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Call of Duty: Vanguard | Critical Consensus
Sledgehammer's latest deemed entertaining, but a "stop gap" between bigger Call of Duty titles
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Arkane Lyon director on leaving violent stealth for children's educational games
Romuald Capron on his new role at academic startup PowerZ, and leaving the Deathloop studio after 17 years
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Has Call of Duty finally peaked? | This Week in Business
An attempt to talk myself into believing that this is the year Call of Duty finally begins a managed decline
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Why the games industry must play its part in battling climate change | Opinion
As the world comes together for COP 26, UKIE CEO Dr Jo Twist OBE explains why the games industry must take an active role in the fight against climate change
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Baseless NFT hype hits a crescendo - but play-to-earn is worth watching | Opinion
As top execs pay lip service to blockchain buzzwords, it's the future visions they boost by association that are of real interest
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Robot Teddy acquisition and new investment arm make Thunderful "a 360-degree" games firm
Brjánn Sigurgeirsson, Callum Underwood and Agostino Simonetta discuss the ambitions for Thunderful's two new developer funds
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Take-Two CEO down on metaverse, but a 'big believer' in NFTs
Strauss Zelnick interested in collectible digital goods, but adds blockchain isn't the only way to do it
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Temple Running the gamut of brand extensions
Imangi Studios CEO Walter Devins shares his five-year plan for pushing the decade-old endless runner into new genres, platforms, and media
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Sponsored | Mobile game developers are finding big success on AppGallery, and so can you
Gameloft and Nordeus explain what your studio could gain by bringing your next game to AppGallery
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Breaking off the engagement | This Week in Business
Ubisoft gets clingy with lapsed Far Cry 6 players and Facebook never Meta terrible idea it didn't like
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Nintendo draws attention (and ire) to its weak online offering | Opinion
A ham-fisted attempt to entice customers to a higher-priced subscription with poorly emulated retro games reveals just how weak Nintendo's service pillar still is
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Indie tides start turning | 10 Years Ago This Month
Microsoft leaves the door open for Sony to take command in the evolving indie space and mobile free-to-play cements itself as a wedge issue among developers
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Sony's quarterly game revenues rise to $10.8bn as PS5 sales pass 13m
Hardware sales rise 287% year-on-year to $1.4 billion
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Age of Empires 4 | Critical Consensus
An impressive, modern revival of the classic RTS series that is ultimately at war with itself
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One year of Baldur's Gate 3: An adventure in failure and success
Larian CEO Swen Vincke discusses the complexity of invisible rules, self-imposed high standards, and salami as a weapon
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Limited Run sees pandemic boosting demand as it constricts supply
Co-founders Josh Fairhurst and Doug Bogart discuss the booming physical market and the company's expansion
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Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy | Critical Consensus
Critics suggest that much like the space-faring super heroes involved, Eidos-Montréal's is basically good but a little rough around the edges
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Sponsored | How Unity helped Easy Trigger craft the incredible aesthetic of Huntdown
We examine the way a small team of Swedish developers created a bombastic 2D shooter with the help of Unity
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The developers that supported the PlayStation Vita until the very end
Studios still publishing games for the handheld in 2021 discuss the die-hard community that kept it alive long after Sony dropped support
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"The epic intimacy of World War II" | This Week in Business
What people say and what they mean don't always match, especially when what they say doesn't mean anything
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A missed target reveals Game Pass' growing pains | Opinion
The subscription service may be beloved for its back catalogue - but even more so than Xbox itself, it desperately needs high-profile new software to drive growth
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Ubisoft employees upset with lack of communication on misconduct reports
Multiple developers told Kotaku the publisher's maze-like complaint process lacks follow-up, transparency, and in many cases resolution
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Improbable takes another crack at explaining the metaverse
After skepticism of the company's vision, CEO Herman Narula wants to be more precise about what it is, and how it's different from what already exists
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Has Dbrand done enough to withstand further legal action from Sony?
Legal experts discuss Dbrand's new PS5 plate design, and further action Sony may take in response to the design overhaul
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Sponsored | What's in store at this weekend's Huawei Developer Conference 2021
What's on offer and what to expect from this three-day mobile gaming-focused event