Game Developer

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Most of the impacted developers let go from WB Montreal were subcontractors through esteemed support developer Keywords.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Over the next several years, Germany plans to properly support its local game development scene and increase its cultural footprint in the country.

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APRIL 2, 2024

According to Unity, games that can be played "instantly" present new possibilities for game developers.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

The game industry lacks a solid code of ethics, and the organization hopes to create one with long-term benefits for developers and players alike.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This blog explores some of the risks of horror game development and how to address them.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

The 2024 GDC State of the Industry report indicates one quarter of triple-A developers are seeing their games adapted for film or television. Will the workers reap the rewards?

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Game Developer

MAY 21, 2024

'Expanding our internal development teams into Europe was a natural next step for us.'

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Game Developer

APRIL 26, 2024

Veteran game designer Raph Koster thinks there's a lot of room to explore what "fun" is in game design.

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Game Developer

JUNE 18, 2024

In this article, we'll explore the impact of generative AI on game development, the challenges it presents, and how developers can leverage automation tools to navigate this new frontier.

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MAY 2, 2024

A game's legacy is not just the nostalgia it will come to evoke after enough time has passed. Its legacy is also in the creativity it comes to inspire in the works that arise in its wake.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A new program within the Xbox Research division allows developers to give the console maker feedback and help it improve in key areas.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The new studio already has at least three projects in development, and hopes to make games 'on our own terms, with no limits.'

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

SenAm Games ‘ founder, Senad Hrnjadovic , has been involved in the games industry for years, but it was the Pokmon obsession of his two older children that made him realise the power of games as a learning tool. Thats when Hrnjadovic came up with the game Al-Sirah. It got him thinking.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 30, 2025

Eugene, the solo developer behind Voidmaw , has spent three years crafting Katanaut , a fast-paced action-roguelite where players embody a katana-wielding astronaut fighting to escape a collapsing space station. As a one-person team, he embraces both the creative freedom and the intense challenges that come with solo development.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 9, 2025

GameFromScratch.com LVR 3D Lua Game Development Framework Today we are checking out LVR, a free and open source 3D Lua game and VR development framework heavily inspired by LVE. LVE is a popular 2D game development framework, recently made famous for powering the smash indie hit Belatro.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Developers across Smite's design, production, and esports teams have been impacted by Hi-Rez's latest reductions.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 7, 2024

The company has formed a strategic partnership agreement with Godot vets at W4 Games to support the open source engine.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The article offers a framework for managers to balance creativity and deadlines, ensuring the timely delivery of a great game.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 6, 2025

Hungarian solo developer Csaba Putnai has poured over 3000 hours into his latest project, The Last Three. Its his second game after the release of his debut, Bob A Thousand Lives , which he developed in his forties. The Last Three is a game about the last stone tiger family that lives deep in a magical forest.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Along with getting rid of the badge, Twitch is restarting its organization reviews that let accounts see stream analytics, manage games, and build Extensions.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 2, 2024

which was previously in development at Romino Games. The Dutch studio is working on a multiplayer arena brawler called Nubs!,

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This month on the Game Developer podcast, we interview Ben Brode, chief development officer at Second Dinner, the studio behind Marvel Snap.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Blind Squirrel grabbed Distributed largely for its proprietary AI tool made for Unreal Engine, which could help make port development shorter.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

In response to a comment by Bill Markus, the co-founder of Dogecoin, that gamers have become “ideologically captured,” Elon Musk announced that his firm xAI will open a game studio. Musk states: “ Too many game studios that are owned by massive corporations ,” and that said studio will “ make games great again.”

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Game Developer

APRIL 19, 2024

Hippo Havoc’s Disaster Golf demonstrates the power a little guidance can have in an industry flooded with indie games competing for a piece of the pie.

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Game Refinery

MARCH 20, 2025

Weve previously explored how collaborating with fan-favorite IPs as part of a LiveOps strategy can have a drastic impact on in-game performance, and that logic very much applies to anime crossovers. Interestingly, it also launched alongside a new permanent in-game feature: special abilities.

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Developers speaking to the Game Developers Collective seem to think the VR games market has hit a roadblock, even with this year's launch of the Apple Vision Pro.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

BitCake Studio , an indie game development studio based in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th year in the industry. Eduardo Lamhut, the company’s main Game Designer and Creative Director of the upcoming game Atomic Picnic , explains how the company started. There was a bunch of things she wanted in the game.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 13, 2025

The charity bundle is being organized by Necrosoft Games to assist the California Fire Foundation.

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Game Refinery

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

With IDFA regulation changes and an influx of new games entering the market, publishers and mobile game studios are facing an ever-uphill battle to acquire new players (UA) and retain them. However, as we wrote last year , many top-grossing mobile games have found that minigames are the best way to boost UA and player retention.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

These are a few of the developers wed like to send some kudos, for making the industry a better place in a very difficult year.

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Game Developer

JUNE 20, 2024

The company claims shunning AI models will lead to it being 'outrun' by its competitors.

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Game Developer

APRIL 17, 2024

The multi-million pound funding will go towards startup studios whose projecs have the potential to be 'the next best-selling, BAFTA-winning titles.'

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Game Developer

AUGUST 21, 2024

Third Kind will still co-develop titles like Predecessor and Sea of Thieves while Virtuos uses its new subsidiary to enter the UK game industry.

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Game Developer

MAY 20, 2024

Here's why developers should pay attention. Players are beginning to split away from centralized wiki platforms and build their own community guides.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 23, 2024

MENA developers get another lifeline into the larger game industry with PlayStation's new program that offers funding and guidance for their projects.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The studio intends to reshape into small teams working on 'novel game ideas brought to players as early as possible.'

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