Game Developer

DECEMBER 15, 2022

With the Steam Deck's repeated success, Valve is exploring the option to try again on some of its previous hardware ventures.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. Okay, fair enough, Star Trek: Prodigy , we’ve been overdue for a Holodeck Malfunction Episode, but “Ghost in the Machine” feels more like it’s a Halloween episode than the third episode from season one’s end. Still, as we’re getting to know the characters a bit more in the season’s seventeenth episode, especially the side characters, it would be nice to get a fun romp before the end, but that’s not exactly what we get either.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Was there any merit to the earth-shaking claims made by the blockchain games crowd in 2022? Let's look back.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2022

"It looks awful, I don’t understand what the big deal is.". These are words I said on a fateful day of June 2022 and would come to fiercely regret. Because when it came to choosing my game of the year, it slowly became obvious that there was no escaping that my 2022 was dominated by a £2.09 game that I had never intended to play. The reality is I've played fewer games this year than I've had in any previous years since I started working in games.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A new report from Omdia highlights the reasons why development costs are skyrocketing.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Last month, former Bungie veteran Jonty Barnes, alongside ex-Sports Interactive exec Neil Dejyothin and former English Football Association CEO Alex Horne, joined development start-up Formation Games. While the studio was formed in 2021, it's been operating quietly for the last year building Club, a new football management mobile game slated to launch in 2023.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In September, member of the Finnish Parliament Sebastian Tynkkynen proposed a bill to regulate loot boxes as a form of gambling in Finland. To understand what the bill could mean for the Finnish games industry, we speak to Dr Joseph Macey, an academic researching the relationship between consumption of digital games and participation in emergent gambling activities, Topias Mattinen, a PhD student whose research is focused on digital gambling, loot boxes and the gamblification of digital games, a

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 15, 2022

After six years away from Blizzard, Chris Metzen returns as its new Warcraft advisor.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Several members of Congress have penned a letter to ask top game companies how they are addressing extremism. As reported by Axios , the inquiry will be sent to gaming firms such as Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Sony. The legislators' letter has been attributed to the Anti-Defamation League's new Hate and Harassment in Online Gaming Report , which was released last week.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Lara Croft, an Amazon Original.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2022

All contributors are incredibly busy working on Godot 4.0, which is having weekly beta releases (currently beta 8 , beta 9 likely tomorrow). Some of us are also doing significant work to prepare a first beta release of Godot 3.6, which will likely the last feature release in the 3.x series (expected to be finalized after the 4.0 release). But we're not forgetting about the current stable branch, Godot 3.5, which had its first stable release in early August , and a first maintenance release in la

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Will Norman Reedus deliver the film to each theater?

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In November, Twitch reached a viewership of 1.6 billion hours, according to StreamElements and Rainmaker.gg's monthly State of the Stream report. Since the streaming platform hit over two billion hours watched back in January it hasn't been able to reproduce the feat. YouTube Gaming brought in 244 million hours watched in October, continuing declines the streaming platform has seen since it accumulated 305 million hours back in August.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Welcome to another game platform, 47.

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Starloop Studios

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The gaming industry is on the precipice of a major change. The next generation of consoles have arrived, and with them, a new era of gaming. We’ve seen glimpses of what the future holds and it looks amazing with incredible load speeds and graphical capabilities. One of the most impressive things to come out of [.].

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The European Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee this week called for a set of EU-wide rules to protect game playing consumers. In a vote with wide-ranging support (35 votes for, none against and 3 abstentions), the committee approved a draft report calling for better consumer protections, most notably around loot boxes and children.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 15, 2022

CG Spectrum graduate Hanny Lu talks about her experience studying Unreal Connectors: Virtual Production , a 12-week micro-credentialing program created in partnership with Epic Games. Hanny shares her visually stunning final project with us, a short cinematic called Naima , detailing how she created her scenes in Unreal Engine, where she drew her inspiration from, and how the technical and creative support of her industry expert mentors allowed her to bring her vision to fruition.

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Unity Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Our biggest e-book yet, User interface design and implementation in Unity , is available to download. Check out this preview of what’s inside.

