News Game Informer's closure and the state of games media | Microcast Latest episode available to download now, also discusses Bungie layoffs and financials season Aug. 5, 2024 GamesIndustry.biz Staff
News How Outersloth is turning Among Us' success into funding for indies Innersloth's Victoria Tran on empowering indies, and the urgent need for sustainability in the industry Aug. 5, 2024 Marie Dealessandri
News Amber acquires Madbricks The Colombian studio joins the company's growing number of global work-for-hire studios Aug. 5, 2024 Marie Dealessandri
News Jam City lays off 10% off staff Around 85 people have been let go from the mobile developer Aug. 5, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Silent Hill: The Short Message downloaded over 3m times | News-in-brief The PS5 title from Konami was announced and released for free in January Aug. 5, 2024 GamesIndustry.biz Staff
News Report: Microsoft sets up new AA studio within Blizzard Studio is reportedly mostly made up of employees from King Aug. 5, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News GameStop shuts down Game Informer The publication had been running for over three decades Aug. 5, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News US game spending had a 5% decrease in June | US Monthly Charts Elden Ring returned to the top of the US charts for the first time since May 2022 Aug. 2, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Paradox Interactive delays Prison Architect 2 indefinitely Developer "can't commit to a new release date" until "scope of work needed to be done" is assessed Aug. 2, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
Opinion The opportunity costs of NFT madness are still being paid | Opinion The IOC exiting its very fruitful licensing deal with Nintendo and Sega to pursue an NFT dead-end is an object lesson Aug. 2, 2024 Rob Fahey
News Pokémon Scarlet and Violet sells 25m units | News-in-brief Released in November 2022, the games are the third in the Pokémon franchise to pass this milestone Aug. 2, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Intel announces layoffs of around 15,000 staff More than 15% of its global workforce affected as part of $10 billion cost reduction plan Aug. 2, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Nintendo Q1 profits decline 55% as the Switch nears the end of its lifecycle Hardware sales were down 46.3%, while software sales decreased by 41.3% Aug. 2, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Armor Games Studios has seemingly laid off its publishing team It's unclear how many staff have been affected or how the layoffs will impact the company's publishing schedule Aug. 1, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Roblox reports strong Q2 2024 as CFO steps down Bookings rose 22% YoY to $955.2m, with revenue up 31% YoY Aug. 1, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Meta records loss of $4.5bn in Reality Labs during Q2 CFO expects operating losses "to increase meaningfully" during 2024 due to ongoing product development and investments Aug. 1, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News 2weeks raises $1.25m in pre-seed funding Studio also joins A16Z's accelerator programme Aug. 1, 2024 Marie Dealessandri
Academy How to effectively lead leaders in game development Criterion's Charity Joy shares her experience and provides strategies in effectively overseeing managers Aug. 1, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Jan Richter appointed CEO of Sixteen Tons Entertainment Founder and former CEO Ralph Stock to step down after 31 years Aug. 1, 2024 Marie Dealessandri
News Whiteout Survival passes $1 billion in revenue It's the third fastest 2023 mobile title to achieve this feat, following Monopoly Go and Honkai: Star Rail Aug. 1, 2024 Marie Dealessandri
News Mobile developers describe working with Apple Arcade as a "very difficult and long process" Developers note issues with poor tech support, response times, and discoverability July 31, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Former Unity and Scopely developers form Outer Haven Games Founders Austin Ashcraft, Stephen Fong, and Chuck Beaver are already working on their first title, RPG Techno Infierno July 31, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn passes 500,000 players | News-in-brief Kepler confirms the action-RPG has "500,000 new members of the Coalition army across PC, Xbox, and PlayStation" July 31, 2024 GamesIndustry.biz Staff
News Devcom Developer Conference announces new speakers In all, there'll be over 200 sessions across 18 topics, including AI, VR/XR, and multiplayer July 31, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Bungie lays off another 220 staff, acknowledging it was "overly ambitious" 155 people also move to SIE; another 75 again are moved to work "with PlayStation Studios" July 31, 2024 Vikki Blake