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

SELL president Julie Chalmette looks back at a year of impressive growth for the French games market

By Marie Dealessandri

Best practices for designing an effective user interface

Double Eleven's Edd Coates shares the essential components to designing accessible and effective UI for video games

By William Nelson

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

GameDiscoverCo's Simon Carless examines how Steam festivals and showcases have changed the impact of being wishlisted

By Simon Carless

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Valve ends production on rebooted Artifact

Both the classic and updated version of the Dota 2 card game will be kept online and made free-to-play

By Eric Van Allen

Mortal Shell sales pass 500,000 copies

Cold Symmetry's action game passes a sales milestone as enhanced edition arrives on PS5, Xbox Series X|S

By Eric Van Allen

Sony's controller tech is literally bananas | Patent Trawling

PS5 maker produces an unusual new interface and offers a look at what might be the new PSVR 2 controller

By Brendan Sinclair

The next generation of PlayStation VR | Podcast

Latest episode available now, also discusses Pokémon Legends and the franchise's 25th anniversary

By GamesIndustry Staff

ESA commits $1 million to support Black Girls Code

The multi-year venture will support education and mentoring programs for girls and young women

By Eric Van Allen

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

As the critter-catching phenomenon turns 25, we explore the secrets of its success and where it might lead in the future

By James Batchelor

Theorycraft Games secures $37.5m in Series A funding

Several former Blizzard, Bungie, and Riot developers land investment for their new competitive PvP experience

By Eric Van Allen

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

The publisher saw a 30% growth year-on-year to $562 million

By Marie Dealessandri

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

Even more publishers and investors sign-up for the event

By Christopher Dring

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Grads In Games is now a non-profit company

Aardvark Swift's UK careers initiative spun out into an independent organisation

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

The lifetime ban was issued after the player sent racist messages to Wright following a lost FIFA game

By Marie Dealessandri

'Dynamic Difficulty' loot box lawsuit against EA dropped

Publisher assures it will never use patented AI technology in multiplayer games

By James Batchelor

Nintendo will reportedly unveil 4K OLED Switch this year

Production of just under one million units per month is scheduled to begin in June

By James Batchelor

Motorsport Games acquires racing simulation tech firm Studio397

Dutch firm will retain brand and continue work on rFactor 2 platform, which will be used in future Motorsport titles

By James Batchelor

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

Publisher asserts it has contractual rights to Steam version, and that the developer has no reason to block sales

By James Batchelor

Valheim has sold more than 5m copies

Smash hit Viking multiplayer game reached the milestone one month after launch

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

Streaming site's transparency report shows only 2% of hateful conduct and harassment reports were acted upon

By Brendan Sinclair

Zynga acquires Echtra Games

Social publisher buys Torchlight 3 developer to help bring existing mobile franchises to consoles and PC

By Brendan Sinclair

UK spending on video games reached Ł4.4 billion in 2020

Games remain the biggest sector as entertainment market sees record revenues of Ł9.26 billion

By James Batchelor

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

The parkour group skipped big publishers to retain creative control, but will crowdfunding be enough to deliver on its ambitions?

By Jack Yarwood

Frogwares issues DMCA takedown to remove The Sinking City from Steam

The studio asked for its own game to be removed from the store following its ongoing dispute with publisher Nacon

By Marie Dealessandri

Government funding helps UK games firms create hundreds of job placements

UKIE and Into Games working with 45 companies to get young people back into work during pandemic

By James Batchelor

Blasphemous has passed one million players

Developers say success of Gothic Metroidvania has enabled them to produce more free content than originally planned

Layoffs reported at Hardsuit Labs

Update: The studio confirmed the layoffs, saying a "small number of people" were affected

By Marie Dealessandri

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