No, he's not fired from (his own) studio, he's now a movie producer. They are moving the story to a new format!

This song has been revived a few times (by k-pop stars and TikTok memes), but Voyage of the Rock Aliens deserves a separate note.

Jermaine Jackson was married to a daughter of Motown record label owner. Other Jacksons left but he couldn't — he chose a wife over siblings. And so he desperately needed money.

Pia married an old producer and eventually became the only person winning Golden Globe for the best acting and Golden Raspberry for the worst acting (in the same movie). Her husband tried to push her career into a new direction and so we got both this song and the Rock Aliens musical.

Such a wannabe kind of thing 🌚 But I still adore the song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aahViYznVTQ
#OffTopic@GameDEV
#Music@GameDEV

Turret song (via)

#GodotEngine@GameDEV

Twitch now allows streamers to use combined chats. Their explanation on its initial ban was that Twitch can't control 3RD party chats and prevent unlawful content on them.

#Social@GameDEV
#Internet@GameDEV

Just tried Highguard as it could be the last few days to try it out. The biggest issue (outside of being bland) is melee combat.

You have to press twice to break walls and mine minerals. Hit + precise second click for it to work. In a fast-paced FPS with horses. Absolutely breaking the immersion and flow.

And on my 5070 and Ryzen 5600x I can barely play it in native QHD resolution (unless I want 40-60 FPS). With blurry DLSS setup it is floating at about 90.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3673200346
#GameDesign@GameDEV
#Multiplayer@GameDEV

NACON has no more money to operate its property and trying to settle it with investors.

They are the company behind Cyanide (Styx), Daedalic (Deponia, Gollum, State of Mind), Spiders (GreedFall, Steelrising). In total there are over 25 companies, 1000+ employees, and over 100 locations.

Not a full Bankruptcy, but they are fairly close to it. And they still plan a new presentation on March 6 and hoping to freeze their obligations by up to 18 months.

#LayOffs@GameDEV

The Demo is out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3388630/Arms_of_God_Demo
#IndieGames@GameDEV

Unity is going to discontinue HDRP (High Definition Rendering Pipeline). Only the URP (Universal Rendering Pipeline) will remain.

So they are planning to invest all resources into a scalable setup that will not be as powerful as HDRP at first. It's expected that there will be a period when making visually modern games will not be possible in Unity. Honestly, it wasn't possible anyway — HDRP was slow even on high-end hardware.

#Unity@GameDEV
#GameEngines@GameDEV
#Rendering@GameDEV

Skate creators from the studio Full Circle will be laid off. The exact number isn't specified but the announcement happened after the team (initially promised to sell only cosmetics), hid the new map (tutorial island reskin) behind the paywall 😑

Overall, the game has a few thousands passionate fans online but that's not enough to support the development at a serious scale. The initial 135K CCU was obviously a hype train, but people are doubtful if live service model was ever a good choice for Skate.

#EA@GameDEV
#LayOfds@GameDEV

Xiaomi decided to commit suicide and bricked all of its gray import smartphones with HyperOS 3 update.

If by any chance you have a Chinese phone with global firmware (or just suspiciously affordable Xiaomi and POCO), do not update your phone. And disable automatic updates.

The phone now checks the real region and the one the device was aiming for. And locks it into an infinite loop if they don't match. Some users were able to fix the issue by quickly manually rebooting the phone over and over at least 7 times. Then it rolls back to the old system.

#Hardware@GameDEV
#MobileGames@GameDEV
#Xioami@GameDEV

People with the mobile Xbox app started to receive test popups because that's how their new provider works. LOL 😆

PS. That was AI marketing tool by the way...

#Xbox@GameDEV
#Microsoft@GameDEV

Some more Next Fest goodies:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1442520/Akatori/
#IndieGames@GameDEV

I lived long enough to see the sequel to Subway Surfers! And it's before GTA VI and Half-Life 3...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sybogames.subway.surfers.game&hl=en
#MobileGames@GameDEV

Micron announced their new 24GB GDDR7 memory chips, rated at 36Gb/s (currently, the most popular solutions are 3GB per die). They will power the next generation of graphics cards.

But we all know that consumers will not get any...

#Hardware@GameDEV

Fallout 4 has all possible references!

#Fallout@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

California Law to Require Linux, Windows Implement Age Verification by Jan 1, 2027

A new California Law (AB-1043), signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, requires all Operating Systems (from macOS to FreeBSD) to implement age verification, at the system level, this year.

🔗 The Lunduke Journal

This is a documentary now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBGs1EQk0ZI

Do not use the recent NVIDIA drivers, they are faulty (again)

#NVIDIA@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV