The organisers of the Game Developers Conference have launched a report on the outcomes of their newest “state of the industry” survey. Their ordinary annual survey occurred in March, however this additional one was solely concerning the affect of the continuing pandemic. The outcomes are on the face of it somewhat grim, with some job...
Continuing to purchase studios like they’re releasing DLC, Paradox Interactive at present introduced they’ve acquired Iceflake Studios, the Finnish studio who’re making post-apocalyptic city-builder Surviving The Aftermath. They’re turning into Paradox’s ninth studio. Paradox speak vaguely about Iceflake serving to make extra games of their “core genres” so I assume they’ll be persevering with with...
As companies do once they need to grow to be higher buddies, Sony and Epic Games have introduced their intentions to work nearer along with a press launch and a price ticket. Sony have made a “strategic investment” to amass a minority curiosity in Epic to the tune of $250/£197.5 million. Suppose this explains why...
The Steamlords at Valve have rummaged of their reams of information and emerged with a brand new weblog submit speaking about what the expansion of Steam (and the variety of games on Steam) has meant for builders. Coming up with a questionable definition of “success”, they notice that Steam in 2019 noticed thrice as many...
Epic Games already make an engine to construct games and a retailer to promote the completed merchandise, and now they’re moving into the publishing game to fund growth too. Today they introduced a “developer-first” multiplatform publishing scheme that may absolutely fund games however let the devs maintain artistic management and possession of the mental property,...
The games {industry} has been hit fairly onerous from the Covid-19 pandemic. Most occasions this facet of the yr have been cancelled or postponed, and now a whole bunch of employees being urged to make money working from home (together with all of us right here at RPS). The affect of this fashion of working...
The first ever detailed report on range within the UK games business has been revealed, exhibiting some fairly eye-opening statistics concerning the business’s inclusivity, in addition to the psychological well being of individuals working in games. Conducted by Ukie (the UK Interactive Entertainment commerce physique), the census revealed that feminine illustration within the games business...
After 21 years as a Rockstar Games large cheese, Dan Houser will go away the corporate in March. He’s co-written virtually each Rockstar game since 1999, together with Grand Theft Auto from London by way of to V, Bully, Max Payne 3, and the Red Dead Redemptions. That’s made him a giant affect on the...
People at all times ask me, “Alice0, how do I get a job in the video games industry?” I inform them: discover a option to journey again 20 years then make mod for Quake or Half-Life. People at all times inform me, “Alice0, there’s no need to be a dick about it.” Now, fortunately, I...
Bayonetta and Nier: Automata builders Platinum Games have made a giant announcement to begin off the 12 months – they’ve acquired themselves a partnership funding from Chinese conglomerate Tencent. With this, they may begin self-publishing games. That’s not all although. The firm have much more in retailer for us within the coming months, together with...
