News NCSoft lays off unknown number of staff South Korean developer to create four wholly-owned subsidiaries as part of restructuring efforts Oct. 23, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Malaysian government invests $4.64m to boost national esports talent This will be used to support talent development, coaching, infrastructure, and grassroots activities Oct. 22, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Inflexion Games' UK division is reportedly closing down It's thought Flexion's audio team and "others in the UK" have been impacted Oct. 22, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Indie horror Crow Country tops 100,000 sales | News-in-brief Over two-thirds of copies sold were on Steam, the rest split between PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch Oct. 22, 2024 GamesIndustry.biz Staff
News Valve rejects "yearly cadence" of Steam Deck hardware releases to be "fair" to gamers It's "not fair to customers to come out with something that's only incrementally better," says Steam Deck designer Oct. 22, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Twitch has reportedly been banning sign ups from Israel and Palestine for over a year Platform says it "temporarily disabled sign ups with email verification" in both regions Oct. 22, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
Feature Making players the "consciousness model for AI" in Ctrl Alt Deal Only By Midnight discusses how it has transformed a philosophical problem into a video game thought experiment Oct. 22, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News PopReach closes its Vancouver studio follow sale of mobile games business Parent company Ionik sold games portfolio and India studio to Phoenix Games earlier this year Oct. 22, 2024 James Batchelor
Feature Epic launches combined Fab marketplace amid confusion and backlash from artists and developers "We're definitely not deleting anyone's content," assures creator marketplaces manager Bill Clifford Oct. 22, 2024 James Batchelor
News Twitch has removed badge identifying game devs in chat streams Decision made to "restore [its] developer organisation process" Oct. 22, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Sega sues Memento Mori developer over alleged patent infringements Japanese publisher claims Bank of Innovation's mobile games infringe on five patents Oct. 22, 2024 James Batchelor
News Netflix shuts down California game studio Three key members of internal developer have left the company Oct. 22, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Is AA dead? | Microcast Latest episode available to download now, also discusses new Xbox Games Studios leadership, IO's publishing venture, and more Oct. 21, 2024 James Batchelor
News Here's what GamesIndustry.biz is doing at MCM x EGX 2024 GI will be hosting a handful of B2B sessions during the event on October 25, 2024 Oct. 21, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Ex-Supercell developers open new studio Antihero Finnish development startup will focus on multiplayer games, also has offices in Barcelona Oct. 21, 2024 James Batchelor
Feature How digital is the video games market in 2024? We analyse the European market data to reveal how downloads have increased for new games Oct. 21, 2024 Christopher Dring
News 47% of UK Nintendo Switch players are women Study shows number of female Switch players has nearly doubled in five years Oct. 21, 2024 James Batchelor
News Hi-Rez Studios shutting down Realm Royale Reforged and Divine Knockout in February News of closures follows reorganisation and layoffs earlier this month Oct. 21, 2024 James Batchelor
News Super Nintendo World opens in Orlando on May 22, 2025 | News-in-brief Attraction will be one of five worlds within new Universal Epic Universe theme park Oct. 18, 2024 GamesIndustry.biz Staff
News Tales of Kenzera: Zau dev Surgent Studios puts entire games team on hiatus due to lack of funding All games employees on notice for redundancy as developer seeks partner for next prototype Oct. 18, 2024 James Batchelor
Opinion Black Ops 6 is make-or-break for the Game Pass strategy | Opinion A year after buying Activision Blizzard, Microsoft finally has a Game Pass launch exclusive for Call of Duty. How this plays out will weigh heavily on its future strategy Oct. 18, 2024 Rob Fahey
News UK indies to receive £510,000 in lottery funding Investment will support four projects focused on creating tools and datasets for use in the wider industry Oct. 18, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Warhammer Space Marine 2 sells 4.5m copies | News-in-brief Saber Interactive's third-person shooter launched on September 9, 2024 Oct. 18, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Keywords acquires Halo co-developer Certain Affinity Studio founded by ex-Bungie devs adds 180 staff to Keywords' development empire Oct. 18, 2024 James Batchelor
News Ubisoft Milan joins Ubisoft France strike over return to office "It is not economically sustainable and unfair on a human level," says Italian union Fiom Cgil Oct. 18, 2024 Sophie McEvoy