GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 22, 2024

Shortly after, they formed Rockpool Games, made the J2ME edition of Worms, and sold the developer to Eidos/Square Enix in 2007. Their third studio, Golf Clash creator Playdemic, opened doors in 2010 and two years ago sold to Electronic Arts for a whopping $1.4 billion – one of the biggest UK games acquisitions to date.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 4, 2024

Before the news cycle had fully absorbed Sony’s announcement that it was letting go of 900 people, Electronic Arts released a similar statement regarding the termination of about 5 percent of its total headcount, approximately 670 jobs. The new crunch time However, layoffs are the new crunch time.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Electronic Arts today announced a rebranding for Frostbite, its internal game development engine. It's the first new logo for the tech in nearly a decade.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Electronic Arts is set to lay off "a small number of staff" due to its decision to close two of its mobile titles: EA Sports MLB Tap Sports and F1 Mobile Racing.

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Fanatical Day of the Programmer GameDev Book Giveaway In celebration of the annual Day of the Programmer, Fanatical are giving away 4 books from Packt Press of interest to game developers. The Day of the Programmer as described by Fanatical: Hello World.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Disney is reportedly looking to acquire Electronic Arts or a company of a similar scale as a way back into games publishing. As reported by Bloomberg , some Disney executives have allegedly suggested that CEO Bob Iger could transform the company from a gaming licensee to publisher by acquiring EA.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 2, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox EA-owned Firemonkeys Studios is reportedly the latest developer to suffer layoffs, with up to two thirds of its team at risk. Kotaku Australia reports the redundancies are being made as Electronic Arts changes the studio's focus.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 10, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Electronic Arts says its future lies in developing "games as a platform," building on the success it has seen with live service models for titles such as FIFA, The Sims and Apex Legends.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 20, 2023

Electronic Arts is shaking up its org chart, as CEO Andrew Wilson today announced a realignment of the company into two organizations – EA Sports and EA Entertainment – that would report to him. These steps will accelerate our business, drive growth, and deliver long-term value for our people, our players and our communities."

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It is created by developers from the Atom Editor (sadly killed off by Microsoft) which was also the origin of the Electron JavaScript run-time, which is used most famously by Visual Studio Code (and Discord, Teams, Figma […] The post Zed Rust Powered Code Editor appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The union has been talking to major publishers and developers such as Activision, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Take-Two, Insomniac and Warner Bros about a potential successor to the Interactive Media Agreement, which was due to expire last year. Read more

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Unity Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

From software development startups in gaming and robotics to more than 20 years with Electronic Arts, Luc knows a thing or two about shaping strong teams and driving for innovation. Newly appointed CTO of Unity, Luc Barthelet, has had a long career in games.

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Big Games

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Following good values and trends are essential for any mobile game development company. Hashbyte Studio is a leading mobile game development company that focuses on providing high-quality games to our audience. Hashbyte Studio For Passion and Transparency Hashbyte Studio is a prominent mobile game development company.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 13, 2023

Sony Group is significantly increasing its research and development investments into its games segment, with a particular focus on live service games and opportunities in extended reality.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The latest NVIDIA breakthroughs in graphics are elevating workflows in game development, and you can experience it all at NVIDIA GTC, which starts November. The latest NVIDIA breakthroughs in graphics are elevating workflows in game development, and you can experience it all at NVIDIA GTC , which starts November 8.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox EA Music, the division of Electronic Arts that oversees all the music in its games, has partnered with Boston-based Berklee College of Music to offer a new scholarship to a future composer.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 8, 2024

At Electronic Arts he did the graphics in Will Wright’s team that created Spore. Now it’s an independent studio of 30 developers, animators, storytellers and artists. “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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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 29, 2023

Electronic Arts today announced that it will be laying off approximately 6% of its staff as part of a restructuring plan that also includes optimizing its real estate portfolio and re-focusing its efforts around growth opportunities.

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Cocos

MARCH 19, 2024

Contribute to cocos/engine-native development by creating an account on GitHub. == Cocos Dashboard error message == Loading custom engine failed! _load (electron/js2c/asar_bundle.js:5:12913) Thank you in advance. link] [link] [link] GitHub GitHub - cocos/engine-native: Native engine for Cocos Creator v2.x 935:32) at Module._load

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 11, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox American McGee has declared he will no longer be involved in games development, following the latest failed attempt to get a new entry in his Alice series into production.

