Exclusive: Laid-off Keywords union members set to strike outside of BioWare Edmonton
Game Developer
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
EA and BioWare allegedly attempted to block members of Keywords Edmonton United from protesting outside of the company's office.
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Polish games industry employs over 15.000 people (same as France)
PreMortem.Games
JULY 7, 2023
So, the rest of the companies are generating more revenues. 494 Game companies But Poland has plenty to be pleased with. So, the rest of the companies are generating more revenues. 494 Game companies But Poland has plenty to be pleased with. There are 494 game companies (developers and publishers).
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Pole to Win reduces staff across several countries
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2024
Former employees told the publication that the layoffs mostly affected QA staffers from outside the US, but other departments have also been affected. PTW made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce in several countries where we operate," the company confirmed in a statement. "PTW Read more
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Riot lays off 530 staff, Riot Forge shutting down
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 23, 2024
The layoffs primarily impacted teams "outside of core development," CEO Dylan Jadeja said in a lengthy update on Riot's website. The company also announced that the scope of Legends of Runeterra is being reduced as well as the end of its publishing label, Riot Forge, which was focusing on titles set in the League of Legends universe.
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The Story of Oscar Esio and Africacomicade’s Community Impact
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Cucumbers and maize After realizing the importance of sustainability, Esio resigned and ventured into entrepreneurship in 2017, founding his first company, Prime Osborne. This experience shaped his Pan-African approach, evident in his current company, Africacomicade. The lack of job opportunities for graduates in the industry.
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Kotick blames scandals on "a very aggressive labor movement"
GamesIndustry.biz
MAY 31, 2023
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick believes the company's image problems stem not from a workplace culture that spawned numerous gender discrimination lawsuits from former employees and state and federal agencies alike, but from "outside forces" and unionization supporters. Read more
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Take-Two cuts jobs at Private Division
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 7, 2023
Take-Two is laying off some employees at its Private Division label and across other divisions of the company, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reported today. Outside of the US, we have begun procedures in compliance with local law that we anticipate may result in similar reductions. ” Read more
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Behaviour Interactive's transatlantic expansion - and what comes next
GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 19, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Earlier this year, Behaviour Interactive acquired SockMonkey Studios, a UK developer and the company's first foothold outside of North America.
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Take a break from busy GDC and meet Dutch developers at The Netherlands Lounge
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 13, 2023
She represents two game publishing companies, casual f2p games specialist Tamalaki and Web3 games publisher FGL. “We Want to get away from the hustle and bustle in the Moscone Centre and just have a good conversation and decent coffee with Dutch games industry professionals? Dutch Indies Like Paladin Studios.
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Playdigious and DotEmu co-founder launches mobile distributor StoreRider
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Xavier Liard has announced the creation of his new company, StoreRider, which focuses on connecting game developers and alternative Android stores. Read more
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Rising Star – Sophie Artemigi, indie game developer
Game Development News
JUNE 20, 2023
Sophie Artemigi tells us what it’s like being a video game design master that works outside of the big companies to make weird and entertaining art that connects with people
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On the issue of external versus internal promotions, why do you think game developers (and many other kinds of companies in general) are so reluctant to promote an internal person they know but hand it out freely to some outsider they don’t?
Ask a Game Dev
DECEMBER 4, 2023
Theory C: Tech doesn't relax hiring standards until after internal candidates have been rejected already One thing tech companies tends to favor when hiring (game dev being no exception) is trying to find the "perfect" candidate - someone who hits every job requirement and has experience doing it all.
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Nixie game aims to highlight British Blackness
Game Daily
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
David Akinola: The demonization of African spirituality is an interracial discussion, which is part of Black communities and outside Black communities. Outside of that, it was a case of ‘good luck’ trying to find Black British representation in the media. GameDaily spoke to David about his work and his aims.
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Neal Stephenson talks metaverse and AI’s gaming future
Game Daily
JUNE 5, 2023
Stephenson’s open metaverse blockchain company, Lamina1, announced a partnership with Web3 game publisher Interverse, which is creating an NFT cartoon shooting game called Degen Royale. Getting paid for metaverse work is much less simple than taking a solid salary at a top games company. At Augmented World Expo (AWE) last week.
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The Uncomfortably Comfortable Supercell Talk
Deconstructor of Fun
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Supercell CEO’s annual blog post is a personal, inspirational, and sincere communication method from the top brass of a major mobile games company. Similar messages from a CEOs of a public company would immediately get dissected by stock market analysts, determining what’s PR fluff and what’s the actual beef. compared to 2022).
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Solo dev Jonathan C Haman created “the glorious Drift Type C – which no one is buying”
PreMortem.Games
JUNE 7, 2023
It’s been my plan from Day 1 to reinvest all profit, after buying a McLaren 720s, into my company Jonworks Interactive. We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “How much further is Las Vegas? When we finally did, we found Jonathan C.
