The 2016 Game Developers Conference is coming up fast, and today organizers highlight an informative talk that's part of the March conference's Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit about how, why and where to soft-launch your next mobile game.
If you're at all interested in the art and business of making successful mobile games, this talk is worth making time for because it affords you a look at how soft-launching your game in a market like Canada or Australia can help you understand how players respond to your game and adjust accordingly, before you launch worldwide.
In his "Soft Launch Best Practices: How, Why and…
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If you're in the business of making games for a living, at some point you're going to get stuck.
Creative blocks impact the best of us, and nobody knows that better than game dev and DrinkBox Studios senior artist Gabby DaRienzo. After working on games like A Mortician's Tale and Celeste, DaRienzo spent over a year working through a creative block to ship Super Crush KO.
Along the way she learned a great deal about effective tools and techniques game makers can use to overcome creative blocks, as well as improve their mental health practice.
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Earlier this month GameStop warned that its third quarter results would be "weaker than expected" due to a number of underperforming October releases.
That prediction has now come to pass, with the retailer's latest financials showing total global sales fell by 2.8 percent to $1.96 billion.
New hardware sales were hit the hardest, tumbling by 20.6 percent year-over-year, while new software sales also saw an 8.6 percent drop off.
Pre-owned sales managed to slightly outperform new software, but still declined by 6.4 percent over the past 12 months.
GameStop clearly overestimated the selling power of October's biggest releases such …
With the release of Black Myth: Wukong coming soon, developer Game Science has released a benchmark tool so that PC owners can check if they can run it.
The tool is free to download and players can customize the benchmark settings to preview game visuals and performance under different graphical options. Basically, it just evaluates a player’s hardware and system compatibility through real-time rendering of an in-game sequence.
By clicking ‘enter’, you agree to GameSpot…
The Amazon-exclusive Pokemon TCG Poke Ball Tins have received their first-ever discounts, dropping the price of each to just $48 (was $60) Come from South African Online Casinos . Each bundle comes with a set of three different Poke Balls plus a variety of booster packs and stickers, making this a cool exclusive collectible for any dedicated Pokemon fan.
There are a few other Amazon-exclusive Pokemon items for you to check out, including the Pokemon TCG: Paradox Fury Premium Collection. Now on sale for $58.48 (was $68), this massive collection includes 3 promo cards featuring Walking Wake ex, Raging Bolt ex, and Go…
During the Xbox Games Showcase, Microsoft officially announced the next entry in the Gears series, and it’s going back in time. Gears E-Day, as it’s called, is coming to Xbox and PC in the future. Of all the biggest reveals at the Xbox Games Showcase 2024, this was arguably the biggest, and Xbox saved it for last.
The announcement is good news for fans who wanted to see the series continue, even if it may be going in the opposite direction on the timeline compared to what fans may have expected. The cinematic trailer shows a young Marcus Fenix struggling with a single Locust, something he’s not prone to doing in the later games–but this a greener, less experienced Marcus.
Earlier this year, reports emerged that the MCU’s former Black Widow, Scarlett Johansson, was in talks to join the next Jurassic World movie. Now, Johansson has not only confirmed that she’s starring in the film, she’s also revealed that she’s been trying to get into the franchise for a long time.
“I’m such an enormous fan of the franchise and huge nerd for it,” Johansson told ComicBook.com. “I’m just like, I can’t even, I’m pinching myself. I’ve been trying to get into this franchise in any possible way for over ten years. I’m like, ‘I’ll die in the first five minutes! I can get eaten by whatever! I’ll do the craft service!’ I’ll do anything for it. The fact that it’s happened in this way at this time just is actually unbelievable.”
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Nightdive Studios is best known for refreshing classic shooters for the modern era, and with Humble’s Fully Loaded bundle, you can grab nine of Nightdive’s PC remasters for a mere $20, taking you straight back to the Nintendo 64 era with some of the pioneers in the first-person shooter genre.
Headlining the Fully Loaded bundle are three dinosaur-blasting games: Turok, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, and Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion. All three sport enhanced graphics and gameplay improvements that make them easier to play for modern audiences, while still capturing the fast-paced arena-style shooting and blocky dinos that made them great back in the day.
The bundle also offers a bunch of other games that originated on the Nintendo 64. There’s the mind-ben…