Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives (twitter.com)
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Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding (www.gamingonlinux.com)
One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K (www.forbes.com)
Unity boycott begins as devs switch off ads to force a Runtime Fee reversal - Mobilegamer.biz (mobilegamer.biz) German
Mobile game developers are now boycotting Unity by switching off its ad products, mobilegamer.biz can reveal....
Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)
Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall (www.gamescensor.com)
Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield (www.destructoid.com)
According to Hans-Kristian Arntzen, a prominent open-source developer working on Vkd3d, a DirectX 12 to Vulkan translation layer, Starfield is not interacting properly with graphics card drivers.
The Minecraft wiki has been moved from Fandom to Minecraft.wiki (minecraft.wiki)
Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
If I’m honest, I don’t disagree....
Game Boy Advance schematics now available thanks to Reverse Engineering (github.com)
Saints Row developer Volition permanently shuts down (www.theverge.com)
The death of ownership: Companies are taking away your ability to actually own the stuff you buy (www.businessinsider.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/8400180...
Acclaimed roguelike studio behind Slay the Spire releases new deckbuilder after publicly abandoning Unity over fee debacle (www.gamesradar.com)
TL;DR the developers of slay the spire created a fun free card game within 3 weeks to explore and learn the Godot game engine. You can play it here: megacrit.itch.io/dancing-duelists
Bethesda hired a Skyrim modder to create the "lighting and clutter" in Starfield (www.gamescensor.com)
Nintendo of America President: “Everyone Has the Right To Form a Union” (www.inverse.com)
John Riccitiello is stepping down as CEO and president of Unity (investors.unity.com)
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Unity (NYSE: U) (the “Company”), the world’s leading platform for creating and growing real-time 3D (RT3D) content, today announced that John Riccitiello will retire as President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately....
CD Projekt Red devs are forming a Polish games industry union after a wave of layoffs earlier this year (www.vg247.com)
From the article:...
GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour (www.forbes.com)
While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.
Valve is now reversing VAC bans due to AMD drivers in CS2, according to patch notes (store.steampowered.com)
Recently there was a thing where VAC would erroneously flag AMD’s antilag+ feature as cheating, and issue a ban....
Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs (twistedvoxel.com)
SAG-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry (www.eurogamer.net)
Key issues up for negotiation include pay and conditions, but also “protections against unrestrained use of artificial intelligence”, specifically the impact upon performance capture artists....
[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! (cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com)
For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you’ve already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!...
An unofficial PC port of Nintendo 64's Perfect Dark is available for download, featuring mouselook, widescreen, FOV & 60fps support (www.dsogaming.com)
You need an original ROM file, and this here, according to the article.
Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' (www.pcgamer.com)
You heard him 4090 users, upgrade to a more powerful GPU.
