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Someone Dumped $400,000 Worth Of Stolen Playdate Gaming Handhelds At A Random Restaurant
31.5.2024
Earlier this year, Panic, the company behind the whimsical Playdate gaming handheld, revealed that a shipment containing more than a thousand of the devices had been stolen. Several months and a lot of sleuthing later, the rogue shipments have been discovered after seemingly being dumped on...
How user reviews affect your game's Month 1 sales
1.5.2024
Also: GDC Vault recommendations & lots of news
Baldur’s Gate 3 Becomes First Game To Win Every Major GOTY Award
12.4.2024
If it seems like Baldur’s Gate 3 can’t stop winning Game of the Year awards, you aren’t wrong. Just this week, Larian’s ambitious 2023 Dungeons & Dragons RPG took home yet another prize during the video game portion of the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs). While it is impressive alone to take...
Some Publishers Reportedly Not Sure Why They Should Keep Supporting Xbox
26.3.2024
Reportedly, some third-party video game publishers aren’t sure why they should keep making and supporting games for Xbox consoles due to poor sales in Europe. Read more
Exclusive: the numbers behind Epic's 12% store cut
25.3.2024
Also: lots of post-GDC discovery news, folks
How Balatro hit 1 million sales in less than a month!
18.3.2024
We talk to the folks behind it. Also: lots of discovery news & some GDC bingo
Video Game Conventions Are Still Hotbeds Of Sexualized Abuse
8.6.2023
Just days after the March 2023 Game Developer Conference came to a close, disturbing allegations started making the rounds on social media: The ultra-popular conference for game developers, held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center and attended by an estimated 28,000 people, was rife with sordid tales...
Shrapnel wows at GDC, Undead Blocks hot take, Second Trip: Web3 Gamer
30.3.2023
First-person shooter Shrapnel blows gamers away at GDC, Otherside’s Second Trip vs Fortnite, Callan gets killed by zombies over and over
Ex-Sims Dev Says Men Lie About How They Play Game Out Of Embarrassment
28.3.2023
You know that new-age internet saying, “all women do is eat hot chip and lie?” Well, now we’ve got a new gamer saying for men. And no, has nothing to do with them chugging Monster energy drinks and punching holes in the wall when they lose in Warzone, because all men do is “play The Sims and lie,”...
Sadly, Kirby Will Not Turn Into A Hot Man If He Swallows A Hot Man
28.3.2023
Kirby’s whole thing is that he has a huge mouth, and anything he swallows he either absorbs their powers or transforms into. If he swallows Mario in a Smash fight he gets a red hat. In more recent times, if he puts a car in his mouth, he turns into a car.Read more
GDC Organizers Respond To Reports Women Were Drugged, Assaulted At Off-Site Events
27.3.2023
Several game developers who attended this year’s Game Developers Conference have reported that they experienced harassment on the show floor, while others claim they had their drinks spiked at a networking event that took place off-site.Read more
Validate, 'hype', release: The Wandering Village's successful discovery approach
27.3.2023
Also: alternative app stores on Android & lots of GDC news
Unreal Engine Videos Give Us A Glimpse At The Graphics Of The Future
23.3.2023
Epic Games held a little showcase at the Game Developers Conference earlier today, called State of Unreal. Designed as a way to keep everyone who makes games up to date on what’s in store for the industry-dominating Unreal Engine, the highlights are also obviously interesting to anyone who plays...
PC & console games: predictions for 2023
22.3.2023
What took us so long? Also: lots of GDC news & more
Autoři hry Rust zrušili setkání s fanoušky kvůli výhrůžkám zabitím
20.3.2023
Plánované setkání fanoušků online hry Rust v americkém San Franciscu se nakonec neuskuteční. Kvůli anonymním výhrůžkám totiž nakonec vývojáři raději celou akci zrušili
Death Threats Lead To Cancellation Of Rust Fan Meeting
17.3.2023
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is next week, and while that’s normally a time for developers from around the world to meet up, the developers of Rust were also planning on using the event to catch up with fans. That now won’t be happening.Read more
Místo vývoje bojují na frontě. Autoři Stalkera 2 zveřejnili mrazivé video
16.6.2022
Druhý díl legendární střílečky S.T.A.L.K.E.R. měl být jedním z největších hitů letošního roku, nakonec se ho však dočkáme až v tom příštím. Důvody jsou zjevné, studio sídlící v Kyjevě totiž prakticky paralyzoval vpád ruských vojsk na Ukrajinu. Talentovaní vývojáři nyní ukázali, v jak složitých...
Devs Want To Challenge Your Expectations Of Who Makes Games
24.3.2022
While the video game industry is becoming more diverse every year, marginalized game developers are still often dismissed in professional settings based on their appearance. One developer started the hashtag #WhatAGameDevLooksLike after security guards at a games conference apparently stopped...
Survey Says Developers Are Definitely Not Interested In Crypto Or NFTs
24.1.2022
Every year ahead of the actual Game Developers Conference the show’s organisers run an industry survey, polling creators around the world on what’s happening and what could be happening in the games business. With 2022 promising to be a tumultuous 12 months, this year’s results are perhaps a...
What do devs really think of game platform cut?
3.5.2021
And lots more dev data from GDC! Plus, uhh, a LOT more