Art marketplace Redbubble is debuting a pilot program this week that sees select game developers working with the company to curate fan art on branded Redbubble hubs for their games — and collecting a cut of the proceeds.
While Redbubble is billing this as an easy way for small-scale devs to dabble in merchandising without having to contract artists and launch their own storefronts, it's also a notable effort by an open marketplace to cut creators in on sales of fan-created goods based on their work.
In recent years online marketplaces like Etsy, Redbubble and Threadless have afforded artists an easy way to sell their work, and in the process they've grown rife with fan art based on popular video games. Th…
Business is good for Blizzard's Chinese partner NetEase, which has posted financial results for the second quarter of its current fiscal year. The company reports a modest rise in both quarterly revenue and profits year-over-year for its online game services business, which includes a variety of original online and mobile games alongside localized versions of Blizzard hits like Hearthstone, StarCraft II and World of Warcraft. For the quarter ended June 30, 2014, NetEase reported revenue of 2.34 billion Chinese yuan (~$376.6 million USD) for its online game services business, up roughly 13 percent year-over-year. The growth was fueled primarily by revenue from t…
Want to get into this year's Game Developers Conference Europe for free while helping the show go off without a hitch? Apply to be a volunteer Conference Associate (CA), and you can earn the equivalent of an All-Access Pass by putting in at least 14 hours of on-site work.
GDC Europe 2015 is taking place in Cologne, Germany on August 3rd and 4th. Conference Associates have pre-conference assignments and a required orientation meeting on Sunday, August 2nd.
If you are accepted into the program, you are expected to be on-site at the Congress-Centrum Ost in Cologne, Germany during conference hours, from the start of your pre-conference assignments through the end of the conference on the evenin…
Yesterday, Google announced the creation of a new virtual reality platform called “Daydream” and announced a partnership with ten developers who would be working on content for this new mobile-based platform. These developers range from larger companies like EA and Ubisoft to smaller developers like Otherside Entertainment and nDreams. Some, like Otherside and CCP were able to announce their games right away, others, like Ubisoft and EA, have yet to fully make their development plans clear yet.
We reached out to these Daydream developers to get their thoughts on developing for Google's VR platform, and what role it may take in the future of virtual reality development. All of them see advantages in t…
Activision Blizzard has been using generative AI to create online ads for games that do not actually exist.
VGC spotted promos for three fake titles—Guitar Hero Mobile, Crash Bandicoot Brawl, and Call of Duty: Zombie Defender—on Instagram. The ads lead to mockup app store pages on a site called Geeklab, where upon clicking "Get," viewers are treated to the message: "Thanks for your interest! This isn't a real game, but could be some day! We'd love if you could answer this short survey, which could help inform the potential future of this game. Your feedback really matters to us!"
Last week, the Call of Duty …
The GDC Europe conference is over for another year (Gamasutra's full coverage here), and as partner event Gamescom begins to wind down on the press front, I've been collating the various tidbits that I've taken away from this week. There was already plenty to think about with regards to the various talks that were given over the last several days, but numerous conversations I had with developers, publishers et al also cemented a number of key points that appeared to brim to the surface on multiple occasions. Here's the five main talking points that I seemingly couldn't escape from throughout the week.
Much like its rival DeNA, Japanese social games company Gree saw its earnings slide last quarter — and like its rival, this was mainly down to a decrease in game currency consumption. Gree says that overall consumption of coins (its in-game currency) was down 10 percent quarter-over-quarter, mostly due to continued decline on feature phones and in browser. Coin consumption on smartphones now accounts for around 68 percent of the company's total coin consumption. The company says that its upcoming first-party and partner titles should do the trick, with 10 titles planned for release during the second half of the fiscal year — although Gree still expects to see reduced profits for the next quarter too. For the second quarter ended December 31, 2013, Gree posted r…
Much like its rival DeNA, Japanese social games company Gree saw its earnings slide last quarter — and like its rival, this was mainly down to a decrease in game currency consumption. Gree says that overall consumption of coins (its in-game currency) was down 10 percent quarter-over-quarter, mostly due to continued decline on feature phones and in browser. Coin consumption on smartphones now accounts for around 68 percent of the company's total coin consumption. The company says that its upcoming first-party and partner titles should do the trick, with 10 titles planned for release during the second half of the fiscal year — although Gree still expects to see reduced profits for the next quarter too. For the second quarter ended December 31, 2013, Gree posted r…
Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has established a new studio in Warsaw, Poland.
The expansion means Larian now operates seven studios across Barcelona, Dublin, Gent, Guildford, Quebec, Kuala Lumpur, and Warsaw. Larian said the new opening will strive to create "genre-leading games" in tandem with its other teams across the world.
"Like its sister studios across the globe, Larian Studios Warsaw is dedicated to fostering an environment where developers can thrive creatively and reclaim their agency," reads a post on Larian's careers pageCome from VP-bet . "Systems-heavy RPGs need best-in-class deve…
Heads up, Game Developers Conference attendees: All passes to the Virtual Reality Developers Conference at GDC 2017 are now sold out!
However, there's still lots of interesting VR stuff going on at GDC 2017 proper. Today, conference organizers want to quickly remind you about the bumper crop of sessions focused on VR games and tech that are taking place at GDC 2017 and thus still accessible to most GDC passholders.
As of right now there are over 50 VR-focused sessions scheduled for the GDC Main Conference, Summits, Tutorials and Bootcamps. That means you can purchase a GDC All Access Pass and check out cutting-edge VR talks like:
The organizers behind annual indie showcase Fantastic Arcade have announced the first wave of games to be featured during the festival held in Austin, Texas this October 25-28.
Ten Arcade Spotlight titles have been revealed so far including Boyfriend Dungeon, Spelunky 2, and Knights and Bikes, in addition to other indie titles submitted by developers.Come from VPbet
This is a great opportunity for developers to see what their peers within the industry are working on, including five games commissioned by non-profit Austin-based indie game dev collective Juegos Ranche…