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A Void Hope by Elden Pixels lacks violence and destruction “We’re proud of that”
PreMortem.Games
AUGUST 21, 2023
Now, with the new game A Void Hope coming up on almost 3 years of development, Forslind finds himself juggling his roles as both CEO and Game Designer of his company called Elden Pixels. What began as a casual endeavor gradually evolved into a fully-fledged studio as the game’s success solidified their path. But that was declined too!
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Artistic vision on a budget: A guide to balancing creativity and finance
Filmustage
MAY 19, 2023
Collaborate: Foster partnerships with like-minded individuals or companies who can provide in-kind support or lower costs. A well-managed budget can even aid your creative process, compelling you to think outside the box and innovate. Sometimes, less is more. Innovate: Limited funding often breeds creativity.
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Here's How You Capitalize From the Apple vs. Epic Court Ruling
Deconstructor of Fun
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
As of last week, only 13 months later, Judge Rogers issued a permanent injunction, resulting in two key takeaways for the tech giants: For Apple: The company must allow iOS apps to offer payment options besides the ones subject to Apple’s 30% fees within the next 90 days. Below you’ll find our conversation on YouTube and podcast.
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How to make the jump from developing a game to running a game platform
AWS Games
OCTOBER 5, 2023
The advent of cloud computing has enabled several companies to reinvent themselves, either by increasing the value they offer to customers or by creating new businesses. On the other hand, some companies, such as Revolgy and Accelbyte , were born with a mission to support other game developers through their platforms.
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Historical game preservation is ‘dire’
Game Daily
JULY 12, 2023
” Commercial realities The errors of today’s game companies mirror the neglect of early purveyors of movies and audio recordings; a cause of much frustration among modern historians. .” Game companies are rarely interested in preserving the past – even their own particular past.
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Bucking the Recession in Mobile Gaming
Deconstructor of Fun
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Overall, consolidation has been the name of the game during the bear market as several top mobile publishers got acquired by larger gaming companies, which in turn will lead to more gaming IPs entering the mobile gaming market. In data.ai You can access the interactive charts and download the full report here.
She Got Game on cultivating a thriving environment for female game developers
PreMortem.Games
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
“As I travel across Africa creating games, there’s something everyone seems to agree on…” says Bethlehem Anteneh , a trained architect, co-founder of SOSTLab and the moderator of the She Got Game panel at Africa Games Week (AGW). Think of a bar where 90% of the people are men. This analogy shows how spaces affect people differently.
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The Mobile Games Industry In the Year 2023
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 31, 2023
Welcome to our annual, highly anticipated, prediction series. Unlike the years before, we decided to really leverage our fantastic community of senior games industry folks to present you with trends that will shape our industry during the year. And we spiced things up by voting on the likelihood of each prediction.
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Most Popular Programming Languages for Game Development
Real Programming
JUNE 12, 2023
When parents think of video games, they might think of grainy computer games that seemed miraculous because kids could play them at home rather than in the arcade. True, parents today didn’t grow up pumping quarters into pinball machines, but video games have come a long way in just the past few years. Many don’t, and that’s fine too!
Mastering Metaverse: John Krajewski’s Eco Adventure
Game Dev Unchained
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
” “I’m the founder and CEO of Strange Loop Games,” began Krajewski, detailing his journey from working on AAA titles at prominent companies like EA and Midway to establishing his own remote studio. .” I sat down with John Krajewski , the man behind the unique and forward-thinking game, Eco.
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The Remote Work Experiment is Over (?)
Deconstructor of Fun
JULY 4, 2023
Remote is a great lifestyle, not a way to build a great company” - David Sacks former PayPal Holdings Inc. Remote is a great lifestyle, not a way to build a great company” - David Sacks former PayPal Holdings Inc. For the past year leading tech companies have stopped asking and begun mandating their employees to return on-site.
Ghanaian VR pioneer Caleb Mantey’s road to a Presidential Award
PreMortem.Games
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
But, the butterfly turned out to be premature and unable to survive outside its cocoon. In August 2023, his breakthrough arrived in the form of a 150,000 Ghanaian Cedi (GHC) award and an additional 50,000 GHC personal contribution by the president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo. I invite you to join me as we journey through Mantey’s metamorphosis.
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Game companies win a powerful new way to punish harassers
Game Daily
JULY 18, 2023
Last week, Bungie was awarded almost half a million dollars in damages against a scumbag by the name of Jesse James Comer, who was found to have conducted a hate campaign against some of the company’s community managers. Notably, those who engaged in harassment have largely gone on with their lives, without fear of consequences.
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The Importance and Benefits of Outsourcing Game Art Production
iXie gaming
APRIL 3, 2023
However, with your company’s expansion, it becomes more cost-effective to delegate certain tasks to external sources. Cost Efficiency Game Development Companies can greatly decrease their expenses by outsourcing game art production. In-house artists can be costly, particularly for smaller companies.
