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Pushing the boundaries of AI and psychology in darkwebSTREAMER

Game Developer

Inspired by the strange cultural zeitgeist that has resulted in the emergence of parasocial relationships between streamers and viewers, darkwebSTREAMER explores how far people will go for fame, fortune or friendship.

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Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales | Games of the Year 2022

GamesIndustry.biz

I've gone through a lot of Spider-Media this year. In addition to rewatches of Into The Spider-Verse and No Way Home, I've read six volumes of Spider-Gwen, seven volumes of Miles Morales, and a mix of classic and modern Amazing Spider-Man storylines I never got around to in the past. I've also made it partway through a replay of the 2018 Spider-Man game and watched most of (the quietly brilliant and my 2022 earworm ) Spidey & His Amazing Friends.

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Deep Dive: A framework for generative music in video games

Game Developer

The goal is to use computational creativity and generative techniques to extend the capabilities of human composers.

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75% of public comments on Microsoft-Activision were in favor of deal, says UK CMA

GamesIndustry.biz

Roughly three quarters of public comments on the proposed Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard were in favor of the deal going through, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority revealed today. The comments were collected over two weeks in October as part of the regulator's inquiry into the deal. It received roughly 2,600 emails, but excluded around 500 because "they contained abusive content (with no other substantive content), or were blank, unintelligible, stated to be from non-UK co

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Game Developer's Best of 2022: The top game developers of the year

Game Developer

From developers in Ukraine to Poncle, Naughty Dog and Second Dinner, these are our picks for game developers of the year.

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Global games market to reach $184bn in 2022 – Newzoo

GamesIndustry.biz

A new report from Newzoo forecasts that the games market will generate $184 billion in 2022. The estimate represents a 4% decrease year-over-year. The PC Games segement was also predicted for a decline, its poised to make $2 billion this year, down 16% year-over-year. The intelligence firm provided a full breakdown of the global video game market's divisions.

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A Complete Guide to Personally Identifiable Information

Rocket Brush Studio

These days, a lot of businesses operate remotely, which means that employees work outside of their secure corporate networks. Thus, the importance of cybersecurity increases. It safeguards all types of information from loss and damage, including sensitive data and personally identifiable information (PII). It is essential to inform your workforce about typical cyber threats that are used to steal confidential information.

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CMA inquiry shows significant public support of Microsoft-Activision acquisition

Game Developer

The people have spoken.

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The Callisto Protocol is a Doomed Dead Space

Game Wisdom

The Callisto Protocol is a Doomed Dead Space Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com. The Callisto Protocol had a lot of hype surrounding it — from originally being a part of PUBG , to its use of mocap for its actors and actresses. At release, numerous performance issues and people finding problems with the … The post The Callisto Protocol is a Doomed Dead Space appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Call of Duty players file lawsuit to stop Microsoft-Activision merger

Game Developer

Remember, No Merger.

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Michael Blaker’s Bookish Wednesday: “Etched in Bone” by Anne Bishop

Game Industry News

Hey all, I’m back with the fifth book in The Others series that details the lives of the Lakeside Courtyard for this week’s Bookish Wednesday. It’s Anne Bishop’s Etched in Bone. Plot: The plot of this entry slims down in terms of scope following the aftermath of the previous book’s events, which makes sense given what happened.

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Artdink's Triangle Strategy has sold 1 million copies

Game Developer

Strategy for success.

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Layout paddings

Cocos

Put an inner container as a child of your background, and the inner container should have a widget to make sure the padding, then have a layout component for its children layout

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Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Ask a Game Dev

Sure there is. Devs love getting feedback, but we often have to sift the useful stuff from stuff that isn’t particularly useful. That’s one of the reasons we hire community managers. So here are some guidelines to making your feedback useful to us. Some of this might feel a bit counter-intuitive, but I guarantee you that this sort of feedback is the most useful to us. #1.

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Bug with setSiblingIndex()?

Cocos

github.com/cocos/cocos-engine. fixed #12772: Node.pause/resumeSystemEvent not working on native platform. cocos:v3.6.1 ← dumganhar:fix/12772-pause-resume-event. opened 11:38AM - 14 Sep 22 UTC. dumganhar. +8. -0. Re: #12772 ### Changelog * fixed #12772: Node.pause/resumeSystemEvent not … working on native platform. - ### Continuous Integration This pull request: * [ ] needs automatic test cases check. > Manual trigger with `@cocos-robot run test cases` afterward. * [ ] does not change any run

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Аппараты с накопительными джекпотами всегда располагали к себе геймеров. Много пользователей намеренно хотят найти слот-машины, в каких можно забрать щедрую выплату. Это специальная категория видеослотов ресурса, где без проблем можно определить лучшие casino Pin-up игровые автоматы на деньги и бесплатно. Чтоб начать играть в слотах на финансы, требуется создать аккаунт через casino Pin up официальный сайт.

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How Online Casinos Are Rated?

