Blog: How to estimate Steam video game sales in 2021
This article lays out a way of estimating how many units any Steam game has sold. It's updating the well-known Boxleiter method using the largest dataset to date. ...
This article lays out a way of estimating how many units any Steam game has sold. It's updating the well-known Boxleiter method using the largest dataset to date. ...
Pokemon Go maker Niantic has appointed Oculus veteran Dan Morris as its new director of developer relations. ...
The conversation around 'soft counters' and 'hard counters' in RTS games often focuses on best case scenarios for soft counters and worst case scenarios for hard counters, but that only scratches the surface. ...
Mobile and PC game company Plarium has agreed to acquire Finnish mobile studio Futureplay for an undisclosed fee. ...
"Plaintiffs are informed and believe, and on that basis allege, that the Cheating Software has been downloaded and used by Destiny 2 and Rainbow Six Siege players thousands of times." ...
"In China, we have a lot of passionate players for League of Legends and Riot Games. There's a reason we would like to double down in China and continue to invest here." ...
Former Blizzard employee, ArenaNet co-founder, and Undead Labs founder Jeff Strain has written an open letter to his employees and the game industry at large, urging them to unionize. ...
A number of current and former Activision Blizzard employees have been sharing their stories publicly since Wednesday's walkout and protest. ...
Take a look back at our chat with Final Fantasy XIV producer Naoki Yoshida about the successful relaunch of Final Fantasy XIV. ...
German developer Bytro Labs GmbH is looking for a Lead Game Designer. ...
Exploring the design and tech behind directing Wayward Strand's character animations in Unity, including how we've set up our animator controllers to allow for continuous, complex character animation. ...
"Ubisoft continues to protect and promote known offenders and their allies. We see management continuing to avoid this issue." ...
Forza Motorsport 7 has reached 'end of life' status and will be pulled from sale on the Microsoft Store on September 15, 2021. ...
VR game company nDreams has opened a second development studio called nDreams Studio Orbital. ...
Panic sold 20,000 of its quirky crank-laden Playdate consoles in under 20 minutes after opening pre-orders yesterday. ...
In Civilization VI's latest expansion Gathering Storm, the world fights back and your actions have far-reaching, unintended consequences down the ages and across the whole of the map. ...
SMU Guildhall is looking for faculty to fill a position in one of these areas of specialization: Gameplay Creator, Team Game Production, Art or Programming. ...
Road 96 developer Yoan Fanise has told Axios that Facebook rejected an advertisement for his team's upcoming game, on the grounds it contained "political messaging." ...
Updated: Valve has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought against it by Wolfire that alleged the company had created a monopoly with Steam, and was not earning its 30 percent cut on game sales. ...
Annapurna Interactive's showcase today brought news of both familiar and new projects, including the announcement of a new studio working on its first project with Annapurna Interactive's backing. ...
Spelunky developer Derek Yu joins Gamasutra's Kris Graft and Alissa McAloon in a live GDC Podcast to talk all things Spelunky, how indie game development has changed over the years, and how game development is an exploration of ideas. ...
Sony is finally getting ready to let PlayStation 5 owners upgrade their SSD storage, although it seems the SSD requirements themselves will be rather specific. ...
Who are the 'creators who aren†t full-time game devs' making popular games and mods for game creation platforms? We explore game discovery by talking to them. ...
SNK Corporation has named former Sega and Zynga Japan president Kenji Matsubara as its new CEO. ...
Niantic is working to remedy an issue that has caused a number of Pokemon Go players to be hit with false bans. ...
"By choosing profit over our security, you are literally toying with our lives. We should not have to choose between work and our safety." ...
First quarter net sales reached record levels at Capcom thanks to new releases like Resident Evil Village and bumper digital sales. ...
At the employee walkout at Blizzard's Headquarters in Irvine, CA we saw equal amounts of solidarity and exhaustion among participating employees. ...
The PlayStation 5 has hit a huge milestone: The console has officially surpassed 10 million sold, and it managed to do so in less time than it took even the PlayStation 4. ...
Dr. Mario World, one of Nintendo's recent forays into the world of mobile games, is going offline this November. Once the game's online features go dark, it will no longer be playable whatsoever. ...
While the actions shared by Kotick promise positive change, the developers responsible for organizing the Activision Blizzard Walkout say those changes still fall short of what employees need from leadership. ...
For every GDC, Chris Zukowski recaps the conference not by the best talks but by the best slides so that you can get back to making your games and not watching talks. Here's the latest roundup. ...
Sponsored: A studio can gain a level of comfort by logging in to a server dashboard and getting metrics on the state of your multiplayer game launch. But it isn†t always as easy as that. ...
Dyson Sphere Program tasks players with building an impossibly massive power source capable of saving all of humanity. Here's how a team of five took on a project of planetary scale. ...
A number of Southern California game developers have launched a new triple-A studio called That's No Moon with a $100 million investment from Korean publisher Smilegate. ...
DNABLOCK is currently seeking an energetic, experienced and creative team member to work as a Senior Unreal Developer. ...
A surprise statement from the World of Warcraft team promises both to work for inclusivity in the workplace and promises changes inside the MMORPG starting today. ...
Microsoft's Q4 results are light on game numbers, but the company says that its video game-related revenue rose, while Xbox content and services revenue dropped from 2020. ...
Brad Hart, CTO of version control software at Perforce, explains what he sees are game production's biggest challenges in recent years, and what challenges lie ahead. ...