Hacker News with Generative AI: Gaming Industry

Lego says it wants to start to bring video game development in-house (videogameschronicle.com)
The Lego Group is bringing its video game development efforts in-house.
Lego, Video Games, Gaming Industry, Business
169 points by namanyayg 21 days ago | 101 comments
How Flash games shaped the video game industry (2020) (flashgamehistory.com)
Flash is dead. But the influence of Flash games on modern gameplay is inescapable.
Video Games, History, Gaming Industry, Flash
237 points by jslakro 32 days ago | 132 comments
Salty game dev comments, easier mods are in Command and Conquer's source code (arstechnica.com)
EA doesn't always treat its classic library with respect, as evidenced by its recent barely touched-up The Sims Legacy Collection. But the folks shepherding Command & Conquer, a vanguard series in the bygone genre of real-time strategy (RTS) games, are seemingly fueled by a different kind of Tiberium.
Video Games, RTS Games, Gaming Industry
66 points by ulrischa 33 days ago | 33 comments
Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was much larger than Valve (pcgamer.com)
"Just because you are big enough to build something doesn’t mean people will use it."
Amazon, Steam, Gaming Industry, Business, Competition
39 points by wapasta 40 days ago | 19 comments
Unity's struggles continue with fresh wave of layoffs (theverge.com)
Unity has been hit with another round of layoffs.
Unity, Layoffs, Gaming Industry, Business
7 points by jarsin 43 days ago | 1 comments
Football Manager 25 canceled in a refreshing show of concern for quality (arstechnica.com)
Developer's big overhaul of long-running franchise is a brave, long process.
Video Games, Software Development, Gaming Industry
3 points by ksec 53 days ago | 1 comments
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick: 'there's no such thing' as artificial intelligence (pcgamer.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Gaming Industry, CEO Statements
10 points by jarsin 53 days ago | 3 comments
EA Origin is shutting down (pcworld.com)
Electronic Arts is one of the most notable publishers in the video games industry. Not only does it own extremely successful franchises like EA Sports FC, The Sims, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age, the company also plays a key role in setting trends in the games market.
Video Games, Gaming Industry, Business, Technology
24 points by NKosmatos 70 days ago | 20 comments
Elon Musk admits he cheated at some video games (qz.com)
They say money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you endgame characters in Diablo IV, Path of Exile 2, and other games. It’s known as account boosting and is technically considered cheating in most games, and it’s something Elon Musk has finally admitted to after being called out by various YouTubers, including Zach “Asmongold” Hoyt.
Video Games, Cheating, Celebrities, Gaming Industry
18 points by blackeyeblitzar 70 days ago | 19 comments
100 Slaps: The Breaking News the Games Industry Ignored in 2024 [video] (youtube.com)
Video Games, Gaming Industry, News, 2024
6 points by treve 85 days ago | 0 comments
Sega prepares to go back to the future (theguardian.com)
Sega started as a rock’n’roll breath of fresh air in a Nintendo-dominated world – and America and Europe CEO Shuji Utsumi wants to shake things up once again
Video Games, Sega, Retro Gaming, Gaming Industry, Business
9 points by billybuckwheat 92 days ago | 1 comments
2024 Was the Year the Bottom Fell Out of the Games Industry (wired.com)
For people who make video games, 2024 was a year of holding on for dear life. At the annual Game Developers Conference in March, “Survive till ’25” was this year’s incantation, summoned to keep morale on pace. Others resorted to full-on screams, as layoffs in the industry charted record highs and developers found themselves under attack online for conspiratorial nonsense.
Video Games, Gaming Industry, Economy, Layoffs, Online Harassment
19 points by m463 99 days ago | 2 comments
Half-Life (filfre.net)
Around twenty years ago, people would have laughed if you told them that videogames would end up at the Smithsonian, but the Half-Life team really did want to make games that were more than just throwaway toys.
Video Games, History, Gaming Industry
17 points by dmazin 103 days ago | 3 comments
Larian boss Swen Vincke calls out pretty much the entire videogame industry (pcgamer.com)
Gaming Industry, Criticism, Larian Studios
22 points by phoronixrly 105 days ago | 0 comments
Balatro dev swings at PEGI for rating it 18 because of its 'evil playing cards' (pcgamer.com)
Video Games, Gaming Industry, Censorship, Ratings
38 points by galleywest200 107 days ago | 15 comments
Why GTA 6 Will Disappoint (medium.com)
Rockstar, the once-unstoppable force of gaming innovation, is now skating on thin ice. GTA 6 — its most ambitious project yet — may not just fall short of expectations; it risks becoming a symbol of everything wrong with stagnant tech and mismanaged talent.
