Are game studios suddenly abandoning Black developers? (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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Unity introducing new fee attached to game installs (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Tim Sweeney says Epic Games Store is open to devs using generative AI (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Baldur's Gate 3's success is not about setting a new "standard" (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Report: Bungie CEO blames layoffs on waning interest in Destiny 2 (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Unity’s Runtime Fee debacle cost it the trust of several indie developers, and led to Slay the Spire 2 being made in Godot.
The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Report: Embracer cancels Eidos' unannounced Deus Ex project, lays off staff (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Steam dropping support for macOS Mojave and by extension 32-bit games (www.gamedeveloper.com)
EA boss thinks ads in triple-A games would be 'meaningful' growth driver (www.gamedeveloper.com)
What could help triple-A games get even bigger right now? According to EA CEO Andrew Wilson, the answer lies in ads....
Microsoft's next-generation Xbox pitched as a "cloud hybrid" console (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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Unity is reviewing its product portfolio and says layoffs are "likely" (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Report: Unity's Runtime Fee quietly gave exemptions in launch rush (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Report: Fall Guys dev Mediatonic "decimated" by Epic layoffs (www.gamedeveloper.com)
ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online (www.gamedeveloper.com)
The 'rushed' attempt to rehabilitate Cities Skylines II is becoming a cautionary tale (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Are game studios suddenly abandoning Black developers? (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Unity is eliminating 265 jobs and terminating Weta FX partnership (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Starbreeze admits Payday 3 is massively underperforming (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Payday 3 launched for Windows PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S in September 2023 but has seemingly struggled to win over players. The title currently has a ‘mixed’ rating on Steam with over 36,000 user reviews, although the vast majority of recent reviews have been ‘mostly negative.’...
Epic Games says its titular store remains unprofitable (www.gamedeveloper.com)
The Death of Unity - Opinion (www.gamedeveloper.com)
I can say, unequivocally, if you’re starting a new game project, do not use Unity. If you started a project 4 months ago, it’s worth switching to something else. Unity is quite simply not a company to be trusted....
EA will spend over $125 million laying off 5 percent of its workforce (www.gamedeveloper.com)
