African mobile game publisher Carry1st nets $27M in funding
Game Developer
JANUARY 17, 2023
Carry1st, which published Call of Duty: Mobile in South Africa, plans to use its newly raised money to license more games and develop its own.
Game Developer
JANUARY 17, 2023
Carry1st, which published Call of Duty: Mobile in South Africa, plans to use its newly raised money to license more games and develop its own.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Unity Technologies is laying off 284 people, the company confirmed to the Wall Street Journal today. In a letter to employees about the cuts, Unity CEO John Riccitiello explained, "We reassessed our objectives, strategies, goals and priorities in light of the current economic conditions. While we remain focused on the same vision, we decided that we need to be more selective in our investments to come out stronger as a company.".
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Game Developer
JANUARY 17, 2023
"Because Mr. Guillemot and his clique only understand the relationship of power, Solidaires Informatique is calling on the employees of Ubisoft Paris to go on strike.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox. There is a level of anxiety around the video games market at the moment. Last year's results were a mixed bag. Console sales fell in some markets sharply, mostly due to stock shortages for PlayStation 5. Read more.
Game Developer
JANUARY 17, 2023
Now that it's the most successful game in Ubisoft's 25-year-old city builder series, Anno 1800 is the first entry in the series to be ported to consoles.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
At one point in time – many years ago now – it was probably a shock when print publications were closed down. These days, that is sadly not true. Over recent years, we’ve seen countless game magazines shutting their doors. Usually, it’s for the same reason: circulation dropping as a result of people preferring to read coverage online or in video form.
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Perforce
JANUARY 17, 2023
In this blog, our experts give tips for writing better SRS documents, including detailed software requirements specification examples.
Game Developer
JANUARY 17, 2023
The new string of layoffs at Unity come after its acquisition of IronSource, and the layoffs it previously made in summer 2022.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Microsoft plans to incorporate artificial intelligence products from ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 maker OpenAI in all of its products, CEO Satya Nadella said in a panel interview with the Wall Street Journal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland today. "We will incorporate this in our own applications, so you can fully expect us to obviously [use AI]," Nadella said.
Game Developer
JANUARY 17, 2023
"The Government’s failure to grasp both the opportunities and risks is baffling.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
African mobile games publisher Carry1st announced it has raised $27 million in funding. The company said the investment will expand its business operations and game development. Bitkraft Ventures led the funding, while Andreesen Horowitz, TTV Capital, Alumni Ventures, Lateral Capital, Kepple Ventures, and Konvoy participated. Read more.
Game Developer
JANUARY 17, 2023
NetEase chose not to extend its long-standing partnership with the company for another six months.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox. According to tracking firm NPD's latest report, US games sales in 2022 totaled $57 billion; the figure represents a 5% decline compared to 2021, which amassed $60 billion. Software comprised most of the year's revenue (84%), with game content spending reaching $47.5 billion in 2022.
Game Developer
JANUARY 17, 2023
Apparently, war is good for downloading onto your PS5.
Game Development News
JANUARY 17, 2023
Nominations for the MCV Women in Games 2023 awards show will end later this week.
Game Developer
JANUARY 17, 2023
Respawn's tweaks to its matchmaking system aim to make Apex Legends less of an uphill battle for more green and inexperienced players.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
FIFA 23 topped the charts in a very quiet week for UK boxed game sales. GfK data shows FIFA sales dropped 20% week-on-week, but it still jumped to No.1 because God of War Ragnarok's sales fell 38%. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 holds third place (sales down 15%), while Mario Kart 8: Deluxe is still at No.4 (sales down 22%). Rounding off the Top Five is Nintendo Switch Sports, which moved up a spot despite sales falling 26%.
Game From Scratch
JANUARY 17, 2023
GameFromScratch.com. Unity 3D Game Development Super Humble Bundle by Packt. There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Unity 3D Game Development Super Bundle by Packt. This bundle is a collection of ebooks and video courses (with supporting project files) for both the Unity game engine and on using Blender for game development.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox. Activision Blizzard has said it asked NetEase to delay the end of the long-running partnership between the two companies – whereby the handled publishing and operations for key Blizzard titles in China – but NetEase declined. Reuters reported Blizzard China posted a statement on Chinese social media platform Weibo, in which it said it contacted NetEase last with with a proposal for an extension.
Deconstructor of Fun
JANUARY 17, 2023
Shorts are analyses and opinion pieces originally published as a part of our weekly newsletter. If you’re not one of the 10,000 subscribers of our newsletter, tap here! State of the Mobile Games Market The Western mobile games market , which we broadly analyze by removing the Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean markets from the numbers, saw overall installs climb by 14% to 47.5B while the net revenues declined by 11% to $38.2B.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Video game sales dropped 10.3% to 269.5 billion yuan ($39.7 billion) in China in 2022. It's the first time the market has decreased in the country since figures first started being reported in 2003, the South China Morning Post reported. The number of players also slightly decreased 0.33% to 664 million, according to figures from analytics firm CNG published by government body Gaming Publishing Committee of the China Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association.
Game Errors
JANUARY 17, 2023
Space Engineers is a space-themed sandbox and simulation game. The game has engineering, construction, exploration, and survival features that make it exciting to play. Unfortunately, more players have been complaining about the Space Engineers projector not working. This article will explain how you can fix the problem and get Space Engineers on track again. .
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox. HBO's The Last of Us live-action adaptation pulled in 4.7 million US viewers with its first episode. As reported by Variety , per Nielsen ratings and Warner Bros. Discovery data, the series' debut was second to Game of Thrones: House of Dragons. Read more.
Artoon
JANUARY 17, 2023
Online gaming is one of the most successful industries in recent years. […]. The post How to Start an Online Gaming Website For Your Business? appeared first on Artoon Solutions.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
French union Solidaires Informatique today called for a half-day strike at Ubisoft Paris in response to a change in strategy Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot articulated last week alongside a number of game cancellations and a slashed financial forecast for the publisher. The group's call for a strike referenced comments made in a call with investors last week to trim operating costs "through targeted restructuring, divesting some non-core assets and usual natural attrition.".
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
The Nintendo Switch has become the best selling console of all time in France. According to French publication Le Figaro , the Switch has sold 7.09 million units in the country since its launch in 2017, taking over the record previously held by the Nintendo Wii. The latter had been the record holder for the past decade, having sold 6.3 million units.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox. The House of Lords has warned the government that it must not get complacent when it comes to the UK's creative industries, urging better support in order to remain globally competitive. The House published a new report by its communications committee today, in which it laid out recommendations for ways the government can bolster the growth of games, film, TV, music and other creative business in the UK.
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 17, 2023
With the first Godot 4.0 Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This week we release a new batch of improvements and fixes, as well as some new features.
GamesIndustry.biz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Benoît Sokal died in May of 2021. While he was a celebrated comic artist in his own right, the gaming world knew him best as the creative force behind the Syberia adventure game series. At the time of his death, he was working on the fourth installment in the series, Syberia: The World Before, which was still almost a year away from completion.
Rocket Brush Studio
JANUARY 17, 2023
ETL automation is rapidly becoming an essential part of any modern business's toolkit. This process enables businesses to extract, transform, and load data from multiple sources into a single system, allowing for faster and more efficient data analysis. This kind of automation also helps businesses save time and money by eliminating manual processes such as data entry and data cleansing.
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