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Bethesda Game Studios Montreal workers are trying to unionize

Game Developer

'We aim to make sure everyone receives fair compensation for their work and the value they provide.

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Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori takes equestrian gaming to 13th century Mongolia

PreMortem.Games

The upcoming Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori marks a significant departure from the familiar settings of this long-running horse-riding series. Traditionally set in modern-day Germany, the new game transports players to 13th century Mongolia. Here, they will build and cultivate their nomad camp and undertake missions as an ancient courier rider, delivering packages across the diverse Mongolian landscape.

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Announcing Stars Reach

Raph Koster

I t’s been years of work, and we are far from done, but I am super happy to finally reveal what I have been working on at Playable Worlds: Stars Reach. This is the game I have wanted to make for nearly thirty years. It is the spiritual sequel to Ultima Online and to Star Wars Galaxies. It has in it all the lessons of all these decades of online game development — and it looks forward, not back, to reinvent what an online world can be.

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Bethesda Montreal files for unionisation

GamesIndustry.biz

Bethesda Game Studios Montreal has filed to unionise with the Communications Workers of America. The BGS Montreal union announced yesterday in a thread on social media that they filed for certification with the Quebec Labour Board. "As a union, we will strive to make BGS a supportive workplace that fosters creativity and talent," it wrote. "This will allow us to keep creating some of the best video games in the industry in the jobs and studios we all love.

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Opinion: Dr Disrespect's ousting should be a wake-up call for devs

Game Developer

Dr Disrespect's sponsors should have seen his behavior coming from a mile away.

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Car Company Tycoon 1.6.5

Indie DB

Car Company Tycoon has been refreshed! Welcome a major update that includes an advanced car creation editor with over 200 new parts and tire customization, the long-awaited rotary engine, balanced characteristics, updated graphics, and a new minimalist.

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AI-enhanced Strategies for Mobile App Security Testing

Rocket Brush Studio

Explore how AI-powered techniques improve mobile app security testing. Learn about advanced threat detection, automated vulnerability analysis, and adaptive security measures. QASource leverages these strategies to ensure robust protection for mobile applications.

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Yves Guillemot denounces Assassin's Creed Shadows' racist, 'malicious' backlash

Game Developer

Weeks of racist backlash over Assassin's Creed Shadows prompted Guillemot to speak out and encourage the larger industry to not let this behavior stand.

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Stellar Squadron - New Starfighters

Indie DB

Two new starfighters have been added to Stellar Squadron and numerous improvements after months of development.

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Button City by Subliminal Gaming wins the 2024 Diverse Voices, New Stories Challenge

PreMortem.Games

Games for Change , in partnership with HP and Google Play, announced the winners of the second annual Diverse Voices, New Stories Challenge at the 2024 Games for Change Festival. The challenge is an initiative to improve representation and increase visibility for underrepresented game developers in the mobile gaming industry. Four mobile games from indie studios in the U.S., Europe and Africa received awards for ‘innovative stories, highly engaging gameplay, and real-world impact’.

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SAG-AFTRA announces fourth tier to new indie dev contract

GamesIndustry.biz

SAG-AFTRA has announced a new tier in its Independent Interactive Media Agreement. As part of this agreement, studios that have a project budget between $15 million and $30 million will benefit from union coverage, provisions against AI, and access to unionised voice actors and performers. Actors will be provided with informed consent and compensation for the use of digital replicas, and will be provided with additional payments based on the number of units sold.

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59 percent of devs say industry in 'bad' straits, blame investors and mismanagement

Game Developer

As the game indstry continues through these difficult times, those surveyed by the Game Developers Collective believe they know the real core problems of the industry.

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FUMES Gameplay Trailer

Indie DB

New FUMES gameplay trailer has been featured on PC Gaming Show 2024. Check it out!

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Horror game POOLS filtered the negatives out by keeping the demo up after release

PreMortem.Games

Author: Michal Napora of 32-33 Should you take your demo down before the game comes out? Usually Steam marketeers would advise you to do so, but sometimes it’s smart not to listen to the experts and do the opposite. A couple of months ago I worked on the liminal spaces psychological horror POOLS from developer Tensori. The game came out at the end of April 2024, and since its release, it gathered a healthy 2.100 Steam User Reviews with an even healthier 94% User rating.

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Gamescom Latam: "With no E3, we're the biggest games event in the Americas"

GamesIndustry.biz

The first ever Gamescom Latam is off to a strong start in São Paulo, Brazil, with over 100,000 consumers and some of the biggest companies in games in attendance. Announced earlier this year , the event is the result of a merger between Gamescom and the long-running Brazil Indie Games Festival (or BIG Festival). It opened with a business-only day yesterday (Wednesday, June 26) and runs through Sunday, July 30.

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Predatory tactics in gaming are worse than you think

Game Developer

I want to shed light on a tactic that involves collecting data as you play, feeding this data into complex algorithms and models that then alter the rules of your game under the hood to optimize spending opportunities.

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Prince of Thieves Alpha 2 available!

Indie DB

Prince of Thieves (2024) is a personal reinterpretation of a project developed in 2016 for Public Domain Jam 3. It is an early 80s style fixed screen arcade game, designed with the philosophy of reviving classic video games.

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What Are Quality Gates?

