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Outriders developer People Can Fly has canned Project Dagger
The cancellation could result in the studio writing down up to $20 million in production costs.
April 25, 2024
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FTC banning 'restrictive and exclusionary' noncompetes in the U.S.
The ban could have a tangible impact on workers in the video game industry, where noncompetes have been used to prevent staff from moving between studios.
April 24, 2024
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Valve updates Steam refund policy to cover 'Advanced Access' playtime
The company will start tracking pre-launch playtime to close a refund loophole.
April 24, 2024
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How handheld gaming has become more complex – and more lucrative
This piece explores the recent development of the market, guided by Omdia's brand-new Games Handheld Database, which forecasts value, volume, and installed base through to 2028 across all key devices and categories of dedicated gaming handheld.
April 24, 2024
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Murder on Space Station 52 - Paper to Pixel: Making a Scene
Many people have been speaking about the unique visual style of the game, so I wanted to break down a scene from the game and explain how I created it.
April 24, 2024
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Meta expanding mixed reality ecosystem under Meta Horizon OS banner
The company wants third-party hardware makers to leverage the platform, and is reworking key features including the Meta Quest Store and Horizon social layer.
April 23, 2024
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Atari relaunches Infogrames, immediately buys Totally Reliable Delivery Service
Infogrames has returned and is eager to acquire some franchises.
April 23, 2024
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The Six Stages of Player Rationality
To understand the impact of your mechanics, you need to know how people will react to them. This means that you have to have some kind of mental model of player behavior. The question is, in your model, how much rationality do you assume?
April 20, 2024
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Gamedev.world launching Global Games Fund to support devs in emergent territories
'Any developer, anywhere, and in any language, deserves access to funding structures and opportunities to make great games.'
April 19, 2024
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Postmortem: The Sirena Expedition
'I’d like to talk a bit about the development of the game, and look at some of what I thought went well, along with what didn’t go quite so well.'
April 19, 2024
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Solo-Devs and risk-takers (an artistic exploration of experimental tools)
Tools outside of the mainstream, made by just one person, a group of friends, or a small team… all asking 'what if,' and then exploring how their tool can empower creation in an idealistically creative way.
April 19, 2024
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Playdate devs have earned over $500,000 through Catalog
With more than 70,000 units sold and over 500,000 in gross revenue dished out to developers through Catalog, Playdate continues to grow.
April 18, 2024