„The Curse of Success” and Overconfidence Are Reasons for Paradox’s Failures. Company Returns to Its Roots and Focuses on Pre-Production
Smaller games, longer pre-production, and more prototypes and beta testing. These are the assumptions Paradox Interactive has made to avoid a repeat of Cities: Skylines 2.
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Jacob Blazewicz
October 9, 2024
Ten Years Ago Diablo 4 Considered a Shift Towards Batman Arkham Series While Ignoring Key Genre Rules
Diablo 4 as a roguelike variation on Batman: Arkham with permanent death? Yes, that's exactly the idea the Reaper of Souls director had for the series before leaving Blizzard.
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Jacob Blazewicz
October 9, 2024
RPG Classic Planescape Torment Began as Three Different Games. Feargus Urquhart Reveals Details About One of Them
The developer of Planescape: Torment gave a little insight into one of the three projects that eventually turned into the cult RPG.
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Martin Bukowski
October 7, 2024
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Has Been Redesigned Because Devs Focus on Things „They've Had Success In”
There isn't much in Dragon Age: The Veilguard from the previous online version of the fourth installment in the series, as the developers didn't make much progress when the new DA was still supposed to be a service game.
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Jacob Blazewicz
October 2, 2024
Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Explains Why the Game Was Plagued by Bugs at Launch. For CD Projekt RED, Choice Was Simple
Cyberpunk 2077 had its fair share of bugs, but the CD Projekt RED team preferred that to other, more serious problems that would have plagued the game at launch.
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Jacob Blazewicz
October 2, 2024
Backstory Behind Delayed Release of AC: Shadows. Devs Fought for It Long Before Star Wars Outlaws Launch
Tom Henderson revealed new details about the Assassin's Creed Shadows delay. Although the poor release of Star Wars: Outlaws ultimately prompted Ubisoft to postpone the Shadows release, the developers were expected to fight for it for a long time.
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Hubert Sledziewski
October 1, 2024
Russian Dev Drags Out Work on Mechanics Until He Raises Enough Founds to Flee Russia. Former U.S. Producer Hammered IL-2 Great Battles Devs
The developers of the IL-2 series severely annoyed Jason Williams, who left no stone unturned against 1C Game Studios afterwards.
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Jacob Blazewicz
October 1, 2024
New Sony Report Reveals PlayStation Using AI and Machine Learning to Speed Up Game Development
Sony boasted that it is already using artificial intelligence and machine learning to reduce game development costs.
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Adrian Werner
September 30, 2024
Baldur's Gate 3 Panache Bears Hard on Larian Studios' New Projects. „This Is One of Our Biggest Problems”
Baldur's Gate 3 is a huge RPG, however, which gives Larian studio a hard time as the developers try to come up with something new for future games.
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Jacob Blazewicz
August 5, 2024
Ghost of Tsushima, RDR 2, and AC: Odyssey Inspired Star Wars: Outlaws Developers
The creative director of Star Wars: Outlaws was mainly inspired by Sucker Punch Productions' Samurai game, although he also took inspiration from Red Dead Redemption 2 and Assassin's Creed: Odyssey.
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Jacob Blazewicz
August 2, 2024
Baldur's Gate 3 Devs Don't Want to Spoil Anyone's Fun. Exploits in Games Are Their Nightmare, But Players Come First
The script designer for Baldur's Gate 3 described how difficult it is to stop players from finding vulnerabilities in video games, yet not all such exploits need to be removed.
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Jacob Blazewicz
July 24, 2024
AAA Games Don't Always Take Years to Develop. Former Bioware Employee Explains Why We Wait So Long for Big Hits
Mark Darrah (formerly of the BioWare studio) listed the reasons for the long development of high-budget games, but also pointed out that they are often not as many years in development as one would think.
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Jacob Blazewicz
June 27, 2024
Total War Are „Unplayable” for Most of Their Development Time. Hated Developer Reveals Behind-The-Scenes of Rome 2's Disastrous Release
Julian McKinlay slammed the clunky AI in Total War: Rome 2. Even though, he says after more than 10 years, he wasn't responsible for the condition, but the „gross mismanagement” of the project by Creative Assembly heads.
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Jacob Blazewicz
June 26, 2024
Tim Bender From Hooded Horse Gave Another Piece of Advice to Independent Devs Looking for Publisher
Manor Lords' publisher warns developers not to be guided by the companies' conduct toward their big hits when choosing a partner, but by how they treat less successful projects.
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Jacob Blazewicz
May 28, 2024
Manor Lords Publisher Criticized Publishing Methods Hitting Devs. 'This Is a Silly Way to Do Business'
Tim Bender from Hooded Horse criticized the industry's „ingrained” habit of including cash-flow clauses by publishers. In his opinion, this is bad for both developers and players.
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Jacob Blazewicz
May 15, 2024
Helmets in Helldivers 2 Were to Be Far More Important, but Devs Had to 'Ship the Game'
Helmets in Helldivers 2 were originally intended to be more than just a cosmetic element. The developers were forced to cut this element due to lack of time, but are considering returning to it in the future.
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Martin Bukowski
May 10, 2024
'Games Are Always Going to Be Unfinished.' Trick Is to Draw Line Between 'Good Enough and Not Good Enough' Game, Says Falcon 4.0 and Geforce Now Dev
Gamers are complaining about incomplete games, but one of the developers of Falcon 4.0 and GeForce Now points out that it is impossible to fully complete game development.
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Jacob Blazewicz
April 15, 2024
„When I Initially Decided to Create This Game, Many People Felt We Were Out of Our Mind.” Stellar Blade Action RPG Dev Promises Remarkable Story
The developers of the action RPG Stellar Blade gave a closer look at the details of the game's development. When they began work on it, many people accused them of being crazy. The reason was said to be the market situation in South Korea.
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Michal Harat
April 13, 2024
Skyrim Posed Greater Threat to ESO Than WoW and Other MMORPGs. Devs had to Embrace „Elder Scrolls Way”
The Elder Scrolls Online initially looked very different, and the release of Skyrim forced the developers to make many changes.
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Martin Bukowski
April 9, 2024
For Huge Open-World Action RPG, Dragon’s Dogma 2 Was Developed by Surprisingly Small Team
Dragon's Dogma II achieved an outstanding start in terms of sales. It turns out that four times as many people worked on this expansive game as on other major titles from the Capcom stable.
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Krzysztof Kaluzinski
April 8, 2024