Video Games, Gaming Industry, Rockstar Games
7 points by Willingham 116 days ago | 15 comments
Publishers Have Said the Quiet Part Out Loud About Retro Games (forbes.com)
In a recent move against the archiving of video game history, publishers have finally come clean on why they dislike retro games so much.
Video Games, Gaming Industry, Retro Gaming, History
62 points by redbell 126 days ago | 11 comments
Ask HN: How many studios / developers have moved away from Unity? (ycombinator.com)
It's been over a year since the Unity runtime fee debacle, I'm curious for those in the games industry how many studios or individual developers you've seen that have moved on from Unity to something like Unreal or Godot.
Gaming Industry, Game Engines, Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot
22 points by 1000nettles 132 days ago | 12 comments
Half-Life 2 pushed Steam on the gaming masses and the masses pushed back (arstechnica.com)
When millions of eager gamers first installed Half-Life 2 20 years ago, many, if not most, of them found they needed to install another piece of software alongside it.
Video Games, History, Steam, Gaming Industry
6 points by LorenDB 139 days ago | 2 comments
How Half-Life 2 was made: A story of cabals and Electronics Boutique (arstechnica.com)
There has been some debate about which product was the first modern “triple-A” video game, but ask most people and one answer is sure to at least be a contender: Valve’s Half-Life 2.
Video Games, History, Gaming Industry, Development
5 points by lucasllinasm 140 days ago | 0 comments
Did too many games release in Q3 of 2024? (howtomarketagame.com)
At the start of 2024 I decided that every Quarter I would check in to see what games are doing well, how many games are releasing, and what it says about finding success on Steam.
Video Games, Gaming Industry, Steam
44 points by vyrotek 159 days ago | 54 comments
Most Players Prefer Single-Player Games, New Study Claims (kotaku.com)
For the last few years, the video game industry has seemed obsessed with building always-online live-service multiplayer experiences. And many of those live games, like Concord, have failed to find much success. Now a new survey reveals that might be because most folks prefer playing single-player games.
Video Games, Gaming Industry, Consumer Behavior, Single-Player Games
5 points by PaulHoule 160 days ago | 0 comments
Netflix Shuts Down Its AAA Game Studio (gamefile.news)
One of Netflix’s most intriguing video game studios is no more.
Video Games, Netflix, Business, Gaming Industry
39 points by disqard 161 days ago | 56 comments
Retro Gaming News (retronews.com)
2025 is The New 2004: The Upcoming Big Year For Popular Game Releases
Retro Gaming, Video Games, Gaming Industry, 2025
3 points by solist 173 days ago | 0 comments
I talked to Ubisoft Devs, it's far worse than we thought [video] (youtube.com)
Video Games, Gaming Industry, Ubisoft, Criticism, Industry News
5 points by lnyan 188 days ago | 0 comments
Playstation 5 Pro Shows the Futility of the Video-Game Graphics Race (bloomberg.com)
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Video Games, Hardware, Technology, Gaming Industry
40 points by ibobev 199 days ago | 83 comments
Patch Notes #3: The game industry is becoming an innovation wasteland (gamedeveloper.com)
"Astro Bot acclaim, PlayStation 5 Pro disdain, and more jobs down the drain."
Gaming Industry, Game Development, Innovation
8 points by raytopia 201 days ago | 5 comments
Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned (theverge.com)
Annapurna Interactive, the game company famous for publishing indie hits like Stray, Outer Wilds, Gorogoa, Neon White, What Remains of Edith Finch, and many more, may not be the same company anymore.
Gaming Industry, Video Games, Resignations, Annapurna Interactive, Indie Games
464 points by nickcotter 202 days ago | 221 comments
Entire Annapurna Game Team Resigns (bloomberg.com)
The entire staff of Annapurna Interactive, the video-game publishing division of Megan Ellison’s Annapurna studio, resigned this month following a dispute with its owner.
Video Games, Gaming Industry, Resignations, Labor Disputes
80 points by tmendez 202 days ago | 18 comments
Why VR Games Still Haven't Taken Off (ieee.org)
VR Gaming was expected to lead this uptake, but why hasn’t it? We believe that VR gaming has been held back by game developers who are committed to a fantasy. In this fantasy, VR games align with the values of “hardcore” gamer culture, with advanced graphics and wholly immersive play. Aspirational attempts to reach this flawed fantasy have squashed the true potential of VR for gaming.
VR Gaming, Gaming Industry, Technology, User Experience
36 points by WaitWaitWha 204 days ago | 94 comments