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Five things to consider when building games for future players

Benjamin Charbit shares the lessons he's learnt about the audience Darewise Entertainment is targeting: Gen Z

By Benjamin Charbit

The difference in game dev for love or money

Earth Analog developer Roy van Ophuizen has found more success making games since he stopped doing it for a living

By Brendan Sinclair

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Reggie Fils-Aime to leave the GameStop board

Former Nintendo of America president is among eight directors stepping down this summer

By James Batchelor

PUBG Mobile passes 1bn downloads

Milestone reaches as Tencent's online games revenues rise 29% year-on-year to $6 billion

By James Batchelor

Making marketing mistakes or the art of failing properly

At GDC Showcase, Innersloth's Victoria Tran explored the right way to approach failure, and what you can learn from it

By Marie Dealessandri

Psyonix making Rocket League spin-off for mobile

Epic Games subsidiary's Rocket League Sideswipe is planned for release on App Store and Google Play later this year

By Brendan Sinclair

Five areas not to compromise when creating a game video

Alconost's Natalia Shuhman highlights the aspects of video production where it doesn't pay to cut corners

By Natalia Shuhman

MTG acquires Bloons studio Ninja Kiwi

Tower defense developer purchased for $142 million with another $47 million contingent on profitability targets

By Brendan Sinclair

Ikumi Nakamura launching her own studio

Former Ghostwire: Tokyo creative director says she left the project for her health, plans to form new team to work on original IP

By Brendan Sinclair

Frost Giant Studios raises $5 million

Blizzard veteran James Anhalt has also been hired as chief architect

By Marie Dealessandri

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Keywords Studios reports strong 2020 with €373.5m in revenue

The services provider acquired seven companies in 2020 for a total consideration of up to €97.2 million

By Marie Dealessandri

HiDef raises $9m for metaverse project

Veteran MMO dev Anthony Castoro, Echo Fox execs Jace Hall and Rick Fox, and Dr. David Washington unveil new startup with Series A funding round

By Jeffrey Rousseau

New studio Ashborne Games forms under THQ Nordic banner

Czech developer formed by veterans from Bohemia Interactive, Madfinger and Vatra Games

Record year for Razer generates $1bn in revenue

Peripherals firm attributes to success to high demand during pandemic, as well as gains of market share

By James Batchelor

Final Fantasy XI mobile reboot officially cancelled

Nexon and Square Enix indicated that the title didn't meet expectations, despite having been in development for five years

By Marie Dealessandri

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

Speakers from the upcoming Games Education Summit 2021 discuss the key challenges that lie ahead for aspiring games professionals in the post-pandemic era

By GamesIndustry Staff

Rec Room closes $100m funding round

New round values the Seattle-based social platform at $1.25 billion

By Matthew Handrahan

Tobias Sjögren named permanent CEO of Starbreeze

Sjögren has been acting CEO since October 2020, recently closed €50m Payday 3 co-publishing deal

GameStop full-year sales down 21%

Profitable fourth quarter can't offset the rest of the retailer's pandemic-impacted year; chief customer officer departs with millions in severance and stock grants

By Brendan Sinclair

Sony reportedly closing PS3, PSP, Vita digital stores

Online storefronts said to shut down in July and August, leaving no way for people to buy digital games or add-on content

By Brendan Sinclair

Amazon Games opens Montreal studio

The outfit will focus on a new online multiplayer IP, under the direction of veterans from Ubisoft Montreal's Rainbow Six Siege team

By Marie Dealessandri

2K acquires HookBang games business

Take-Two adds team that supported work on NBA 2K21, will move it to new Austin office

By Brendan Sinclair

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

The CEO of the UK's fastest-growing games company to talk Sumo's journey, acquisitions and publishing

By Christopher Dring

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

Robot Squid and Spilt Milk share data on the PC performance of King of Crabs, its free-to-play mobile-PC battle royale game

By Simon Carless

NFTs? No f***ing thanks | Podcast

Latest episode also discusses the dangers of downplaying abuse from "devoted fans"

By GamesIndustry Staff

German games market reaches record high of €8.5bn

Software sales generated €5.2 billion in 2020, with growth being particularly important for in-game purchases

By Marie Dealessandri

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