Game Developer

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Prior to their leaving, both Chester and Dunham were key marketing and publishing staff for Epic Games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Microsoft has been issued with a formal antitrust warning from the European Union concerning its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Sources told Politico a statement of objections was sent to the Xbox firm on Tuesday, in which the European Commission's antitrust enforcers detailed their concerns over the $68.7 billion deal.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Discover what’s inside the new Memory Profiler 1.0.0, which delivers improvements to the profiling suite, offers a more complete view of memory usage, and makes it easier to optimize performance or detect memory issues.

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Technology 138

Game Development for Beginners

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Unity Line Renderer is a powerful tool that allows you to create and render lines in Unity. You can use it to create a wide range of visual effects, from simple lines to complex shapes and patterns. The Line Renderer component takes in an array of points for customizing the shape of the lines.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The publisher has settled charges with the SEC over its handling of misconduct complaints and violation of whistleblower protection rules.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A Blizzard employee alleges that the culture at Proletariat studio has not progressed since they joined in 2019. In a series of posts on Twitter , senior graphics engineer Benny Wilson explained that staffers were openly disrespected.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this two-part interview, we discuss best practices for mobile UI design with Outfit7’s Aleksander Gregorka and Maja Nadvešnik, Samsung’s Søren Klit Lambaek, and Unity’s own Benoit Dupuis and Stefania Valoroso.

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Mobile Mobile Games 121

Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2023

Roblox ' Creator Hub has recruitment tools now. Vice president of engineering Nick Tornow explains why.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Sony has unveiled its financial results for the three months ended December 31, 2022 – which is its Q3 for FY2022 – with God of War Ragnarok driving a very strong quarter for PlayStation. Sony saw a healthy increase in sales compared to the same period the year before, which it attributed to "significant increases" in its Game & Network Services segment.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Quaternius Free 3D Assets When it comes to free game development assets we live in bountiful times, as todays featured site Quaternius will demonstrate. Quaternius contains thousands of 3D assets, often game ready, rigged and animated in a wide variety of genres and themes. Like the similar asset packs from Kenney.nl, Quaternius assets are … Quaternius Free 3D Assets Read More The post Quaternius Free 3D Assets appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a rock musical film for this week’s Movie Monday. It’s Rock of Ages. Plot: The plot follows a couple of newcomers to the rock music scene of Los Angeles in 1987. Honestly, the movie isn’t that great, but it did have the seventh highest opening ever for a film musical before its eventual disappointing sales at the box office.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Smilegate's shooter joins the ranks of live service titles to announce their shut downs this week.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Canadian developer Phoenix Labs will go back to being independent following an investor-backed management buyout. According to GamesBeat , Phoenix Labs' founders will take the company private now that it's spun out of its parent company, Garena. Garena is itself owned by Singapore-based Sea, which commented: "We have been steadfast supporters of Phoenix Labs since its earliest days and will continue to be strong advocates for their team and their work going forward.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Wwise Now Free for Indie Developers In the news that isn’t new category, audio middleware maker Audiokinetic have added a new free “Indie” tier to Wwise. Wwise is an audio middleware solution, similar to FMod (who also added a free indie tier back in 2020), that is available on most major game engines and supports all … Wwise Now Free for Indie Developers Read More The post Wwise Now Free for Indie Developers appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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The Astronauts

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Introduction and index of this series is here. In the previous parts we saw that using generic data compression libraries, we can get our 94.5MB data down to 33.8MB (zstd level 7) or 29.6MB (oodle kraken level 2) size, if we’re not willing to spend more than one second compressing it. That’s not bad, but is there something else we can do?

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Game Developer

JANUARY 31, 2023

A rolling rundown that explains what's going on with Microsoft's ongoing Activision Blizzard merger, detailing key headlines, the story so far, and where it could be heading next.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Velan Studios' Knockout City will be shutting down on June 6. In a post on the game's website , game director Jeremy Russo announced that the servers will be shutting around the world at 12pm UTC on that day, "and the game will no longer be playable." Season 9, which is due to launch on February 28, will be the title's final. After that, real-money transactions will be taken out.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with a Sonic series game that isn’t really talked about much for this week’s Retro Game Friday. It’s Shadow the Hedgehog. Gameplay: This plays like a somewhat typical Sonic game but also includes elements from third person shooters, of all things. This is probably why the title isn’t talked about much because there’s such a divergence between it and other past Sonic games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We're now just days away from the Release Candidate, working at full capacity on finalizing as many of the remaining high priority issues as we can. This beta adds audio blending in AnimationTree, fixes GDScript typed arrays, and refactors high quality texture import to enable ASTC support.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2023

Guerrilla's cooperative endeavor for the Horizon franchise may feature a new look over the series' photorealistic style.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 30, 2023

It was a busy week for game releases last week, with Dead Space, Forspoken, Goldeneye and Hi-Fi Rush all available. Hi-Fi Rush was digital-only and available via Game Pass, while Goldeneye was (primarily) limited to subscription services. As a result, these physical retail charts can only tell us so much (digital data comes later in the week, and doesn't include subscription).

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Ubisoft released recently Far Cry 4 , and some players complained about some errors and crashes that affect their gameplay. We’re taking your time into consideration, which is why the methods from this article are tailored to save those 5-10 minutes from navigating on other websites or forums to find the solution for fixing Far Cry 4 crash errors.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The much anticipated final season of Star Trek: Picard goes live in two weeks, which boggles the mind, and we’ve lost Annie Wersching, whose Borg Queen was just about the best thing to come out of Picard ‘s second season. I’m feeling a touch reflective, gentle readers, so today, I want to discuss canon, specifically, how to bring back familiar faces well in the Trek universe.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this expert panel discussion, Dr. Matthew White (Whitethorn Games), Dana Ware (The VOID), and Alissa McAloon (GameDeveloper.com) dissect the biggest topics and developer sentiments from the 2023 State of the Game Industry report.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox EA Music, the division of Electronic Arts that oversees all the music in its games, has partnered with Boston-based Berklee College of Music to offer a new scholarship to a future composer. The EA/Berklee Next-Gen Scholarship will offer one qualified woman or non-cisgender composer studying at the college's screen scoring department the chance to receive a financial scholarship, as well as mentoring from EA's own team o

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Assetto Corsa issues were reported by some gamers after the racing simulation game was released. The most common errors that players encounter are random crashes, Long Loading Times, Black Screens, Blue screens, and FPS Drops. Different gamers are facing particular crashes while playing this game that is related to Assetto Corsa crashes when loading the car.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Robbie Coey, founder and director of Holomoon Games, sits down with our team to share the story of how Unity Learn helped him achieve career goals.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Xbox maker believes Sony is being dishonest about how the deal could impact major franchises like Call of Duty.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 31, 2023

PlayStation says it has "not cut PlayStation VR2 production numbers", following a report from Bloomberg. The firm told GamesIndustry.biz that it is "seeing enthusiasm from PlayStation fans for the upcoming launch, which includes more than 30 titles such as Gran Turismo 7, Horizon Call of the Mountain, and Resident Evil Village." The initial report said that Sony was making a significant reduction in its projections for PlayStation VR 2, and even warned supply partners that manufacturing could de

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Game Errors

JANUARY 30, 2023

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a complex first-person shooter video game that is popular among gamers. As with any well-known game, many players encountered issues when launching it or during gameplay. If you’re on this article, you probably encountered Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Random “insufficient free disk space ” error when you are playing the campaign.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 31, 2023

Updates on various things XR in Godot as per January 2023. New Godot XR Tools, new documentation for Godot 4, new supported renderers and devices.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Australian Government has acknowledged that a horrible goose and classical music are a match made in heaven.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The GamesIndustry.biz team gathers around their mics to discuss the biggest stories of the past week. On this episode, following the reports and refutation that Sony was cutting forecasts for PlayStation VR 2, we discuss the many challenges the virtual reality faces as it approaches launch later this month. With a hefty price tag and a launch line-up primarily comprised of titles already available on other VR headsets, Sony's strategy for PSVR 2 raises questions but given the success of the orig

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster is released on Steam, and the game celebrates two of the most cherished and beloved entries to the world-renowned franchise, completely remastered in gorgeous High Definition. We’re taking your time into consideration, which is why the methods from this article are tailored to save those 5-10 minutes from navigating on other websites or forums to find FFX green screen fix.

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