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Reboot Develop Red will not take place this year

Insomniac re-casts Peter Parker's face model in Spider-Man Remastered

Nintendo will leave Jump Rope Challenge in eshop indefinitely

ESL and DreamHack merge

A guide to designing transformative, empowering experiences

ShopTo warns PS5 preorders may not arrive for launch

Nintendo Switch dominates in September | UK Monthly Charts

Lo-Fi Games' Kenshi passes 1m sales

Among Us drives record Discord installs

Epic and Apple decline trial by jury

Niantic makes most Pokémon Go pandemic changes permanent

Analysts and publishers say the boom in game sales is here to stay

CD Projekt Red reportedly enforcing mandatory crunch on Cyberpunk 2077

Sumo Group acquires Pipeworks for $100m

Outer Wilds' existential loneliness is engaging, entertaining | Why I Love

Armada Interactive declares bankruptcy

EA Play will be added to Xbox Game Pass on November 10

Game Pink event to raise money for the National Breast Cancer Foundation

How former Techland staff plan to "cut the crap" from publishing

Genshin Impact removes controversial anti-cheat system

Epic vs Apple judge calls for trial by jury

Take-Two sued over use of tattoos in WWE 2K

How to apply for the Global Top Round accelerator program

Glu Mobile opens e-commerce platform within Design Home

Admix extends funding round by $1.5m

The US Navy paid $2m to marketing company to assist with foray into esports

Cloud streaming has larger carbon footprint than downloads, physical games

Google to make third-party app store use easier with Android 12

Xbox Series X previews report shorter load times, 802GB of usable storage

The black art of platform conversion: How to get your technical assessment right

Microsoft's game-changing acquisition | Podcast

Michel Ancel denies link between departure and Ubisoft abuse scandal

Five best practices for making high-performing creatives

Resident Evil series will debut on Netflix in 2021

India unlikely to revoke PUBG ban

Zynga to sunset FarmVille after 11 years

Tekken 7 pushes franchise past 50m worldwide sales

EA under fire for promoting FIFA loot boxes in toy catalogue

Iam8bit courts physical publishing with digital

Two Mafia games break Top Ten, but Mario remains in charge | UK Boxed Charts

“Ship It” the Game of Product Management

Former Rockstar producer Leslie Benzies raises $40.8m toward new game

Xbox launching app for remote gameplay on iOS

Nintendo brings back amiibo cards to select retailers

Poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better at life

Krafton merging with PUBG Corp

The Five Games of Debbie Bestwick | Podcast

Epic Games acquires SuperAwesome

The social media strategy behind Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

