Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

If that sounds like Yu-Gi-Oh you’d be right, but this series doesn’t deal with a trading card game. It instead revolves around the main character and eventually his friends being forced to solve puzzles in their various Saturday morning cartoon-like fashions.

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OPM Jobs

APRIL 13, 2023

There are so many games industry events out there to choose from. Are you looking to network with other devs or searching for advice on getting into the industry? Or maybe you want more business development and dealmaking opportunities? The event is split into two days, with the career event taking place on the second.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 11, 2024

Firstly, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated in voting and shared their greetings and critical feedback. Without further ado, let's dive into the Golden Twig Awards results, recognizing both the positive and challenging aspects of the gaming industry in 2023 – from innovation and creativity to acknowledging difficulties faced.

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Game Industry News

AUGUST 6, 2023

That may be off putting to some and honestly I wasn’t intending to watch past the first episode, but well Yuuya happens to be rather endearing as a main character given his past at the start of the episode. This first episode has a rather limited cast of characters, mostly having Yuuya be by himself.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Building video games has never been a simple task. You can have a brilliant idea for a game, but without the right skills, tools and resources, it can be near-impossible to tackle by yourself. Especially if we consider something as complicated and new as virtual reality. You don’t have to have it all figured out.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Plot: The plot is pretty standard Rom-Com, and it deals with Harry and Sally as they meet for the first time and then continue meeting over the course of years with Sally believing men and women can’t be friends without romance. Overall: If you enjoy romantic comedies, then this one is probably one of the best.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It features all sorts of ridiculous things that range from a onesie pajama set that he receives as a gift to the family’s turkey dinner being destroyed by the neighbor’s dogs. Ironically, I enjoy it more nowadays, and I usually give it a watch at least once each Christmas. Really, it’s a coming-of-age story.

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Game Industry News

JULY 9, 2023

Plot: The plot of this first episode, which happens to be extended to nearly an hour and a half long, is a doozy. At that point, well something happens and what looked to be a really interesting series about getting an upbeat second chance at life for someone who died unfairly became something much different.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 21, 2017

This is not a post about what you need to do, think, or spend to make a game, nor is it a post about board games themselves. This is a post about the players in a much bigger game: the board game industry itself. Need help on your board game? How do they like to be approached? Find games like yours.

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Game Industry News

MARCH 27, 2023

It may or may not be worth watching depending on how important the story over the visuals is for you. The post Michael Blaker’s Movie Monday Featuring Twister appeared first on Game Industry News. The post Michael Blaker’s Movie Monday Featuring Twister appeared first on Game Industry News.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 26, 2023

If you have been following the DoF newsletter and blog for the last year, you might have seen some of my articles on blockchain games, including a prediction piece. Of course, when you start at such a high point, the most likely direction is downward. Blockchain games are still early. And things went down hard.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Even if you’ve never watched an episode of The Animated Series , odds are, you’ve heard mention of the events that take place in “Yesteryear,” even if you are unfamiliar with the episode title. Spock and Kirk determine that this “Selek” must be Spock having returned to the past in order to save his own life. Written by D.C.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The story gives us the background of Tarsus IV, introduces us to Kevin Riley, and generally demonstrates that even in the far-flung future people can and will fake their deaths to escape prosecution, but what I wish the story did in more depth is explore the effects of watching eugenics nonsense play out in real life on Kirk as a decision-maker.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Before the end of 2021, NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2. With real-time ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS, Unity developers will be able to create beautiful real-time ray traced worlds running at high frame rates and resolutions on NVIDIA RTX GPUs.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. Unlike Zero and Gwyn, who fundamentally know where their metaphorical roots lie, Dal must wrestle with a deeper question of how much does this genetic history make you who you are. Jago, might be able to discover what species Dal is. Zero finds his collective. Plot Ahoy!

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Game Industry News

JULY 25, 2021

Running away shouldn’t be your first option. Honestly I felt really uncomfortable watching this entire episode, which I really should have expected going into it. Frankly I’m not going to really expound on them any further, as I said before it’s not at all something I felt comfortable watching afterwards.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 6, 2023

You can find them all here. ? This week, we jump into what it takes to design great Match 3 games and how we would improve Makeover Match. Case: Makeover Match Making games is hard. Although the Tactile team has several titles under their portfolio, the well-known swapping mechanic is not very common among their games.

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Game Errors

MARCH 21, 2023

Diablo 4 error code 315306 became a real nightmare for many players who cannot even log in to the game. Some players report that the error gets fixed randomly, while others complain that they cannot access the game for more than 24 hours. If you launch the game using an executable (.exe) Find Diablo 4 in the Games tab.

