Game Developer

MAY 4, 2023

What do they know about video games?" Please allow us a moment to explain – we've teamed up with friends in the games industry to help with this incredibly important mission This is a sponsored article by Dove. We know what you’re thinking: "The brand known for its iconic beauty bar?

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 13, 2024

When GamesIndustry.biz reports on Circana, it's usually the tracking firm's reports on US consumer spending in the past month. But when we speak with Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, our first question is about what he sees happening in the months to come. Right now my most optimistic outlook is down about 2%," Piscatella says. "If

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At the time, this setup wasn't possible for us as an agency, but it lit the initial spark for us to think about publishing. So this is a natural next step for the company; launching as a publisher that can offer exactly this is something we're so excited about." Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

We're in a very unusual place for hardware right now – still feeling the ripples and knock-on effects of the market distortions seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, even though direct effects like supply chain disruption are now behind us. Read more

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Join us in person or virtually to learn about the latest technologies, from retrieval-augmented. Join us in person or virtually to learn about the latest technologies, from retrieval-augmented generation to OpenUSD. Advances in AI are rapidly transforming every industry.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 26, 2024

Perhaps the most surprising thing about this is how unsurprising it has become – how little time it took for us all to become blasé about video games properties being adapted into high-quality, well-received TV shows and movies.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 22, 2024

And simulators are perfect for that with high replayability with relatively short game durations, allowing us to focus more on the details that enrich the gaming experience. Then we started thinking about how to reach a larger audience, and that’s when we came up with the idea of adding animals. Everyone loves animals, right?

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Game Developer

JANUARY 24, 2023

Developers tell us how they feel about unionization in the games industry.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 17, 2024

You say, 'We're about this one thing' and then the world moves on. Looking at Schell Games' recent output, it's pretty easy to spot a common thread. No, we never do that," he quickly says, "Because that's how you sink a studio. Then you sink, right?

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

You can read more about the project and check the other entries on this page. This interview is part of GamesIndustry.biz’s Black Voices Progress Report, offering insight into the different experiences Black professionals have in the games sector. Read more

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Game Developer

JUNE 15, 2023

Director Jay Bayliss talks with us about the challenges of making a game that can fuse any two creatures.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Join us in-person or virtually and learn about the power of RAG with insights and best practices from experts at NVIDIA, visionary CEOs, data scientists, and. Join us in-person or virtually and learn about the power of RAG with insights and best practices from experts at NVIDIA, visionary CEOs, data scientists, and others.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For us, Verne is just taking its first steps. We are a very, very small indie studio working with a publisher (Assemble Entertainment) that cares about its titles, but is also small. We’re not worried about recouping the investment in the first few months. If it takes a couple of years, that’s fine with us.”

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The winners of the 2023 US GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards have been revealed. The awards are all about making the games industry a better place to work, and the winners are ultimately decided by an in-depth survey of employees. Over 50 US companies signed up to take part, with 14 winners in total.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 2, 2024

In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz , Rato tells us more about the impressive trajectory of the industry in the country. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Arcade lightgun shooters give us a huge dose of nostalgia, taking us right back to the arcades of our youth where we would always make a beeline for those cabinets adorned with those chunky plastic guns. Time Crisis was always the first choice.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2024

There are certain things that studios and companies can ask us not to do but have a real hard time preventing, especially if the company is going through a death spiral process. However, if I don't disclose anything and just keep stuff private, the studio cares a lot less about whether I have those files.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

You can read more about the project and check the other entries on this page. However, an anonymous QA tester tells us what it's like being Black in a role that frequently does not command proper respect, regardless of who's filling it.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Through various interviews in recent years, he's spoken about the challenges of living in the UK and working in the US. Jim Ryan's retirement from PlayStation was not entirely unexpected. He's also coming up to five years in the role of CEO, which is around the point Sony likes to start moving its leadership on.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has responded to the leaks that saw a swathe of information about Microsoft's future games plans, which were intended for a US court, made available to the public. It is hard to see our team's work shared in this way because so much has changed and there's so much to be excited about right now, and in the future.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It's fun to argue about the awards. It's fun to complain about the broadcasts. It's fun to argue about the rules for the shows. It's fun to argue about if the shows should even exist. Not long ago, I wrote an article about how terrible one of the game industry's award shows, The Game Awards is. Why Have Awards?

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 26, 2024

It was another brutal week in the industry right from the start, with Riot Games laying off about 530 people on Monday while reciting a lot of the familiar lines we've been hearing for the past year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 1, 2024

"This is not an issue with the stores themselves, however a reaction to an overnight change to Balatro's age rating from 3+ to 18+ by a ratings board without any advance warning, due to the mistaken belief the game 'contains prominent gambling imagery and material that instructs about gambling,'" Playstack said in a social media post.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 8, 2024

He worked on some of the most well known entertainment IP during his time in the US. Later, at Pixar, he worked on animated classics like Toy Story 3 and Brave that went on to win three Oscars. . “We started referencing the India around us rather than the image of it in collective media and that re-training was quite a challenge.”

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

If you want to know more about the art, craft and science of game development, subscribe here. A pattern most of us learn in school holds us back from writing clearly. The trick of BLUF is to be aware of your writing, and to be intentional about what style of writing you pick.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 22, 2024

Details and accompanying videos from the recent interview that Valentin the Mad from Random Madness had with us about Obscurity: Unknown Threat and its development.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 6, 2024

The news was initially reported by journalist Jack Ryan on social media , with founder Bill McIntosh then telling GamesIndustry.biz that the company "is not winding up yet" and that a decision will be made about whether or not it'll shut down definitely later this year depending on 2024 "plays out." "All

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 18, 2023

In the final episode of this series of the Playable Futures Podcast, Will Freeman chats to Mitu Khandaker, CEO and Co-Founder of mobile studio Glow Up Games, about the impact of AI on games and what they mean for the future of play. But what does it mean for video games - and is it quite as terrifying as some might have us believe?

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 5, 2024

As reported by GameSpot , Perrette shared a bit about his vision for the gaming business yesterday at the Morgan Stanley Technology Media and Telecom Conference , starting with a nod toward mixed reality headsets and the metaverse. "We Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 23, 2023

GamesIndustry.biz reached out to the ESA for clarification, and a spokesperson told us the trade body is "currently having conversations about E3 2024 (and beyond)." Read more

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 29, 2023

We let the creators talk about their own games. About what motivates them and inspires them. About their hopes and dreams as well as the technology used. Please join us on our own little walk down 2023 memory lane. But for now, let me take you back to some of the stories that PreMortem.Games brought you this year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft overtook Apple as the most profitable company at the end of last Friday's trading session in the US. billion.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The games industry moves pretty fast, and there's a tendency for all involved to look constantly to what's next without so much worrying about what came before. But sometimes it's because even people who know what they're doing are just wrong a whole lot, about a bunch of things. Read more

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

After celebrating Doctor Who last issue, how about a game that pays tribute to the full spectrum of bleak and cheerful 20th Century British sci-fi? Australian solo developer Luke Miller tells us all about his Liberation

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 19, 2024

Ches lives about 10 minutes away from me in Boulder, Colorado, so we’d frequently work in the same house”, he says. But all of us being more or less remote was not really an obstacle to sharing work. When asked about the most challenging aspect of the project, Ryding names the stress and uncertainty surrounding game development.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 11, 2024

The majority changes that occur each year are spread out because they must be - there simply isn't enough development time within the ~11ish calendar months between launches to rebuild everything, so decisions must be made about what gets added/updated this year and what waits for next year.

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