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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Microsoft's large layoffs have drawn the attention (and ire) of the FTC, which has been against its Activision Blizzard merger from the start.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Firesprite Studio staffers say the company took a turn for the worse after becoming a Sony subsidiary, according to a Eurogamer exposé Sources detailed a number of complaints, saying that Firesprite had a more positive studio culture in the past that was dismantled in short order after the acquisition.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Godot Developed Non-Game Applications One of the strong points of the Godot Game engine is it’s use to develop non gaming applications. In the video below we run through 15 non-gaming applications that were developed using the Godot game engine. The applications are: The Godot Editor Material Maker [Learn More] Pixelorama [Learn More] RPG […] The post Godot Developed Non-Game Applications appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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That One Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In this article I will give you an insight on how to include compiled GLSL shaders into your project build step using CMake. The post How to compile shaders with CMake appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Concept Art World

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Concept Art World Dune (2021) Concept Art by Joseph Cross Concept artist Joseph Cross had previously shared some of the concept art he created for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One , starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa and many more. His work features several concepts art pieces for the Fremen crysknife, stillsuit, thumper and stilltent, plus some Harkonnen costume and helmet designs.

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The Astronauts

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Two months ago I started to contribute a bit of code to Blender’s Video Sequence Editor (VSE). Did you know that Blender has a suite of video editing tools? Yeah, me neither :) Even the feature page for it on the website looks… a bit empty lol. Do I know anything at all about video editing, timelines, sequencers, color grading, ffmpeg, audio mixing and so on?

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The tiny team making the spooky survival sedan driving game Pacific Drive explains how their procedural terrain tech supercharged the game's artist and level designers.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Unity China Has Nanite and Lumen Like Features There was an interesting discussion over on the Unity forums about features that are appearing only in the Chinese version of Unity. Unity China was formed as a joint venture in 2022 and as part of that formation, part of their purpose was: In the short term, Unity China will […] The post Unity China Has Nanite and Lumen Like Features appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Development News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Rocket Brands has announced plans to grow with the public launch of new online gaming community platforms Skape.gg and Cre8tor.

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Concept Art World

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Concept Art World Mooncolony Mooncolony is a concept art and illustration studio based in Cambridge, UK, founded by Emrah Elmasli. They bring together leading artists and visionaries to provide premium 2D art outsourcing services to the video game industry. These services include concept art, illustration, character design, marketing art and art direction.

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Neo6502 is a “Modern Retro Computer” – a brand new single board computer that features a real 6502 microprocessor – designed by Olimex. Rather than the original 6502 , it comes with a modern W65C02S on board. w65c02 microprocessor RP2040 A RP2040 provides memory, clock, and peripheral emulation. Kind of like what I did with my homebrew Z80 breadboard computer !

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If game designers are to have any success combating toxicity, we must acknowledge that our own design choices are often the underlying systemic cause, and that it is our responsibility to change them.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Electronic Arts today announced that it is laying off approximately 5% of its employees as it leans in on the parts of the business it feels will be the most successful in the years to come. In its most recent annual report, the publisher gave its headcount as 13,400 as of the end of March 2023, which would put the job losses around 670 people. The cuts are just one part of the company's restructuring plan, which also includes closing some offices and sunsetting certain live games, like the prev

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Disney Make $1.5B Investment in Epic Games Disney have just announced they are making a $1.5 Billion dollar investment in Epic Games and announced a massive partnership in both Fortnite and Unreal Engine usage. This is not the first major company to take an investment stake in Epic Games with Sony making a $250M investment back in […] The post Disney Make $1.5B Investment in Epic Games appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Many PC games are designed around an eight-core console with an assumption that their software threading system ‘just works’ on all PCs, especially. Many PC games are designed around an eight-core console with an assumption that their software threading system ‘just works’ on all PCs, especially regarding the number of threads in the worker thread pool.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

­In today’s global interconnected world, organizations often find themselves distributed across various geographical locations. It all begins as a small local studio, where artists collaborate in a single physical location, relying on local storage solutions like network-attached storage (NAS). As the studio begins to gain momentum and expand to a globally connected organization with studios in multiple locations the adoption of global file systems (GFS) becomes important.

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Retro Game Coders

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Programming the Neo6502 in C? Yes please! Dungeon game written in C/C++ for the Neo6502 Bit of Background Before We Code the Neo6502 In my Neo6502 review I promised I would come back and write about how to code for the machine. Well, first I had to help the contribution team, especially the fabulous Paul Robson , with a tiny issue that I do most of my development on a Mac and there wasn’t yet a MacOS version of the emulator!

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Disney has announced it's acquiring a massive $1.5 billion equity stake in Epic Games. It also plans to collaborate on an "all-new games and entertainment universe" with the Fortnite developer.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Remedy has reacquired the rights to its hit action game Control from 505 Games. The Finnish video game developer now owns the rights to the hit 2019 action game, alongside its upcoming sequel and the multiplayer co-operative spin-off game Condor. 505 Games will continue as the publisher of the original Control until December 31, 2024. The cost of the deal is €17 million, which is the amount that 505 Games had invested in the development of Control 2 and Condor.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Visual Studio Code January Update The Visual Studio Code team have just released the somewhat oddly named January Update and it expands on one of the greatest new features of the recent (also oddly named) November update. That release gave Visual Studio Code the long awaited ability to break off code tabs to their own … Visual Studio Code January Update Read More The post Visual Studio Code January Update appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A majority of editorial and creative employees at IGN are unionizing to secure better pay, protections from layoffs, and "measurable steps" to increase staff diversity.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

"The games industry bloodletting continues. Today, Visual Concepts Austin laid off myself and a group of very talented developers.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Costs are down, revenues are up, and its stock has never been higher—yet Microsoft still laid off nearly 2,000 developers.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

There is great potential for video game companies to use this digital future to promote better-preserved products, but they must choose to respect the consumer’s right to ownership.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The other day I was told that my writing is appreciated and that I need to write more… so I’m taking a moment to write about a rabbit hole that I’ve fallen down since working on BlueSuburbia!

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

"Adam dedicated himself to his beloved craft and we consider ourselves so incredibly lucky and forever grateful that he transported us all to those beautiful worlds he dreamed.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

During her 30-year career in games, McWilliams worked on a number of games such as Gears of War 4, Free Realms, and Deal or No Deal.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

"In the face of a challenging environment, we now have no choice but to pause development on that project and reduce the company size.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Good level design must support the actual game mechanics – this affects both level design, and ultimately, player enjoyment. This article shows how we do things with our popular multiplayer mobile shooter game War Robots.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As it approaches its one-year anniversary, the worker-led AEGIS union will be hit hard by Sega of America's layoffs in the coming weeks.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Under this specific agreement, indie studios can now work with union performers, provided they meet the right budget requirements.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The publisher is implementing a sweeping restructuring plan that will also result in project cancellations and office closures.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

IGN's parent company Ziff Davis has willingly recognized IGN's Creators Guild, made up of 80 staffers across its creative and editorial teams.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Several Cloud Imperium staffers have left in the past month, with many of them longtime veterans working in key positions.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Reality Labs continues to lose billions each quarter, and Meta now expects those losses to "increase meaningfully year-over year.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

"Our overruling principle is to always maximize shareholder value in any given situation.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

'The act of over-hiring to then do layoffs is a horrible practice and a bad experience for employees.

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