Game Developer

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Saudi Arabia's state-backed PIF investment fund continues to put its money into a variety of big-name video game studios.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Roblox released its fourth quarter full-year financial earnings for 2022 today and the firm saw jumps in revenue and bookings while losses deepened significantly.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Apex Legends ' new season is bringing all the players to the arena.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In Backfirewall players deal with a sassy self-aware smartphone operating system that faces replacement by a superior and far better optimized successor. It’s a tragicomic adventure that really makes you feel for programs that have their code erased and replaced on a regular basis, all in the name of technological progress. The game is the debut of Swiss indie game studio Naraven Games.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Roblox boasted 58.8 million daily active users at the end of 2022, and a good chunk of those were older players.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Reports have emerged that Saudi Arabia has once again increased its stake in Nintendo. Saudi Arabia-based Twitter account BRHM reported today the nation's Public Investment Fund now owns 7.08% of the Mario maker, with Trading View reporting the same figure. The Fund previously took a 5.01% stake in Nintendo back in May 2022, and increased this to 6.07% just last month.

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Lightning Returns Final Fantasy XIII was released on Windows through the Steam platform. The game is a direct sequel to Final Fantasy XIII-2 and concludes the story in Final Fantasy XIII. Some players complained that the game has some issues and bugs that are making it unplayable. Lightning Returns Final Fantasy 13 crashing and issues that players reported mostly happen when the game is not loading and is stuck at the Square Enix logo, plus performance issues and stuttering.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Two By 4 Racing makes two players work together with bike tire-based steering wheel controllers, driving and powering a cooperative vehicle with their actions together.

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Android games are becoming popular nowadays, especially among teenagers everywhere. But the Android games are coming with several lagging problems like battery and drainage problems. Yet, we can show you how to optimize your phone for gaming. In any case, there are many players that can’t or don’t have the resources to improve gaming performance on Android devices.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Haber Dasher is a sensible controller for well-dressed pals, where two players use a giant hat to help an alien blend in on Earth.

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Planet Coaster , a coaster park simulation game is available for everyone on the Steam platform. Players are saying that this game is one of the best coaster simulators that ever came out. Even though the reviews of the game are very positive, a few players are complaining about Planet Coaster issues that are making the game unplayable or annoying to play.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

There are photorealistic walking sims, full-fledged 3D platformers, surreal horror titles, and so much more.

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Shadow Warrior 2 is a first-person shooter developed by the indie studio Flying Wild Hog, available for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Apparently, the game received a lot of positive reviews on Steam, but a lot of players are complaining about Shadow Warrior 2 issues that are making the game unplayable. The most common issue is that players are unable to start the game.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Nintendo Switch exclusive launched on October 28, 2022.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox As the games industry slowly becomes more aware of accessibility needs, efforts to account for neurodiversity have been limited. As part of the GamesIndustry.biz Academy, we previously addressed understanding and supporting neurodiversity, including autism, in the workplace , as well as the fact that accessibility isn't rocket science.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The $68.7 billion merger is currently being investigated by the European Commission.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Join us for the latest on NVIDIA RTX and neural rendering technologies, and learn how they are accelerating game development. Join us for the latest on NVIDIA RTX and neural rendering technologies, and learn how they are accelerating game development.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Microsoft will attend a closed hearing about its proposed acquisition of Activision with the EU's competition regulator in Brussels on Tuesday, February 21. The news was first reported by Foss Patents and then confirmed to Reuters , with Microsoft requesting a hearing following the formal antitrust warning issued by the European Union earlier this month.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with another new series for this week’s Bookish Wednesday. It’s “Dungeon Delving for Loot and Levels, Volume 1” by M.E. Thorne. Plot: The title sounds like it’d be a pretty standard LitRPG, but the truth couldn’t be further than that. This is an “Isekai” series where the main character, Danny Abbott, gets stuck in a global amusement park that seems to be run down and not working quite properly.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Mick Gordon, the composer of upcoming shooter Atomic Heart, has donated his fee for working on the game to aid people affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Gordon announced the donation via a statement on Twitter , discussing his work with the Soviet-themed FPS' developer Mundfish.

