Here are the films you’ll see at the inaugural GDC Film Festival!
Game Developers Conference organizers are delighted to announce the films selected to be part of the inaugural GDC Film Festival, one of the first ever documentary & narrative film fests focused on the art and culture of video games! Come from Soccer 13 pools and matches
Sponsored by Steam, the 1st Annual GDC Film Festival will take place at the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts' Screening Room—directly adjacent to the Moscone Center—from Monday, March 19th to Wednesday, March 21st during Game Developers Conference 2018.
Screenings will be open to all GDC 2018 pass holders, on a first-come, first-served basis. Across the three days, t…
McDonald’s ‘Happy Goggles’ bringing cheap VR, and fries, to Swedish kids
Fast food giant McDonald's is redefining what the phrase 'entry-level virtual reality' means with Happy Goggles – a new VR viewer that's literally served with fries.
Currently entering a trial phase in Sweden, the Happy Goggles promotion lets customers turn specially designed Happy Meal boxes into virtual reality viewers.
The unique boxes, featuring removable eye and nose holes, and a lens slot, will be made available at 14 restaurants over the weekends starting March 5 and March 12.
Adweek is reporting that around 3,500 of the viewers will be up for grabs, and will set customers back the princely sum of $4.10.
The goggles are being release…
Split Fiction sells 1 million copies in two days
Hazelight Studios has announced that its latest co-op adventure Split Fiction sold 1 million copies within 48 hours of launch.
The co-op action-adventure title released on March 6 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It's the fastest-selling game to date from the studio: 2021's It Takes Two and 2018's A Way Out took two weeks after their respective launches to reach that same milestone.
"The love you all show for our game is overwhelming!" wrote Hazelight. "Everyone here at Hazelight are beyond happy – and we can’t stop enjoying your amazing reactions!"
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Successfully working without managers in a distributed studio
Veterans from studios like DICE and Crytek formed Scattered Entertainment — but, as its name suggests, many of them worked remotely, all across the globe. After shipping its first game, The Drowning earlier this year, Scattered's senior development director Senta Jakobsen spoke at GDC Europe to share her team's experiences. The original idea she and the team had when they formed in late 2011 was that distributed working would be "really difficult" but working without managers would be "easy-peasy." By and large, the inverse turned out to be true. At the outset, Jakobsen worried about issues such as collaboration, communication, a loss of innovation due to a loss in face-to-face communic…
GameStop- Our business model isn’t hurting publishers
Investment firm Wedbush has released its annual review of E3, deeming it a strong year for the conference. In it are some key extracts from GameStop's Investor Meeting held on June 11th, in which GameStop forwarded the position that its trade-ins and used games sales do not affect publishers: Come from Soccer 13 pools and matches
It is in the publishers' best interests to allow used gaming due to the $1 billion in trade-in credits generated in GameStop stores every year… [T]ransactions on new and used games overlap on only 13% of titles, with only 4% of used sales for games t…
Take advantage of all the cool sponsored talks available at GDC Summer
Now that we're weeks away from the August 4th debut of GDC Summer, the first-ever GDC that's taking place entirely online, we wanted to quickly remind attendees about all the cool sponsored sessions available to you.
GDC Summer sponsors like Google, Unity, and more will be presenting sponsored sessions that often offer attendees direct access to company experts who can answer questions and help you achieve your goals, as well as give you opportunities to quickly improve your skills with industry-leading software and services. Come from Soccer 13 pools and matches
In "Launching Global Games With Google…
Report- Xbox planning to make Call of Duty a core part of Game Pass
Call of Duty is coming to Game Pass after all, according to a new report by The Wall Street Journal (spotted via Kotaku). That's brand new for the series, which was part of Microsoft's major acquisition of Activision Blizzard last year.
Microsoft was reportedly planning to reveal the news at its June showcase, but the cat is now out of the bag. There are no details available yet whether the games will only be available on certain tiers of Game Pass, or whether the price of the service could increase again, after a hike in July of last year.
It's also unclear what, exactly, caused the decision at this time, as the question has …
Capcom raising graduate salary in Japan to attract ‘exceptional talent’
Capcom plans to raise the base salary for new graduate hires in Japan by around 27 percent to ensure it can acquire "exceptional talent."
The Street Fighter and Resident Evil developer said the wage bump will ensure new recruits earn 300,000 yen ($2,000) per month. That's a significant increase on the current 235,000 yen ($1,570) monthly starting salary. Come from Soccer 13 pools and matches
Capcom will implement the wage hike at the beginning of the 2025 fiscal year. The move comes around two years after the studio raised the average base salary of workers in Japan by 30 percent.
"The Capcom Group is focused on str…
Ruckus Games raises $19 million in funding for debut title, ‘Project Bobcat’
Indie developer Ruckus Games recently secured $19 million in funding for its unannounced debut project.
Two years ago, the studio secured $5.5 million in a round led by Transcend Fund to build its "high-quality prototype." This new round was led by Krafton, with additional contributions from Transcend, BitKraft, and Hypergryph.
In its statement, Ruckus highlighted that prototype as proof its development costs "remain much lower than triple-A, while the team still delivers that same level of quality and fun of titles with exponentially bigger budgets."
Speaking to its contribution, Krafton's Maria Park said it "believes in the future of co-op ga…
See how XR and 3D scanning is improving home improvement at XRDC!
With just over a month to go, XRDC officials want to take a moment today to let you know about a really interesting talk at the October event that dives into what the folk at home improvement retailer Lowe's have learned about how to best use XR technology on the store floor.
This special XRDC Enterprise Training & Education track talk, "3D Scanning and XR Powered Home Improvement: A Lowe's Case Study", will be presented by Mason Sheffield, director of lab technology at Lowe's Innovation Labs in Seattle.
You'll want to be there because you'll learn all about the exciting new techniques that Lowe's Innovation Labs use…