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Disturbance in the Force: Deviation Games (Sony) Nothing is safe. Anything can be on the chopping block. ----- 2024: GamesIndustryBiz: "PlayStation-backed Deviation Games closes. The studio had been developing an original IP for PlayStation before it was cancelled" (Christopher Dring) (March 9, 2024) "New AAA game developer Deviation Games is closing, the studio announced. It was formed in 2020 by Jason Blundell and Dave Anthony, two development veterans best known for the Call of Duty: Black Ops franchise. By 2021 it had over 100 employees, and the studio signed a deal with PlayStation to create an original AAA IP for the company. But the project hit challenges. Blundell left the developer in 2022, and then in May last year the company went through a significant round of lay-offs. "It is with a heavy heart that we announce the closure of Deviation Games," chief HR and operations officer Kriste Stull announced on LinkedIn. "I want to express my deepest gratitude to our entire team. Thank you for all your hard work, dedication, and contributions to Deviation; I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have worked with each and every one of you. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz in 2021, Dave Anthony spoke enthusiastically about their PlayStation partnership. "It's absolutely mind-blowing. For us, we have never been in a situation like this before, where we've got everything we could possibly ask for. From day one of the studio we have complete financial security for years and years to come. "Now, with this partnership with Sony, we can be ourselves. And not only that, when we bring people into the studio, we can promise them that this is our culture. And we can fearlessly create and innovate and be groundbreaking." GamesIndustryBiz: https://lnkd.in/g2iHVU5H ----- "Deviation Games: "PlayStation has a culture where it's fearless to create" The Call of Duty veterans and Sony's Hermen Hulst discusses the new studio and their partnership" (Christopher Dring) (June 14, 2021) The company revealed its partnership with Deviation Games on another new IP. Deviation is a new team led by Call of Duty: Black Ops leaders Dave Anthony and Jason Blundell. Blundell adds: "Just to make Hermen Hulst, (PlayStation Worldwide Studios) blush a bit more. Sony's background, its facilities, the things that it opens up to us has been amazing. I don't want to give away the secret sauce, but Sony has the ability to speak to game developers in a way that we're used to talking. That's really where the magic happens. Not only do we have all these facilities, and this history of game development at Sony, but also they can speak in the way that we speak. And they know how to deal with imagination and how to embrace risk and how to manage it." https://lnkd.in/gbAZvvsc #gameindustry #videogames #gamedev #gamelayoffs #disturbanceintheforce #sony

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Last week in Games Industry: Unknown 9: Awakening, a AAA game by Bandai Namco commercially failed at launch. It was also the last game advised by SweetBabyInc. https://lnkd.in/dguiihrh This is important because it's becoming harder to rely on game journalists and reviews. And gamers are forming groups to avoid bad games, like: https://lnkd.in/dXkai9Kh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dragon Age: Veilguard Context: Past Bioware games like Anthem and Andromeda were failures. People pile on to criticize the game, as it's release is soon. Most criticisms are valid. Player choice was core of Dragon Age franchise. Taking that away is main criticism. But the company does not make changes, trainwreck incoming on 31st October. Here's a good, balanced take from a fan of the franchise: https://lnkd.in/dgX8tVGP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Asmongold got banned from Twitch. Context: Asmongold, a streamer with a huge community of gamers, talked about Palestine on stream. Got removed from Starforge company for PR reasons. The overall situation is a mess, but here's a good take: https://lnkd.in/dv6h_kXm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GODOT is a game engine, favoured by indie devs. It had a PR disaster. Context: A discord moderator for the game engine went on a banning spree. GODOT claimed they are "Woke" on their twitter. People said "Please focus on engine, not politics" and were banned. Bans were random and targeted even platinum members. What's new? Turns out it was a fan discord server, and the moderator wasn't affiliated, or at least GODOT cut ties. And the amount of backlash over this overwhelmed their official social media. Here's a good take: https://lnkd.in/dbcTSdPH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ubisoft is still falling down the stairs. Context: Ubisoft Employees are leaving. Xdefiant has poor reception. Ubisoft is getting sued again. Some devs are speaking out, and the token hire culture is really killing the efficiency and creativity. Here's some insider info: https://lnkd.in/d-VxNiAe We also remember that Ubisoft hired Sensitivity Readers, who did the most Insensitive marketing/merch campaign for Japan that made them pull out of the biggest game expo of that market. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #GameDev #Ubisoft #Bioware #Unknown9 #DragonAge #Godot #Woke #GamesIndustry #Asmongold #BandaiNamco #Sweetbabyinc #DEI #VideoGames #1D3 #AAA #GameNews #News

