GameDev Pulse

Holy crap, WHAT? It already failed so many times in financial management, it was unable to manage even small sums. Why? #AI@GameDEV #WTF@GameDEV

UPD: Death Stranding 2 has been released on PC this year and sold about 600-800K copies. The biggest limiting factor is the €80 price tag (vs €60-70 for other AAA games) "48 people watching it on Twitch right now" https://store.steampowered.com/app/3280350/DEATH_STRANDING_2_ON_THE_BEACH/

Oh, that's GoW Sons of Sparta by the way... #PlayStation@GameDEV #Metroidvania@GameDEV

#meme@GameDEV

Holy feck, that's not good #PlayStation@GameDEV #Infographics@GameDEV

Wow, it's been 20 years since https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7bxXjQL3cY #Music@GameDEV

Free for a limited time! (and nice) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1053710/The_Red_Lantern/ #Free@GameDEV

We Happy Few is way too survival: you have to drink, eat, sleep, avoid detection, dress the exactly appropriate clothes for each area, and so on. - Rubber suit for perverts club - Clean tuxedo for the city - Worn down one for suburbs - Technician one to access some repair sites The world is surrounded by checkpoints and linked by what's left of the metro tunnels (before Dying Light 2 did it). But for some very odd reason they made it semi-procedural: they key placed are manually crafted but the map is unique for every player. It's not making it better.

Could be so much better! #Animation@GameDEV

Fable walking animation is still made for female characters, despite half a year of reworks #Animations@GameDEV #RPG@GameDEV #XBOX@GameDEV

#meme@GameDEV

XBOX was hit by internal announcement that the profit margin is now at 3% (the healthy one is at least 20%). About 1000 people will be fired this summer from the whole XBOX structure, according to the reports. #LayOffs@GameDEV #XBOX@GameDEV

Google is trying to kill ad blocking (again), episode 451... #Google@GameDEV

LOL, in Europe the average bullet will never make it through the house wall #WTF@GameDEV

Regions with payment limitations will no longer be able to rely on Steam Gift Cards. Their era is over. #Steam@GameDEV

According to Indider-Gaming (Tom Henderson), after the annual loss of over a billion euros Ubisoft is shutting down several offices around the world and shrinking down many teams, including the one that works on Rainbow Six Siege... #Ubisoft@GameDEV #Layoffs@GameDEV

What an upgrade! #meme@GameDEV #Hardware@GameDEV