October, 2023

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What the hell is going on with video games? | Analysis

GamesIndustry.biz

There appears to be two main story types on GamesIndustry.biz this year. First, there are all these record-breaking sales. Hogwarts Legacy selling 15 million copies in under two months. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom shifting a record-equally ten million games in a weekend. Diablo 4 with its $666 million in five days. Starfield becoming Bethesda's biggest ever launch.

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Unreal Engine Pricing Changes

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine Pricing Changes With the game development world already reeling from the Unity Runtime Fee price change announcement, any talk of price changes for Unreal Engine are bound to cause more than a bit of concern. In a recent presentation, explaining the major layoffs at Epic Games, Epic Games CEO made some announcements … Unreal Engine Pricing Changes Read More The post Unreal Engine Pricing Changes appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Unity CEO John Riccitiello Is OUT

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Unity CEO John Riccitiello Is OUT After the disaster that was the Unity runtime fee announced on September 12th, the Unity developer world was absolutely set on fire. There was massive developer backlash as well as an outright revolt against Unity Ads and IronSource. All the while, the leadership team at Unity were completely silent until … Unity CEO John Riccitiello Is OUT Read More The post Unity CEO John Riccitiello Is OUT appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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COCOON creator Jeppe Carlsen “I never compromise on playability”

PreMortem.Games

Cocoon, the intricate puzzle adventure by Jeppe Carlsen , known as the lead gameplay designer of Limbo and Inside, launched to raving reviews after 6.5 years of development. The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery. Cocoon is the first venture of Geometric Interactive , a Danish indie studio founded by Carlsen and his ex-Playdead colleague, Jakob Schmid.

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Devolver Digital donates to fund for Palestinian relief, encourages others to do the same

Game Developer

Devolver Digital has announced it's making a significant donation to United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Aid, and encouraged others to do the same.

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Halloween Horror Notes: Ross Tregenza on developing the sound of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Game Development News

As candles across the land begin to fill the air with the scent of pumpkin spice and the dark nights come rolling in, it’s the perfect time to shut the curtains, cosy up. and play terrifying games to scare ourselves silly, obviously!

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Frightful Favourites: The GameDev.tv Community’s Top 10 Halloween Game

DameDev.tv

🎃 Halloween is upon us, bringing along its chilling breeze, eerie nights, and the insatiable desire for spine-tingling experiences. For gamers and game developers alike, this is the season to dive into the world of horror games, immersing ourselves in atmospheres filled with suspense, mystery, and pure fright. As the leaves turn and the shadows grow longer, what better way to celebrate than by revisiting some of the most terrifying games ever created?

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Vectorpea Beta Launched

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Vectorpea Beta Launched Photopea is a popular online Adobe Photoshop Clone that basically replicates a large percentage of Photoshop’s functionality in your web browser. It is ad support but otherwise free to use. The creator of Photopea just launched a new project in beta, Vectorpea. Vectorpea is to Adobe Illustrator as Photopea is … Vectorpea Beta Launched Read More The post Vectorpea Beta Launched appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Mind Diver by Indoor Sunglasses “There are shockingly few games about love”

PreMortem.Games

Mind Diver is an intriguing detective game where you travel in time to fix broken memories from a relationship, investigate the events of one fateful night and unravel the case of a lost loved one. It’s the brainchild of six developers from Copenhagen, operating under the name of Indoor Sunglasses. The game is still in early development, but Co-founder and Creative Director Victor Breum firmly believes in the concept: “It’s a delicious detective loop!

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The meaningful choices that made Stray Gods developer Summerfall Studios

Game Developer

During an incredibly candid closing keynote at GCAP 2023, four members of the Summerfall team recalled how the studio has evolved for the better since its inception.

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Porting Unity to CoreCLR

Unity Blog

Unity Engineering Manager for.NET Compilers and Runtimes Josh Peterson walks through the latest efforts the team has gone through to allow the CoreCLR GC to work hand in hand with native engine code.

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Microsoft drops Game Pass growth target for CEO compensation

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox For the first time in three years, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's pay targets did not include a specific growth milestone for Xbox Game Pass. A Microsoft SEC filing , spotted by Axios , instead shows Nadella's only games-related performance-based incentive for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023 was to grow Xbox Content and Services revenue by 4.4%.

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Norsfell builds ‘Tribes of Midgard’ Viking empire with Amazon GameLift

AWS Games

Independent game development studio, Norsfell , was founded in 2013 to forge new genres that bring people together. Now approaching its 10th anniversary, Norsfell has grown from a small startup developing mobile games into a studio with nearly 40 team members who helped launch the award-winning multi-platform game, “ Tribes of Midgard.” Globally released on July 27, 2021, the game has since received 19 updates and counting, ensuring players continue to enjoy a high-quality experience.

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Developer Experiences Moving to Godot from Unity

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Developer Experiences Moving to Godot from Unity In response to Unity’s ill advised Runtime Fee change several Unity developers announced they would be looking at other game engines including Godot. Now more than a month later we have some insight into how the process went for some of these developers. Caves of Qud Among the first developers … Developer Experiences Moving to Godot from Unity Read More The post Developer Experiences Moving to Godot from Unity appea

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Filmustage update: Tag Editor 3.0 & Enhancements

Filmustage

This update doesn't stop here! Discover numerous enhancements across Script , Summary , and Analysis tabs, providing a more intuitive and powerful environment to manage your projects. Let’s explore the slew of features designed to cater to the ever-evolving needs of modern filmmakers: Tag Editor 3.0: A Leap Forward Bulk Tag Operations : Easily group, edit, or delete tags, revolutionizing your script cleanup process after performing your AI breakdown.

