ByteAction - Issue 155
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Hello, and welcome to 155th edition of ByteAction newsletter! Hope September has been treating you well!
Have you had a chance to see the IGN video of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024? If you haven’t - take a look at it here - the game looks incredible with plenty of new features added to it.
As for what happened last week: Cards Against Humanity (CAH) is suing Elon Musk's SpaceX for $15 million, alleging the company dumped construction equipment on its private land in Texas.
In other news, Nitro Games has signed a €5 million ($5.6m) expansion deal with Digital Extremes to continue developing Warframe Mobile, bringing the total order value to around €17.5 million.
Lastly, just three days after its September 20 launch, Frostpunk 2 has recouped its development and marketing costs, with over 350,000 copies sold, averaging more than 100,000 copies per day, according to developer 11-bit Studios. Well done 11-bit!
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The Byte
A film production company called Stellarblade is suing Sony and Shift Up over the use of Stellar Blade in this year’s hit action-adventure.
The Action
Retro Byte
Studio Byte
Lingokids’ mission is to “Help parents raise amazing kids” by Playlearning. Their main product is an interactive application for kids from 2 to 8 years old, that contains activities to help kids develop various skills from traditional science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), art, and music to modern life skills like emotional learning and citizenship, social responsibility, recycling.
Legal Stuff
Acquisitions/Investments
New Game Corner
Unity 6 - October 17th, 2024
Unity Technologies will globally launch Unity 6 on Thursday, October 17th, 2024, offering customizable graphics rendering, simplified multiplayer development, and tools for web-based game creation, with a preview available now.
Resource Byte
Your AI lawyer.
Who’s Hiring?
Technical Director - Bespoke Pixel - Barcelona, Spain
Art Director - Geometric Interactive - Copenhagen, Denmark
Principal Game Developer - Sandsoft - Barcelona, Spain
UI Programmer - Tripwire - Remote, USA
Technical Director - Tripledot - Warsaw, Poland
UI Artist - Turn me Up - Burbank, California
Senior Game Designer - Embark Studios - Stockholm, Sweden
Senior VFX Artist - Eleventh Hour Games - Dallas, Texas
Senior Technical Designer - Cold Iron Studios - Remote, USA & Canada
Lead Animator - Ultimate Studio - Melbourne, Australia
Executive Producer - Demiurge Studios - Remote, USA
Senior Data Analyst - Original Games - Remote, Europe
Principal Level Designer - Firesprite - Liverpool, UK
Lead Character Artist - IOI - Barcelona, Spain
Senior UI/UX Designer - Klang Games - Madrid, Spain
Lead Engine Programmer - Ramen VR - San Francisco, CA
Recruiter - Larian Studios - Warsaw, Poland
Senior Producer - Haven Studios - Montréal, Canada
Lead VFX Artist - Sega Europe Ltd - Sofia, Bulgaria
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Dev Talks
Interview with Jason Citron - Discord
“Today, Discord is used by over 200 million people every month. And with over 90% of those users playing games, they spend a combined 1.5 billion hours every month playing thousands of unique titles on our platform. However, we still have plenty of room to grow – today, when a new game, season, or DLC launches, we often see that 50-80% of that game’s player base are already Discord users, so we have an opportunity to further connect those experiences. ”
Jason Citron
Events
GIC - Games Industry Conference - October 24th-27th
The Game Industry Conference will take place in Poznan Game Arena - one of the largest game expos in Europe. Over 76,000 visitors will enjoy the show by testing games and hardware from more than 220 expositors.