Game Development News

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A community focused on any news happening in the game development space. Things such as articles, posts talking about events, blogs, etc. are allowed.

This is one of the child communities for [email protected]. Feel free to crosspost posts there if you think its relevant for most game developers.

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Rules

Posts must be in english
Only post things that are related to news in the gamedev space. General gamedev discussion can happen in the parent community or a child community dedicated to that if it exists for what you want to talk about.
Dont self promote your games, theres other communities for that in the site.

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SAG-AFTRA performers call strike against major game studios over AI - SAG-AFTRA members who work in games will strike starting at midnight, AI protections chief among their concerns. (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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The Great Steam Demo Update - Demos can have their own page and reviews (store.steampowered.com)

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Study finds co-op games keep growing in numbers (and sales) on Steam (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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SAG-AFTRA can now call immediate strike if game companies refuse AI protections (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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Humble Games confirms layoffs amid 'restructuring', denies full shutdown | Old Title: Humble Bundle shuts down game publishing label (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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What games are selling on Steam: The Q2 Report (howtomarketagame.com)

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Opinion: How will Project 2025 impact game developers? (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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Among Us dev Innersloth starts new indie game fund Outersloth (www.gamesindustry.biz)

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Limit Break opens 2024 mentorship program to help underrepresented and marginalized devs (www.gamedeveloper.com)

submitted 3 months ago by mac to c/gamedev_news

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FTC blocks facial recognition plans for game purchases (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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A16Z Games commits $75M to accelerator program for early game startups (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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Indie-focused Triple-I Initiative launched by Dead Cells, Slay the Spire devs (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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Japan aiming to support indie devs with new acceleration program (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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Day of the Devs is going independent (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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Apple revises policies on streaming game services and apps with minigames (venturebeat.com)

submitted 6 months ago by mac to c/gamedev_news

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Valve is beta testing a new system that lets Steam devs schedule Daily Deals (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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SAG-AFTRA's new agreement lets game devs use AI voices (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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IronSource co-founders exiting Unity amid mass layoffs (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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Valve now open to releasing "vast majority" of games with AI content on Steam (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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Unity Software to cut 25% of staff in ‘company reset’ continuation (www.reuters.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/gamedev_news

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Latest estimates show over 14,000 new titles launched on Steam in 2023 (www.gamedeveloper.com)

submitted 6 months ago by mac to c/gamedev_news

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GameDiscoverCo launches free to all pitch deck archive (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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Deadline approaches for submissions to Game Maker's Sketchbook at GDC 2024 (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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It's official: E3 is dead (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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Screen Queensland backs local developers with expanded Games Grants (www.gamedeveloper.com)

submitted 7 months ago by mac to c/gamedev_news

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