Game Developer
DECEMBER 8, 2022
QA staff at Activision Blizzard's Texas and Minnesota offices want to stop being required to hit inconsistent quotas and more transparency from management.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
IGN has undergone a series of layoffs, according to a number of staff and former staff on Twitter. GamesIndustry.biz understands that IGN's content, engineering, and ad sales teams have been impacted, with the number of people out of work at least in the double digits. The cuts are part of a larger restructuring across IGN parent Ziff Davis, with other business units also impacted.
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Game Developer
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Did You Know Gaming's video about a canceled tactics spinoff for The Legend of Zelda was hit with a copyright strike by Nintendo.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
There was clearly something special about the making of Dead Space. The cult horror game was made by a team who would go on to form Sledgehammer Games, a development studio funded by Activision Blizzard to create Call of Duty titles. Since then, a number of Sledgehammer’s leaders have left to create their own independent studios, and when we speak to them now, it isn’t Call of Duty but Dead Space that keeps coming up.
Game Developer
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Richard Dansky, who served as the company's "central Clancy writer," helped steer the franchise for 23 years.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox. The Federal Trade Commission has filed a legal complaint in an attempt to block Microsof'ts proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The Commission says the deal, if approved would "enable Microsoft to suppress competitors to its Xbox gaming consoles and its rapidly growing subscription content and cloud-gaming business.
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Game Industry News
DECEMBER 8, 2022
HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. While intellectually I knew that the backstories for Rok and Jankom Pog weren’t going to be full of sunshine and rainbows, Prodigy once again startled me with just how dark Rok’s story really was. Jankom’s was more existentially terrifying, but it was no less tragic. In the sixteenth episode of season one, Prodigy doesn’t shy away from the themes it wants to develop, which I knew, but I really wasn’t quite prepared for what “ Preludes ” had in store.
Game Developer
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The Game Developers Conference has donated several passes to Indie Giving, which provides discounted rates for hopeful attendees in exchange for one day of volunteering with a Bay Area charity group.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
ZA/UM partner and Disco Elysium producer Kaur Kender has withdrawn a lawsuit against Tütreke, the company's majority shareholder. News of Kender's lawsuit surfaced last month, claiming that ZA/UM CEO Ilmar Kompus had "cheated" him out of €1 million as part of a larger plot to acquire control of the studio. ZA/UM tells GamesIndustry.biz that Kender's claims will not move forward in Estonia courts, and provided a statement from Kompus.
Game Developer
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The comment was made during a recent earnings call, where the company added it has seen a "healthy reduction" in net losses.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
There's a knock at the door of your apartment. By the time you get there, whoever knocked has slipped a note underneath and left. The note says 'Find E. Smith.' You recall seeing a telephone directory on a table and you look up E. Smith, revealing both their address and phone number. There's no answer when you ring, so you take a short walk to that address.
Game Developer
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The FTC has become another roadblock in Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
This week, in the latest round of noise around Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the company announced it was committing to releasing Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles for ten years. The internet loved that, of course. And Xbox knew it would. Here was the company waving a piece of paper that proved to the world that not only is Xbox committed to not making Call of Duty exclusive, it is making it even less exclusive than ever.
Game Developer
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Sources claim Blizzard's dark fantasy RPG has struggled during its development due in part to shifting priorities and losing (and adding) developers.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
It's time for our eighth annual look at the games industry's conflict minerals sourcing practices and what companies are doing to ensure that the video game hardware we buy isn't funding armed conflict, slave labor, extortion and other human rights violations. If this is your first time reading one of these, be sure to check out "The Basics" for the quick background on what conflict minerals are and where the information we're looking at is coming from, then brush up on the "Common Terms" we'll
Game Developer
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Kaur Kender was reportedly seeking damages from ZA/UM leadership after being fired earlier this year.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
As Diablo 4 developers prepare a final push to the game's planned release date next year, a number of current and former Blizzard employees who worked on the project described a troubled development process to The Washington Post. The Post published an article today based on discussions with 15 current or former Blizzard employees. While the current plan is for the game to release June 6, they said it has already been pushed back multiple times, and even meeting this date is likely to require si
Game Developer
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Sony Bend is proud of what it accomplished with Days Gone , but not the recent comments made by its former creative director.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Retro console Evercade and its creator Blaze Entertainment were the subjects of a robbery on December 6, which saw an amount of stock stolen from the company. In a blog post , the firm said that a lorry carrying limited edition units of the Evercade EXP was the subject of a suspected "targeted, possible organised attack." While the exact scale and details of the event are unclear, Eurogamer reports that over £500,000 worth of hardware was taken.
