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10/26/2023

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10/24/2023

Join our gaming community and connect with fellow gamers. Share your gaming achievements, tips, and tricks. Looking for a squad to dominate the battlefield or conquer quests? This is the place to find like-minded players. 🎯

10/20/2023

The anniversary wishes and reflections continue, and include members of the team and some behind the scenes peeks at where things all come to life. The festivities continued with today’s special stream, where the team talked about player stats, got nostalgic about building, including stacking pillows and other ways to use the many building features in the game.😎

Funcom has marked Conan Exiles' fifth anniversary with a special stream today, along with announcements of free gifts, and a look at some community stats.

10/17/2023

The History of Advertisements in Gaming
From the above data, the question arises, how did game makers realise the potential of generating revenue through advertising? The first ever ad in-game was actually not a commercial one, but that of a game developer trying to generate interest for his next game. Scott Adams, the creator of Adventureland left a message promoting his next game, Pirate Adventure😎😘

10/13/2023

We’re making this change to align with Epic’s overall approach to game cosmetics and item shop policies, where items aren’t tradable, transferrable, or sellable. This opens up future plans for some Rocket League vehicles to come to other Epic games over time, supporting cross-game ownership.😎

Epic Games have announced they will be removing player-to-player trading in December for Rocket League.

10/11/2023

Sedol is one of the greatest players in the country’s history, but he had already lost the five-game series against AlphaGo, having resigned from the first three matches. The South Koreans didn’t care – he was the human champion who had scored a win against an AI that had seemed omnipotent at the ‘most complex game devised by man.’😘

Generative AI is taking the world by storm and can not only streamline the game asset pipeline, but also automate bug-testing. Read more in our blog.

10/09/2023

In the first half of the 2010s, developers created innovative multiplayer games for consoles and PC, and also shifted toward multiplayer on mobile. These two trends – continued innovation in multiplayer and the shift toward mobile multiplayer, will be covered in this section.😘

10/05/2023

When Bluepoint Games was remaking Shadow of the Colossus (2005) for the PS4, they noticed a pattern about the birds in the central temple complex of the game. In Shadow, the protagonist Wander sets out from this temple to kill various giants, and is returned to the temple once his mission is complete. Bluepoint developers noticed that if Wander was heading out for his fourth giant, or Colossus, then four birds would be perched in the temple; if he was heading out for his 10th, then ten birds would appear.

10/03/2023

When Nintendo released its Classic Mini NES in 2016, the gaming community went berserk. The Mini Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) sold out instantly due to ‘feverish demand’ and within days, scalpers were selling the console for up to nearly four times its retail price on eBay, 😎

Modern retro games are a blend of nostalgia, imagination and innovation. Learn about why they appeal to so many gamers.

09/28/2023

Quantic Dream's Star Wars Eclipse is a little ways away yet, but the Detroit Become Human developer is updating fans on what sort of game this will actually be.

09/21/2023

A former BioWare developer thinks 2017’s Mass Effect: Andromeda should have been a purely multiplayer title rather than another single-player RPG. While 2012’s Mass Effect 3 marked the final chapter of Commander Shepard’s quest to save the Milky Way from the Reapers, BioWare continued its successful sci-fi series with Andromeda, a sequel/spin-off taking place in another galaxy and starring a new assortment of playable characters and squadmates. Andromeda embraced a wider open-world format that put a further emphasis on exploration, even as it maintained the branching narratives and moral dialogue choices of the previous Mass Effect games.😎😘

A former BioWare developer shares their thoughts on the ill-fated Mass Effect: Andromeda and how it might have been better as a multiplayer title.