Code with Mike

Online gambling directories are advantageous to both casinos and players. For players who are new to online gambling, they are a great resource for picking the top online casino. The directories also provide a channel for online casinos to connect with potential clients. But how do websites rank in directories […]. The post How Online Casinos Are Rated?

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EU regulators send inquiry to assess concerns over the Microsoft and Activision Blizzard deal

GamesIndustry.biz

EU regulators sent gaming firms an inquiry to gauge concerns about Microsoft's proposed purchase of Activision Blizzard. As reported by Reuters , the European Commission sent a 91-page questionnaire earlier in the month regarding the acquisition. People familiar with the matter said that gaming companies such as publishers and developers were likely to receive the questionnaire.

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Q&A: Jeff Collins on Unity Gaming Services

Game Development News

Vince Pavey spoke to Jeff Collins, senior vice president of engineering at Unity Technologies about the UGS vision for the future of cross-play, and how the company are making it happen.

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Can Video Games Make Students Smarter?

Game Wisdom

Can Video Games Make Students Smarter? Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com. For sure, you have heard an opinion that playing video games gives you nothing good and is just a waste of time; many parents and teachers believe that computer games can only make children violent, cruel, or spoil their eyesight … The post Can Video Games Make Students Smarter?

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Cocos Profile Stats

Cocos

That depends on platform, on web which you inspected, renderer time doesn’t contains GPU time, it’s all the time for the execution of the JavaScript renderer code. However, on native platform renderer time contains GPU time, because the profiler time counter wait until GPU present, which is no way to do on web. Anyway, which our profiler count is mostly CPU time by JavaScript execution, so it matches what you see in Chrome performance.

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Overwatch 2 Stuck on Applying Update Screen Error [Easy Fix]

Game Errors

Recently, Overwatch 2 received its Season 2 update and numerous reports claim that Overwatch 2 stuck on A pplying Update screen glitch which result in a temporary ban. This issue keeps you on the log-in screen and doesn’t appear to be moving forward, which prevents users from continuing the game. Why isn’t Overwatch loading? Players have been pushed to update the new patch, even during the games which cause them to stuck on Applying Update screen.

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Preview in editor mode error on mac(v3.6.0)

Cocos

Looks like editor failed to get setting. Please make sure you turn off global http proxy. If you did,try browser preview,if browser preview is working,I think editor preview should work too.Because they both get the same setting.

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Spheriums

Indie DB

How this lush indie survival game came to be is detailed in the most recent devlog

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V2.4.10. iOS spine crashes

Cocos

Can you reproduce the problem locally? this version have some change for spine, but test no reproduce crash. github.com/cocos/engine-native. fix spine rendering confusion (#4277). committed 09:35AM - 17 Mar 22 UTC. xianyinchen. +12. -1. Re: cocos/2d-tasks#3621 Changelog: * Fix spine JSON boolean value load error …. * Skips rendering slots without active bones.

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Debugging D&I – Amiqus’ Liz Prince speaks to Ukie’s Dom Shaw

Game Development News

Amiqus’ Business Manager Liz Prince speaks to Dom Shaw, EDI coordinator at Ukie who also leads #RaiseTheGame, about the recent Access November initiative.

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Naming convention folders, files CocosCreator style

Cocos

Hey there, On order to get the same name convention with the other developers I would like to know if a naming convention exist for CocosCreator. I know that the folder name resources should be correctly written. Every files and folders should be in snake_case except Typescript files in PascalCase. Example with the Unity Style: GitHub - stillwwater/UnityStyleGuide: For file structure, naming conventions and other things.

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GAME OVER: April 2022

Game Development News

Unreal Engine 5 officially launched for developers not working on Fortnite in April.

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Prefab lost all references on the scene when I update it

Cocos

Hello there, If you add a predab in a scene then your will set property from the scene and when you save the prefab all properties from the scene will be cleared.

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Games of the Year 2022 | Podcast

GamesIndustry.biz

For our final podcast of 2022, the GamesIndustry.biz team gathers around their mics and discusses their favourite games of the year. In addition, we discuss several of the honourable mentions, the titles we've delved deeply into throughout the course of 2022 but haven't quite established themselves as our favourites. You can read our full thoughts on each member of the team's on the site throughout this week.

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Bug with setSiblingIndex()?

Cocos

@Koei I’ve detected that your advice only works on Web preview, not in simulator or phone preview, any suggestions?

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High on Life is 2022's biggest Game Pass launch

GamesIndustry.biz

High on Life has been confirmed as Xbox Game Pass' largest launch of the year, as well as the biggest single-player release on Game Pass since the service launched. According to Xbox, Squanch Games' cartoon shooter is also Game Pass' biggest third-party launch of all time. The title, led by Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland, has been sitting atop Game Pass' most popular games tab since its launch earlier in December.

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Preview in editor mode error on mac(v3.6.0)

Cocos

I don’t know why but now it’s working. I remember trying the middle click of my mouse just before.

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How to enable Cocos Service

Cocos

Hi all, I couldn’t download the SDKHub too. I am using cocos creator 3.5 and I am from Malaysia.

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