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44% Of Developers Claims Pandemic Caused Their Games To Be Delayed

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2020 was a very peculiar year. The world was disrupted by a major pandemic that we’re still going through today. While we are starting to see that light at the end of the tunnel, it’s hard not to think back about how rough of a shape the markets were in last year. Really, the height of the pandemic was something that will go down in history books. There were quarantine orders, social distancing, masks, and office jobs were quickly shut down in favor of working at home.  Several development studios

Most Developers Are Unhappy With Steam’s 30% Revenue Cut, Survey Finds

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Developers, shockingly, prefer to make more money. GoSteam, Valve’s digital distribution, is easily the largest digital storefront on PC. Only Good Old Games and the Epic Games Store really present it with competition. But that doesn’t mean developers like the way it does business. A GDC survey that gathered opinions from more than 3,000 developers found that most developers don’t think that Steam earns its 30% revenue cut. According to the survey, only 3% think the 30/70 revenue split is justified, which is down from 6% last year. 43% of

Microsoft Reducing Windows Store Revenue Cut Turns Screws on Steam

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Top GamesMicrosoft is following Epic Games' lead and dropping its app store's revenue cut to 12% from 30$. | Photo courtesy of MicrosoftMicrosoft announced it will reduce the amount of revenue it skims off the top of PC games sales on its Windows Store platform from 30% to 12%. The change, effective Aug. 1, is great news for game developers and bad news for Steam.“Game developers are at the heart of bringing great games to our players, and we want them to find success on our platforms,” said Xbox Game

The Last of Us Part II, Hades, & Ghost of Tsushima Lead Nominations for 2021 GDC Awards

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The 21st annual Game Developers Choice Awards is just a few short months away. The ceremony will take place during the 2021 Game Developers Conference on July 21. Hades, The Last of Us Part II, and Ghost of Tsushima are leading in nominations with six each. These are the nominees for each category in the 2021 GDC Awards.Game of the YearAnimal Crossing: New HorizonsThe Last of Us Part IIHalf-Life: AlyxHadesGhost of TsushimaBest AudioHadesThe Last of Us Part IIDoom EternalFinal Fantasy VII: RemakeGhost of TsushimaBest DebutPhasmophobiaUmurangi GenerationCarrionMortal ShellRaji: An Ancient EpicBest

Another Steam Game Festival Is Coming In October

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The Steam Game Festival may be the only gaming-related show to have added extra dates instead of cancelling this year--and Geoff Keighley has just announced yet another edition of the online-only game festival will be gracing our screens before the end of the year.Valve is planning another Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition this Fall, running October 7 - 13. Another chance to play free previews of upcoming games. — Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) August 11, 2020The very first iteration of the Steam Game Festival was launched to coincide with Keighley's Game

ID@Xbox Launches Summer Spotlight Series

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Independent developers have fundamentally changed gaming this generation, with teams from more than 50 countries around the globe shipping more than 1600 games so far on Xbox One via the ID@Xbox program (and thousands more are in development). It’s great to see, and we’re both humbled by those stats and stoked at the amazing variety of games that have shipped on Xbox and been played by millions of players around the world. We’re excited to ensure that support continues into the next generation, with backward compatibility meaning all the games

EGX Rezzed 2020 event rescheduled for early July

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The EGX Rezzed gaming event in London is set to take place once more this coming Summer after originally being postponed due to risks of coronavirus. As events started to be canceled due to issues related to COVID-19, the coronavirus, London’s EGX Rezzed 2020 was one of the gaming industry events that was forced to postpone and re-evaluate whether or not it would happen this year. Now, a new plan has been set for EGX: Rezzed 2020. It’s back on and currently set to take place in early July this

GDC Summer event announced for August 2020

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Looking to deliver on their promise of a reschedule, a new GDC Summer events has been announced for August to replace the canceled event in March. In the thick of game industry and esports events postponed or outright canceled due to growing coronavirus concerns, GDC 2020 was one of the biggest to fall on the chopping block, but it wasn’t canceled outright. Rather, GDC claimed to be postponing the event to determine whether or not a summer event could be planned in place of the original March 2020 plans. Those