Game Developer

JANUARY 20, 2023

The larger Halo franchise may receive another shakeup in the aftermath of layoffs and changing plans.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Vox Media is laying off 130 employees, 7% of its workforce today, a decision attributed to economic challenges. As reported by CNN , the news comes from a memo CEO Jim Bankoff sent out to staff.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 20, 2023

Crystal Dynamics' superhero-RPG is reportedly disassembling soon.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Valorant and League of Legends firm Riot Games joins the growing list of companies to have made redundancies in the past few weeks. The layoffs were first revealed by esports reporter Jacob Wolf via Twitter , before Riot confirmed the news in a statement to GamesIndustry.biz sister site Rock Paper Shotgun.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 20, 2023

There'll be so many Nintendo Switches out on the market, you'll be sick of them.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Google is joining Microsoft and Amazon in instituting a wave of mass layoffs, as the company this morning said it would be cutting 12,000 jobs. As reported by CNBC , Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in a Friday morning memo that the cuts would begin immediately in the US, while other countries would take longer "due to local laws and practices.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox GameSpot and Giant Bomb are the latest media publications to be struck by layoffs. The news emerged last night, with various members of both teams announcing they were now unemployed via social media. Kotaku reported the layoffs were announced to staff during an unscheduled company-wide meeting led by Perkins Miller, CEO of the sites' parent company Fandom.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 20, 2023

More layoffs across the tech industry.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Sony has announced additional titles slated to launch in 2023 for its PlayStation VR2 console. The news comes months after the platform holder revealed its $550 price tag and February 22 launch date.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 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 beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Fixes to CanvasItem draw methods to better handled lines of different widths and filled rectangles ( GH-41239 , GH-71623 , GH-71679 ).

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Reed Hastings, Netflix's co-founder, has exited from the firm after 25 years. In the announcement , Hastings said he would pivot to an executive chairman role.

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Game Development for Beginners

JANUARY 20, 2023

Unity Cinemachine was launched along with Unity 2017.1 and was immediately praised by developers. Unity Cinemachine made the Unity Camera smart and lot of camera tricks that required coding could be done with ease. But beginner Unity users still create these effects with code because they are not familiar with Cinemachine. In this tutorial, we.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The news that the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to adopt a report by MEP Adriana Maldonado López calling for tighter regulation of video games and their business models does not exactly make for relaxing headlines for the games industry. Many people in the industry have a knee-jerk reaction to the prospect of any kind of regulatory oversight, and for good reason.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 20, 2023

Architectural visualization has soared in popularity over the past few years, riding the wave of technological advancements in 3D modeling and rendering. Used much more widely than its name implies, architectural visualization processes are employed across myriad industries — from building and construction to film and video games to product design and VR.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

AI is a touchy topic. Last year, I went to Montreal for a Haven Studios presentation on how the PlayStation-owned developer is working to apply machine learning and generative AI technology to games. After the presentation, I had a group interview with Haven's Jade Raymond and Leon O'Reilly along with PS5 hardware architect Mark Cerny. I wanted to follow-up on something he said during the presentation about how the technology might lead to reducing dev team sizes and companies making their games

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Game Errors

JANUARY 20, 2023

You could perhaps run into Hueneme Concord error MW2 or Warzone 2 which is preventing you from connecting to the game servers. Xbox, PS4, PS5, and PC users encountered this error. Don’t worry if you run into a Connection Failed error while enjoying your game, we have a few fixes that will solve the problem quickly. What does Hueneme Concord mean?

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

GamesIndustry.biz Game Changers is a series of profiles on the groups and individuals going the extra mile to make the games industry a better place. These interviews encompass folks from around the world helping to improve conditions and attitudes towards diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, mental health and more. You can read more Game Changers interviews here.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 20, 2023

The Unreal Engine powered game creation platform Playcraft is now available.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

GamesIndustry.biz Game Changers is a series of profiles on the groups and individuals going the extra mile to make the games industry a better place. These interviews encompass folks from around the world helping to improve conditions and attitudes towards diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, mental health and more. You can read more Game Changers interviews here.

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OPM Jobs

JANUARY 20, 2023

We’re delighted to announce that we are changing our business name to One Player Mission and have a new website to go with it. Way back in 1998, our Managing Director, Kim had a computer, a desk, and a dream to open her own recruitment agency in the games industry. The only thing that stood in the way was a lack of funds to get the operation going.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Nintendo is reportedly planning to ramp up Switch production in the next fiscal year. Sources close to the matter told Bloomberg that the platform holder has already told suppliers and assembly partners it expects to manufacture more units of its console than in the current financial year.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Most of the time, low morale is the result of the absence of sufficient things that give workers job satisfaction. Thus, providing more of those things (within the power of the leadership) will generally boost morale. For individuals, this can often mean things like feeling valued, having their work acknowledged, getting promoted, getting salary increases.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Bruce Straley, game director on Naughty Dog's 2013 action game The Last of Us, is not credited on HBO's recent live-action adaptation of the series, and he's not happy about it. In an LA Times story this week that described his relationship with Naughty Dog as strained, the Wildflower Interactive founder said the show's lack of acknowledgement for his contributions has him re-thinking the debate over unionization in the industry.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 20, 2023

Winter holidays have come to an end, and filmmakers are returning to their working routine in anticipation of another spring filming season. While we are waiting for the results of the Oscar nomination 2023 and look forward to the European Film Market (EFM) Filmustage is ready to present new functionality that will significantly improve the quality of your work.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is a 4X strategic gameplay created by Firaxis Games that run on multiple operating systems with numerous players. Since its launch on the market, the players reported launching errors on different forums. The Civ 6 world is a complex game and it has multiple elements regarding your map and strategy. In any case, players are facing launching errors on their devices and the game simply won’t start.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 20, 2023

The demo for this high-stakes hide-and-seek horror indie is available

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Game Errors

JANUARY 20, 2023

Does your PC keep crashing when playing COD Warzone 2? This problem may be caused by numerous factors including out-of-date GPU drivers, corrupted game files, or a computer that doesn’t fulfill the system requirements. Keep in mind that you will need to carry out various steps of troubleshooting actions in order to resolve the COD Warzone 2 crashing issue.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 20, 2023

This singleplayer strategy game enters early access

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Game Errors

JANUARY 20, 2023

Several players who are experiencing the PS5 error code NP-104602-3 problem are unable to play online games or connect to the network on their PlayStation consoles. If you are one of the unlucky PS5 users that are getting error code NP-104602-3, this article is for you. Here we will go into detail about what causes this error code and suggest effective methods to help you fix it in order to resume streaming or simply playing on your PS5.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 20, 2023

Check out our DBolical review of this modder-made survival horror indie!

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