Xbox encouraging devs to push updates during off-peak hours to lessen server strain
A note from the Microsoft Azure team says that Xbox is working with publishing partners to push heftier updates to off-hours. ...
A note from the Microsoft Azure team says that Xbox is working with publishing partners to push heftier updates to off-hours. ...
Far Away Cage has players crawling through the guts of a spaceship, seeking control panels they can use to find information they need to avoid an alien that stalking the ducts. ...
Valve is making slight changes to Steam†s auto-updating feature to free up more bandwidth during the hours newly home-bound internet users need the net for work, education, and the like. ...
Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium has raised an additional $17.25 million in funding from existing investors. ...
UK based publisher Future has shut down the long-running Official Xbox Magazine, almost two decades after the publication first hit shelves. ...
A host of major game companies including Activision Blizzard, Twitch, Riot Games, and Unity have banded together to promote the World Health Organisation's 'Play Apart Together' campaign. ...
Trying to nail down the sometimes slippery concept of live ops and define what exactly it means and how it's done. ...
Visual Concepts is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer. Apply now! ...
Take a look back at what it took to port the original Resident Evil 2 to N64 consoles. ...
Google Stadia and 'beefy' development laptops are apparently helping drive Bungie's remote work success. ...
The Unfathomed Voyager puts three players in charge of controlling a malfunctioning submarine, using a variety of wild, wacky inputs to keep it moving. ...
As lockdown after lockdown delays or cancels real-life events, players are beginning to host them into online games. ...
Though the spread of COVID-19 has dented Sony's profits, the company says it still plans to launch the PS5 on schedule (for now). ...
Chinese tech companies Tencent and Huawei have partnered up to develop a mobile cloud gaming platform. ...
The PlayStation maker explained it must "take appropriate action" to ensure internet stability during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
U.S. retailer GameStop plans to close at least 320 stores in 2020 as it pushes ahead with its "de-densification plan." ...
Building games is one of the most fun ways to learn to code. It's especially true if you learn to code with Pico-8 games because its easy to get started. ...
Assassin's Creed and World of Warcraft voice actor Abubakar Salim has launched a new game studio called Silver Rain Games. ...
We're looking for somebody to help us create and maintain an online infrastructure that supports millions of concurrent players in a secure, stable, highly performant and reliable manner. ...
GameStop's end-of-year reporting for the 2019 financial year totes a newly strengthened balance sheet created by the year's cost-cutting and reboot efforts. ...
While there may appear to be few surface-level similarities between the games, lessons learned from Nintendo's long-running racing game series informed many aspects of its new fighting game IP. ...
Teams with location based or augmented reality games out in the wild are having to make changes to remain playable as people forgo excursions due to the coronavirus. ...
Pat Pat Please! gives players a plush puppy to care for, asking them to love, pat, and talk to it to earn its affection. ...
The developers behind Coffee Talk go deep on explaining the cozy, welcoming ambience of their "heart-to-heart talking simulator." ...
UK game dev conference Develop: Brighton has been postponed until November 2020Â due to the coronavirus pandemic. ...
Epic Games has formed a new multi-platform publishing label and signed deals with The Last Guardian developer genDesign, Limbo creator PlayDead, and Control maker Remedy. ...
Landon Montgomery, one of the co-founders of Brothers in Arms and Borderlands developer Gearbox Software, has passed away. ...
Health Scholars is looking for a talented, driven, creative Technical Artist to help design and build the next generation of interactive VR educational training applications. ...
Unity is opening up three months' worth of premium access to its Unity Learn platform to give learning resources to Unity-curious developers cooped up at home during the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. ...
Dan Vader, lead writer and designer on the brilliant Grindstone from Capy Games, explains the iterative process that brought about one of the most satisfying puzzle games in recent memory. ...
Nintendo's latest system looks to have eclipsed the sales of the company's previous popular home console in Japan, at least according to data gathered by Game Data Library. ...
As we lock down in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, game developers have a new role in all this: to provide agency to people when they largely have none. ...
Avalanche has shifted its branding and is now known as Avalanche Studios Group, a change made to better reflect the company†s new division-focused identity. ...
Beidi Guo of Lantern Studio discusses the team's debut title LUNA The Shadow Dust, and looks at how lore and backstory can improve the replayability of puzzle games. ...
Wizard's Warehouse: The Magick of Retail is an adventure in fantasy sales, having players scan armor, weapons, and potions for wizards and warriors. ...
While the on-location event was called off due to the increasing presence of COVID-19, the 2020 SXSW Gaming Awards are still a go (digitally). ...
The National Videogame Museum (NVM) has started a fundraiser to help it outlast the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Nintendo has closed its repair centers in the United States to comply with COVID-19 prevention measures. ...
Animal Crossing: New Horizon has had the best launch week of any Switch title in Japan according to the latest Famitsu sales estimates. ...
Size Five Games founder Dan Marshall discusses the strange twists and turns of the studio's approach to designing its adventurous new point-and-click-meets-platformer Lair of the Clockwork God. ...