GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 16, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox With the Fallout TV series grabbing headlines and attention across the industry, data from mobile analysis firm Sensor Tower shows the impact it is having on the video games.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 5, 2024

Before we begin, big thanks to Crepuscular Fluffle designer Merlijn Eskens for answering the last column's call for a sheep picture so I had an excuse to use this column's headline. Unfortunately, I have to admit this headline is pure clickbait. It is very much appreciated. It has no teeth.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 25, 2024

Throughout the boom years of the 2010s, investors had pumped millions into team organisations and other entities, dazzled by the bright lights of competitive gaming, the stadiums filled with roaring fans, the professional players with significant followings and the bombastic headlines boasting of million-dollar prize pools. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 28, 2024

Any time we see headlines like we're seeing regularly, I think it's scary for everyone in the games industry. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox With the current economic recession and the layoffs, Iron Galaxy Studios co-CEO Adam Boyes tells GamesIndustry.biz that it's a daunting time right now.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Sony showcased an array of titles heading to PlayStation 5 in 2024 and beyond during last night's State of Play , which ended with an in-depth look at the sequel to Death Stranding.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 11, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Microsoft showed off the first look at Playground Games' Fable, Massive Entertainment's Star Wars project, and even announced a new console SKU during today's Xbox Games Showcase.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 24, 2023

Sony today aired its PlayStation Showcase 2023 on its Twitch and YouTube channels. The hour-long show culminated with a look at Sony's new dedicated remote streaming device Project Q, and an extended trailer for Spider-Man 2. The Project Q handheld will have an 8-inch HD screen and allow remote play over wifi from the PS5.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 18, 2024

Informa's press outlet Game Developer worked with its market intelligence firm Omdia to survey more than 3,000 game makers last October, and found that the parade of headlines about layoffs in the industry had been reflected in developers' personal experiences.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It was another week of bad headlines in the games industry, with Eidos Montreal layoffs on Monday and a brief reprieve on Tuesday before Wednesday brought stories of Sega , Nimble Giant , GameSpot , and Artificer all cutting staff, and Square Enix's Tokyo RPG Factory closing entirely. Thursday we had layoffs at Airship Syndicate.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It would be easy to believe that the outlook for the games sector is all doom and gloom based on recent headlines about record numbers of layoffs in the sector, with estimates that up to 6,400 people have lost their jobs globally in 2023 after some of the biggest names in the industry, Microsoft, Epic, Sega, Unity, and Roblox, reduced staff numbers. (..)

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

TikTok is the new headline partner for EGX, ReedPop has announced. The social media platform will be bringing a number of well-known TikTok creators such as Nick and Cam, Charlotte Murphy and Callum Knight to the London event on October 12th - October 15th. The influencers will be visiting booths and producing videos for the platform.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 4, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox If you have been following the headlines, you may conclude that no one is reading very much these days.

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Last year was nothing short of amazement. Small voices were being magnified as Activision/Blizzard was at its heel defending from harassment allegations. After a few settlement and shuffling it appeared to have affected its sell off this year. Additionally, the Epic versus Apple showdown unfolded after a year long battle.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 11, 2023

Pretend I didn't spoil it in the headline) Breath of the Wild? What do you think is the biggest Zelda launch in the UK games industry? No, well, actually, yes… I'll come back to that one. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 27, 2023

It was the headline act of numerous E3 events, culminating in the iconic 'You're Breathtaking' moment from E3 2019, featuring the game's star Keanu Reeves. The story of Cyberpunk 2077 -- the real world story -- was a fairlytale that turned into a nightmare.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 6, 2023

This year's event, the first since 2019, is headlined by a keynote fireside chat with Shawn Layden, the former chairman of PlayStation Studios, and current advisor to various games businesses such as Tencent and Streamline Media. It will take place at the Seattle Convention Center on Thursday, August 31st.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The first Nintendo Direct of the year aired last night, offering plenty of release dates, several surprises, and another glimpse of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 12, 2023

Headlined by the likes of Fable and Star Wars: Outlaws, with a good old fashioned hardware reveal and a lot more information on the upcoming Starfield, the showcase gave a great insight into what Microsoft's first-party studios are working on as it continues to beef up its offering.

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Game Development News

MAY 25, 2023

Brazil’s International Games (BIG) Festival has announced that Devolver Digital and Atari will take part in their Panorama Mundo showcase

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 25, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Gollum is not the sort of character who typically headlines a video game. Most games protagonists are heroic figures, power fantasies for the players that can take on great numbers of evil foes and triumph with barely a dent in their health bar.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 29, 2023

As you can tell from our ongoing roundup , it's hard to gauge whether any progress is actually being made here but there are certainly some interesting tidbits coming out from the various parties involved that make for great headlines. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 6, 2023

I suppose an explanation for that headline is called for here. For a few years now, we've been seeing a specific kind of plagiarism of our work. There are a surprisingly large number of websites out there populated by stolen writing that has been passed through a word replacement filter to avoid detection.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The news that the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to adopt a report by MEP Adriana Maldonado López calling for tighter regulation of video games and their business models does not exactly make for relaxing headlines for the games industry.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 11, 2023

The reality is the overall number of video game consumers is fairly meaningless and mainly used for grabbing headlines," the firm said. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 25, 2023

Another set of financials, another bunch of arrows pointing downwards and another batch of bleak-sounding headlines. What a difference a year makes. Last January saw three multi-billion-dollar acquisition announcements. First, Take-Two and Zynga. Second, Microsoft and Activision Blizzard. And then sneaking in at the end, Sony and Bungie.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 28, 2024

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 6, 2023

But checking the archives, that saga has been the column's lead story for three months running now , so let's give Microsoft a pass this month and take a stroll through the rest of the month's headlines. John Riccitiello slams 'opportunists' who just want to profit from games" Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 4, 2023

Its various implementations look set to dominate the tech headlines in 2023 and are fast becoming the flavour of the moment among venture capitalists. Thanks largely to ChatGPT, it seems to have gone from a relatively niche area of interest to the popular mainstream in the space of just a few months.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Industry news features headlines in flashing neon about studio closures and layoffs, the predatory nature of perpetual crunch, the toxicity of online communities, and horrific accounts of discrimination and harassment. Oftentimes, despite working in an industry I love, I feel like I'm balancing on a high-wire with no net below.

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Catnip Games

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The headline feature of this release is Quick search. I’m happy to announce Tiny Player for Mac version 1.6.0. Here’s how it works: Open Preferences → Library and add your music folder(s). Files are not copied anywhere or modified. Press ⌘F to open the search box and start typing. Drag, drop, boom.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 15, 2023

This whole situation reminds me of a hypothetical news headline "SCIENTISTS PROVE EATING CHOCOLATE CAN STOP CANCER" which is actually reporting on a published a research paper that talks about how some specific organic molecule that is found in trace amounts within chocolate show anti-carcinogenic results when consumed in higher quantities by lab mice, (..)

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Tom Francis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

That’s not the fuckin’ headline! The headline is that you (surprisingly) can and (staggeringly) will change how much of our revenue you wish to take at any time after we’ve already committed. Not just the size of the monthly fee, but the very conceptual structure of what kind of debt we owe you.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The headline image above is a screen capture of CNN's Fear & Greed Index from late September.

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iXie gaming

JULY 12, 2023

For a job seeker, the best place to pitch yourself would be your Career Objective statement on your resume or Headline on job or career portals such as LinkedIn and Naukri. It derives its name from the duration of an elevator ride, making it short and worthy of attention.

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Filmustage

MAY 22, 2023

One such incident made headlines when superstar Tom Cruise was caught on tape furiously reprimanding the crew members on the set of "Mission: Impossible 7" for not adhering to COVID-19 health guidelines.

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Game Design Aspect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Matthew Farber, Juliana Loh, Kimberly Unger, and I headlined the Georgia Game Developers Association CIMFest last year with this powerful panel exploring how personal experiences empower narrative writing.

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Deconstructor of Fun

AUGUST 21, 2023

PvP and PvE are better off as separate games, and Overwatch should have spun-off Hero Mode as a separate game rather than the headline feature of a sequel. PvE seemed like a good idea Rewind back to 2016. Overwatch releases to universal praise, revitalizing the class-based shooter.

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