Electronic Arts has announced it is merging
some of its game development studios and putting them under one banner, EA Worldwide Studios.
There are a lot
of game development studios doing a decent job at this.
Many designers have previously worked as testers in the quality assurance departments
of games development studios.
Kiri Matsuura, one of the creative heads
of game development studio NanaOn - Sha presented their latest masterpiece: a ground - breaking new game just released in Japan on PlayStation 2, called Mojibribon which seamlessly combines the art of Japanese calligraphy with pop cultural elements.
ALL - STAR LINEUP KIRI MATSUURA (Tokyo), character designer and one of the creative heads
of game development studio NanaOn - Sha, which has given us the eccentric and hugely original games Vib Ribbon and PaRappa the Rapper.
Not exact matches
Part
of the reason for the rapid growth is that it's much easier and cheaper to set up an indie
game -
development studio than it used to be.
Albert Lai is the co-founder and CEO
of Big Viking
Games, a leading social and mobile
game -
development studio whose
games have been played by 40 million users.
In conjunction with a disappointing first quarter earnings report, the company announced that it will back out
of in - house
game development entirely, shuttering its Avalanche
studio, and instead licensing its properties to other developers.
Hungry Panda
Games is a small
games development studio, which wants to build
games and e-sports on top
of the ethereum network (a type
of blockchain).
The 25 - person
studio has used government assistance to get on its feet and is now weaning itself off assistance, with three
of its own
games under
development.
The first part
of its name — Riot — might be more commonly associated with Riot
Games, the
development studio behind League
of Legends, one
of the world's most popular video
games.
But for a huge media conglomerate like Disney, even that kind
of success isn't enough, especially when Disney knew that a licensing model would mean higher margins and less risk than running an internally - funded effort that shoulders responsibility for marketing, distribution, toy production, physical inventory, and a 300 - person
game development studio.
The other building, my cathedral, is my ultimate nerd goal
of owning my own independent video
game development studio.
The Behemoth: a
game development studio that has stolen countless hours
of our time with
games like Castle Crashers and Battleblock Theater.
Tekken X Street Fighter, the crossover fighting
game from Namco Bandai, is «still in
development,» and there are a number
of reasons why the
studio hasn't said much about the
game, said producer...
As recently as this past March, head
of Xbox Phil Spencer told Polygon that Microsoft still planned to remake the
game, despite Phantom Dust no longer having a
studio behind it or being in active
development.
Thank you to Raul Rubio Munarriz, creative director
of development studio Tequila Works, for talking a hurried, harried reporter through the
game, while another PAX East attendee got a few minutes at the controls
of the
game.
In case you missed it, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is «A Hideo Kojima
Game», meaning he didn't care about what was happening with Konami at the time
of development and added as much references to him and his
studio as possible.
«Card's political beliefs sure didn't come up during the
game's
development,» Mark Rein, vice president
of Gears
of War
development studio Epic Games, which owns Chair Entertainment, told Kotaku.
The
studio behind Castle
of Heart was interviewed by the folks at Nintendo Life in which they discuss
development, their relationship with Nintendo and why they decided to make the
game a Nintendo Switch exclusive.
While exploring the cellar
of their
development studio, they found this lovely, forgotten piece
of artwork from the
game: «Rather than condemn it to a life
of darkness we have decided to give the artwork away and to make it even more enticing it has been signed on the back members
of the team involved...
On the subject
of the
game's delay, Ubisoft Montpellier also said that the extra
development time will allow the
studio to add new characters, bosses and levels to Rayman Legends.
The new
studio will more than double the size
of the castAR
game development team, according to a press release, pushing the company to more than 70 employees.
Psyonix, the
studio behind Rocket League, released an extensive roadmap yesterday detailing the future
of the
game's
development.
The news came from Shannon Loftis, manager
of the Microsoft Studios Publishing, who commented that the
studio related to the
development of the
game needs more time to polish the quality
of the
game.
Samus took home the gold at the D.I.C.E. awards this year, taking the title
of «Handheld
Game of the Year», making MercurySteam the first Spanish
development studio to win such award.
