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Even in subscriptions, Nintendo is playing its own game | Opinion

While Xbox Game Pass aims to attract new customers, Mario Kart's Booster Course Pack shows Nintendo is mainly focused on servicing established ones

March 18, 2022 James Batchelor

Feature

Are licensed games actually getting better? | This Week in Business

We put a bit of conventional wisdom to the test and find it doesn't quite reflect what's actually going on

March 18, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

Data

WWE 2K22 launch sales are more than double WWE 2K20's | UK Digital Charts

But it's another week at the top for Elden Ring

March 18, 2022 Christopher Dring

Former Subway Surfers co-developer Kiloo teams with AppGallery for latest Android game

MetroLand is out now

March 18, 2022 Sponsored Article

News

Razer reports revenues of $1.6bn for 2021

Hardware company posts $43 million in net profit compared to $800k in 2020

March 18, 2022 Danielle Partis

Stub

Resident Evil Netflix series coming in July

Eight episode live-action show announced yesterday, airs July 14

March 18, 2022 Danielle Partis

News

Itch.io Bundle for Ukraine raises $6.3m

Fundraiser closes after 10 days with over 449k contributors

March 18, 2022 Danielle Partis

News

Tripledot acquires entertainment platform Live Play Mobile

Studio snaps up team 24-hour entertainment app Live Play Bingo, with plans to scale the genre

March 18, 2022 Danielle Partis

News

Belgium's games market reaches €600m in value

After a record 2020, the Belgian market grew a further 4% last year

March 18, 2022 Marie Dealessandri

Opinion

Generation Overlap: The next-gen consoles learn to cohabit | Opinion

Supply and demand issues, coupled with some strategic moves from Microsoft and Nintendo, mean that PS4-era performance will be the industry's baseline for years

March 18, 2022 Rob Fahey

Stub

Beyond-FX announces first VFX apprenticeship programme

The six-week initiative from the visual effects studio starts on April 5, targeting entry-level artists hoping for a career in games

March 18, 2022 Marie Dealessandri

News

GameStop holiday quarter pushes full-year losses to $381 million

Retailer sees full-year revenues grow 18% to top $6 billion, expects to open NFT marketplace by end of July

March 17, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

Feature

Deathloop's Dinga Bakaba on rising to director and avoiding crunch

The studio director of Arkane Lyon on immersive sims and playing to your studio's strengths

March 17, 2022 James Batchelor

News

Offworld Industries acquires Redstone Interactive

Publisher picks up development partner on trench warfare title Beyond the Wire

March 17, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

Feature

'Always-on' fandoms: How esports communities are shaping the future of games | Playable Futures

ESL Gaming's Craig Levine considers a future where esports will have a profound influence across games and beyond

March 17, 2022 Will Freeman

News

Studio MayDay rebrands as Riffraff Games after Tencent investment

Chinese megacorp secures minority ownership of New Zealand-based studio

March 17, 2022 James Batchelor

News

Hidden Door lands $2m pre-seed funding for social AI narrative platform

New studio working on adaptable interactive graphic novels "with the storytelling vibe of a tabletop role-playing game"

March 17, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

News

Lockwood Publishing opens new Cambridge office

Opening follows complaints of unlawful layoffs last year

March 17, 2022 James Batchelor

News

Frvr raises $76m to expand casual games platform

Investment will go towards securing "high quality" titles for its portfolio

March 17, 2022 Marie Dealessandri

News

Tilting Point enters educational games market with Budge Studios acquisition

Budge to continue operating independently

March 17, 2022 Marie Dealessandri

Stub

Kowloon Nights passes $150m revenue

Development fund reaches milestone across 14 titles in just five years

March 17, 2022 Press Release

News

#TwitchDoBetter movement demands more action from Twitch

Open letter says Black History Month initiatives are “sorely inadequate” in the face of ongoing hate raids

March 17, 2022 James Batchelor

News

Sony acknowledges new harassment accusations, still calls for case to be dismissed

"SIE values its female employees," lawyers said, claiming class action lawsuit lacks "sufficient facts"

March 17, 2022 Marie Dealessandri

Stub

Crusader Kings 3 hits 2m sold

Paradox PC strategy title reaches milestone as Royal Court expansion tops 1 million sold

March 16, 2022 Brendan Sinclair

News

Arkane Lyon's Dinga Bakaba to keynote Develop:Brighton 2022

Studio director and co-creative director of Deathloop will also receive this year's Develop Star Award in July

March 16, 2022 James Batchelor