Tom's Diner is the song used to calibrate MP3. Not a certain MP3, the whole file format was tuned by Karlheinz Brandenburg to prevent loss of any audible details from the original acapella:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9x-DENKIts
#Music@GameDEV

2m copies sold

#Capcom@GameDEV

No sales on PS, kids

#PlayStation@GameDEV

OK

#Borderlands@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Mixtape (by the re-founded Annapurna Interactive) is almost Life is Strange but made by people who actually spoke to other human beings.

Critics praised the game but I feel it will go barely noticed.

UPD: Watched the reviews, it's kinda dumb as hell.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2582320/Mixtape/
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#Annapurna@GameDEV

80 years ago on May 7, 1946 two friends founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (you may know as Sony).

#PlayStation@GameDEV

And today is Radio Day, which is important holiday for my family. Before internet there were radio enthusiasts, who communicated over the world. One of them, under the call name UA3AF was my grand-grandfather.

He trained radio teams for WW2, wrote books, spent years in universities, and even in his late years was still using a home-based radio spot.

Soulslike games be like

#Soulslike@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Via 𝕮𝖔𝖗𝖛𝖔

The mystery

#meme@GameDEV
#Bethesda@GameDEV

Chrome creates a local AI model in AppData Local, you have to disable all Gemini flags in Chrome://Flags, then remove the file, then restart.

Chromium engine browsers are also affected but in a limited scope: many of them have these flags removed or disabled.

#Google@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

Apparently, indie developers from Russia lost the last bank that supported Steam, thanks to EU sanctions. So, being a publisher is nearly impossible from Russia now and people expect shady middleman services to appear.

And simultaneously Russian government built cases against all major game companies for "storing users data in unsafe countries" = i.e. not in Russia. And despite promises that "there's nothing to worry about", blocks were already tested this spring for all these companies.

The second part means that soon it may become harder to promote services that help gamers to top up Steam wallets and get gift cards for consoles.

#Laws@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV

The last financial report from Sony states that Bungie lost the equivalent of $765m during the last year alone. That's 7 times the budget of GTA V, almost two Battlefields, or the equivalent cost of Call of Duty development.

Another curiosity: there's no mention of GTA VI for the upcoming financial year (which was supposed to be a driving force). Instead, only the PS5 hardware is expected to bring some revenue.

#Finance@GameDEV
#Bungie@GameDEV
#PlayStation@GameDEV

There's something terribly wrong going on with The Finals:

Embark is banning people even for accessibility controllers and players started to research the issue, but got deeper than expected.

- They apparently removed anticheat for pro players (secretly, then confirmed it by saying it was due to massive reports on their exceptional skill levels)

- They made a special discord for selected pro players where they have tons of privileges

- They ban average users with one request from pro players and without clear investigation

The same company also operates Arc Raiders. Which is far less competitive but still...

#Embark@GameDEV
#Multiplayer@GameDEV

Sorry not sorry

#Anime@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Welcome to Highguard the club!

#meme@GameDEV
#Bungie@GameDEV

After Nacon publishing house killed The Spiders (Greedfall, Steelrising, The Technomancer), they moved on to Big Bad Wolf (The Council, Vampire: The Masquerade — Swansong, Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss). The company will be fully closed now. Their parent company Cyanide is also insolvent.

Kylotonn, The creators of Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown will be hit differently: their studio will shrink from 120 to ~30 people soon. Which makes it nearly impossible to operate a live-service racing game in a reasonable pace.

#Nacon@GameDEV
#LayOffs@GameDEV

PVKK is delayed for 2026

#IndieGames@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV