Estimating Steam and console sales: two hot methods!
Do you want two essential spreadsheets for estimating Steam & console game sales? Because that's what you've got, alongside lots more game discovery news. ...
Do you want two essential spreadsheets for estimating Steam & console game sales? Because that's what you've got, alongside lots more game discovery news. ...
The development team behind Diablo II: Resurrected have announced that the game won't feature the TCP/IP networking that helped defined the original game†s multiplayer experience. ...
Games industry lawyer Tim Repa Davies offers a brief look at the publishing licenses contained in publishing contracts, including what they are, what can go wrong, and what devs should look out for. ...
Two former Stadia devs claim Google's fleeting internal development plans unravelled because the tech giant underestimated "the level of investment required to reach scale." ...
"We think player stories are much more interesting than authorial narratives, and we think there†s a lot left to discover in player driven humor, so whatever we do will include these pillars." ...
Continuing my thoughts on difficulty design, I want to spend a few minutes discussing player motivation and how it can push someone to keep playing a game, or cause them to bow out if they feel stuck. ...
Activision Blizzard shareholder SOC Investment claims the company's plan to reform its culture in the wake of widespread misconduct allegations is "deficient" and "inadequate." ...
Digital game company Azerion, best known as the owner of Habbo developer Sulake, has taken over the web games business of German casual developer Softgames. ...
Eric Barone talked to Gamasutra about the long and difficult solo process that ended up giving birth to Stardew Valley. ...
Krafton, the developer behind PUBG: Battlegrounds, faced a dismal stock market launch after Chinese authorities pushed more online gaming restrictions on its major partner Tencent. ...
Unity has closed out Q2 of its 2021 financial year with gains in both revenue and profit compared to the year prior. ...
Several Congresspersons led by Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) are urging large game companies to adopt improved standards for loot box design. ...
Unity has entered into an agreement to acquire Parsec, the company behind the game-centric remote desktop app of the same name, for a grand total of $320 million in cash. ...
PlayQ is looking for a motivated, highly technical Senior QA Tester to contribute to the development of world-class mobile games targeting a mass market. ...
Xsolla laid off roughly one-third of its workforce after an algorithm employed by the company decided those 150 individuals were "unengaged and unproductive employees". ...
Pokemon Go developer Niantic has acquired 3D scanning mobile app Scaniverse for an undisclosed fee. ...
YoYo Games is making GameMaker Studio 2 free to all developers looking to learn the ropes, meaning creators will only need to pay when they want to share and publish their project. ...
This blog post talks about the role of hierarchical unfolding thinking in game UX design. ...
Turkish game studio Hero Concept has secured $3 million in funding from WePlay Ventures to continue expanding its team. ...
Oculus is doubling the base storage of its standalone Quest 2 headset to 128GB from 64GB. ...
Swedish publisher Thunderful has completed a double swoop for nascent game studio To The Sky and film production company Tussilago. ...
Take a look at Innes McKendrick's 2017 GDC talk, where he explains how continuous world generation works in No Man's Sky. ...
A number of Activision Blizzard employees have explained to Axios why they're reluctant to advocate for a player boycott of the company†s games. ...
Pocketwatch Games is looking for an Art Director that can imbue their wild and weird games with a unique visual style. ...
We can now see official Valve data that shows that Steam Next Fest is 'good for you'. So what does that mean? And how about all those antitrust suits? This, and much, much more... ...
Those enrolled in both the Xbox Insiders beta program and Game Pass Ultimate will be able to check out what Xbox Cloud Gaming has to offer on PC. ...
The International Game Developers Association Foundation (IGDA Foundation) executive director Nika Nour is departing after two years. ...
A hands-on article briefly discussing the research presented in the thesis/publication 'Caching Shading Information in World Space using Implicit Progressive Low Discrepancy Point Sets/' ...
SOTI Research: Gaming in a Pandemic digs into the numbers behind 2020's video game criminal attacks, reveals the preferred attack methods, and looks at the rise in phishing as a service kits aimed at separating gamers from their money. ...
Google toyed with the idea of buying Fortnite developer Epic Games as the two companies butted heads over platform fees and payment methods. ...
Kerbal Space Program developer Squad is ending sustained development on the space exploration sim after over a decade. ...
Midtown Madness designer Fred Marcus breaks down what game designers need to know about game physics in this 2003 Gamasutra feature. ...
Antler Interactive is looking for an experienced game designer to work on their current project My Neighbor Alice. ...
Right as the game industry is finally having a reckoning over toxic cultures of sexual harassment, a decade-old in-game display of dominance that mimics sexual harassment is having a comeback moment. ...
A number of PopCap alumni have banded together to launch a new free-to-play game studio in London. ...
I agree: the butt should be free! But Mass Effect's strange Miranda-cam is not "freedom" in any meaningful sense, and this debate about sexuality in games illustrates how narrow the horizons of sexuality remain in gaming. ...
Developers participating in Steam Next Fest received a substantial bump in daily wishlists and sales, according to Valve. ...
"We are assembling an internal cross-functional team to develop proposals designed to preserve our mission of inspiring people to explore the world together." ...
Free-to-play titles and new releases are driving sales revenue within Sega's entertainment contents division, despite an overall decline in full-game sales. ...
Golf Rival amassed 6 million downloads in 2021 alone and is currently being touted as the "second-largest mobile golf game in the world." ...