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Game Analytics

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Having initially launched back in 2006, the social gaming platform now boasts over 30 million games (what they call experiences), 52 million daily active users , and over 12 million creators worldwide. For all three games, they make sure to offer rewards to their players if they like and share. Like the Game for More Codes!”.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You can find this much-anticipated update on the NVIDIA-Omniverse/PhysX GitHub repository. What’s new in PhysX 5 open source The NVIDIA Flow and NVIDIA Blast libraries, while technically not dependent on PhysX, are now a part of the PhysX product family and licensed together.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are generally two major reasons for shutdown: The company itself is in severe financial trouble, not just the game. The company is fine, but the game is not. It’s a lot like getting the rug pulled out from under you in those situations, it’s a huge surprise and we often end up falling on our asses.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

First, we seem to be getting a new backstory for her every season. However, watching Mariner flip-flopping between resolving an issue and falling back into it is starting to feel a little stale. I did love that we continue to get to see Tendi navigate between being Lieutenant J.G.

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Nvidia

JULY 23, 2021

Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. Check out GDC 2021 announcements, video sessions, and game development demos on the NVIDIA at GDC Official Webpage.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 23, 2023

At that point, Second Dinner revealed that their first project just so happens to be a licensed Marvel IP, which the team has been working on for six months already and is currently beginning to playtest. Fastforward to September of 2022 and the game, Marvel Snap, is finally out globally after a considerable amount of time in soft launch.

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Game Industry News

AUGUST 2, 2021

Frankly there are some pretty dark parts to the movie, though I won’t go into specifics because it’s pretty spoilerific and this isn’t one of those must-see films so there’s a pretty good chance you haven’t seen this. Overall: A pretty decent movie, it might be fun to watch with the kids this coming Halloween season.

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Game Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Roblox CEO David “Dave” Baszucki is big on people interacting in visual social environments – most especially playful places like the game platform he runs. He even thinks dating is going to be a thing on Roblox. “I remember clearly the start of the pandemic,” he cooed.

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

If that’s not safe for you, give this one a pass and come back for next week’s column. I’m still on a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine kick, folks, and this week, I want to take a look at the episode “ Hard Time ,” which is a difficult watch, even for one of the “torture O’Brien” episodes.

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Game Industry News

AUGUST 31, 2023

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS Some of the most powerful episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine dealt with dark, difficult themes. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds eighth episode of season two “Under the Cloak of War” shares the premise of both of these episodes but uses a 2022 budget and technology to tell a similar story.

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Game Industry News

APRIL 13, 2023

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS “ Vox ” finally, finally shows us what’s up with Jack Crusher, but even more than that, it offers us an excellent example of nostalgia done well. It’s not quite the master class that is Strange New Worlds , but it does a great job of making that nostalgia relevant. Picard and Dr. Crusher watch Jack warp away.

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Deconstructor of Fun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Since then, I’ve read Lloyd’s article “ Subscriptions: The new weapon in the game monetization arsenal ” half a dozen times and turned from a doubter of subscriptions into a believer. He has been in the video game industry since 1993, where he has worked at both start-ups and huge entertainment companies.

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Game Industry News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Sisko awakens in a cave, having sustained plasma burns and a broken arm, being cared for by Gul Dukat. Analysis Clearly, this episode serves to set up the final confrontation between Dukat and Sisko in the series finale “What You Leave Behind,” and sets the stakes for that encounter. Dukat cannot say the same.

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Game Industry News

JUNE 29, 2023

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS I don’t know if you were expecting to watch Law and Order: Star Trek , when you turned on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode two of season two last week, but I certainly wasn’t. Modern Trek has invested some real screentime exploring what to do when your institutions fail you.

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Game Industry News

MARCH 9, 2023

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS Star Trek: Picard has finally let up its assault on my blood pressure by providing an ending rather than a cliff-hanger, and it’s an ending that bookends nicely with this season’s TNG roots. I continue to be excited to see where it takes us. Picard asks why Jack never contacted him.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. One of Prodigy ’s greatest strengths lies in its understanding of what Star Trek is at its heart, and I do realize that everyone who has ever watched the podcast or read this column has heard me comment on this probably a thousand times.

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Game Industry News

MARCH 16, 2023

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS While we knew that we’d see familiar faces in this season of Star Trek: Picard , I did not expect to count Michelle Forbes among them. Jack asks if he should expect to be arrested, and Picard recommends that Jack think about joining up. Picard volunteers to take responsibility, and he goes to see Jack.

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Game Industry News

MARCH 30, 2023

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS Well, I had a couple of easy weeks in which Star Trek: Picard didn’t end on a cliffhanger, but now, with season three’s seventh episode “ Dominion ,” that streak has ended incredibly effectively. Before Data gets subsumed by Lore, he mentions that Picard’s diagnosis of Irumodic Syndrome may be an error.

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Game Industry News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS. She goes on to explain that Starfleet protocol requires that the cadets explore the new world, and Dal initially refuses until she threatens to report him to Starfleet. The vision reveals itself to be a series of writhing tendrils reaching for him. There’s clearly no way that will end badly.

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