RuneScape to launch on Steam

Rocket League passes 1m concurrent players

Microsoft won't try to buy industry dominance | Opinion

GameHERs awards announced for November 19

Live-action Yakuza movie is in the works

Japan is Xbox's fastest growing market

Amazon announces new cloud gaming service, Luna

Tribeca Film Festival issues call for games submissions

Why neural networks struggle with the Game of Life

Stadia Makers say transition to Google's platform challenging, but rewarding

Snap Games hires Kongregate and Facebook executives

German consumers spent more than €3.7bn on games in H1 2020

Tranzfuser in the time of Coronavirus

EA, Microsoft and Epic Games join Raising Good Gamers' advisory board

Kalypso Media opening publishing office in Japan

Xbox Series X, S orders sell out

India needs an industry where games like Raji can thrive

Among Us 2 cancelled in favour of expanding the first game

Fall Guys had the highest-earning PC launch since Overwatch in digital revenue

Analyst expects PS5 and Xbox Series to sell 1.5m each in North America this year

Spellbreak reaches over five million players

Among Us hours watched on Twitch spiked 650% from July to August

Frictional Games open sources the Amnesia games under GPL3

Octojam 7: The CHIP-8 game jam

Blizzard Co-Founder Opens New Game Company Dreamhaven

The Game Awards set for December 10

GameDiscoverCo founder: "It's not selling out" to use metrics in development

Mike Morhaime's new games company dreams of being an industry beacon

Games industry a "prime target" for cyber attacks

Ubisoft apologises after male-only Assassin's Creed promo video

Mike Morhaime founds new games company, Dreamhaven

UK Government launches call for evidence on loot boxes

Nintendo sued for planned obsolescence over Joy-Con drift

Luck is a failing strategy for developers | Opinion

Melbourne International Games Week reveals nine days of online events

Digital Bros. driven to full-year profit by Remedy's Control

Apple launches online store in India this week

Microsoft is open to still more games acquisitions

Epic leads $15m funding round in Manticore Games

Simon Carless launches GameDiscoverCo

Beyond COVID-19: Lessons from an unprecedented global challenge

Facebook: Why genre matters in mobile gaming

Voodoo wins plagiarism lawsuit against Zynga-owned Rollic Games

Spider-Man Remastered won't get physical PS5 release

Why playable teasers are way better than demos

Microsoft commits to becoming "water positive" by 2030

Microsoft still determined to get Xbox Game Pass on iOS

Gamecity Hamburg offers funding for devs to attend events

Super Mario 3D All-Stars beats Avengers to No.1 | UK Charts

Activision says Call of Duty account hack reports are false

China is ready for the PS5 and Xbox, even if Sony and Microsoft aren't ready for China | Opinion

Reboot Develop Blue delayed to April 2021

Microsoft's GamePass now has over 15m subscribers

Blizzconline to take place February 19 and 20

Game streaming start-up Playco lands $100m in Series A funding

Krafton makes Bluehole into an independent subsidiary

Skullgirls, Indivisible veterans form new studio, Future Club

Google Stadia welcomes seven new games as part of its Makers program

NPD analyst says higher next-gen prices shouldn't hurt sales

PlayStation, pre-orders and preparing for next-gen | Podcast

Legend of Grimrock leaves no stone unpressed | Why I Love

Microsoft to Acquire ZeniMax Media and Its Game Publisher Bethesda Softworks

Welcoming the Talented Teams and Beloved Game Franchises of Bethesda to Xbox

"Instead of recycling your machines, can you donate them instead, please?"

Xbox buys Bethesda parent ZeniMax for $7.5bn

Supercell ordered to pay $8.5 million for infringing Gree's patents

Mobile Premier League raises $90m in funding

Free Football Manager scores 1m new players on Epic Games Store

How the UK games industry and education should work together

Sony promises more PS5 pre-order stock for retailers

Supergiant Games' Hades reaches 1m sales

CD Projekt "shortened" Cyberpunk's campaign over length complaints

Kodable is hiring a Senior Game Designer to help teach millions of kids to code

Hand-Optimizing VLIW Assembly Language as a Game

Amazon is telling those who pre-ordered PS5s they may not get them at launch

The average cost to acquire a mobile game user plummeted this year

Jett: The Far Shore delayed to 2021

Michel Ancel departs Ubisoft and the games industry

Here are the winners of the GamesIndustry.biz 2020 UK Best Places To Work Awards

Meet the 2020 UK Best Places To Work Awards winners

rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor

Unity valued at $13.7bn after successful IPO

Lab Rat dev skeptical of multiplatform launches and the virtues of virtual events

Stardew Valley passes 2m downloads on mobile

Michel Ancel quits games development

Bandai Namco acquires Unknown 9 developer Reflector Entertainment

Trump administration reportedly questions Epic, Riot about Tencent investment

How to watch the GamesIndustry.biz UK Best Places To Work Awards 2020

Firing the starting pistol on the next generation | Opinion

PlayStation 5 backwards compatible with most PS4 titles, but nothing older

Stillfront Group acquires Nanobit for at least $100 million

Disintegration sunsets its multiplayer mode for good

PlayStation 5 already selling out at some retailers

5D chess game where pieces time travel

Bunch raises $20m toward multiplayer social platform expansion

Metacore gets €25m investment from Supercell

PlayStation and Xbox have both failed to sell next-gen | Opinion

Riot signs deal for League of Legends toys

My.Games invests in Hypemasters

Digital Schoolhouse expands to Nigerian classrooms with Kucheza partnership

Super Mario 3D All-Stars | Critical Consensus

Apple presses court to deny Epic's request for lift on Fortnite ban

Keywords splashes $13.3m on Heavy Iron Studios acquisition

PlayStation's Jim Ryan: "We want to give gamers certainty that they're buying a true next-generation console"

