Former EA developers form new studio to develop spiritual successor to NBA Street on Unreal Engine 5 – IGN

Several former EA developers, including former Visceral Games CEO Scott Probst, have formed a new studio to make a spiritual successor to NBA Street, the beloved 3v3 street basketball series…

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Ghostly free-to-play open-world game Once Human is out today, and the developers have some crash and performance tips

From Zenless Zone Zero to The First Descendant, it seems like we’re experiencing an explosion of free-to-play. Desperation, you time-strapped adults, because your carefully engineered lack of pocket money offers no protection against the onslaught of games that want a chunk of your evening or weekend. Today’s big release, Once Human, at least includes a giant school bus on monstrous legs, along with a less exciting but adaptable van that only has wheels. In this open world survival shooter, you are a “Metahuman” making your way through a landscape corrupted by Stardust, which has warped the landscape and is slowly driving you insane.

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Smash Bros creator urges other developers to launch their games with as few bugs as possible because fixes won’t matter if ‘your players have already given up on the game’

Masahiro Sakurai, the legendary Nintendo developer who created the Kirby series and Super Smash Bros., has some words of wisdom for other AAA developers.In the latest episode of the "Masahiro…

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