Brendan Sinclair
Managing Editor
Brendan is managing editor at GamesIndustry.biz and first joined the site in 2012. Prior to that, he was senior news editor at GameSpot, and served as features editor for the short-lived Polygon Magazine. His work has also appeared in USgamer and Kotaku.
Brendan started his career in game journalism with a round-up of the Sega Dreamcast launch in September of 1999 for the student newspaper at the University of Texas at Austin, and has been writing about games at least part-time ever since. He also spent a couple years working a variety of beats at community newspapers in Illinois and Oklahoma.
He is based out of Toronto and can be found on Mastodon.
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EA restructuring, laying off 6% of workforce
Hundreds of employees to be cut, but CEO Andrew Wilson says publisher "is operating from a position of strength"
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Hardware, Hogwarts push February spending up 6% | US monthly charts
Latest Circana figures have PS5 driving the highest hardware total for February since 2009 as mobile spending declines
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Sarkeesian: "Your DEI initiatives are making your culture worse"
GDC session from Feminist Frequency's Anita Sarkeesian says current corporate diversity efforts are part of the problem, offers ways to improve them
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French union accuses Ubisoft Paris of crunch, mismanagement
Solidaires Informatique says 10% of studio employees have experienced burnout in the past year, with some working 14-hour shifts or longer
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GDC 2023's AI buzz has a familiar feel | This Week in Business
The pandemic's impact remains apparent, but this year's show is back to normal in a number of ways
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Merge games as a fulfillment of the American Dream
GDC 2023: Big Fish's newly installed VP of creative Jason Mai explains how he approached EverMerge and a genre he didn't really know when he was hired six months ago
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The evolution of Sky's seasonal events
GDC 2023: That Game Company's Tim Nixon details how the Children of the Light developer builds its free-to-play live service events around emotion
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The industry's disingenuous defense of loot boxes | This Week in Business
Trade group testimony before Australian legislators more interested in protecting status quo than protecting players
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How to get away with being an abusive employer | This Week in Business
A helpful guide for staying out of the headlines and being lowdown on the down low
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Always-online SimCity burns to the ground | 10 Years Ago This Month
Everything goes wrong for EA's reboot, EA CEO John Riccitiello steps down, and the industry sends mixed messages on whether it wants women around
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Take-Two cuts jobs at Private Division
Publisher says impact on US dev teams is minimal, and it has started legal processes outside of US that could result in further layoffs
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Meta drops Quest Pro and Quest 2 prices
Higher-end VR headset drops $500 less than five months after launch, while 256GB version of Quest 2 reverses most of last year's price hike
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Will we see mid-generation console refreshes again? | This Week in Business
At this point in the last console cycle, Microsoft and Sony were getting ready to announce PS4 Pro and Xbox One X; we consider why they would (and wouldn't) do it again now
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Report: EU likely to approve Microsoft deal for Activision Blizzard
Reuters sources say the European Commission will be satisfied by multiplatform licensing deals for Call of Duty
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Sony's third-party plan to make PlayStation the best place to play
Shawne Benson lays out SIE's third-party portfolio strategy and how it changes between console, VR, and PC
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Investigation finds Nordic Game likely violated discrimination law
External firm cites "overwhelming" evidence of misconduct from one man formerly employed by the event organizer, but cannot corroborate claims against a current employee
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Jo Twist steps down as UKIE CEO
Sam Collins and Dan Wood to manage trade group until permanent replacement can be named; Twist to become CEO of music industry trade group BPI
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Series X|S disparities behind Baldur's Gate 3 MIA on Xbox
Larian says technical issues around split-screen co-op kept it from confirming Xbox release date alongside other platforms
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Rovio gives fans the bird | This Week in Business
Some fans preferred the pay-once remake of Angry Birds to the more lucrative free-to-play versions, so Rovio got rid of it
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GDC Awards to honor Mabel Addis, John Romero
Woman behind 1964's The Sumerian Game will receive the Pioneer Award posthumously as Doom developer is recognized with Lifetime Achievement Award
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PS4 reveal signals a new generation | 10 Years Ago This Month
Sony's big hardware unveiling gets positive reviews, live-service games hit a wall, and it's a good month for Bad Calls
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Blizzard president sends a message | This Week in Business
Mike Ybarra's comments in an all-hands meeting upset some employees, but to what end?
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Ubisoft emphasizing predictability after downgrading targets
Publisher's third quarter results show holiday sales up 6.1% but bookings slide 2.6% on significant drop of back-catalog bookings
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2022 gaming deals totalled $51.5 billion
DDM reports total values of investments, mergers, and acquisitions dropped 31% compared to a record 2021; 2023 total depends on Microsoft-Activision Blizzard approval
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Jeff Minter on making a respectful cover
Tempest 2000 developer on reinventing another Atari arcade game in Akka Arrh, the line between taking influence and cloning, and adding accessibility