Developers that have worked on Skyrim, The Last Of Us and Dragon Age have formed a brand new games company, NEARStudios. Led by Heather Cerlan and Jason Richardson, the Maryland-based studio has begun work on its first game, Hawthorn. A co-op sandbox RPG that combines element of village sims with the nostalgic adventure stories of …
Three months after Koei Tecmo filed a lawsuit against mobile studio Youzu, the two developers have reached an out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed fee. At the time of the April suit, the Japanese developer claimed Youzu had repeatedly infringed on its copyright. Music and in-game assets from its games had allegedly been used to promote …
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On a train ride out of Gamescom, I chanced on a pair of junior developers scrutinizing their own lanyards, which sported Xsolla’s branding. “Who even IS Xsolla?” one of them asked, as they commented on how they’d seen the branding at all kinds of events over the last year. Ever the eavesdropper, I leaned in …
Gameloft Romania is shuttering its Cluj studio and laying off 136 employees. The company confirmed the news in a statement issued to Game Developer and explained the closure follows a review of its production capacities. “As a company, we need to constantly review our production capacities. After careful consideration and in response to the ever-changing …
Update (10/16/2024): French game development union STJV condemned Don’t Nod’s potential layoffs in a translated statement, calling it “the climax of a series of catastrophic decisions, denounced for a long time by workers’ representatives.” The STJV claims Don’t Nod exhibited “red warning lights” for months, from Jusant and Banishers’ underperformance to the alleged dissolution of the former’s …
Game Developer Deep Dives are an ongoing series with the goal of shedding light on specific design, art, or technical features within a video game in order to show how seemingly simple, fundamental design decisions aren’t really that simple at all. Earlier installments cover topics such as designing combat to match the beat of music …
Bandai Namco will team with developer Rebel Wolves to publish the studio’s debut project, Dawnwalker. The Tekken 8 publisher will put out the fantasy-RPG in both physical and digital formats worldwide. In a statement, Bandai Namco Europe’s business development VP Alberto Gonzalez called the agreement “another key milestone in our content development strategy for the …
