A number of major game companies including Microsoft and Ubisoft will look to host digital events this summer after E3 2020 was canceled earlier today. ...
BitSummit, the annual independent game development festival that takes place in Kyoto, Japan, has been canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak. ...
E3 2020 has been called off due to the "increased and overwhelming" concerns surrounding the coronavirus. ...
Work-for-hire development agency Amber has acquired Scorpius Games for an undisclosed fee. ...
Wishlists have been added to the Epic Games Store so users can keep tabs on those titles they're keen to add to their collection. ...
Game composer Winifred Phillips shares additional research from her Game Developers Conference 2020 lecture, 'The Importance of Themes: Creating Musical Signatures for your Games.' ...
When No Code ported the text-based adventure game Stories Untold from PC to Nintendo Switch, the studio had to alter the game's original input method--keystrokes--and make it work for a game controller, among other challenges. ...
Publisher Bandai Namco has announced that CyberConnect2†s most recent release, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, has surpassed 2 million copies sold since its January 17 launch. ...
Insomniac Games is looking for Mid to Senior Engine Programmers in Burbank CA or Durham NC to join its Core team and focus on its internal game development tool suite. ...
Game Informer Andy McNamara shared news of Preston†s retirement in a post to the site today, noting also that six unnamed staff members have been laid off from Game Informer this week as well. ...
Horizon Zero Dawn designer Eric Boltjes shares some of the lessons learned making an open-world game filled with machines meant to act like living creatures. ...
Mod.io has secured $1 million in seed funding in a round led by Play Ventures, with the goal of expanding its platform and bringing its mod-enabling tools to more game developers. ...
The organizers of the Game Developers Conference are excited to announce plans to stream talks during the week GDC 2020 would have taken place, March 16-20! ...
Telling Lies and Outer Wilds publisher Annapurna Interactive has agreed a multi-year partnership with Swedish developer Simogo. ...
Horizon Zero Dawn, the PlayStation 4 exclusive from PlayStation-owned Guerrilla Games, is officially launching on PC later this year, though the port doesn†t necessarily mean all PlayStation exclusives will follow suit. ...
Based in Dublin, Artomatix is a leading AI-driven 3D content creation platform that uses neural networks to streamline artistic workflows. ...
The deal gives 2K the rights to create "non-simulation football game experiences," meaning EA's annual Madden NFL franchise will remain will remain unchallenged in the realm of realistic football sims. ...
We speak with developers behind games including Shelter 3, Pupperazzi and more to find out various approaches to imbuing virtual animals with real emotions. ...
Disruptor Beam laid off a number of staff today, less than a week after it sold off its Star Trek Timelines game to Tilting Point and stated plans to refocus on its Disruptor Engine game platform. ...
Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé is joining GameStop†s board of directors next month, a shift that comes as GameStop continues to work toward its turnaround and image revamp. ...
We are looking for an experienced Lead Producer; a team player with excellent project management and communication skills, someone who is passionate to lead a group of experts at Remedy in the creation of our next projects. ...
Which games offer a masterclass in how to design a well-shaped learning curve? Corey Davis of Psyonix, Chris Bourassa of Red Hook, and Global Game Jame co-founder Ian Schreiber weigh in. ...
Activision has revealed its long rumored (and partially leaked) new mode for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare as Call of Duty: Warzone, an add on that includes a 150-person, free-to-play battle royale mode. ...
While Oculus' strict content rules will remain in place, the platform is looking into other ways developers can officially launch games for the Quest without using the Oculus Store. ...
Yes, Your Grace, a kingdom management RPG developed by Brave At Night and published by No More Robots, has made over $600,000 in revenue during its launch weekend. ...
Epic Games founder and chief exec Tim Sweeney said the Fortnite maker will "wholeheartedly" support Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud streaming platform. ...
We're talking about the core gameplay loop of a title in today's post, and how it's crucial for getting someone invested in playing your game over the long term. ...
"While we copy the tropes of the action movies, the idea that you should be able to define a character by what the gameplay verbs are is just something that we don†t really talk about, but it just seems really obvious to me," says John Wick Hex dev Mike Bithell. ...
The latest highlights include looks at Not For Broadcast & The Longing, as well as a pretty odd video about Kirby, the history of Iran's game biz, the history of Dropmix, secrets in games, & more. ...
All 2K Games titles have been removed from Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming service today, though the company representative making the announcement noted Nvidia is working with 2K to get them back. ...
The folks at Hyper Light Drifter dev Heart Machine seek a gameplay engineer skilled in UE4 to join the team at their Culver City, California studio! ...
"Instead of having the darkness being directly linked to player's health, it made a lot more sense if it affected their mental well-being," writes dev Thomas Grip in a look at Amnesia's sanity meter. ...
"It started as a fun way to misdirect data miners who, at the time, felt like they had solved our next legend and had ruined our surprise,†designer director Jason McCord recently told Dot eSports. ...
Many Microsoft devs are working from home due to COVID-19 concerns, and now the company says even though hourly contractors are working less, it still plans to pay them their usual rates. ...
To ship my first game, I juggled many hats such as sole programmer, writer, and project manager, all the while working full time in another industry. Here is what I learned. ...
The Outer Worlds developer Obsidian has been quietly working on a font scaling feature that'll let players adjust the size of the microscopic text in the sci-fi RPG. ...
Bungie employees around the globe are being asked to work remotely in order to help stem the spread of the coronavirus. ...
"There was nothing stopping us from writing this code four years ago, other than that nobody knew how to do it," says Brandon Laatsch, one of the developers behind Stress Level Zero's VR hit Boneworks. ...
"I'm one of them, by the way; I'm not a big believer in remote work," Take-Two Interactive chief Strauss Zelnick said today at a Morgan Stanley event. "But I think I may be surprised." ...
Programmers at Disbelief are called on to develop and debug in a variety of areas from game play to core engine programming ...