News Virtuos Studios shutters Calypte after a year The creative services firm said the decision will not affect other studios Oct. 10, 2023 Jeffrey Rousseau
News CD Projekt Red spent over $60m to develop Phantom Liberty Cyberpunk 2077's base game cost $130 million to develop Oct. 10, 2023 Sophie McEvoy
Feature Taking one for the team you've been kicked out of | Last Week in Business As ex-BioWare devs file suit for severance, EA reportedly tells them Dragon Age: Dreadwolf hangs in the balance Oct. 10, 2023 Brendan Sinclair
News Metacore expands with new studio in Germany The firm's Merge Mansion has also been downloaded 50 million times since its 2020 launch Oct. 10, 2023 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Report: Children spend €39 on in-game content monthly 76% of surveyed caretakers note that minors do not spend money on the titles they play Oct. 10, 2023 Jeffrey Rousseau
Sponsored Jagex: Mental health comes from our values Chief people officer Keeley Vaughan-Davies on setting values and culture and Jagex's new partnership with Safe In Our World Oct. 10, 2023 Katherine Lunn
News Assassin's Creed Mirage fails to dethrone EA Sports FC 24 | UK Boxed Charts Detective Pikachu Returns also debuted in the Top Three Oct. 10, 2023 Sophie McEvoy
News Pikmin 4 holds at No.1 for the third consecutive month | Japan Monthly Charts Xbox Series X|S finally reaches an install-base of 500,000 players in the country Oct. 10, 2023 Marie Dealessandri
News Activision Blizzard expects to add games to Game Pass next year Modern Warfare 3 or Diablo 4 won't hit subscription service this year, despite expected closure of Microsoft acquisition Oct. 10, 2023 James Batchelor
News John Riccitiello retires as Unity CEO after nine years James M. Whitehurst named interim CEO as the board begins its search for a permanent replacement Oct. 9, 2023 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Here's everything the GamesIndustry.biz team is doing at EGX 2023 Fireside chats with Sam Lake and Peter Molyneux, Sea of Thieves and Banjo-Kazooie panels, and (of course) the GI Academy and Investment Summit Oct. 9, 2023 James Batchelor
News Dredge shores up one million units sold Black Salt Games' fishing adventure hits the sales figure six months after its release Oct. 9, 2023 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Ubisoft says it's "on the right path" to recover from "misconduct crisis" Chief people officer Anika Grant shared an update on the publisher's progress at the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit Oct. 9, 2023 James Batchelor
News Here's the full GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit London 2023 line-up Nearly 200 companies signed-up for the 2023 event Oct. 9, 2023 Christopher Dring
News EA Sports FC pulls in 11 million users during debut week EA Sports FC Mobile was downloaded by 2.2 million players on launch day Oct. 9, 2023 Jeffrey Rousseau
News Over 6,000 games industry jobs lost in 2023 so far September was the worst month for layoffs, new data shows Oct. 9, 2023 Sophie McEvoy
News Over 100 Avalanche Studios staff unionise "We are very hopeful about the prospect of signing a collective bargaining agreement," says union Oct. 9, 2023 Sophie McEvoy
News CD Projekt staff form union for Polish developers New organisation warns that "mass layoffs are a danger to the gamedev industry" Oct. 9, 2023 James Batchelor
Feature An allergy to transparency | This Week in Business How the IARC works, what makes Naughty Dog's layoffs different, and the industry's ongoing effort to control everything anyone knows about it Oct. 6, 2023 Brendan Sinclair
Feature Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII's combat system | Why I Love Worldless game director Joel Roset breaks down ingenious design in an oft-overlooked installment of the RPG franchise Oct. 6, 2023 Joel Roset
News Pixel Gun 3D mobile has generated $200m in bookings | News-in-brief Since its 2013 release, the game has been downloaded 185 million times across iOS and Android devices Oct. 6, 2023 GamesIndustry.biz Staff
News Sony Pictures Core coming to PlayStation | News-in-brief Formerly known as Bravia Core, the entertainment app will provide PS players early access to select Sony Pictures films Oct. 6, 2023 Sophie McEvoy
News Microsoft reportedly aiming to complete Activision Blizzard acquisition next week Reports suggest deal will close on Friday, October 13 - ahead of October 18 deadline Oct. 6, 2023 James Batchelor
News Epic Games to increase Unreal prices for non-game developers New licensing model won't be "unusually expensive or inexpensive," says CEO Tim Sweeney Oct. 6, 2023 Sophie McEvoy
Opinion Resident Evil Village on iOS makes cases both for and against cloud streaming | Opinion Capcom's impressive port shows once again that cloud streaming isn't required for high-end mobile gaming – but it might be the only path to commercial success Oct. 6, 2023 Rob Fahey