

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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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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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.) Getting a spokesman or celebrity to help sell your game costs money. Marketing AAA games is expensive. No they don’t.

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Moonmana

JULY 25, 2022

What are the fresh trends in the gaming industry? The last few years have been motivating the game development field quite actively. Game developers, designers, and artists had to be quite inventive and creative to move it forward. Video games development incorporates PC games and consoles.

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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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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 7, 2024

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. Merry and Kom have over thirty years of experience in AAA, mobile, and indie game development.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 9, 2024

ProbablyMonsters has had a long and eventful life for a company that has yet to ship a game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Getting your game noticed isn't easy, and it's particularly tough for indie game developers right now. But even then, indie games have a much harder time cutting through the noise.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As an AAA VR game developer, we are just not able to justify the expense needed going forward," the studio said. "[We] 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

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Nvidia

JULY 1, 2021

The Game Developer Conference (GDC) is here, and NVIDIA will be showcasing how our latest technologies are driving the future of game development and. The Game Developer Conference (GDC) is here, and NVIDIA will be showcasing how our latest technologies are driving the future of game development and graphics.

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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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Starloop Studios

JANUARY 12, 2023

Visual effects in modern gaming can be a transformative process that brings a title’s presentation and immersion to the next level. It has become an integral part of game development, from small-scale indie gems to AAA blockbusters.

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Starloop Studios

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The full-cycle game development process is an intersection of many disciplines, including artistic, technical, narrative, design skills, and much more. The bulk of these key aspects can be categorized into one of the three C’s of the game development process - code, creativity, and completion.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 11, 2023

Based in Madrid and Manila, Secret 6 is outsourcing firm that provides 3D and 2D art, QA services, and full game development support. 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. Read more.

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Nvidia

MARCH 25, 2021

Check out our top sessions below for those working in the gaming industry: Ray Tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 Learn how ray tracing was used to create the visuals in the game, and how the developers at CD Projekt RED used extensive ray tracing techniques to bring the bustling Night City to life.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists [link] Finding ways to improve. Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists Finding ways to improve performance and visual fidelity in your games and applications is challenging.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 27, 2023

His experience in those fields really helped him in his game development career. Overall, I’d say that coming from the film industry definitely helped the script-writing process for games”, he says. The more you raise the bar, the more you risk disappointing somebody, especially if you don’t have AAA budgets.”

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Starloop Studios

MAY 25, 2023

For most players, hearing the words game engine will conjure up imagery of the likes of Unreal Engine 5, game developers speaking about how useful it is, and promotional material about its array of useful features.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2023

For other games, it can be longer - the dev team can spend up to a year in preproduction figuring out the core gameplay for most games, with more time needed for games with really massive scope (e.g.

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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

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

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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AWS Games

MAY 12, 2023

AWS GameTime is for gamers and budding game developers who want to go “behind-the-scenes” and learn how their favorite gaming experiences are made on AWS. The livestream is dedicated to showcasing game developers, playing their games and sharing their stories and expertise from the video game industry.

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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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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Having been the market leaders for years, these two are the main candidates for the title of the best game engine. The game development industry is booming, and it’s impossible not to notice how quickly it’s expanding.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2023

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. 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?

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Played with Fire

APRIL 14, 2022

The video game market is an endless treasure trove. As game fans, we can choose from both big AAA productions and less known (but not always) indie productions. If you look at the development of computer games, you’ll find that indie games have always existed, only now they have a much better channel of distribution.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I sat down with John Krajewski , the man behind the unique and forward-thinking game, Eco. The conversation shifted from the nuances of game development to the larger, looming concept of the “metaverse.” “The community’s voice is invaluable; it helps shape the game,” he remarked.

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