General Gaming News II: Steam Helpdesk Site Leak

[6souls]

GDC 2020 Postponed Due to Companies Pulling because of the Coronavrius Scare, Will Return this Summer

After close consultation with our partners in the game development industry and community around the world, we’ve made the difficult decision to postpone the Game Developers Conference this March.

Having spent the past year preparing for the show with our advisory boards, speakers, exhibitors, and event partners, we’re genuinely upset and disappointed not to be able to host you at this time.

We want to thank all our customers and partners for their support, open discussions, and encouragement. As everyone has been reminding us, great things happen when the community comes together and connects at GDC. For this reason, we fully intend to host a GDC event later in the summer. We will be working with our partners to finalize the details and will share more information about our plans in the coming weeks.

Q&A

Q: I am a current GDC 2020 paid conference or expo registrant – now the event is not taking place in March, can I receive a refund of my pass money?

A: If you are a currently registered paid passholder, you will be receiving an email about your registration status and any next steps regarding refunds, which conference and expo attendees will be receiving in full.

Q: What is the situation with hotels if I booked through the GDC hotel website/room blocks?

A: Individuals who have made hotel reservations inside the GDC room block will not have to pay penalties or fees associated with their reservations. More information on next steps will be available early next week.

Q: What is happening to the talks that would have been presented at Game Developers Conference 2020?

A: In order to allow our conference speakers to still participate in the event, we are intending to make many of the presentations that would have been given at GDC 2020 available for free online. After speakers (optionally) contribute their talks in video format, they will be distributed on the GDC YouTube channel and the free part of GDC Vault.

Q: What is happening to the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Choice Awards – will they still take place?

A: We also intend to stream a set of these GDC 2020 talks and the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Choice Awards via Twitch during the week that the event would have taken place in San Francisco (March 16 to 20), so that our community can continue to honor and celebrate its best games.

https://gdconf.com/news/important-gdc-2020-update

[6souls]

Frontier (Planet Coaster/Elite: Dangerous) Acquires Formula 1 Development Rights

Formula 1

Frontier Developments, a leading developer and publisher of videogames based in Cambridge, announces a multi-year exclusive licence with Formula One Management to develop and publish management games annually for the FIA Formula One World Championship, the world's most prestigious motor racing competition.

Under the terms of the Licence, Frontier has exclusive rights to develop and publish F1 management games worldwide for PC and console platforms, together with the rights for streaming services, with the first game expected to release for the 2022 F1 season. The Licence provides Frontier with the rights for four F1 seasons (2022 to 2025 inclusive), subject to the achievement of certain financial performance thresholds.

Frontier has extensive experience of developing deeply engaging, high-fidelity simulation games which also achieve widespread global adoption. The partnership with F1 creates an exciting opportunity to bring together Frontier's experience and capability, including its powerful and versatile Cobra game engine, to the management-rich environment of the globally popular and ever-changing world of F1.

Following the signing of the F1 Licence and the IP licence previously announced in March 2019, Frontier can now confirm that both of the major new internally developed releases in the financial year ending 31 May 2022 ("FY22") will benefit from major global IP licences and both will be released on multiple platforms.

The addition of a multi-year, multi-platform sports management licence is a strategic milestone for Frontier, which is expected to provide significant annual incremental benefit to Frontier's financial performance from the release of the first game in FY22 onwards.

Frontier Publishing

Frontier is pleased to confirm the signing of another two Frontier Publishing deals, taking the number of signed deals to five for the Company's third party publishing initiative. A number of additional opportunities with carefully selected partners are in discussion and we expect to start earning revenue in the next financial year.

Frontier Publishing partnerships build our portfolio by leveraging our publishing capability, our channel relationships, and our financial resources to help talented external development teams bring their games to market.

Outlook

As a result of the significant incremental benefit of the F1 Licence and the progress of Frontier Publishing, the Board's confidence in the outlook for FY22 and beyond has been further strengthened. FY22 will now benefit from two major licenced IP multi-platform releases planned for that year, the anticipated ongoing performance of the existing titles supported by additional content, and a strong pipeline of releases from Frontier Publishing partnerships.

David Braben, Frontier's Chief Executive, said:

"We are delighted to announce this multi-year licence deal with F1. F1 is one of the most popular global sporting franchises in the world, and we believe the combination of the F1 brand together with our extensive experience in management games will deliver fantastic game experiences to a wide and varied audience around the world.

We have achieved great success with our own IP and are proven development and publishing partners for the highest profile third party IP. Both original and licensed IP will continue to be important as we grow and nurture our portfolio."

Frank Arthofer, Director of Digital and Licensing at Formula 1, said:

"Games are an important part of the F1 media ecosystem. This new manager franchise will allow fans to experience the challenging management aspects of the sport through immersive simulation games, and make that experience as accessible as possible for a broad audience. We have huge respect for Frontier and their achievements in the management simulation category, and are thrilled to be working with them for the 2022 season and beyond."

https://www.frontier.co.uk/

[Kalmado]

2K and the NFL announced a multiyear partnership. Looks like in 2022 we may see competition to Madden for an NFL simulation style game. About time Madden got some competition.

[Corrderio]

Huh weird. I thought EA had an iron grip on NFL games.

[Andalusian girls]

too bad 2K has been fucking awful with their NBA line for years now

[Corrderio]

Ah right I forgot they did NBA titles. This is going to bomb hard.

[Krandor]

too bad 2K has been fucking awful with their NBA line for years now

Their WWE games have been even worse.

I wouldn't put any hope into the 2k sports line at this point, but a man can dream of returning to the glory days of NFL 2K5

[Tyrath]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/...een-canceled/?'

E3 might be canceled this year

[Kirin]

And nothing of value was lost.

I hope it pushes the organizers to find a more modern way to have a technology oriented industry trade event that 2 of the 3 major players have already adopted into (Nintendo, Sony).

[Corrderio]

Honestly the only perk to E3 would be hardware demos but that's about once every 5 years give or take.

Only things I remember from last year was Dr. Disrespect's bathroom drama and someone screeching about dancers on stage

[6souls]

Game Informer Laid Off 6 More Employees
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...hit-by-layoffs

[Kirin]

Game Informer Laid Off 6 More Employees
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...hit-by-layoffs

So are 2 people and the janitor left?

[Gokulo]

There are rumours that Sony is working on a Silent Hill reboot with some of the original SH team members :-O

[6souls]

There are rumours that Sony is working on a Silent Hill reboot with some of the original SH team members :-O

Very loose rumors originating from a small horror site who cites "sources." The website was down all day yesterday getting hammered by traffic.

[Mrbeansman]

https://twitter.com/JackControllers/...wFdnXbikcHVkuo

Sony to acquire Metal Gear Castlevania and Silent Hill IPs from Konami with Kojima returning to Metal Gear and Silent Hill.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/JackControllers/...wFdnXbikcHVkuo

Sony to acquire Metal Gear Castlevania and Silent Hill IPs from Konami with Kojima returning to Metal Gear and Silent Hill.

Not what his article says. He uses the cites the website I mentioned in the post above and says his sources say that Konami is open to the idea.

[Zealot]

The only news worth hearing out of Konami would be someone else acquiring Suikoden.

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[Krandor]

RIP those franchises on other platforms then since Sony still so desperately clings to platform exclusives.

[Mrbeansman]

How did Death Stranding and Horizon wiggle their way on to PC anyway?

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[Nitsuki]

Fuck Sony, fuck their timed exclusivity bullshit.