PreMortem.Games

APRIL 14, 2025

Joakim Achrn helps founders build successful games companies. Hes investing in games through F4 Fund which he started in 2023, together with with David Kaye. To follow his work, subscribe to Elite Game Developers. One of the most critical aspects of fundraising that founders often get wrong? The answer to: “How much are you raising?” Here’s what I’ve learned about this question after years of investing and advising startups.

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Game Developer

APRIL 14, 2025

The company is asking consumers to pay more for console hardware in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, EMEA, and the UK.

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Harold Serrano

APRIL 14, 2025

In this devlog, Im taking you through the latest updates to the Untold Engine editorlighting, cameras, asset browsing, and image-based lighting are now fully integrated into the UI. No more hacking things in through codeeverything can be controlled visually. Ill show you the problems I ran into, how I solved them, and what the engine looks like now in action.

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 14, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Rust Game Engines in 2025 Today we have compiled a list of the best Rust game engines and game frameworks (and popular language bindings) for game development in 2025. This is the third in a series of posts exploring the game engine options available for the most popular programming languages. We have a Python Game Engine The post Rust Game Engines in 2025 appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 14, 2025

It depends on how they go to the new platform. There are two main ways of doing this - porting the game project to the new platform or emulating the old game on the new platform. Porting the game basically means taking the old code and assets and making them run on the new hardware. This involves getting the old game running natively (i.e. the game itself compiles, links, and runs) on the Switch 2.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 14, 2025

Written by Vin Sathyamoorthy , former Zynga Product Manager and a Reddit Product Director. Current proud Texan, and a member of the Deconstructor of Fun consulting team. These facts arent mutually exclusive. Duolingo has managed to capture the popular zeitgeist with more than 100 million monthly active users. To put its success in perspective: Duolingos market capitalization is 10x greater than its next biggest competitor (Babbel), and its daily active user count is similar to Discord and Twitch

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 14, 2025

Box office analysts expected A Minecraft Movie to make $70 to $90 million on its opening weekend in the US – instead, it made $157 million, and has now passed half a billion worldwide following its second weekend.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 14, 2025

According to internal assessments by a "major Apple and Nintendo supplier", game consoles in the US will still be subjected to the 145% tariff on goods imported from China.

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2025

Hello. Link to the commit: github(.)com/cocos/cocos-engine/pull/18189 (sorry, but Im not allowed to post links) Unfortunately upgrade maxKnownFeatureSet break compatibility. Just try to run on the real device iOS build with enabled texture compression (we are using ASTC for iOS) and you will get the error on the real devices: 00:31:58 [ERROR]: JS: Error 3300, please go to [link] to see details.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 14, 2025

A Japanese modder has been sentenced to two years in prison.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 14, 2025

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced price increases for the base PlayStation 5 in Europe, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, effective today.

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