Tag: gaming industry

Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry director: ‘We redo too much stuff’

Asset reuse in videogames…

Do you remember Far Cry Primal? Ubisoft’s prehistoric spinoff was pitched as an intriguing departure from the formula, in…
Steam Hardware Survey shows AMD CPUs are more more popular than they’ve ever been in 17 years

Steam Hardware Survey shows…

First reported by Tom’s Hardware, The July Steam Hardware Survey results are in, and it’s more bad news for…
Amidst high profile live service failures, Arc Raiders production director says he hopes other studios are ‘given the same chance we had, because it’s so hard to put a game out’

Amidst high profile live…

In his talk at this year’s GDC, Arc Raiders production director Caio Braga said Embark’s breakout extraction shooter hit…
Over a million people have claimed free NSFW games from GOG’s FreedomToBuy initiative

Over a million people…

Today is the last day you can claim 13 free games GOG is giving away to mark the launch…
Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise’s dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft

Indie deckbuilder All Will…

Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise is, as Andy Chalk wrote last year, “clearly a game with something to say”.…
Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented the Quicksort algorithm for a sixpence bet, dies at the age of 92

Turing Award winner Tony…

Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, known as Tony to friends, has died at the age of 92. One of…
New report alleges Microsoft Recall is still screenshotting credit card numbers and passwords

New report alleges Microsoft…

Microsoft Recall’s security woes have come back to the fore after a test caught the AI screenshotting tool capturing…
Blizzard vet Rob Pardo closed this year’s GDC keynote by urging executives to cool it with the layoffs: ‘The game team is more valuable than the game itself’

Blizzard vet Rob Pardo…

Today at GDC, San Francisco’s annual summit of games industry professionals, former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo delivered…
PC games revenue will outgrow consoles by 2028, analyst predicts

PC games revenue will…

According to games industry market research firm Newzoo (PC Gamer’s official data partner), PC games revenue has trailed console…
Valve says almost 6,000 games made over $100K on Steam last year

Valve says almost 6,000…

In a new talk at the Game Developers Conference Valve has shared some Steam data that, among other things,…