Are you in the mood for a tiny writeup of a tiny talk about tiny screens at AMAZE Sheffield? Then it's your lucky day, because that's precisely what alternative controller game designer Julia Makivic rustled up.

Running a through a list of some of her favorite and most despised tiny screens during a fleeting Hyper Talk, Makivic sought to pass on some wisdom to other developers fascinated by the prospect of building video games that incorporate bitesized displays. She explains that tiny screens have become a "huge part" of her process, and that's pretty damn neat.

It's also incredibly frustrating at times, because they weren't designed with video games in mind. "They were designed to maybe display reading…

Fortnite skins are a big draw for many fans, which is why a new Epic Games survey should attract so much attention from the game’s community. A recent survey sent out by the developer-publisher asked players to weigh in on the appeal of dozens of unreleased skins, giving us a sneak preview of characters potentially headed to the game Come from Sports betting site VPbet . While we can’t say all of the teased skins will one day be available in Fortnite, it stands to both reason and history that some will.

Epic’s survey included skins spanning several different sets, with some making great companion characters to past heroes, while others look totally new and unlike anything else in Fortnite. Content creators have shared …

Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin was not happy with the direction that hugely popular HBO series took the story in its final three seasons Come from Sports betting site VPbet . A new book about HBO has revealed that Martin felt that the outline he gave to the showrunners was ignored.

While the first five seasons of Game of Thrones were reasonably faithful adaptations of Martin’s hugely popular novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, the next book had not been published by the time work started on Season 6. Nevertheless, Martin gave showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss a template of his plans for the rest of the series. But in James Andrew Miller’s new book, Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Front…

Marcus Lehto, who until recently was the studio head of Ridgeline Games working on a new single-player focused entry in the Battlefield franchise, isn’t happy about how EA treated his former studio. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

Lehto, one of the co-creators of Halo, parted ways with Ridgeline and EA back in February just days ahead of mass layoffs at the publisher. Those layoffs saw the studio he helped build in 2022, Ridgeline Games, shuttered. It is estimated around 670 employees lost their jobs as part of EA’s 5% workforce reduction. Many of the developers working at Ridgeline on a new Battlefield game were let go, though some were allowed to transfer to another Battlefield studio, Ripple Effect, according…

After multiple delays and numerous alpha and beta tests, Amazon Game Studio’s MMO New World is finally nearing its September 28 release date, with one final open beta test planned before launch. The final beta is available for anyone to jump in and play.

The open beta runs September 9-12 and is available to play through Steam, but players will first need to request access to join the beta. To do that, you’ll need to login to your Steam account and navigate to the New World page on Steam Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Under the various “Pre-purchase New World” options will be a button that says “Join the New World Open Beta Playtest.” Click to request access, and Amazon will send an email to the email ad…

Just before the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II multiplayer beta begins this week, Activision has announced a new Call of Duty Code of Conduct that all players must acknowledge before jumping in. Players must acknowledge this new code, which basically says don’t be a jerk, starting with the open beta, the company said in a blog post.

Anyone who has ever played a Call of Duty game online is likely unfortunately aware of a general air of toxicity among the community Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Activision said it won’t be able to stamp this out completely, but this new code of conduct, along with other anti-toxicity measures, are aimed at helping clean up the battlefield as much as possible.

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