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Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

GameFromScratch.com. JetBrains Killing Off AppCode. AppCode is one of the suite of developer tools from JetBrains (which also include IDEs such as Rider, IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm and CLion). The focus of AppCode is on programming languages specific to the Apple ecosystem, specifically Swift and Objective C. On December 14th they released an update, AppCode 2022.3 … JetBrains Killing Off AppCode Read More.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2022

My.Games has announced it is pulling out of Russia, the market it originally called home. In an announcement issued by its Amsterdam headquarters, the publisher said all parts of the business that have been generating revenue in Russia will be spun off into a new independent entity. This entity will have no affiliation with My.Games. Licenses for all Russia-related products will be transferred to independent Russian firm Astrum Entertainment, after which My.Games will no longer earn revenues fro

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Game Wisdom

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Turnbased Fest Mega Showcase Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com. width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen". The massive showcase highlighting all my favorites from the turn-based festival on steam. Games played were either demos or developer submissions. 0:00 Intro. 00:27 Dino Mercs. 2:19 Dicey Birdball. 4:29 Card Crawl Adventures. 6:17 Mars Tactics. 7:44 … The post Turnbased Fest Mega Showcase appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Epic Games has announced that it will be shutting down online services and servers for a number of older games as it moves to solely support Epic Online Services. It begun removing the titles from digital storefronts and disabled in-game DLC purchasing on December 14. "Most titles will be playable offline, while some will no longer be playable. We apologize to the players affected by these changes," Epic said.

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Game Errors

DECEMBER 15, 2022

After the Witcher’s next-gen update which was released on the 14th of December, players have reported substantial frame rate drops and weird texture and model rendering on PC. The Witcher 3 next gen update stuttering seems to annoy users with high-end graphic cards that are complaining about poor performance, they are experiencing low fps and even DirectX12 black screen.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Hideo Kojima's 2019 adventure title Death Stranding is receiving a film adaptation. As reported by Deadline , Kojima Productions and Hammerstone Studios will develop and produce the movie. It's currently unknown who will write or direct the feature film. Founded by Alex Lebovici, Hammerstone Studios will be financially backing the Death Stranding movie.

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Game Development for Beginners

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Welcome to the complete tutorial on making an Endless runner game using Unity’s Visual Scripting. We will start off with the basic introduction of what is visual scripting and then get into making our endless Runner. You can download the whole Unity package from the end of this tutorial. Let’s get started. Getting Started with. Read more.

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Perforce

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Learn how to overcome broken software development processes to mitigate vulnerabilities for better military aerospace and defense cybersecurity.

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Juego Studio

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The post Discover New Environment: A Guide to Different Dimensions in Video Game World appeared first on Juego Studio.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2022

All contributors are incredibly busy working on Godot 4.0, which is having weekly beta releases (currently beta 8 , beta 9 likely tomorrow). Some of us are also doing significant work to prepare a first beta release of Godot 3.6, which will likely the last feature release in the 3.x series (expected to be finalized after the 4.0 release). But we’re not forgetting about the current stable branch, Godot 3.5, which had its first stable release in early August , and a first maintenance release in la

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Big Games

DECEMBER 15, 2022

En plus des sports traditionnels, avec Betstars paris sportifs vous pouvez tenter votre chance en mettant sur l’e-sport ou l’un des matchs de sport virtuels. 1xBet est l’agence de bookmaker qui offre le régime live en la grande échelle. Via les réseaux sociaux à part la monnaie, il vous faudra choisir un des réseaux sociaux parmi les réseaux sociaux proposés si dessous.

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Artoon

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In today’s world, with so many technical improvements and software development, having […]. The post A Brief Guide to Web Application Development Cost appeared first on Artoon Solutions.

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Indie DB

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The second anniversary for this Jurassic hunting sim is celebrated

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Amazon Games has signed an agreement with Crystal Dynamics for its next Tomb Raider game. The next adventure for Lara Croft will be a multi-format, single-player narrative game built using Unreal Engine 5. It is in early development. Amazon says it is working with the developer 'from the ground up to bring their vision to life – from development all the way through publishing'. “Crystal Dynamics has an extraordinary opportunity following our acquisition by Embracer to redefine what a

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Let me try to explain with an analogy. Imagine that you’ve been tasked with landscaping some concrete walkways through a park. You’re given carte blanche to design the park, so you’ve got some choices to make. You can have many different paths from the park’s single entrance to different destinations and exits within the park like the swimming pool, tennis courts, or barbecue pits, or you can have one single path that spirals around the entire park so that the visitors can see everything the pa

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