With
development for inFamous: Second Son nearing its conclusion ahead
of the
game's release date on March 21st in North America and Europe, Sucker Punch is already looking forward to what's next for the
studio.
Cliff Bleszinski has worked on
games like Gears
of War under Epic
Games but when he left them behind, he started his own
game development studio with Boss Key...
The
game's developer, Zentropa
Games, was a
games development arm
of Antichrist's production
studio Zentropa, which was co-founded by Von Trier several decades ago.
[$ 4.99] comes from Hit - Point, one
of their old standby
development studios, but it's not like any
of their previous
games.
Luckily, Yager Productions is just a sub-division
of Yager
Developments, the
studio that was behind the spectacular Spec Ops: The Line, which our own Heath Hindman praised as the one
of the most mature video
games ever made (and I agree).
Between Raw Data and Sprint Vector, Survios is already one
of the most established and successful VR
game development studios around.
Prior to joining forces, Harri and Ilari founded two
of Finland's first
game development studios — Bloodhouse and Terramarque.
Housemarque, the veteran Finnish
development studio behind Resogun and Nex Machina, announced in a blog post today that they will abandon arcade style
games after a lack
of financial success.
Developer Slightly Mad Studios confirmed they were having a hard time getting the
game to run at a stable framerate on the Wii U, suggesting that tons
of work would need to go into optimizing the
game for the Wii U, or the
development studio would need to wait until the Nintendo NX is announced in order to start working on a port for that console.
Australian Rating Board has revealed the video
game development studio who is handling the
development work
of Dark Souls Remastered for Nintendo Switch.
When DJMax
development studio Pentavision merged with GameOn Studios a few years back, a group
of folks left to create their own
studio — Nurijoy — and they brought their rhythm
game chops with them.
A Good Match For: Fans
of development studio Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet
games and fans
of Instagram.
«THQ Nordic is convinced that the
development studios of Deep Silver as part
of THQ Nordic will successfully deliver at least four ongoing AAA
game projects including Metro Exodus as well as the next Volition Studio AAA release and the next Dambuster Studio AAA release, together with a number
of other
game development and publishing titles.»
Nier fans can rejoice as Platinum Games confirmed that Nier 2 is their in - house project and majority
of development work on the
game is taking place at the
studio, Square Enix is just helping with few aspect
of the
game.
As a way
of thanking players, the Dutch
development studio organized a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session with Ashly Burch, who voiced the main character Aloy, and Lead Writer Ben McCaw, who shared several interesting tidbits on the
game's
development, starting with the inspirations for the stories
of the base
game and the Frozen Wilds expansion.
is an action tower defense
game created by Robot Entertainment, an independent
game development studio formed by veterans
of Ensemble Studios, the creators
of Halo Wars and the Age
of Empires franchise.
The next - gen version
of the
game is being developed by Sledgehammer Games, the
studio best known for its contribution in the
development of Call
of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, while High Moon Studios is handling the
game's
development for last - gen consoles.
Basically, this means Sucker Punch isn't following Naughty Dog's lead
of having two teams within the same
studio working on two different
games (in Naughty Dog's case, The Last
of Us and Uncharted PS4), and it looks like their unannounced project will really start
development once inFamous: Second Son is wrapped up.
It offers courses in all aspects
of film, television and
games development at the BBC's Pacific Quay and Dumbarton
studios.
That's to be expected from an Italian
development studio, but it feels a little limiting in context
of the vast wealth
of tracks offered in other
games.
Game development studio Naughty Dog is teaming up with Dark Horse comics for a digital graphic novel called the Art
of Naughty Dog.
We were lucky enough to get chance to have a chat with the infant
studio's founding member and project lead Adam Green about what it's been like taking their first baby - steps into professional
game development and the stresses
of managing a small business in the current climate.
Director
of production at Destiny outlines the
studio's hope for the
game, despite «a lot
of insecurity» around initial
development
Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi has recently said that with the «braintrust,» a group
of a few people that tended to have
game development revolve around them, gone from the
studio, «each developer can think for themselves on what they can do to make better
games.»