Posts

Sandbox & Co. acquires edutainment company Fingerprint

Finji's goal: Be less scrappy

How to measure and address your carbon footprint | Green Games Guide

505 Games buys Ghostrunner IP for €5m

Mobile games revenue growth remains higher than pre-pandemic levels

Manticore Games raises $100m for user-generated content platform

Tencent helps bust "world's biggest" cheating operation

Sumo revenue jumps 40% as it eyes more acquisitions

Graffiti Games raises $1.5m in funding

CD Projekt moving to parallel development

The Game Developer's Playlist: Tex Murphy, with Jean Leggett

Bloober Team withdraws from acquisition talks

What's wrong with the UK talent pipeline and how to improve it

Tokyo Game Show 2021 will be online

Sega reportedly accuses SteamDB of Yakuza piracy

Activision Blizzard names Armin Zerza CFO

PAX East cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

EA announces new PGA Tour title

Siobhan Reddy: "Progress has been made, but the issues haven't gone away"

Former Famitsu editor arrested for fraud

Super Mario 3D All-Stars sales spike 276% in final week | UK Boxed Charts

Sony shuts down old web version of PS3, PSP, Vita store

Anthem director leaves BioWare

Call of Duty Warzone stat-tracking site shuts down after cease and desist from Activision

Capcom ships 4m copies of Monster Hunter Rise

Sega is Metacritic's publisher of the year

Nexon invests $874m in Bandai Namco, Konami, Sega and Hasbro

Gfinity is no longer for sale

Nordisk Games acquires 30% stake in Supermassive

Palace intrigue on the GameStop board of directors | This Week in Business

Bandai Namco shares sales for top three Tales games

Big changes to your GamesIndustry.biz team

Ad quality is a UX challenge

Learn how to make great game trailers at GI Live: Online

PUBG Mobile's lifetime revenues pass $5bn

Balan Wonderworld's day one patch to remove epileptic triggers

UKIE releases Green Games Guide to help companies take action against climate change

Sony has a responsibility to preserve its gaming history | Opinion

Hades wins Best Game at BAFTA Games Awards 2021

Ghost of Tsushima to receive film adaptation

IGDA appoints new members to board of directors

Dispelling the myths of breaking into emerging markets

Genshin Impact passes $1b on mobile

Cloud gaming expected to hit $1.4 billion in revenue this year

Monster Hunter Rise | Critical Consensus

Reggie Fils-Aime to leave the GameStop board

Five things to consider when building games for future players

PUBG Mobile passes 1bn downloads

Psyonix making Rocket League spin-off for mobile

MTG acquires Bloons studio Ninja Kiwi

Ikumi Nakamura launching her own studio

Frost Giant Studios raises $5 million

The difference in game dev for love or money

Keywords Studios reports strong 2020 with €373.5m in revenue

HiDef raises $9m for metaverse project

Making marketing mistakes or the art of failing properly

New studio Ashborne Games forms under THQ Nordic banner

Record year for Razer generates $1bn in revenue

Final Fantasy XI mobile reboot officially cancelled

Rec Room closes $100m funding round

Five areas not to compromise when creating a game video

Tobias Sjögren named permanent CEO of Starbreeze

GameStop full-year sales down 21%

Sony reportedly closing PS3, PSP, Vita digital stores

Amazon Games opens Montreal studio

2K acquires HookBang games business

Sumo Group's Carl Cavers joins GI Live: Online line-up

Deep dive: Behind-the-scenes data on a Steam F2P game

NFTs? No f***ing thanks | Podcast

German games market reaches record high of €8.5bn

Upgraded Nintendo Switch reportedly using latest Nvidia graphics chip

Xbox Live becomes Xbox network

What next for games education and early careers post-COVID?

Microsoft among suitors for Discord in reported $10b deal

Niantic to make Nintendo AR mobile games

Razer sets 10-year sustainability goals

Blizzard: "We want women shaping the future"

ByteDance acquires Moonton Technology

Capcom: "We viewed Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes the way Disney does remaking its movies"

IronSource going public at $11.1 billion valuation

Media Molecule's Siobhan Reddy to receive BAFTA Fellowship

Hades launches at No.7 as Animal Crossing reclaims top spot | UK Boxed Charts

Terraria has sold 35m copies across all formats

Valve blocks Super Seducer 3 from Steam

Stop normalizing abusive fandom | This Week in Business

Activision Blizzard preps for layoffs at European offices

The Long Dark passes 5 million copies sold

Gotham Knights delayed to 2022

Incredibuild secures $140m in funding

How Phoenix Games helps studios establish their next hit

Twitch permanently bans Ali 'Gross Gore' Larsen after sexual assault allegations

Dead Cells has now sold 5m copies

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut classification rejected in Australia

Pandemic drives UK games market to record £7bn year

Super Nintendo World is a milestone for gaming | Opinion

Starbreeze signs €50m Payday 3 deal with Koch Media

Sony jointly acquires fighting game tournament Evo

What has Square Enix Montreal been doing for the last five years?

Gamescom goes hybrid because "it's worth still trying to make it possible"

Discover the secrets behind Human: Fall Flat's 25 million sales at GI Live: Online

Sony unveils PS5 VR controllers

The Bala brothers' guide to finding the magic

How Xsolla Launcher can save an entire generation of browser games

Stratosphere Games raises over $2.5m for Project MiniCiv and mobile publishing

Geo-blocking in the games industry -- a closer look at Valve's EC fine

Embracer Group raising over $890m for even more acquisitions

Keywords Studios acquires 85% interest in Tantalus Media

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly due to receive $200m payout

Game companies condemn anti-Asian hate crimes

EA Play joins Xbox Game Pass for PC tomorrow

Developing for fandom at every level

97% of UK games vacancies are based in offices despite pandemic

Five tips on being a better producer

Tencent, Sony, Square Enix invest in cloud gaming company Ubitus

EA will soon release new technology to tackle racism and toxicity in FIFA 21

Accessibility in games is advancing -- now marketing needs to catch up | Opinion

Riot Games investigation finds no evidence of misconduct or sexual harassment by CEO

Activision Blizzard lays off 50

Google Play revenue cut lowered to 15% on first $1m

PlayStation invests in Jade Raymond's new independent studio Haven

Why we're passing on blockchain pitches

Animal Crossing breaks Nintendo's European sales record

My.Games takes minority stake in Espresso Publishing

Were free-to-play fears unfounded? | Podcast

Revealed: Here are the finalists for the Indie Publishing Awards

Spider-Man: Miles Morales scores its first No.1 as PS5 stock levels improve | UK Boxed Charts

2K acquires PGA Tour 2K21 studio, signs Tiger Woods

Getting closer to simulating the real world: Applying ray tracing in games

Rockstar pays $10,000 to modder who fixed GTA Online loading times

Trufan raises $2.3m and acquires Playr.gg

Team17 sees 2020 revenues soar after record number of game launches

Chess category booming as Twitch hours watched in February grew 82%

Capturing the Spanish Golden Age in Puerto Viejo

Why the founders of Kolibri Games are leaving their idle goldmine

Sony closing PlayStation Communities on PS4

Delisted horror game Devotion on sale direct through Red Candle Games

PS5 and Switch sales spike in February | UK Monthly Boxed Charts

EA confirms "one or more" accounts involved in FIFA Ultimate Team scandal

Surviving Mars hits five million players

Star Citizen reaches $350m in crowdfunding after record 2020

Enthusiast Gaming launches new esports site Upcomer

EA's problem with the Ultimate Team sales scandal | This Week in Business

How Subspace is improving engagement in multiplayer games

Capcom reportedly mandated in-office working after security breach

Stellaris tabletop game hits £1m on Kickstarter in 24 hours

US game spending jumped 35% in February, says NPD Group

Evercade's Oliver Twins Collection has raised £11,000 for National Videogame Museum

GameStop's meme stock rallies don't fix its decline | Opinion

PC and console games sales surged across Europe in February | EMEAA Charts

Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team racks up 35m downloads

THQ Nordic forms Alkimia Interactive for Gothic Remake

Good games get bad ratings

EA College Football reportedly won't launch until 2023

Indie breakout Loop Hero sells 500,000 in first week

Super League Gaming acquires Mobcrush

Phil Spencer stresses exclusivity in ZeniMax deal

GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards is coming to North America

Little Nightmare 2 has sold more than 1m units

A talk with the rainmakers of Silver Rain Games

Midgame Fund aims to boost Dutch developer ecosystem

Global console market reached record high of $53.9bn in 2020

Rockstar Leeds founder Gordon Hall dies

How to get a job as a games writer

EA investigating allegations of employee selling rare FIFA Ultimate Team cards

Roblox closes first day of trading with $38b market cap

Sumo Group launches publishing arm called Secret Mode

Rogue raises $2.5m in Series A funding

Humble Bundle raised over $30m for charity in 2020

Phoenix Wright aces the visual novel genre | Why I Love

What do Stadia's struggles mean for game streaming?

Industry legend Warren Spector joins GI Live: Online

HTC unveils two Vive trackers

Are we entering the new era of mobile social gaming?