Game Developer
DECEMBER 8, 2022
It was Agatha all along.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Embracer has been approved to trade on Nasdaq Stockholm, the main market for Nordic companies. The company said its first day of trading on the market will be December 22. Embracer was previously trading on Nasdaq First North Growth Market, and its last day there will be December 21. It has been listed since November 2016 under the name THQ Nordic AB.
Game Developer
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Repetition can be a game design strength if planned carefully.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Epic Games is launching Cabined Accounts , new minor-specific accounts for playing online and multiplayer games. The service is intended to be safe and inclusive for children that use the gaming platform and digital storefront. When underaged players log into the Epic Games store or game launcher their account will become a Cabined Account. They will then be prompted to provide their guardian's or caretaker's email for parental consent.
Game Daily
DECEMBER 8, 2022
A lack of debt and minimal losses in the crypto space appear to have buoyed the worst of the damage.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Payday 2 developer Starbreeze is set to open a new studio in the UK. The new location will facilitate expansions to the company's development and third-party publishing teams, as well as the acquisition of two new IPs. Cinder Cone co-founders Tancred Dyke-Wells and Lawrence Bishop will head up the new hub, serving as creative director and technical director respectively.
Game Daily
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Games retailer GameStop has released its financial report for Q3 of the current fiscal year, and the numbers highlight continued losses for the embattled company. According to the data, net sales decreased to $1.2 billion, a drop of 8% compared to the same period last year. Meanwhile, gross profit reached $291.6 million compared to last year’s $318.6 million.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Video game retailer GameStop continued to see losses year-on-year during its third quarter. The company released its financial results for the three months that ended October 29, 2022. Here's what you need to know: GameStop's net loss was down 10% compared to the same period last year, but still hit $94.7 million, while sales decreased across the board.
Game Wisdom
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Indie Game Showcase #147 Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com. width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen". The indie showcases highlight all the indie games we play here on stream, if you would like to submit a game for a future piece, please reach out. All games shown are either demos or press key … The post Indie Game Showcase #147 appeared first on Game Wisdom.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
GameMaker has announced that educators can teach game design for free using its materials and resources. GameMaker said that with its non-paid program students will learn programming basics and develop skills in STEM. The platform attributed the rising budget constraints of schools to why it released a free education version. Read more.
Game From Scratch
DECEMBER 8, 2022
GameFromScratch.com. Unity 2022.2 Tech Stream Release. Unity 2022.2 tech stream was released today. Unity have moved to a bi-annual release schedule with one release, the LTS or Long Term Support release, focusing on stability, while the Tech Stream release focuses primarily on adding new features. Highlights of the Unity 2022.2 Tech Stream Release include: Key Links … Unity 2022.2 Tech Stream Release Read More.
GamesIndustry.biz
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Activision Blizzard has filed a lawsuit against California's Civil Rights Department (CRD) handling of the publisher's misconduct suit. As reported by Axios , the lawsuit alleges that the CRD (previously known as the Department for Fair Employment and Housing) withheld information about media and labor union contacts regarding the case. The publisher is claiming that the agency orchestrated a "media war" against Activision Blizzard and has failed to comply with a public records request to turn o
Game From Scratch
DECEMBER 8, 2022
GameFromScratch.com. Unreal Nature and Fantasy Assets Humble Bundle. Unreal Engine developers are absolutely spoiled by Humble Bundle this month with the launch of the Unreal Nature and Fantasy Assets bundle, a large collection of assets, models and environments for UE 4/5/5.1 developers. This joins the already running Unreal Engine Ultimate GameDev Assets bundle which is still running.
Juego Studio
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The post Pay-to-Play Games Vs. Play-to-Earn Games: Major Differences appeared first on Juego Studio.
Artoon
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Laravel vs CodeIgniter – Web application development and the use of web […]. The post Laravel vs CodeIgniter: Which is Best for Web App Development? appeared first on Artoon Solutions.
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