Portrait of a Ukrainian video game developer by DOU — 26-year-old Kyivan without a wife and children, but with a PlayStation
Website DOU surveyed 900 Ukrainian video game developers about their salaries, age, location, and game preferences, and based on their answers created a portrait of an average game specialist. In general, this is a 26-year-old Kyiv resident without a wife and children, but with a PlayStation.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 developers increased staff by 27% in six months — the best result in Ukrainian game development
GSC Game World, the studio that created S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, is actively expanding. Over the past few months, its staff has increased by 50 people.
Radical changes in Xbox: insider talks about turning the console into a PC, former CEO — about its cancellation
Microsoft’s Xbox game console seems to be on the verge of transformation. Various sources speak of at least a change in the format of its existence.
Microsoft releases Muse AI to generate game elements — «Fuck this shit», developers say
«The Invisible Hand» Microsoft has introduced the Muse generative AI model for game development. Developers are not too happy about it, but many are afraid to oppose it.
Hard times: Crytek suspends Crysis 4 and lays off 15% of employees
The legendary developer of Crysis and Far Cry games is not in the best of health right now. Crytek is laying off people, halting development of Crysis 4 and focuses on the live action shooter.
Up to 96% less memory usage in games — NVIDIA unveils Optix 9 and Neural Texture Compression technologies
The NVIDIA Optix 9 Game Developer Toolkit includes RTX Mega Geometry technology, and the Neural Texture Compression SDK allows you to compress textures and pack them into a single file.
Triumph of PC gaming: player spending has been growing for 13 years in a row, 40% higher than on consoles
Contrary to many opinions, PCs feel quite confident in gaming. A large-scale study of PC games and more indicates growth amidst the stagnation of consoles.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: «Games will never be completely created by artificial intelligence»
At CES 2025, Jensen Huang reappeared on stage to answer questions from journalists. The head of NVIDIA particularly discussed the potential role of artificial intelligence in games.
Gamers watch YouTube and Twitch more than they play, — study
In the report by MIDiA Research, researchers concluded that players spend more time watching videos on Twitch and YouTube than playing games.
What makes Baldur’s Gate 3 and Avowed interesting? Obsidian game designer on the most important things in RPGs
The regional director and senior level designer at Obsidian believes that what makes Baldur’s Gate 3 and Avowed successful is that they are What most people don’t see.
Bethesda and ZeniMax employees go on strike to return to the office
Employees of Bethesda and parent ZeniMax, who are now owned by Microsoft announced a strike. Employees are dissatisfied with the company’s remote work policy.
«Perfectly Tuned»: Skyrim and Starfield developer tells why Bethesda won’t change the game engine
Skyrim’s lead designer and former senior systems Starfield designer Bruce Nesmith believes that Bethesda does not need to switch to a new game engine.
«Anyone can record nonsense»: The Witcher creators deny diversity and leakage issues
Michal Nowakowski, co-CEO of CD Projekt Red, creators of The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, strongly denied the studio’s problems due to diversity and mass exodus of specialists.
Black Myth: Wukong with a budget of $42.3 million earned more than $1.2 billion, — tax authorities
The game Black Myth: Wukong cost the developer Game Science more than 20 million copies and sold for $60 per copy. The game’s budget turned out to be slightly lower than previously reported.
Sony’s artificial intelligence will create games for PlayStation, it has already been used in Spider-Man 2, — corporate report
In a new corporate report, Sony says that to speed up the development of games on the PlayStation will make greater use of AI and machine learning.
A black hole sucks in money: Microsoft pays $1 billion a year for Xbox Game Pass games
According to sources, Microsoft is spending $1 billion to ensure that third-party games are in Xbox Game Pass. Among those with whom we have signed multimillion-dollar contracts are many well-known brands.
Tencent shows GameGen-O AI for game development — the model was trained on The Witcher 3, GTA V, and Cyberpunk 2077
Chinese company Tencent presented a project to create game engines using AI. GameGen-O was trained on The Witcher 3, GTA V Cyberpunk 2077.
«An alternate universe where Half-Life disappeared» — how Valve avoided disaster in the early years
Now everyone knows Valve’s hit game Half-Life, and most PC gamers use Steam. But everything could have turned out quite differently.
The Fallout London team wants to set up their own studio: «free mods don’t pay the bills»
Free mods are great, but working on them is expensive. The creators of Fallout London want to create their own game studio.
From beets to the development of The Witcher 4 — how a farmer from Australia got into gaming
A farmer who grew beets in Australia became a game developer at Projekt Red and is working on The Witcher 4. Pawel Sasko, deputy game director the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 told us how it happened.
The developer of the Ukrainian game «Echo of Pripyat» planned to sell it in Russia — «to raise money for the Armed Forces»
Chornozem Interactive, the studio behind the walking simulator «Echo of Pripyat», has now publicly apologized and said that sales in Russia have been canceled after negotiations with the team.
To the sauna instead of a gamedev: the director of a studio that hasn’t released a single game obliged the employees to steam naked with him
The scandal in the gamemakerJacek Piurkowski, the creative director of the Polish Spectrum Studio, demanded that his employees go to the sauna naked, allegedly to better prepare for the creation of the game — about it reports GameDev.DOU. Studio is currently works on a sauna management simulator (yes, this also seems strange), and before that,…
Minus 1020 employees and one more office in six months: the rating of top 25 game development companies in Ukraine has appeared
In six months, the number of employees in the Ukrainian gaming industry decreased by 1020, or 11.75%. Over the year, it decreased by 1411 (almost 15%).
«You don’t need a gamemaker, become a better plumber»: the boss of DUSK development studio gave advice to newcomers
The head of New Blood Interactive, Dave Oshry, spoke quite harshly about the situation in the game industry: if you are a beginner, you should have started 10 years ago. Accordingly, it is better to find a real job «and become a plumber».
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