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Epic Games cuts almost half of Bandcamp pre-Songtradr sale

Game Developer

Update : A spokesperson for Epic Games clarified to Game Developer that the Bandcamp layoffs aren't new, but part of Epic's previously announced reductions.

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BatchRendererGroup sample: Achieve high frame rate even on budget devices

Unity Blog

Achieve a high frame rate on a budget phone using GLES 3.0 with BatchRendererGroup, C# Job System, and the Burst compiler.

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Microsoft joins the publishing top table | Opinion

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox With the Activision Blizzard acquisition finally going through and the news that Starfield was the top-selling game of September , Microsoft's games ambitions are in a stronger place than they've been for years – arguably, since the first few years of the Xbox 360 era.

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Riot Games and AWS bring esports ‘Win Probability’ stat to 2023 League of Legends World Championships broadcasts

AWS Games

Riot Games , the developer behind League of Legends (LoL), VALORANT , and Wild Rift , in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) will introduce ‘Win Probability’ within the upcoming 2023 League of Legends World Championship broadcast. Analyzing key data points throughout gameplay, the ‘Win Probability’ stat is designed to educate and inform fans as to how teams have fared when in similar competitive scenarios.

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Nightshade – An AI Tool For Artists from Glaze Maker

Game From Scratch

GameFromScratch.com Nightshade – An AI Tool For Artists from Glaze Maker The rise of generative AI art tools such as DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are incredibly powerful but not exactly beloved by artists whose work might be powering these machine learning models, generally without permission. Until now, artists haven’t really had much they could do to fight back.

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New Game Announced! Geneforge 2 - Infestation Coming Soon!

The Bottom Feeder

Celebrating thirty years of doing whatever it is we do! We have officially announced our next game, Geneforge 2 - Infestation ! This is a giant remaster of one of our most popular games, with everything redone and tons of new material. You can learn about it here, see a trailer here, and wishlist it on Steam here. That was blatant self-promotion. There'll be more of it in March, when we release the game for Windows & Mac.

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Doug Bowser says Nintendo of America is too happy to unionize

Game Developer

Bowser believes Nintendo of America has done such a good job of being inclusive and securing proper work/life balance a union isn't needed right now.

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The 25th anniversary issue of MCV/DEVELOP is available to read online now

Game Development News

The full story of how MCV came about and how it's managed to survive in print for 25 years. And some other stuff.

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Spider-Man 2 beats Super Mario Bros Wonder to No.1 | UK Physical Charts

GamesIndustry.biz

Spider-Man 2 beat out competition from Super Mario to claim No.1 in the UK boxed retail charts, GfK data reveals. The PlayStation 5 exclusive had a strong launch. It is the biggest PS5 boxed launch of the year, with sales almost 5% bigger than the previous high point: the PS5 launch of Hogwarts Legacy back in February. Spider-Man 2's launch sales are just over 3% lower than the PS5 launch of God of War Ragnarok, which was the biggest PlayStation launch of all time when it arrived last year.

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REFICUL 666

Indie DB

Reficul 666 Halloween Giveaway! We've got 100 Steam keys to giveaway.

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Mythical’s Web3 NFT racer goes live

Game Daily

Mythical Games’ NFT-based mobile racing game Nitro Nation World Tour (NNWT) is out now on Android and iOS. Developed in partnership with Nitro Nation creator CM Games, NNWT allows players to tour, race, and collect digital vehicles from automakers like Aston Martin, Jaguar, Pagani, and McLaren Automotive, which serves as the game’s season one focus.

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Harebrained Schemes splits off from Paradox, will be independent again in 2024

Game Developer

Paradox acquired Harebrained in 2018, and the pair are breaking up after the tepid performance of Harebrained's new game, The Lamplighters League.

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Unity CEO and president John Riccitiello is leaving the company

Game Developer

Longtime video game industry CEO John Riccitiello—a source of frequent controversy at the companies he's helmed—is leaving Unity.

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Something Wicked Games snaps up former Starfield lead quest designer Will Shen

Game Developer

The former Bethesda Softworks quest designer is now the lead content designer on Something Wicked Games' upcoming game Wyrdsong.

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Report: Unity's Runtime Fee quietly gave large devs exemptions in launch rush

Game Developer

Smaller studios would've taken the biggest hits from Unity's Runtime Fee policy, and also helped it retaliate against would-be merger partner AppLovin.

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Ex-BioWare employees sue studio over "shortchanged" severance

Game Developer

The ex-BioWare workers claim their former employer has refused to properly compensate them for their tenure, with each of them having an average of 14 years at the developer.

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Report: Disney execs keen to acquire a publisher like EA

Game Developer

NBCUniversal and Amazon have reportedly wanted to buy EA in the past, and now Disney executives are allegedly wanting to add the publisher to its portfolio.

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Witch Beam co-founder Sanatana Mishra explains how to interpret feedback from public demos

Game Developer

Witch Beam co-founder Sanatana Mishra explains how to interpret the "deluge" of feedback you'll receive from public demos at shows like PAX.

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Activision Blizzard joins Xbox after Microsoft completes seismic acquisition

Game Developer

Xbox boss Phil Spencer said the two companies will work together as "one team" to bring the "joy and community of gaming to more people.

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