YouTube Gaming has released its monthly chart of trending games for January 2015; at the top of the list ranks Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, and the rest of the ranking just looks like a list of games you'd already know the names of — no real surprises there.
What is more interesting is YouTube's reasoning behind the popularity of each game on the site.
New releases, DLC packs, and beta tests seem to jump games back up into the rankings.
Take Dying Light, Goat Simulator, and Shovel Knight. Each rode their way into the top 10 on the back of DLC upd…
Heads up: The deadline to register early at a discounted rate for the 2016 Virtual Reality Developers Conference ends tomorrow, September 7th at 11:59 PM Pacific!
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The premier event for creators of immersive VR (and AR) experiences, VRDC will be held this November 2-3 in San Francisco, at the prestigious Park Central Hotel.
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NetEase intends to curb game addition fears in China by imposing a curfew on younger players.
As reported by ChinaDaily, the developer-publisher will stop children and teens from logging on to select mobile titles from 9:30pm to 8:30am, preventing them from spending all night glued to their smartphone.
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Nintendo has said it will no longer provide repairs for its New Nintendo 3DS systems, effective immediately. In a translated social media post, it explained it had "run out of parts necessary for repairs."
In mid-February, the publisher said it would continue to repair the New 3DS and its XL and 2DS offshoots until its parts stock had dwindled. According to its website at time of writing, the 2DS' XL successor can still be repaired.
Nintendo repairs drying up for older systems
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GDC 2015 is over, and with record-breaking attendance this year it seems like the greater part of the game industry is still trying to get back to business as usual.
But not everyone had a chance to attend GDC last week, and those that did couldn't possibly have had time to see everything.
We did our best to bring you news, interviews and analysis of the most interesting events of the show in our GDC 2015 coverage, but a certain aspect of the experience is lost when you try to convey the tenor of a vibrant event like this through words alone.
With that in mind, we've taken the liberty of compiling a few highlights from the Official GDC Photost…
The wait is over. Nintendo has finally pulled back the veil on the Switch 2, its successor to the immensely popular Nintendo Switch. It's currently unclear how much the console will cost, although Nintendo indicated it will hit shelves at some point in 2025.
Developers not privy to Nintendo's plans have been waiting on pins and needles for details of what new hardware features its next console might sport. Since the Nintendo Wii, the company has prioritized unique technology like motion sensor controls, second-screens, and portability over graphical and computing power. This time around? Well, it looks like we'll be getting more of the same–but better.
In a brief announcement video (embedded below), Nintendo showed a device th…
For Remedy, the first half of 2024 has been quite fruitful.
In the six-month period for January-June 2024, the Alan Wake developer saw a revenue growth of 33.7 percent from last year's period to €21.1 million (or $23 million). For the period's operating profit, Remedy reported a loss of €5.3 million, down year-over-year from €10.4 million.
The three-month second quarter (between April 1 and June 30, 2024) saw revenue of €10.3 million, up 16.2 percent from last year's €8.9 million. It also had its own operational loss of €3.2 million, down compared to €4.8 million in the same period last year.
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Game Developers Conference officials added eSports to the GDC 2015 Summit lineup for a simple reason: eSports events are on the rise, and they're bigger than ever.
Just this year, noted eSports organization ESL One Frankfurt put 12,500 Dota 2 fans into a World Cup football stadium in Frankfurt, and ESL's James Lampkin will explain how you can put together your own independent event of similar size at GDC 2015.
His talk, "Challenges and Strategies for Hosting Massive Independent eSports Events", should offer useful insight into how you can break free from the publisher marketing budget funding paradigm and bui…
The closures of Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games and OlliOlli World maker Roll7 are imminent, according to a report from IGN. The publication also states that Take-Two intends to either sell or shut down indie publishing label Private Division, which houses those studios.
Multiple anonymous sources have told IGN that Intercept will shut down on June 28, 2024. Those same sources claim Roll7 is also closing, although it's unclear when exactly the UK studio will be officially laid to rest.
Earlier this year it was reported that parent company Take-Two Interactive was making layoffs at both studios …
NetEase has brought in veteran Call of Duty design director David Vonderhaar to lead new remote-first studio BulletFarm.
The fledgling studio will be headquartered in Los Angeles and has been tasked with developing a new triple-A franchise.
Vonderhaar spent almost two decades at Treyarch and Activision Blizzard before leaving in August 2023. During his time at the studio, he worked on eight entries in the Call of Duty series and served as a leader within the design team.
Discussing his decision to join NetEase and BulletFarm, Vonderhaar said the project would push him to step outside of his comfort zone and try his hand at making something completely new.
