Developers

Valve has rolled out a new age assurance policy to comply with the UK Online Safety Act.Valve is requiring Steam users based in the UK to verify their age using a credit card in order to access…
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Multiple developers have mentioned Team Cherry's upcoming September release as the reason to delay their own projects.At least eight developers have decided to push their projects' publishing…
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Also in the news: lessons from the 'Friendslop' genre, Atari buys Ubisoft properties, and more.Welcome back to another edition of Patch Notes, here on my second (and final) sub-in for its usual…
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NetEase' overseas investments continue to shrink.Game Developer can confirm that Chinese publisher, developer, and studio investor NetEase has shut down T-Minus Zero Entertainment, the game studio…
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Developers, artists, designers, engineers, and support staff on the Diablo franchise have assembled 'one of the largest wall-to-wall unions' at Blizzard Entertainment.Three diablo characters defend a…
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The tool uses AI to analyze data from user playtests, and the information is then sent to QA analysts. The companies claim this will lead to 'more testers and more playtest hours' at the 'same or…
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Rec Room calls the job cuts a 'business necessity based on the financial trajectory of the company.'Developer Rec Room, the team behind the namesake user-generated content (UGC) driven social game,…
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Releasing on September 4, over 300,000 people gathered to watch the announcement on developer Team Cherry's YouTube channel.Team Cherry, developer of Hollow Knight, has announced a release date of…
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Wherein our intrepid news editor reports from Gamescom and the EIC steps in as a guest columnist.Hello and welcome to a new edition of Patch Notes, our friendly (and weekly) news roundup. This is…
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Developers at Arkane wrote a letter protesting parent company Microsoft's maintaining contracts with the Israel Defense Forces as it prosecutes its invasion of Gaza.An anonymous Arkane developer is…
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