Tonight, Lucas Pope’s Return of the Obra Dinn won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game at the 21st annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards, as well as the Excellence in Narrative Award. Lucas Pope is the creator of 2013’s acclaimed Papers, Please, which took home the Seumas McNally Grand Prize during the 16th Annual IGF[…..] […]
Sony Santa Monica & Sony Interactive’s God of War was honored with the Game of the Year Award at tonight’s 19th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA). Additional winners of the ceremony include Florence, developed by Mountains, which received the Best Debut and Best Mobile Game awards and Beat Saber, developed by Beat Games, which was honored with the Best VR/AR[…..] […]
Mumbai, 15th March 2019: Independent content distributor GoQuest Media Ventures is pleased to announce a raft of new acquisitions from China, Thailand and Taiwan. Collaborating with leading Chinese streaming platform iQiyi, GoQuest Media has secured the rights for Vietnam to the epic drama series Tang Dynasty Tour (36 x 45’). The costume drama, an iQiyi Original directed by Zhu Dong-Ning and produced[…..] […]
WeChat, one of the world’s largest social networks, with more than 1,082 million monthly active users is now opening up its newest and powerful Mini Games platform, enabling game developers around the world to create hit games on WeChat’s unique ecosystem. Here are the proof points: The Mini Games platform has grown to more than 400[…..] […]
The IGDA Foundation announced the first recipient of the Jerry A. Lawson Award for Achievement in Game Development this morning. Let me know if you would like to speak with someone from the IGDA or our winner Cierra McDonald. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – MARCH 20, 2019 – The International Game Developer Association Foundation today announced that[…..] […]
The World’s Largest Professional Game Industry Event Kicks Off 33rd Edition with Five Days of Education, Inspiration, and Networking. SAN FRANCISCO – March 18, 2019 – The 2019 Game Developers Conference (GDC), the world’s largest event for professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games, kicks off today with its 33rd edition at the Moscone[…..] […]
Amazon Game Tech customers will be able to use Yokozuna Dataʼs state-of-the-art machine learning technology for predicting individual player behavior Yokozuna Data, a Keywords Studio has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) and will integrate its prediction platform and recommendation system into Amazon Game Tech solutions. Thanks to Yokozuna Data’s technology,[…..] […]
3D tool from Allegorithmic enables the rapid creation of PBR Material Libraries for game, film, architecture and industrial design. By Jennifer Wolfe | Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 12:29pm SAN FRANCISCO — Today at Game Developers Conference 2019, the Substance team announces the start of the Project Substance Alchemist open beta. Effective immediately, all current Substance subscribers have exclusive and unrestricted access[…..] […]
By Mercedes Milligan | March 19, 2019 9 Story Distribution International has entered into an agreement with Vancouver-based Slap Happy Cartoons to acquire the animated series The Hollow (10 x 22’), aimed at children 8 and up. Following its worldwide Netflix premiere, 9 Story Distribution has retained all other distribution rights worldwide and will be featuring the title at[…..] […]
Studio Ponoc’s animated short film anthology arrives on Blu-ray + DVD and Digital Download on June 18. By Jennifer Wolfe | Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 2:51pm LOS ANGELES — GKIDS and Shout! Factory will issue Modest Heroes on Blu-ray + DVD and digital download on June 18, 2019. The release, which features both Japanese and English audio tracks and comes[…..] […]
