In case of emergency

#meme@GameDEV
#NVIDIA@GameDEV

HP started to sell cheap laptops as 1TB. They are ranging from 64GB eMMC to 256GB cheap-ass SSD. The 1TB is "OneDrive offer".

Warn relatives and colleagues who may fall for that shit! Amazon is doing nothing so far despite it's obviously a violation.

UPD: Amazon is technically the seller of mentioned "offers".

#Scam@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV
#HP@GameDEV

It took Intel a few years to finally outperform Ryzen 5800x3D in games. Their main advantage is the affordable price but even tons of cores can barely compete even with 7800x3D.

Though they're doing good in some productivity tasks. 250K Plus and 270K Plus are generally OK-ish but that's not a silver bullet for Intel. Overall everyone agrees that these results were supposed to be in 2024 Ultra Core lineup.

#Intel@GameDEV
#Hqrdware@GameDEV

Battlefield got Hardlined. For now, it's only on consoles. But PC will follow later on, according to the insider info.

#Battlefield@GameDEV
#EA@GameDEV

Whoa, VNDB was mostly operated by a single person who unfortunately passed away. Now several moderators are trying to preserve it and find a way to get collective access to the domain and hosting (Source)

#Narrative@GameDEV
#VisualNovels@GameDEV

The only level design tutorial you'll ever need! (oldie)

#LevelDesign@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Fully trained cat in Crimson Desert can accept special armour from you 😁 And he can carry around some of your belongings!

#Cats@GameDEV
#Aww@GameDEV

Still standing

#Bungie@GameDEV
#Multiplayer@GameDEV

Good

That's curious!

#IndieGames@GameDEV

Hello, we have bad news from odd crap department: all Wi-Fi routers are banned in the US! Now they will have to be produced in the US (financially impossible) or get special import license and offer FTC a lot of sources and workflows of each model.

#WTF@GameDEV

Epic Games just got rid of 1000 workers due to significant loss of profits from Fortnite. The company was spending too much for the last few quarters and now they will have to adjust.

In total the company is trying to cut $500m with all the measures. I assume that free games on Epic Store will also be affected.

#Fortnite@GameDEV
#EpicGames@GameDEV
#LayOffs@GameDEV

The industry right now

#meme@GameDEV

The bubble is slowing down: Open AI just announced they will discontinue Sora. A quick summary — they were unable to monetize it and the interest from the audience burned out quickly. When the novelty faded, even free users abandoned the app.

#AI@GameDEV

1984

Admin making a game and writing down development priorities...

Epic Pays: players and industry veterans are equally mad about the financial statement.

- Epic payed too much for UEFN
- They lowered BR support efforts
- And fired people randomly (according to my info, some crucial and very talented workers lost their jobs)

It will inevitably sabotage further Battle Royale development, it will not save UEFN, and eventually, both will further underperform.

#EpicGames@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV
#Fortnite@GameDEV

And PlayStation is shutting down Dark Outlaw Games. The company they founded with ex-Treyarch veteran and co-creator of Call of Duty Zombies franchise Jason Blundell.

The craziest part? The company was established last March and lived just about a year. Do they know that to succeed in game industry you have to MAKE GAMES and not simply shut down every studio you have?

Jason is also a curious person: in 2022 he announced the creation of Deviation Games that was also focused on PlayStation exclusives. Then he left his own company in 2023, and then Deviation Games was eventually shut down in 2024. In total way over 100 people worked there, famous motion capture actors were there, and it was all gone without a trace.

#LayOffs@GameDEV
#PlayStation@GameDEV

And since it's no longer my sources but also public statements, here is the good example of what's wrong with "let's fire 1000 people" — it will be random.

Almost like Unity when they fired Ben from their shader graph team... literally the best specialist and evangelist of the whole engine.

#EpicGames@GameDEV
#LayOffs@GameDEV