Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 20, 2025

Written by our friends at InvestGame. Consider following them for more insightful articles like this one! 2024 was a year of recovery and strategic recalibration for the gaming industry. After years of pandemic-related challenges and shifting market dynamics, the sector is gradually finding its footing. As demand for gaming fell post-COVID, many public companies struggled to demonstrate positive organic revenue growth (i.e. growth excluding revenue from recently acquired companies), often missin

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Game Developer

JANUARY 21, 2025

The publisher said a lack of 32-bit support on Windows is the final nail in the coffin.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 21, 2025

EA Origin will shut down on April 17, 2025, as a result of Microsoft no longer supporting 32-bit software.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 24, 2025

Joanna Keler is a freelance Marketing Manager who worked on titles like This War of Mine and Frostpunk by 11 bit Studios and Best Month Ever by Klabater. During her talk at IndieGameBusiness Sessions she talked about incorporating social media as a vital marketing tool. According to Keler its important to set goals for yourself. There are various ways to make sure social media plays a vital role in your overall marketing plan.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 22, 2025

GameFromScratch.com SDL 3 Released SDL, or the Simple DirectMedia Layer is one of the most important open-source game development frameworks and they just released SDL 3. Well technically it’s SDL 3.2.0, but it is the first production ready version of the SDL 3 branch. Key features of SDL 3 include: If you are migrating […] The post SDL 3 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 23, 2025

After over five years of development, Extremely OK pulled the plug on Earthblade, in part because of Celeste's legacy.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 22, 2025

The 14th annual New York Game Awards took place last night, with Astro Bot taking home Game of the Year.

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Game Development News

JANUARY 20, 2025

SoundLab, a Keywords Studio, is elevating its music division with the appointment of Savina Ciaramella as Sr.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 21, 2025

'This is the start of a new era.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Game Developers Conference released its annual State of Games Industry survey today, which found that one in ten developers were laid off in 2024. Overall, 41% of developers were impacted by layoffs last year compared to 35% in 2023.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 22, 2025

Liminal Department - Demo now Available on Steam. First-person horror observation game.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 20, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Defold Engine Adds C# Support The nearly open-source free Defold game engine just released Defold 1.9.7 and the highlight feature of this release is C# support! This isn’t replacing Lua as the primary scripting language, in fact it’s not a scripting language at all, instead enabling you to easily make game extensions using the C# […] The post Defold Engine Adds C# Support appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 22, 2025

Developers do not in fact welcome our new AI overlords.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2025

Marvel Snap and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang were made "temporarily" unavailable in the United States following the TikTok ban over the weekend.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 20, 2025

Welcome to 'Slime Attack: Survivor'! As a roguelike and bullet hell enthusiast, Ive created a game that blends both genres with unique twists. Navigate intense enemy waves, dodge projectiles, and unleash powerful attacks. Customize your hero, upgrade.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 23, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Godot Script IDE Add-On Today we are looking at a free and open-source add-on for the Godot game engine called Script-IDE. In a nutshell this plugin makes the GDScript coding experience in the Godot editor a much more pleasant experience by adding several editing experiences you except to find in a tool like Visual […] The post Godot Script IDE Add-On appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 22, 2025

Another massive win for the little bot.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 21, 2025

The film commission for the Tampere city region in Finland has appointed its first head of games.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 18, 2025

As a fan of survival games, I decided to create my own with updated mechanics of the genre. The game is currently at the stage of developing a fully playable prologue, designed to entice players to test it. Ive focused heavily on optimization to ensure.

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AWS Games

JANUARY 22, 2025

This blog is co-written by Sean Winters, Senior Platform Architect, Miro. Creation of mood boards can feel overly complex or take a lot of time to create and iterate on. Well show how you can integrate generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, image generation models, directly in a Miro board using Amazon Bedrock APIs, enabling better iteration and collaboration.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 21, 2025

It looks like Balatro's various awards and wins sparked plenty of interest, particularly from the Game Awards crowd.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 20, 2025

Genshin Impact distributor Cognosphere has agreed to pay $20 million to settle charges made by the US Federal Trade Commission.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 18, 2025

Tournaments, Quick play rounds, new game modes and more!

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 20, 2025

7thSage again. This time we’ll be creating some more UI elements. We’ve been working with stats for a few lessons now, and its time we created something to show at least some of them. We’ll create a pair of panels to show the character’s name, level, HP and MP values. We’ll be mostly using the primary panel for now. The secondary panel we’ll use later for the target of an action.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 21, 2025

Warhammer 40K's recent game ventures, Rogue Trader and Space Marine II, are commercially strong as Games Workshop works on a TV adaptation.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 22, 2025

The number of available jobs in the UK games industry has decreased by 8% to 696 positions in January 2025.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 21, 2025

Pompeii: The Legacy has reached a milestone as preparations for the first gameplay trailer near completion. To celebrate, new screenshots showcasing the games visuals and mechanics are available in the press kit. Set in ancient Rome, it blends classic.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2025

Yes, most games that dont pass muster get cancelled, and publishers cancel them as early as they can. This is primarily because development costs only grow as the project progresses. At the start, you have one or two developers who write a pitch. Really early on, you only have one to five senior devs working on building a prototype for the approved pitches.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 20, 2025

The company will also need to prohibit the sale of loot boxes to some children to settle an FTC dispute.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 22, 2025

Insomniac Games founder and CEO, Ted Price, is retiring later this year.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 23, 2025

From digging in the dirt to dazzling museums, weve had some incredible milestones this year! Let's take a look!

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Rocket Brush Studio

JANUARY 21, 2025

QA is vital in healthcare automation to ensure patient safety, data accuracy, and system reliability. Without proper QA, automation can lead to errors that compromise patient care. QASource provides tailored QA solutions to address these critical challenges.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 20, 2025

A swathe of job cuts won't prevent the company from "exploring growth opportunities" through M&A deals.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 23, 2025

Team17 Group has rebranded as Everplay Group, with its indie developer and publishing label Team17 Digital remaining unchanged.

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Indie DB

JANUARY 24, 2025

Busy year overhauling the Galaxy, System and Life Gen mechanics and much more.

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Game From Scratch

JANUARY 21, 2025

GameFromScratch.com The Complete Concept Art Training Bundle by Learn Squared There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, specifically game artists, the Complete Concept Art Training Bundle by Learned Squared. The bundle actually contains courses on a variety of subjects beyond concept art including world building, character and outfit design, hard surface modelling and more.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 23, 2025

Haddad's final year with the company was dominated by the underperformance of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

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