"This is a departu…
Capcom has released a report detailing its financial performance for the first three quarters of its 2017-2018 fiscal year.
For the period spanning April 1 to December 31, 2017, Capcom reported a year-over-year decrease in sales but, thanks to a strong showing from its ‘digital contents’ video game department, an overall jump in profits.
As a whole, Capcom reported net sales of ¥47.7 billion (~$436.8 million) for the 9 month period ending December 31, 2017, a 10.8 percent decrease year-over-year. Despite the fall in sales, Capcom saw ¥7 billion (~$64 million) in profits during that same period, marking a 36.9 percent increase from the ¥5.1 billion (~$46.8 million) reported last year.
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Registration is now open for the 2018 Game Developers Conference, and organizers are incredibly excited about putting together an event full of interesting people, presentations, and panels.
They've already begun lining up some fantastic sessions for GDC 2018, including Kongregate cofounder & CEO Emily Greer's talk on the art and business of using game analytics wisely.
In her session on "Data-Driven or Data-Blinded? Uses and Abuses of Analytics in Games" Greer will examine how, in the last decade of data analysis, A/B testing and predictive modeling have transitioned from an afterthought to a given in the game industry. Come from GDC 2016 organizers would like to give you a preview of the informative and intriguing sessions taking place during the two-day Game Design Workshop which will help kick off the conference next month. This is just one of the many Bootcamps and Tutorials scheduled during the first two days of GDC (Monday and Tuesday, March 14th and 15th this year) and offer attendees the chance to study critical components of the game design craft. GDC 2016 attendees are invited to attend the two–day workshop and take part in hands-on activities, group discussion, analysis and critique. Attendees will immerse themselves in the iterativ…
The UK-based Gamer Network of game journalism sites like Eurogamer and GamesIndustry has been acquired by IGN Entertainment.
For an undisclosed sum, IGN purchased that entire family of websites, which further includes Rock Paper Shotgun, VG247, and Dicebreaker. Previously, the Ziff Davis subsidiary purchased HowLongtoBeat and Humble Bundle.
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Alongside the acquisition, IGN laid off several employees within the Gamer Network. These cuts appear to b…
Developers on Red Dead Redemption and the Mario + Rabbids series have teamed to found their own studio, Day 4 Night.
Led by game director Davide Soliani and Christian Cantamessa, the team will split its staff between Los Angeles and Milan, Italy. Fellow co-founders include Cristina Nava, Gian Marco Zanna, and Luca Breda, all of whom were previously at Ubisoft for 13-16 years.
Soliani exited Ubisoft Milan this past July after 25 years. Along with the Mario+Rabbids games (which Nava, Zanna, and Breda also helped develop), he wor…
Results from the fifth annual Game Developers Conference State of the Industry Survey are in, revealing trends in the games industry based on the feedback of more than 4,500 game developers ahead of GDC 2017 in February and March.
Earlier this month we pointed out how survey results suggest game developers are optimistic about Nintendo’s upcoming Switch console, but feel unsure about the prospects of mid-cycle console refreshes like the PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox’s “Project Scorpio.” Also, the survey shows that for the first time ever, mobile game devs favor Android over iOS.
We also know that most devs who took …
Developer Echo Chunk, a studio focusing on AI-powered games, has raised $1.4 million in a pre-seed funding round. That money will go towards its debut title Echo Chess, and other projects it's working on that'll use the technology.
Included in that funding was a16z Speedrun, Zynga founder Mark Pincus, and Roblox Corp's AI head Stef Corazza. Echo Chunk founder Sami Ramly commended all funders, saying they "understood our passion for AI’s role in the co-creation process of the future."
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The 2014 Game Developers Conference is happening next week, March 17-21 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, which means we're just days away from the year's premiere conference for game industry professionals. While you're putting together your GDC 2014 session schedule in the Schedule Builder, don't forget to check out the show's lineup of Tutorials and Bootcamps, which take place next Monday and Tuesday, March 17-18. If you've never attended one of these day-long events, the lineup for this year's Level Design In A Day bootcamp should give you a taste of what you're in for Come from South African …
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We can hardly believe we’re saying this, but it’s the final day of the all-digital 2021 Game Developers Conference! We’ve had an incredible week spending time with you all in this celebration of the art, science, and business of game development.
With one final day under our belt, we wanted to take a moment and highlight some key sessions you absolutely shouldn’t miss. Here’s a slice of must-see talks straight from the GDC 2021 schedule:
At 8:30AM PST, you can start your day with a Classic Game Postmortem of Quake from none other than John Romero himself.
At 9:40AM PST, the GDC Podcast will be chatting with Arkane Studios game designer Da…