EA has announced that Plants Vs Zombies 3 will no longer be playable from November 15, with the publisher removing the game from app stores today so that it can undergo “a major overhaul”. The tower defense threequel soft launched in January, but received an unenthusiastic response from players over the last nine months. Users …
May 2024
Challenges in porting to Nintendo Switch – How Pingle Studio ported Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach
Vladyslav Popushoi, Blogger September 21, 2023 7 Min Read We at Pingle Studio have deep expertise in porting to various platforms. Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach is the 13th game in the FNAF franchise – a popular indie horror game series – and the 9th in the current series. Nintendo Switch is a Gen8 …
Roblox launching new child safety measures in November
Bloomberg reports a new series of child safety reforms are coming to Roblox sometime next month. In an email to the outlet, Roblox Corp. said the new measures “are part of [our] commitment to making the platform one of the safest online environments for our users, particularly the youngest users.” These changes will require users …
Deep Dive: A step-by-step look at the production pipeline of Ravenlok
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 lessons learned from ten years of development with …
Zenless Zone Zero launches with 50 million worldwide downloads
MiHoYo’s newest action-RPG Zenless Zone Zero has garnered 50 million downloads worldwide since its launch on July 4. The game released on PlayStation 5, Windows, and mobile, and builds on the developer’s ongoing success in recent years. Last year’s Honkai Star Rail opened with 20 million players at launch, which itself built on the 17 …
SAG-AFTRA performers and game devs to reignite negotiations next week
Nearly three months after video game voice actors went on strike, SAG-AFTRA says it will reenter negotiations with developers. Next Wednesday, October 23, the actor union will resume speaking with the bargaining group representing triple-A developers such as EA, Insomniac Games, and Take-Two. Beyond that, it said neither it or the developers had any further …
Book Excerpt: Great Games Need Great Leaders
The following excerpt is from Great Games Need Great Leaders: Multiclassing to Lead Game Development Teams by Matthew John Dyet. The book will be published August 30, 2024 by CRC Press, a division of Taylor & Francis, a sister company of Game Developer and Informa Tech. Use our discount code GDTF20 at checkout on Routledge.com to …