Perforce

Quality gates stop poor quality code from proceeding to the next stage of development. Learn about what is a quality gate, how quality gates work in the DevOps pipeline, and how static analysis tools enforce high quality code.

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How you can tap into the AI revolution to make games more efficiently | GI Sprint

GamesIndustry.biz

No industry has been left untouched by the looming presence of artificial intelligence – and gaming is no exception. But the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney have somewhat obfuscated the fact that AI has been influencing development in one way or another since at least the 1980s. There is a broad consensus that AI is "new" to the space, says Tommy Thompson, director of consultancy firm AI and Games, speaking on a panel as part of our new GI Sprint series about how to

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SNK opens development studio in Singapore

Game Developer

The Fatal Fury developer said it wants to become a 'top 10 global publisher' within the next decade.

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AMA with Anima Flux

Indie DB

Hey everyone, Our game, Anima Flux, is now in its final stage of development, and to mark this milestone, we're hosting an AMA session starting on June 12th. Our developers, game designer, and community manager are here to answer all your questions.

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Kind Games: The GDC Talk

Lost Garden

I presented the Kind Games paper at GDC 2024! I found out afterwards that it ended up being a completely full session with (checks analytics) 140 people in the audience and 94% of respondent rating it Excellent. 6% rated it only Good. Well, at least there’s still room for improvement.

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The benefits of working remotely | GI Sprint

GamesIndustry.biz

During the pandemic, studios quickly adapted to working remotely. This way of operating seems to have stuck, with many studios opting to stay fully remote rather than returning to the office. Two developers that have adopted this way of work are Bossa Studios and FuturLab, both based in the UK with employees working remotely worldwide. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz for GI Sprint , Bossa co-founder and CEO Henrique Olifiers and FuturLab head of production Toby Adam-Smith discuss the benefits of w

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Perfect World cuts staff in multi-unit layoffs, reportedly suspends game projects

Game Developer

The Chinese tech giant is said to be making mass reductions after declining fiscal year profits, and it's unclear what this means for the games it's making.

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Everwayne

Indie DB

Welcome to the Everwayne community We aim to earn the trust of future players, so this fantasy world with unique characters is hand-drawn.

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Unleashing Potential: Summer Coding Camps Foster Leadership Skills in Kids

Real Programming

Kids learn a lot more than the course material from their classes. The class may revolve around learning French, science, literature, history, or whatever else, but students absorb many indirect, secondary lessons. The public school system is designed not merely to impart domain knowledge to kids, but to help them socialize and collaborate with their peers, to become more engaged citizens , neighbours, and people.

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Report of mass layoffs at Gameloft Toronto

GamesIndustry.biz

Update : Gameloft has confirmed layoffs to GamesIndustry.biz , with a spokesperson saying it was "necessary" for the studio to "implement a reduction in workforce" due to the current situation of the games market. "As a company, we need to constantly review our production capacities," the statement read. "After careful consideration and in response to the ever-changing market conditions we are facing, it has become necessary to implement a reduction in workforce.

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Double Fine and Undead Labs vets launch experimental web game studio

Game Developer

'Our goal is to whip up small, experimental prototypes at lightning speed.

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The Mobius Machine Update 1.1

Indie DB

The Mobius Machine Update 1.1.0 is live on Steam, Playstation5 and Xbox Series. This update adds new bosses, new itema, new shortcuts and maybe even a possibility to change the fate of our intrepid explorer.

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My 3 Steps to Successful ERP Testing

Perforce

Get ready to achieve successful ERP testing with the Discover-Test-Protect approach. In this blog, Jim Dugger takes a deep dive into this unique testing method.

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How to support performance actors during game development

GamesIndustry.biz

At the recent BAFTA Games Mental Health Summit, a panel of actors discussed what they'd like to see improve in the industry to benefit their mental wellbeing as performers. Hosted by performance capture and voice director Kate Saxon, the panel featured actors Doug Cockle (The Witcher), Alix Wilton Regan (Assassin's Creed Origins), Jessica Hayles (Dead Island 2), and Robert Gilbert (Ghost Recon Breakpoint).

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Gameloft Toronto staff laid off after studio 'substantially' reduces production activity

Game Developer

The company didn't disclose how many employees have lost their jobs, but it's being reported that almost 50 people have been made redundant.

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KHROMAGICK - prototype released

Indie DB

This new update brings the final details about the development of KHROMAGICK prototype! Check it out!

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Godot Community Poll 2024

Mircosoft Game Dev

We want to learn more about the Godot community, understand who the users of the engine are, and find out how we can better support you.

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More users choosing to play games on Steam with controllers

GamesIndustry.biz

More players are choosing to use a controller while playing games on Steam, according to Valve. In an update issued by Valve , it found that since 2018 daily average controller use has increased from 5% to 15%, with 42% of these sessions involving Steam Input, which allows players to use different types of controllers. There are over 300 supported controllers that players can use on Steam.

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Midnight Society ousts co-founder Dr Disrespect over 'allegation'

Game Developer

The studio said it has cut ties with the popular streamer 'to maintain our principles and standards as a studio and individuals.

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Modding Tools available for Homeworld 3

Indie DB

Homeworld 3 Mod Tools & Editor now available for download, with in-game integration for Skirmish Maps.

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