Nintendo 3DS discontinued

Sony embraces increased next-gen software pricing

PlayStation 5 will cost $500, all-digital version is $400

Sony rolls out PS Plus Collection for PS5 launch

Over 35 Oculus Quest games have generated revenue in the millions

Ubisoft is making Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell titles for Oculus

Facebook announces Oculus Quest 2, discontinues Rift and original Quest

Asobu: Putting Japan's indies on the international map

Twitch apologizes for offensive Hispanic Heritage Month emotes

Games London announces new digital initatives ahead of 2021 festival

Codemasters: "It would be naive to think costs remain the same" on next-gen

Former CD Projekt and Techland devs form new studio Starward Industries

Mario Kart Tour more than doubled Nintendo Account user base to 200m

Among Us got 70% of lifetime downloads in 45 days

Xbox updates privacy settings, promises more transparency about data collection

Koch Media acquires Vertigo Games for €50m

Slime Rancher has sold over 3m copies

Sony reportedly using air freight to move PlayStation 5 to US retailers

Apple bundles Apple Arcade in with other subscription services via Apple One

Northgard has sold two million units in two and a half years

Asobu lays out plans to grow the Japanese indie scene

Gameloft looks to diversify with The Other Guys acquisition

Aardman, Ustwo and more to discuss non-violent games design at EGX Digital

Ubisoft renamed Immortals: Fenyx Rising after trademark dispute

Trans games professionals explore Tell Me Why's landmark depiction of trans identity

Strauss Zelnick doubts cloud gaming will transform the industry

Razer apologises for exposing 100,000 customers' personal data

Farming Simulator League: Bringing agriculture and gaming together

Sony reportedly cuts PS5 production by 4m units

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 has sold over one million units

Oculus users who violate Facebook rules may lose access to VR content

EA furthers its strategy for "frictionless," "democratized" gaming

ViacomCBS sells CNET Media Group to digital marketing company Red Ventures

Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 goes fully digital

Xbox shows its hand | Podcast

Xbox streaming will have 168 games at launch

New research project sets out to map Scotland's games industry

EA's NFL/UFC 1-2 punch tops NPD's August chart

Level up on diversity: Three changes to get more women into games

Substring Removal Game with Python and JavaScript

How Wargaming embraces flexible development with G-Core Labs Public Cloud

Base.com cancels all Super Mario 3D All-Stars pre-orders due to stock allocation

Nvidia acquires Arm for $40bn

Avengers holds No.1 as Kingdoms of Amalur returns to Top Five | UK Charts

Made-up difficulty of competitive games

Lucid lets shoppers customize cars like a video game character

Using the Monte Carlo Tree Search Algorithm in AI to Beat 2048 (and Other Games)

Kena: Bridge of Spirits delayed to Q1 2021

The Xbox Series S will play the Xbox One S versions of backward compatible titles

Apple revises platform rules to explicitly allow games streaming, but with a catch

Former EA VP Tabitha Hayes joins Star Stable Entertainment as CMO

Addicting Games acquires Mope.io game

Series S redefines "next-gen" - and throws down a gauntlet to Sony | Opinion

Hendrik Lesser re-elected as president of European Game Developer Federation

GameStop reportedly preparing Xbox, PS5 payment plans

AI Ruined Chess. Now, It’s Making the Game Beautiful Again

Bloober Team sets sights on becoming "the Blumhouse of the games industry"

Ubisoft adds Riders Republic, Prince of Persia remake to early 2021 lineup

Watch Xsolla chat with Bitkraft Ventures | Investment Summit Online

US labor agency finds merit in Kickstarter termination complaint

Watch 'How The New Consoles Will Change Investment' here | Investment Summit Online