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WHAT DOES "AAA" MEAN? - in the article I shared below, there are several definitions regarding what the "AAA" rating means when referring to games: very high quality products; huge teams to manage; infinite development; high-profit franchising; etc. etc. Ok, great, but, again, what does "AAA" really mean? As a former senior AAA games AD who moved into mobile game development, this is a fairly common question from the top management of the companies I work with. My answer is : "AAA is a mindset", a team that struggle to deliver the best product ever. https://lnkd.in/dbkqmvKn

Ha, been there, done that, didn't even get a t-shirt :D In my opinion, there's going to be a lot of head scratching in a few years, among the PC and console publishers, when the audience tires of the same old product being repackaged and resold. Doing something new is how the hits, that drive this business, are found. #gamedevelopment #gamedev #gamesindustry

New Post: ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ was so vast, developers are struggling for new ideas - https://lnkd.in/ggkdC5cu - Larian Studios has claimed that because Baldur’s Gate 3 was so vast, developers are struggling to come up with new ideas. READ MORE: ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ review: must-play fantasy rolls a critical hit Baldur’s Gate 3 was released in 2023 but earlier this year, Larian confirmed it wouldn’t be releasing a direct sequel or an expansion, despite already starting work on both. “We’ll forever be proud of it but we’re not going to continue in it. We’re not going to make new expansions which everybody is expecting. We’re not going to make Baldur’s Gate 4 which everybody is expecting us to do. We’re going to move on,” confirmed Swen Vincke. “We are a company of big ideas,” he added. Since then, Vincke has told fans they should be “very excited” about what comes next, with the studio working on two new games that will be better than anything they’ve made before. It was later confirmed Larian are working on two “very ambitious” new role-playing games, that are both based on original IPs. However in a new interview with PC Gamer, writing director Adam Smith confirms the studio keeps running into an issue when developing these new titles. “One of the biggest problems we have now is that, whenever we’re talking about things, we say we did that in Baldur’s Gate 3,” says Smith. “We did a lot of things in BG3 when we think back to it.” “You’re constantly trying to make sure that are getting a new experience, and you’re not just repeating yourself, and you’re not just giving them content for the sake of content,” he added. Despite Larian moving on from the world of Baldur’s Gate 3, Wizards Of The Coast has confirmed it will be looking to continue the franchise, which borrowed characters and lore from Dungeons & Dragons and earned the company over £71million in royalties alone. Larian hasn’t abandoned Baldur’s Gate 3 completely though, with a new patch coming next month. In other news, HBO has shared a new, 20-second teaser of The Last Of Us season two, and fans of the games seem stoked over its accuracy. The post ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ was so vast, developers are struggling for new ideas appeared first on NME. - #news #business #world -------------------------------------------------- Download: #Google #Font #Tester - https://lnkd.in/gKAZYbVN

Ermmmm .... isn't the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League a AAA live service game that sucked because of its bad live service experience? "Perrette said Warner wants to take a more "holistic approach" with its four core franchises—Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, and DC—with a particular focus on "expanding into the mobile and multi-platform free-to-play space, which could give us a much better and more consistent set of revenue." To that end, Warner has a number of free-to-play mobile games set to roll out later this year." Okay, but hey, wasn't SS:KtJL a AAA live service game that bombed? What lessons were learnt there? "Despite the growing exhaustion in some quarters with the live-service model, it also figures prominently in Warner's plans: "Rather than just launching a one-and-done console game, how do we develop a game around, for example, Hogwarts Legacy or Harry Potter, that is a live service, where people can come in and live and work and build and play in that world on an ongoing basis?" Nope, they learnt nothing. "Speaking at the recent Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference, Warner Bros Discovery executive JB Perrette said the company wants to expand more into free-to-play and live service games in order to avoid the "volatile" ups and downs of big-budget game releases." Baldur's Gate 3: Strong writing, thousands of possible endings. SS:KtJL is linear as hell. Helldivers 2: How to make live service co-op work. (I mean like have you seen it???? SS:KtJL is also strong graphically, with okay game play .... when it works, when you get in and doesn't crash on you) So WB is put off by the price tag of putting in AAA effort vs just putting in AAA money; and has a knee jerk reaction by putting their faith in Freemium, Pay2win, Microtransactions games with low cost, low risk - and probably very low quality of engagement. Now this is not a bad overall approach, Games Workshop used this approach to their portfolio of assets. And they had some good hits, AND many duds. And it is usually the AA games that make it.