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Filmustage

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Composers like Dimitri Tiomkin and Henry Mancini expanded the possibilities of film scoring, incorporating jazz, exotic instruments, and electronic elements into their compositions. The Electronic Experimentation (1970s-1980s) The 1970s marked a shift towards electronic experimentation in film scoring.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I first interviewed John Riccitiello in the late 1990s, when he was pretty new at Electronic Arts. He said all the right things about what a great company Electronic Arts was. In those days, executive appointments from outside the gaming industry were still rare. His interest was in opportunity, growth and, of course, money.

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Cocos

MAY 7, 2023

pstrejczek: Is there a reason Electron is the preferred way for Steam publishing ? But currently we don’t have builtin Steam SDK integration yet, and there is mature Steam SDK integration in Electron. But currently we don’t have builtin Steam SDK integration yet, and there is mature Steam SDK integration in Electron.

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Game Development News

MARCH 16, 2023

A new studio called Fuse Games has been announced by former Electronic Arts and Criterion Games leadership

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Kenyan indie developer cherishes that early morning spark. He’s not just an indie game developer; he’s a music producer and a 3D animator. When they asked him to dive into game development, he embraced the challenge, even though he had zero prior experience. In the quiet of the night, between 3 and 5 a.m.,

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Why I Love is a series of guest editorials on GamesIndustry.biz intended to showcase the ways in which game developers appreciate each other's work. Then you had your retro engineered Electronic Arts titles that looked pretty bad in the '90s and have only gotten only worse all these decades later. Read more

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Game Development News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Electronic Arts and football’s world governing body properly went their separate ways in May.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

During re:Invent 2023, the AWS for Games team showcased the latest ways our customers are using AWS game development tools and introduced several new purpose-built guidance and partner solutions that are now available in the AWS Games Solution Library.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 7, 2023

Haman in his home office, surrounded by unfinished electronics projects, lit by an implausible number of computer monitors and sipping off-brand energy drinks. Why did you become a solo developer? The question is really how you decide which ideas to use – a lot easier as a solo developer. The answer is absolutely BOREDOM.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Here are a few reasons why developers must prioritize game security testing in today’s fast-paced gaming realm: 1. Electronic Arts Server Cyber-Attack (2021) In 2021, hackers breached the Electronic Arts (EA) server and maliciously obtained the source code as well as the Frostbite engine’s internal tools that power several EA games.

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AWS Games

OCTOBER 26, 2023

AWS re:Invent 2023 is fast approaching, and AWS for Games is gearing up to welcome attendees from around the globe at the annual conference for developers in Las Vegas November 27 – December 1. Programming includes sessions led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers such as Riot Games, Epic Games, and Nintendo Systems.

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PreMortem.Games

AUGUST 28, 2023

Legends of Orisha: Blood & Water is currently in development. So he taught me web design and development. While in university he tried lots of things from Android to web development in search of a new passion but he didn’t have that connection with any one of them. In high school, Olamide’s parents got him his own laptop.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

His propensity for talking up his latest development project began to sound hollow, almost to the point of parody. It’s a useful insight into the fraught relationship between the press and a certain kind of high profile game developer, who courts fame, but then struggles with its costs and its risks.

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Game Errors

JULY 20, 2023

After investigating online forums and testing solutions on our PCs, we have developed a few foolproof solutions worth trying to fix the Sims 4 save file missing problem. By default, Sims 4 saves your game progress in the Documents > Electronic Arts folder. Why is my Sims 4 save file gone? To do this: Launch Sims 4.

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AWS Games

JULY 15, 2022

The game jam will begin with a day of mentorship, featuring live 30-minute lightning talk sessions and 1-hour round table panels from game industry veterans including Bridget Collins (Lightforge Games), Jessie Wan (Electronic Arts), Kirsten Gavoni (Warner Bros Games), Kirsten Kane (Lightforge Games), Kristina Blanco (Studio Capital Management), Laura (..)

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Game Errors

APRIL 10, 2023

In May 2023, Japanese video game developer and publisher Capcom completed 44 years as one of the most successful companies in the industry. The company specialized in the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines, and by 1981, had changed its name to Sanbi Co. in the early 80s.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Meaning of AAA games Game creators don’t mind putting millions of dollars into game development as long as it meets their expectations in sales and ratings. According to reports, the game cost more than a quarter-billion dollars to develop and market. Games with a big development team. Games that require a large budget.

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