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Former EVE Online developers are building a society simulation MMO where your character keeps playing even after you log off
By Lauren Morton published
Eternally Online Long-in-the-works colony sim MMO Seed is shaping up into something that looks like EVE Online for RimWorld fans.

Blizzard vet Rob Pardo closed this year's GDC keynote by urging executives to cool it with the layoffs: 'The game team is more valuable than the game itself'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Somebody does have to make the next one, after all.

Vin Diesel's character in Ark 2 was originally written as a nerd: 'Yeah, that ain't gonna work'
By Christopher Livingston published
News A bit of retconning took place when the Fast & Furious star joined Ark 2.

Arc Raiders received 'substantial negative PvP sentiment' during testing, causing the devs to second-guess its big pivot before realising it was really frustration with weapons and matchmaking
By Rory Norris published
News "Should we even have done this reset?"

ZA/UM doesn't want 'to invite too many comparisons' to Disco Elysium with new game Zero Parades—'We didn't feel like we wanted to repeat our greatest hits'
By Joshua Wolens published
News Harrier Who Bois?

PC games revenue will outgrow consoles by 2028, analyst predicts
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News That's assuming the RAMpocalypse doesn't revise those estimates in the meantime.

No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game
By Rory Norris published
News "A lot of games would have been cancelled at this point."

Dispatch's character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation 'as a last resort', a temporary solution 'to get us through the pitch phase', before defining the entire game's artstyle
By Harvey Randall published
News Emergency call.

Game dev union members marched at GDC to propose a 'Game Workers' Bill of Rights'
By Lauren Morton published
The UVW-CWA is envisioning a base standard set of working conditions for all game developers.

Garry's Mod creator says programmers over-relying on AI is like using too much porn: 'You lose your ability to ejaculate using your imagination'
By Christopher Livingston published
news However, Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman does use AI regularly: "It makes my job so much easier."
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