Epic Games takes legal action against Google in Australia

RektGlobal acquires social media talent agency TalentX Entertainment

Epic acquires Capturing Reality

Wings Interactive unveils new round of funded games

Microsoft confirms some future Bethesda games will be Xbox, PC exclusive

Gaming copes with mobile/social anxiety | 10 Years Ago This Month

Newzoo anticipates global esports market will grow to $1.08b in 2021

EA did the Wright thing | Podcast

StoryFutures Academy and InGame announce winner of Immersive Game Lab

Omeda Studios closes $2.2m round of funding

Loot boxes to generate $20bn by 2025

Creative Assembly to launch UK scholarships promoting diversity

Fundamentally Games: “We want to shake up what it means to be a publisher”

TinyBuild launches £340m IPO

German legal reform poses new threat to loot boxes

GameStop establishes committee to help transform it "into a technology business"

V1 Interactive is officially closing its doors

Global esports, game streaming markets to reach $3.5b by 2025 - Juniper

GamesIndustry.biz Academy resources to champion women in games

Zynga pledges $100,000 to Girls Who Code

Cloud gaming firm Blade seeking investment after filing for bankruptcy

Creating a diverse workforce | UKIE #RaiseTheGame report

Japan's Super Nintendo World to open on March 18

GAME parent Frasers Group criticises “worthless” government relief package

Microsoft's ZeniMax acquisition approved by SEC

Square Enix bans thousands of Final Fantasy 14 players for real-money trading

Zombies, Run dev Six to Start acquired for $9.5m

Mario games shine and Yakuza re-enters Top 40 | UK boxed charts

EA taking racism more seriously | This Week in Business

Beyond Control: What's next for Remedy?

UK competition watchdog to investigate Apple

Seth Schiesel joins Xbox as director of executive communications | Jobs Roundup

Games Education Summit reveals 2021 speakers

Arizona bill aims to prevent Apple, Google from blocking third-party payments

Hogwarts Legacy designer quits Avalanche following public backlash

Three months in, Game Pass is Microsoft's ace in the hole | Opinion

Valve ends production on rebooted Artifact

Mortal Shell sales pass 500,000 copies

ESA commits $1 million to support Black Girls Code

Theorycraft Games secures $37.5m in Series A funding

Best practices for designing an effective user interface

My.Games represented 38% of Mail.ru's revenue in 2020

Oculus, Thunderful, My.Games and more join GI Live: Online

PS5 and Xbox Series sold 800,000 consoles in the UK last year

Grads In Games is now a non-profit company

EA bans FIFA player following racial abuse towards ex-footballer Ian Wright

SELL: French industry's record year not just about COVID

'Dynamic Difficulty' loot box lawsuit against EA dropped

Nintendo will reportedly unveil 4K OLED Switch this year

Motorsport Games acquires racing simulation tech firm Studio397

Nacon accuses Frogwares of "sabotaging our investments" in The Sinking City

Valheim has sold more than 5m copies

Less than 15% of Twitch user reports last year led to enforcement actions

Are Steam followers the best predictor of success for unreleased games?

Zynga acquires Echtra Games

UK spending on video games reached £4.4 billion in 2020

Storror bets on Kickstarter to make a "pure parkour" game

Frogwares issues DMCA takedown to remove The Sinking City from Steam

Government funding helps UK games firms create hundreds of job placements

Blasphemous has passed one million players

French games market reaches record high of €5.3bn | France Annual Report

Lumikai leads $1.5m investment round in All-Star Games

The next generation of PlayStation VR | Podcast

Square Enix taps Forever Entertainment for remakes

Sony's controller tech is literally bananas | Patent Trawling

Vungle acquires GameRefinery

Epic acquires Fall Guys outfit Tonic Games Group

Ubisoft partners with Belgian Pro League for blockchain-based fantasy football game

PlayStation Store drops movies and TV shows

Gotta cash 'em all: How Pokémon became the world's biggest games franchise

The Last of US Part 2 secures a record 13 BAFTA nominations

Layoffs reported at Hardsuit Labs

TiMi Studios joins Playing for the Planet Alliance

Balancing data and creativity: Is there a magic formula for hypercasual games?

Crying Suns reaches 1m players across mobile and PC

Sinking City dev claims its publisher is selling a hacked copy on Steam

Nacon blames Frogwares for feature-lacking Steam version of The Sinking City

EA delays Need For Speed so Criterion can help with Battlefield

Dream Games secures $50m Series A round

Seriously appoints Petri Järvilehto as CEO

Returnal, Skyward Sword and the value of video games | Opinion

Roblox's strategy to focus on catering to older users

Google reportedly paid $20m for Ubisoft ports on Stadia

Levelling Up Culture: Hutch on the importance of team autonomy in 2021