Black Desert Online has made $1.7bn in revenue to date

Roblox wants to teach kids how to spot fake news and be safe online

Watch the fireside chat with industry legend Emily Greer here | Investment Summit Online

Ubisoft CEO addresses abuse scandal, Elite Squad controversy

Capcom vet Kobayashi sets up new publisher Binary Haze

Ninja returns to Twitch with multi-year exclusivity deal

Report: Nintendo Switch has sold more than 15m units in Japan

Watch 'Your Game Is Funded... Now What?' here | Investment Summit Online

Watch 'Implementing alternative monetisation in games' here | Investment Summit Online

Activision Blizzard names new EMEA boss

Darewise: "We have a social responsibility" to provide alternatives to game violence

Check out the GI Live: Best Places To Work Awards 2020 line-up

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 is the biggest UK launch for the series since 2003

SockMonkey Studios wins GamesIndustry.Quiz (again)

Team17 reports record H1 revenues at £38.8m

Xbox Game Pass for PC will rise to full price after beta ends this month

No More Heroes slips to 2021 due to COVID "body blow"

No More Robots, Game Devs of Color Expo to award $75,000 in grants

Coffee Stain expands Levelling the Playing Field to fund racially diverse studios

Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11

Cloud gaming not ready for disruption - Report

Xbox's next-generation strategy threatens to disrupt the console business l Opinion

Take part in the GamesIndustry.Quiz here | Investment Summit Online

Watch 'How PR can help you secure investment' here | Investment Summit Online

EA Play added to Xbox Game Pass at no extra cost

Xbox Series X will sell for $499

David Beckham-backed Guild Esports sets sights on London IPO

Watch Crayta dev's 'Planning for Downstream' here | Investment Summit Online

Watch 'Don't do this! Worst practice for pitching' here | Investment Summit Online

Rovio appoints new head of its Stockholm Studio

Watch Shahid Ahmad's 'Failing With Style' here | Investment Summit Online

Epic Games commits to live concert series in Fortnite

Game Seer Venture Partners invests in Sword of the Necromancer

Report: Nintendo increases Switch production targets again

Sega Searchlight and Two Point Studios | Investment Summit Online

Apple goes on offensive in Epic Games lawsuit

Investment Summit Online: Watch 'Getting your business in pole position' here

Amazon imagines a genre-blended New World for MMOs

Among Us hits 1.5m concurrent players

What motivates the authors of video game walkthroughs and FAQs?

Apple Countersues ‘Fortnite’ Maker Epic Games, Seeks Punitive Damages

Gaming historian Curt Vendel dies at 53

Simon Carless leaves Informa

PUBG responds to India's ban on PUBG Mobile

Colin Kaepernick returns to Madden NFL

Paradox QA staff allege poor treatment

How to pitch your game remotely

Gameye closes $2.4m funding round

Marketing is the business of selling entertainment, not news

CI Games creates new home for Lords of the Fallen 2 with Hexworks

How Quantic Dream took control of remote working using Amazon Web Services 

Super Mario 3D All-Stars is already Amazon's second biggest game of 2020

Xbox Series S finally announced, priced at $299

WinZo raises $18m in Series B round

84-Year-Old Gamer Has More Than 900k ‘Grandkids’

Google requests court not connect it to Apple vs Epic

Marvel's Avengers | Critical Consensus

Streets of Rage 4 hits 1.5m downloads

The Game Developer's Playlist: RPG Maker, with Davionne Gooden | Podcast

Kotaku UK shutting down

EA removes new in-game ads from UFC 4 after player complaints

Five top tips to avoid the post-investment hangover

Epic Games wants court order to reinstate Fortnite on iOS

Indian dev unveils FAU:G in the wake of government's PUBG Mobile ban

Marvel's Avengers defeats Tony Hawk and NBA to claim No.1 | UK Charts

Chess is taking over the online video game streaming world and it will change

Voodoo invests in Fabrika Games

Amazon Web Services announces support for GamesIndustry.biz Academy