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Unity Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This article is a recap of Monetization that grows with you , a Pocket Gamer Connects session presented by Andrew Brock, senior director of product management at Unity. Discover tips to help you find the right monetization partner for your games business.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Jeff Minter and Atari have history. The veteran developer worked on Atari hardware dating back to the 8-bit home computers of the early '80s and his sequels to the arcade classic Tempest have been among the publisher's most celebrated releases of the past 30 years. So when Atari approached Minter with the idea of another Tempest 2000-like reinterpretation, he didn't require too much convincing.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Now it is time to decide who MUST love me. (All articles this month are to get attention to our new Kickstarter. If you like weird, retro indie games or RPGs, it’s worth a look.) Video games function best as power fantasies. This is a statement that can generate controversy, though fifty years of video game history show that it is true. We've seen debates about whether video games can be art.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Make-A-Wish has announced a second Streams For The Wishes event that will raise money for children with critical illnesses this April.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Indie Game Dev Fund Just Launched If you are an indie game developers, with a PC or Console game in development with at least a playable demo, the just launched Game Dev Fund might be ideal for you. It is an early stage investor and mentoring program composed of several game and game engine developers ( … Indie Game Dev Fund Just Launched Read More The post Indie Game Dev Fund Just Launched appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Emma Smith from Creative Assembly tells us about the MCV/DEVELOP Women in Games 2023 Awards show why supporting the efforts of women working in the games industry is so important

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Join us for the latest on NVIDIA RTX and neural rendering technologies, and learn how they are accelerating game development. Join us for the latest on NVIDIA RTX and neural rendering technologies, and learn how they are accelerating game development.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

How you detect the need to reload resources is up to you. You could add an event listener for EVENT_COME_TO_BACKGROUND , and every time you receive it, check if the texture is cached via TextureCache::getTextureForKey(). That event is used if CC_ENABLE_CACHE_TEXTURE_DATA is enabled, which seems to be the case for Android.

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

KOTOR (Start Wars: Knights of the Old Republic) is an old game you can still play on Windows 10 and 11. However, that game has some backward compatibility issues since it predates the latest Windows platforms by quite a few years. KOTOR crashing on startup is not an entirely uncommon issue on the Windows 10 and 11 platforms. This is how you can fix KOTOR crashing on startup in the most recent Windows 11/10 platforms.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

More Art Works : Available for more art works! 2D Cartoon Art Work Game Assets Service : I can work on fixed price (based on my $14 per hour rate estimate), I do need a list of the assets to calculate. You can email me at oryzano@gmail.com for more details For Cost reference : Character Design : $7 - $28 (depend on details) +add $7 - $14 per animation (4 - 10 frames) (depend on details) Item $5 - $14 (depend on details) Background $14 - $56 (depend on details) Buttons $2 - $7 (depend on details)

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

When Hugh Behroozy started building Blinkmoon Games , a new independent studio based in Vancouver, Canada, he wanted to bring together the best talent from across the visual effects (VFX) and games industry to create the next generation of interactive experiences. The only problem was, how do you attract talent to a Vancouver-based studio when some of the best developers available live on the other side of the world?

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That One Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In this article I aim to introduce and educate you on what CMake is and how it is releated to your work as a C or C++ developer. The post What is CMake? appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Thanks. This is probably what is happening. But I see that the solution they propose is to close the app if the context is lost. But I do not see how they achieve it. The online line of code mentioned is already in the current version of 3.17.2.

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The error code 32404 in Battlefield games may prevent some gamers from playing multiplayer. If you are fed up and trying to get rid of this problem, this article is for you. The BF is one of the industry’s most successful video game series. But, for some users, specific problems like Battlefield Low FPS , DirectX error , error code 32504, etc., may ruin the gameplay experience.

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