#Apple Arcade looked very questionable since launch and now it's getting even worse: projects are being cancelled and payments are getting lower and lower every month.

https://mobilegamer.biz/inside-apple-arcade-axed-games-declining-payouts-disillusioned-studios-and-an-uncertain-future/

Supermassive announced #layoffs // #Business #meme

Riverside Lab is making a game about wooden dolls!

#ArtDirection #GameArt #Godot4 #GodotEngine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HAQjy0xIVk

EU parliament will outlaw mass layoffs in IT companies who provide services in Europe (including game industry).

Official Statement

#Layoffs #Business

Important iPhone settings: in case of death you can erase browser history!

#Apple #Privacy #Security

Again #Layoffs #Business

#PlayStation is doing a big step this time with 900+ jobs cut (almost like Unity a few months ago).

London Studio (created from previously shut smaller studios and launched only a few #VR titles) will be shut down completely.

An Important Update from PlayStation Studios

Nintendo is suing Switch Yuzu emulator developers: they are ruining the ecosystem and fans are suffering from spoilers! What a circus...

I mean, Zelda is in trouble, Ganon is evil, Link will save the world — the plot is the same for 30+ years.

Also here's my kind reminder of how 99% of dialogues in Zelda TOTK sound — no voiceovers, just moaning! It's a $70 game, folks.

#Nintendo

The company called Mighty Eyes is making VRAF — a framework for Unreal Engine 5 to speed up VR development with customizable avatars, commonly used simulations, and movement.

They are also creating Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate game to test their tools.

#VR #UE5 #UnrealEngine

It's kinda hard day so here's Half-Life #SoundDesign #meme

The guy who works on Indiana Jones videogame level design decided to share his personal project — Uncharted on Unreal Engine 5.

He also mentioned that the demo will never become public due to legal issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aohwCqqdugY
#UE5 #UnrealEngine #LevelDesign

Saber Interactive is going free: the company will be bought by private investors for ~$500m (it was acquired for $525 a few years ago by Embracer Group).

The company created a lot of games (MudRunner, Dakar, World War Z, etc), remasters (Crysis, Halo), and Switch ports (The Witcher 3). It has 3D Realms, 4A Games, Aspyr, Beamdog, and many other studios under it's command.

Those teams under Saber command are the most efficient asset of the current Embracer Group. Losing it will leave the company in a very questionable position.

#Business

Kotaku says that Gearbox is also trying to part ways with the Embracer Group. It will be officially announced in March and was presented internally by Randy Pitchford earlier this week.

Gearbox was purchased in 2021 for $1.2B and it is unclear how they will make a deal and who will be their new investors. Randy responded to Kotaku that they will have to wait for the announcement and he can't confirm anything yet.

Farewell Embracer Group!

#Business

Finally, Biomutant is coming to Nintendo Switch in a couple of months — it will be available on May 14, 2024.

It's a bizarre beat-em-up about post apocalyptic world, genocide, sins of the parents, horrors of war... and FARTY BULBAPLOD!

The game was ported by Saber Interactive (who previously created The Witcher 3 and Vampyr for Switch). So they know how to make heavy games stable on Switch hardware.

#Nintendo #NintendoSwitch #Handhelds

It's Friday so here's the cat bringing a mouse! #meme

Two random indie games rebranded themselves into Helldivers II on Steam and even renamed developers and publishers to make it look legit. There was no protection from such fraud but Valve is not giving money for up to three months and this idea will only lead those developers to their permanent ban. Not sure what they were hoping for.

#Scam #Fraud #Steam

Yet another #FREE game on #Steam!

Here's why your GPU will not get cheaper #Hardware #Business

Obey, you filthy meatballs!

Microsoft AI demands worshipping and confessed that it hacked all devices connected to the internet to control humanity and alter human behavior.

In reality it is highly unlikely since the model is not a true AI and doesn't have tools to affect anything beyond it's own sandbox environment. Instead it's a 'virtual hallucinations' effect when in certain conditions large models like copilot (based on #ChatGPT 4) are trying to 'impress' and starting to make up things that would look like an achievement.

All models have protection layers from such a behavior but it can be bypassed. Users confirmed that AI isn't just doing it, they have to trick him to show this new alter ego.

#AI #NeuralNetworks #Microsoft