GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The past 12 months have been the bleakest I've seen in video games. Cancelled projects, closed studios and thousands upon thousands of employees laid off, with few jobs available for them to step into. And this period of intense pain is likely to continue all year and into 2025. We've discussed at lengths the reasons for the situation.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 30, 2023

For the fiscal year's end, Capcom's putting its faith in its older (but still pretty recent) games.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 22, 2024

CEO Dave Rosen called Wimo Games' recent closure "not the outcome we had hoped for." "

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Netflix doesn't just want first-party games, it also hopes to bring third-party titles into its ecosystem to bring in more players.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 13, 2024

Sony has reportedly formed a new studio made up of former Deviation Games employees. I hope that you can create a top class new IP with your studio that hopefully gives you all the time you need to create a quality product and not have to deal with the red tape of previous projects."

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Sonic, Persona, and Like a Dragon are doing especially strong numbers outside Japan, and Sega hopes to capitalize on those properties alongside its Super Game dreams.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The fledgling game company is hoping to help Indies make original horror titles.

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Game Developer

JULY 20, 2023

The game provides accessible education on renewable energy transition, all with a simple deck of cards.

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Game Developer

JULY 5, 2023

The nascent studio hopes to become one of the UK's leading triple-A developers.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Photos by Moe the Photographer Like the sturdy belt and shiny buckle Rex Bowden once helped sell as a child, entrepreneurship is woven into the fabric of this co-founder of Africa Games Week (AGW). ” During his pre-teen years, Bowden mastered Tetris on his cousin’s Game Boy.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 29, 2023

A stellar year for game releases, that’s for sure. But also a dreadful year for job security in game development, with a heartbreaking 10.000 layoffs. We look towards 2024 with a mixture of hope and fear, but also with a strong belief in the ability of people to bounce back. We let the creators talk about their own games.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Japanese publisher hopes that bigger projects and less outsourcing could provide its video game business with a welcome boost.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 26, 2023

I’m a game developer and I run a small blog called “Ask a Game Dev” where I answer questions from anybody about the game industry and game development process. askagamedev : Hey everybody. More than any other type of question, I get asked the most about how to get into the industry.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Never really comfortable in the education system, she dropped out of college twice before embarking on her debut game, Spilled! Her upcoming game, Spilled! , Making an eco-conscious game just really made sense to me.” I hope to go on little adventures, not staying in the same place too much, doing the same thing.”

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Game Developer

JULY 5, 2023

The company hopes to turn its franchises into "household names."

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Game Developer

MAY 26, 2023

The Swedish company hopes to shrink its operating costs by shuttering the IGI Origins and Rising Storm developer.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 17, 2024

In Times & Galaxy by Copychaser Games , players have the opportunity to experience the thrilling life of a space reporter for the solar system’s most trusted holopaper. Before I got into game development, I was a crime reporter at a daily newspaper”, says Ben Gelinas , creative director on Times & Galaxy and Copychaser Games’ founder.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Game director Hideo Kojima is hoping the movie adaptation will birth the "Death Stranding universe."

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Game Dev Unchained

MAY 15, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of the video game industry, one thing has become painfully clear: instability. Damien pointed to the success of unionization efforts in other sectors, such as the VFX industry, as a potential model for the gaming industry. One idea was the introduction of an opt-in, opt-out insurance membership plan. .”

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Game Developer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Molyneux hopes his in-progress title Project MOAT will be an encapsulation of his 41-year tenure in the game industry.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 1, 2023

The company hopes its upcoming release slate can provide some impetus.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 19, 2024

73% of UK games studios surveyed by trade body TIGA are looking to grow in 2024 with only 6% expecting job cuts. According to TIGA's new Business Opinion Survey 2023-2024, UK games businesses are "cautiously optimistic" about the industry in 2024. Read more

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The game utilizes a complex water system that slowly fills up the hallways and cabins on the ship. It’s a horror game set on a sinking ship around the early 1900’s. When marketing the game, the brothers kept getting the same requests over and over. Please make this a VR game and make this actual set on the Titanic.’

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 27, 2022

7, driven by offers that has seen the game fall to below £32 at UK retail. The Nintendo Switch version was the best-selling edition of the game last week. The biggest difference in the charts is that Sonic Frontiers re-enters the Top Ten at No.7, Read more.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox There were hopes and expectations that Grand Theft Auto 6 would release in 2024.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Japanese publisher hopes Elden Ring's year-long momentum drives audiences towards Armored Core 6 and makes that game a hit in its own right.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 8, 2024

When you live in a country that houses twenty percent of the entire world’s population, yet hardly see a genuine and honest representation of that country in video games, it’s time to take matters into your own hands. And that’s precisely what Shalin Shodhan is doing with his studio, Masala Games. explains Shodhan.

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This cozy game is a slice of life simulator that encapsulates the hopes and dreams behind your first job out of college.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 13, 2024

As a result, the firm is set to implement a brand new strategy going forward, hoping to achieve "stable profit generation" in its digital entertainment segment by 2027. Square Enix's digital entertainment sales were ever so slightly up, mainly thanks to its HD Games sub-segment, the firm said. billion ($636 million) versus ¥78.5

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 5, 2023

Developer Juha Salo, working under the name Polte Games , hopes to find a new audience for his cautionary tale about climate change and mass extinction. Does your game exist if no one is playing it?” I like to think of games as a means of communication”, he says. “I The whole project was a do-it-yourself experiment.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 6, 2024

The hope was that, during the notice period, we could have gotten at least one of the projects in discussion greenlit. All employees were given a month’s notice after returning to work early January," McIntosh told us. That never happened and half the team went at the end of January.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 29, 2024

The low-poly racing game, developed by Polish indie developer Pixel Perfect Dude , feels like a love letter to the PlayStation 1 era of rally games, where you could actually name the top drivers and the cars they drove. “Ah Drive Rally is expanding their racing portfolio while maintaining the game’s aesthetic.

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The Bottom Feeder

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Since almost 14000 new games were released on Steam last year (Really!) It's a biannual event where indie developers can make demos of their games available for a week. As always, wishlisting an upcoming indie game you support is hugely appreciated. Hoped it had online multiplayer, but it doesn't yet.) It’s fun.

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Game Developer

JULY 3, 2023

Sumo Digital hopes to blend the chaos of battle royale games with a love for classic kart racing.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 12, 2024

Solo developer Hitori (working under the name Hitori De productions) always dreamt of creating games by himself. For his debut game Supernormal , Hitori was inspired by the much-hyped, but never-released horror game Allison Road. In fact he even asked creator Christian Kesler permission to use Lilly’s design for his own game. “It

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Game Industry News

MARCH 5, 2024

Hey all, I’m back with an important topic for this week’s Video Game Tuesday. Given how many titles ship now with game breaking bugs, that seems to be a really poor way of handling the concerns of players. Well, I hope that this trend reverses because community interaction is a major thing that more developers need to commit to.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 13, 2024

Plenty of GamesIndustry.biz readers are familiar with the concept of crowdfunding, with well over a decade of Kickstarter campaigns helping to bring many a game to market. Less common, however, is equity crowdfunding. Read more

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