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Yolanda Mogatusi of Alkemaiz Games “I’m curious about doing things better”
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
They were shooting ads for a new Telecom company. A girl wakes up to snow outside her window (they made it with foam). Art is a mystical force that naturally courses through every fabric of Yolanda Mogatusi’s being. What was easy for her wasn’t easy for everyone else. Mogatusi sees creativity as a means of problem-solving.
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Dorothy Orina left engineering behind to pursue game development at Maliyo Games
PreMortem.Games
APRIL 3, 2024
In a moment of dissatisfaction, while working at a prestigious engineering company in Turkey, Dorothy Orina made a decision that changed the course of her career. So, we organized fun activities and brought in volunteers to talk about their careers, read books with the kids, and introduce new perspectives to expose them to the outside world.
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Oscar Hogervorst: “Iteration is one of the solutions to Steam’s many challenges”
PreMortem.Games
MAY 23, 2023
One common mistake observed among self-publishers, particularly smaller companies, is treating the store page setup as a one-time exercise. In the highly competitive world of Steam, developers and publishers face numerous challenges in gaining visibility and success. Jay Powell talks to Oscar Hogervorst on the IndieGameBusiness Podcast.
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Rumble Racing Star brings kart racing to Web3
Game Daily
JULY 10, 2023
GameDaily spoke to the company’s Head of Strategy Quinn Kwon about the company’s ambitions for the game, and its likely target audience. For a game with monetizable elements – earning and trading in-game digital assets – it’s unusually mainstream, even casual. It’s a really casual racing game.
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Creator autonomy takes center stage at GDC
Game Daily
MARCH 21, 2023
The session features senior game company execs Chandana Ekanayake (Outerloop Games), Jen Oneal (Magic Soup Games), and Robert Anderberg (ControlZee). Despite the hype surrounding certain buzzwords in gaming right now, it’s always worth remembering that technology isn’t always a primary agent of change.
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Module 4: Designing vs. Programming (Lessons 1-3)
Game Designing
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Lesson 1 Transcript So as you saw in the last module, the roles of game designer and game programmer can very easily mesh together, and this is very true in smaller companies where the designer and the programmer might be the same person or the designer might help out in programming to help things continue along.
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The fall of Riccitiello
Game Daily
OCTOBER 10, 2023
In those days, executive appointments from outside the gaming industry were still rare. He said all the right things about what a great company Electronic Arts was. I first interviewed John Riccitiello in the late 1990s, when he was pretty new at Electronic Arts. He gave good quotes, and he obviously enjoyed talking to reporters.
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The Game Industry Has Spoken: Remote vs. Hybrid vs. On-Site
Deconstructor of Fun
JULY 11, 2023
The prequel to this post is Why Remote Workers are Increasingly Less Productive, Anxious, Depressed, and Lonely. But don’t worry, you can enjoy the sequel first, just like with Star Wars. I’m a curious product person at heart. I love setting a bold hypothesis and then testing it against data. The winning condition is not proving my hypothesis right.
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Apply for $100K in scholarships for new accredited business courses
CG Spectrum
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Creative thinking means being open to possibilities, thinking outside the box, and pivoting as needed. CG Spectrum Institute , the Australian arm of CG Spectrum global, has launched two new accredited online business courses: a Diploma and a Bachelor of Business Degree. Read on for course and application details.
Video Game Engineers: Job Description and Salary
Game Designing
MARCH 1, 2023
For example, if your company wants to work with a custom game engine, a game engineer may be responsible for designing this engine in order to ensure the best performance. Video game engineers are an important part of a game development team who takes care of a range of advanced technical tasks. Why Are Game Engineers Important?
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Things a Dev Will (Probably) Never Say
Ask a Game Dev
JULY 31, 2023
We’re not going to give anyone outside the company that sort of information just to prove you wrong. askagamedev : Whenever I look at any game’s online community, be it official forums, reddit, twitter, or some other form of social media, I’ll often see fans demanding the developers to tell them certain common things.
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Out Now • Solo dev Pat Naoum of the handpainted The Master’s Pupil: “Creativity is a tool”
PreMortem.Games
AUGUST 9, 2023
As if developing a game by yourself wasn’t daunting enough, Pat Naoum decided to completely handpaint his debut game The Master’s Pupil. That alone took him hundreds of hours and the whole project now sits at 7 years. But the end is here, the game is out now on steam. The painting really comes down to uniqueness”, he says. It’s something different.
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Interblock supports Godot development
Mircosoft Game Dev
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
For this occasion, we asked them to share some words about the company, why they chose to support Godot and their plans to use the engine for their products. We are happy to announce that Interblock is now supporting Godot's development as Platinum sponsor! Interblock began making automated roulette games for casinos back in 1997.
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Mobile Publishing #4: Super Scale With No Strings Attached
Deconstructor of Fun
AUGUST 25, 2019
In each of the episode we sat down with the CEO of top mobile publisher and discussed how they approach publishing, what is their company’s strategy, how do they work with developers and how do they see the future of publishing on mobile. Welcome to the third episode of our Mobile Publisher Series. SuperScale = Growth Partner.
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