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Alan Wake 2 has recouped most of its development and marketing expenses

Game Developer

Remedy is now preparing to enter the world of self-publishing.

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Black Ops 6 does the business for Microsoft | Opinion

GamesIndustry.biz

By pretty much any estimation, the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has been a huge success for Microsoft. Precise figures are understandably somewhat elusive at this stage, but CEO Satya Nadella was able to be unreservedly effusive in his remarks about the launch on the company's earnings call this week.

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard opens as BioWare's best Steam launch with 70K concurrent players

Game Developer

Along with topping BioWare's other games, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is EA's biggest single-player game on Valve's platform.

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Unity appoints Alex Blum as COO

GamesIndustry.biz

Unity has announced the appointment of Alex Blum as chief operating officer.

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UK union IWGB Game Workers launches manifesto after topping 1,500 members

Game Developer

'We envision a future where job insecurity, long unpaid hours, and inadequate compensation are a thing of the past.

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Halloween special • How DreamPlus Games makes $2M per month on Twilight-hype

PreMortem.Games

by Diana Levintova – AppMagic As we were fishing for some eerie Halloween mood, one of the titles caught our attention by confidently holding its position in both Top Grossing and Top Free rankings since early January 2023 (and actively boosting its revenue in the past few months): the Game of Vampires: Twilight Sun by DreamPlus Games. It is an RPG Empire Builder with vampire vibes: a clan of vampires and other supernatural creatures is tasked with defending their kingdom from pesky rivals

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Roblox boasts 'exceptional' revenue and players for 2024's third quarter

Game Developer

Roblox Corp. also used its new financials to reiterate its investment in 'technology, policies, and partnerships to pursue the highest standards of trust and safety on our platform.

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Call of Duty helps Xbox Game Pass to quarterly revenue record

Game Developer

Microsoft has revealed its first quarter results for fiscal year 2025, highlighting Game Pass figures and Call of Duty Black Ops 6's big launch, but hardware revenue continues to decline.

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UFO50, the Only Game You'll Ever Need

The Bottom Feeder

Party House is just about perfect. I think it could be expanded into its own title, but why? Let a perfect 3 hours stay a perfect 3 hours. When I'm between writing games, I spend a lot of time playing them. (Huge thanks to everyone for an awesome result for our Avernum 4: Greed and Glory Kickstarter. If you missed it, you can still back it.) Part of the reason I play the hot new games is, of course, to find ideas to steal.

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Fake it til’ you make it - faking extended draw distance in mobile games

Game Developer

How Block City Wars developers use shaders and fog effects to fake distant objects, optimizing draw distance for better performance.

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IWGB Game Workers launches first manifesto

GamesIndustry.biz

The IWGB Game Workers union has published its first manifesto, calling for improvements in pay, working hours, and job security for UK-based video game developers.

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The History of the Commodore 64 in Twelve Objects #1: The Commodore 64 itself

Jesper Juul

The most popular computer, yet often forgotten. Why? On the occasion of my upcoming book Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodor 64 Computer , I am writing The History of the Commodore 64 in Twelve Objects , posted weekly from November 1 st , 2024: Object #1: The Commodore 64 itself , known affectionately as the breadbox for its shape. Launched in 1982, following the Commodore company’s successful VIC-20 computer (1980).

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Respawn blocks Apex Legends on platforms using Linux including Steam Deck

GamesIndustry.biz

Respawn has blocked Linux OS access to Apex Legends, affecting players using Steam Deck.

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The Complete Guide to Unity Game Engine

Starloop Studios

Unity game engine is one of the gaming industry’s premier game engines, used by development studios for everything from small-scale independent games to AAA titles. With its robust documentation, community support, and relative ease of use, it’s no wonder why it’s considered a go-to engine for game makers of all shapes and sizes. [.] The post The Complete Guide to Unity Game Engine appeared first on Starloop Studios.

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Roblox bookings jump to $1.1bn in Q3

GamesIndustry.biz

Roblox has released its third quarter financial results for 2024, which saw a significant increase in bookings due to "unusually high growth" in its console business.

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Maximum number of sprites?

Cocos

I’m loading multiple spritesheets, and this year, I’m trying to load a lot more layers to support jersey numbers. However, I’m not seeing all the sprites loaded, and I I shifted the order to check if it was a problem in the images, but that’s not it. It seems that I’m hitting some sort of limit? Is there a limit with the number of sprites or perhaps I’m hitting a memory limit?

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Discord management platform Levellr raises $1.75m in funding round

GamesIndustry.biz

Discord community management platform Levellr has raised $1.75 million in a funding round.

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Final Fantasy, Consensual Play and more with Kathleen Morrissey

Keith Burgun

Hi everyone! I come to you with another great conversation, with another super cool person that I met at the Alt-F4: Rebooting Community After Gamergate conference: Kathleen Morrissey. Kathleen is working on a PhD in computational media over at Worchester Polytechnic Institute, she’s done all kinds of awesome academic stuff on the subjects of games, media studies, critical theory analysis and a lot more.

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