Tag Archives: Developers

In 2020, the Game Developers Conference survey showed that a third of developers have had projects delayed due to COVID-19. Now, a full year later, almost half of developers say the pandemic has led to game delays.  The annual GDC survey results went live this week, showing that 44 percent …

Earlier this week, video game developers took to Twitter to raise concerns surrounding working conditions in the industry. The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has since responded to the movement, reassuring that efforts are being made to support affected professionals. The IDGA publicly spoke out against Jessica Price’s firing from …

G2A Direct, the developer partnership program twinned with the G2A game key seller, is proving popular. To date it has signed up 50 production companies and individuals and that's actually proving difficult for the platform provider, which claims it didn't expect anywhere near such a positive response. Launched in July …

Kerbal Space Program might be one of the biggest indie success stories of recent years, but that hasn't been able to keep developers at the studio that made it. Eight developers have announced their departure from Squad at once, leaving the company essentially gutted of all its major staff. Kerbal …

Earlier this year, a Harvard Law School student launched a petition to the US Copyright Office to allow for abandoned online games to become exempt to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This would mean that games abandoned by publishers with dead DRM servers could legally be cracked and played again. …

Amazon has been making a push for gaming, not only did it acquire Double Helix last year, the developer behind Killer Instinct, but it also bought Twitch, the largest video game streaming platform on the planet. Now with all of this in mind, it may not come as such a …

Valve has warned developers against offering up free game keys for votes on Steam Greenlight. Buying votes in order to get your game on Steam isn't a tactic Valve particularly appreciates, in order to address the problem, the company posted a message on a developers-only page on the Steam Community. …

Apparently the new year is a good time to be an app developer for the Apple ecosystem. Apple annoucned today, that the first week of 2015 has set new records in the App Store, with customers around the world spending nearly half a billion dollars on apps and in-app purchases. …

If you've read my earlier quick coverage of the AAA offerings at EGX 2014, you'll know I wasn't impressed by the idea of standing around all day. That wouldn't make for much in the way of interesting content for you guys and it certainly wouldn't have made for a fun …

Saints Row IV is getting official modding support today as Volition Studios has released a software development kit to get the community started. The kit includes weapon models for the upcoming Gat out of Hell expansion pack, meaning we could see modded versions of new weapons before they are even …

Microsoft recently admitted that by making the Kinect optional, developers would be able to squeeze out an extra 10 per cent out of the GPU on the Xbox One. However, that doesn't mean that current owners will suddenly see a performance boost simply by unplugging the peripheral. Microsoft has now …

If reading this headline made you think of augmented reality wargaming, or some way to play whatever that weird chess, monster beat 'em up was that they had in Star Wars, then I'm right there with you. If not, well, maybe we can be friends, but I'm not sure we'll …

Valve is handing developers the tools to set their own discounts and sales on Steam, the company has confirmed. This information came to light after a developer posted this screenshot on Reddit: The page is only accessible by developers that have published games through the Steam service and explains how …

Ten thousand developers signed up to make apps for Razer's upcoming smartband, ‘Nabu', just 24 hours after it was unveiled at CES last month. Razer is taking a detour from its usual line of gaming peripherals and laptops to create its own piece of wearable tech, it's not just developers …

We can all agree the Wii U is the underdog of the “next” generation. It came out a year early and for the longest time some people didn't know it existed, others thought it was just a new Wii and others were waiting for the game library to improve. To …

Over the weekend we covered the announcement that Valve had its own controller in the works, but it looks so different from what traditional controllers have with regards to features and aesthetics, that the jury's still out on whether the public will bite. Fortunately, some developers have had a sneak …

They were the staples of free gifts with gaming magazines for years and now, how many a game pirate will justify their reason for downloading a game before potentially buying it later on. Game demos have been around for a long time. However one man is suggesting that releasing a …

The two Bohemia developers that were arrested for suspected espionage and photographing a military base on the island of Lemnos, have finally been set free after over four months of being held captive – despite the fact that they were merely doing research for upcoming games ARMA III and DayZ. …

Cliff Blezinski, the guy behind Unreal Tournament and Gears of War, left Epic Games in October and has been fielding offers from other studios left and right since. However, now he's suggesting that it's only a matter of time until he starts his own studio. At the time of his …

The release date for the two Bohemia developers currently being held in a Greek Prison on charges of spying on military installations, has been delayed due to strikes involving those in the Greek Justice System, meaning they're unlikely to be freed until the 20th October at the earliest. The lawyer …