Fracked and Phantom: Covert Ops developer nDreams is opening a second VR studio dedicated to making “live games for VR.” The new studio, named nDreams Orbital, is set to operate remotely (the original nDreams team is based in Farnborough, UK), and will be lead by Chris White. White previously worked on games like The Sims […]
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Concrete Genie Dev And Sony Pictures Animation Co-Creating A New PS5 Game
Concrete Genie developer PixelOpus is hiring for a new, “unique project” which sees the studio working with Sony Pictures Animation. This news comes from a job listing recently uploaded to Twitter by PixelOpus itself. According to the listing, PixelOpus is looking for a Principal Graphics Programmer to work on “a collaboration with Sony Pictures Animation.” […]
Astro Bot Dev Gets A New Logo
Team Asobi, the Tokyo-based developer that survived the reported recent restructuring of Sony’s Japan Studio, is getting a rebrand all around Astro Bot. Sony this week revealed a new logo for the developer, which is still run by Astro Bot Rescue Mission Creative Director, Nicolas Doucet. It features a colorful logo with Astro’s face. In […]
The Elder Scrolls Online Dev Says Removing Level Gates Was The "Best Thing We Did"
After a bit of a rough launch, The Elder Scrolls Online is now home to more than 18 million players. According to Rich Lambert, creative director at ZeniMax Online Studios, ESO’s renewed success is due to the introduction of One Tamriel in 2016 – an update that removed level requirements to tackle specific quests and […]
Total War Dev Is "Looking Forward" To The Day The Series Is Available On Console
Console owner fans of Creative Assembly’s Total War franchise should rejoice, as their lead battle designer, Jim Whitson, is “looking forward” to the day the series makes its way onto consoles. The Total War games have long been exclusive to PC – apart from mobile ports of Rome: Total War – and blend turn-based strategy with […]
She Dreams Elsewhere Dev On Creating A Game That’s Part Paprika, Part Persona, And Part Seinfeld
“I guess maybe one last thing to mention,” Davionne Gooden, solo developer of She Dreams Elsewhere tells me as our interview is wrapping up. “I have this on my shelf. It’s a sealed copy of Persona 5. And the reason why it’s there is because I’ve actually yet to play this game at all. And […]
Game Dev Sues Valve For Anti-Competitive Practices On Steam
Valve has been criticized before about Steam’s PC market dominance, but it looks like that criticism has reached a boiling point, at least for one indie game developer. Wolfire Games has filed a class-action lawsuit against Valve on April 27, according to GamesIndustry.biz. The suit was filed in US US District Court for the Western […]
An Interview With The Solo Dev Behind Indie Runner Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield
“Development was pretty much done when I got a publisher. Originally, I had made this game a lot smaller with only a couple of levels, and Dan did three songs for me and I paid him in pizza and snacks and stuff like that.” Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield is an upcoming runner from Detroit-based developer Neil Jones, aptly […]
PUBG Dev Might Be Working On A Sci-Fi Open World Game
We might be getting an all new game from the developers of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and it doesn’t look like a battle royale. If you’re currently unaware of what’s going on in the world of PUBG, you really can’t be blamed because it’s a lot, and a bit confusing too. PUBG recently announced New State, a […]
Disco Elysium Dev Says The Final Cut Has A "Vast And Dramatic Difference"
Developers at ZA/UM studio continue to praise Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, which is a definitive edition of the instant-classic detective RPG, coming to PC and console in a few days. According to the team, The Final Cut is much closer to their original vision of the game and even feels like “going from a […]