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warm, do gaming w Game developers are still feeling the pull of last-generation consoles

The Xbox One is like equivalent to a GTX 750, it's ancient. The Xbox One X is more like a GTX 1060, so should still be servicable. But they are part of the same family, so they can't make a game for one and not the other.

The problem with consoles is that they are outdated the day they release.

CaptDust, do games w Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer

Ignore the thousands of employees we’ve laid off, we have AI that is going to QUADRUPLE our productivity. I’m talking AAAA-AAAA games here, folks. The best is yet to come, it’s going to be fantastic.

FiremanEdsRevenge, do gaming w Families of Uvalde victims sue Activision, say Call of Duty is 'the most prolific and effective marketer of assault weapons in the United States'

The 90s called and wanted their failed argument back.

BudgieMania, do games w Replacing the term "Metroidvania"

...what

Reading through it, his suggestion seems rooted on the idea that Metroidvania carries implications in terms of setting, perspective or combat, which is a complete fabrication of his mind not grounded in reality. It's 2024, the people that would know and care about the Metroidvania tag know very well what that tag implies; your "revelation" that Arkham Asylum is also a Metroidvania has been commonplace in discussions for a decade.

This addresses a confusion and an issue that don't exist, and the tag is so standard at this point that changing it would not catch on and would create way more problems than it would fix.

Noodle07, do games w The Steam Deck OLED feels like a radiant new dawn for portable play

Christmas is coming op, you know what to gift me

kakes, do games w GameMaker swaps 'indie' and 'creator' subscriptions for one-time fee

I used to use GameMaker back in the Mark Overmars 5.0/6.0 days, but dropped it the moment it went to a paid model. This is great news, and I might honestly check it out again.

Nowadays I would generally prefer to use Godot - not a surprise, given where I’m posting. But GM was great for quick prototyping, if nothing else.

Jaysyn, do games w Unity is reviewing its product portfolio and says layoffs are "likely"
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I don't give a shit what happens to Unity.

captain_aggravated,
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Unity, as a business, as a stock investment, as a C-suite and board of directors, is rotting in its casket for all I care. I have committed to never buy game built in Unity whose development started after September this year.

This whole debacle wasn’t an engineering problem; it’s not the software development staff’s fault.

Mirrorgiraffe, do games w Dredge smashes internal expectations after topping 1 million sales

It has a few quirks but all in all its an amazing, genre busting pearl that had me longing to return to it until I finished it.

Boxtifer, do games w Microsoft's next-generation Xbox pitched as a "cloud hybrid" console

Don’t worry y’all. By cloud it’s just gonna be dynamic ads.

But for real, background animations and details could be streamed through another device having to render that something. Anything that doesn’t revolve around the gameplay itself.

datavoid, do games w Microsoft's next-generation Xbox pitched as a "cloud hybrid" console

Boo

PenguinTD, do gaming w Altagram publishes new crediting policy after Baldur's Gate 3 blunder

This is from the culture where don’t show you outsourced some of your work and claim that you did everything internally. There was a time where players think outsourced anything is bad but we have since gone way past that. Many big studio out-sourced their asset making/audio etc cause it’s simply too much work to do the up keeps if you don’t have a library of them from your past games.

As far as I know some Japanese company still operate this way and the out-source partner are contractually not allowed to disclose what they worked on. You would be considered lucky to even make the partner list with company name only. It’s a really bad standard and I hope we just get rid of that entirely. (If you are not aware, China’s asset outsource companies makes a lot of assets for AAA industry for a long time. )

Blxter, do games w Report: Embracer has made layoffs at Gearbox Publishing
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Honestly my biggest problem with embracer group is they don’t have a “real stake” in gaming or actual interest like Xbox does when they buy studios. (Please correct me if I’m wrong) but all they do is buy companies and then when they see profits go down they just lay people off.

mindbleach,

Which is better than EA somehow.

Blxter,
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This might be a really unpopular opinion but nowadays I feel like EA is doing and has done much better than previous. Aside from there sports games.

mindbleach,

Nowhere to go but up.

Cyberpacman, do games w Report: Embracer has made layoffs at Gearbox Publishing

Not great news for embracer as they just shut down their other games studio volition studio too . Layoffs at gearbox doesn’t seem good and they will probably have to sell it off next year

Flamekebab, do gaming w Game developers are still feeling the pull of last-generation consoles
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I've got an Xbox One X and there's just not been anything on current gen platforms that excites me. Lots of live service games that are of zero interest to me, coupled with subscriptions that end up imposing FoMo.

FrostyCaveman, do games w Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer

I think at this point maybe Embracer should try replacing Lars Wingefors with ChatGPT instead

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