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DFC: Nintendo Switch 2 will be "the clear winner" of next-gen consoles
Market research firm suggests "there isn't room for more than two major consoles" in 2025
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Amazon renews Secret Level for a season 2
Game anthology series was Amazon's most-watched animated debut
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Community matters: How audience engagement in games is shaping other industries | Playable Futures
Wooga's lead social media and community manager April Laws explores the growing trend of games-like community management in other sectors
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Switch 2 (finally), GTA 6 to dominate, AI in game dev (again): Analysts predictions for 2025
Our annual panel of industry-watchers review their calls for the past year, and offer new forecasts for the year to come
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AIAS to honor Nintendo of America veteran Don James
Former executive vice president of operations to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at 28th annual DICE Awards next year
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Aonic secures over €150m in funding
Investment will support firm's subsidiaries and future acquisitions
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2024 was the year of Microsoft's grand pivot | Opinion
Expectations this year would suffer a drought of high-quality releases were very much defied – but it's the reinvention of Xbox that will be 2024's lasting legacy
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Raccoon Logic: We're doing the last hurrah of the games industry we grew up with
Revenge of the Savage Planet creative director Alex Hutchinson shares his views on finishable games, subscriptions and a hectic 2025
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GamesIndustry.biz presents… The Year In Numbers 2024
Our annual infographic reveals the global games market value, best-selling games, biggest mobile markets, and more
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Tencent directors step down from Epic Games' board after US Justice Department "expressed concerns"
Law states directors should not serve on the boards of competing companies, such as Epic and Riot
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Twitch watch time broadly stable in 2024 at 18.9bn hours
"Expect 2025 to be a big year for multistreaming as the tools evolve and become more accessible"
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Australian games sector employment "steady" as industry generates $211.9m in 2024
Plus 81% of Australian studios expect headcount to remain stable or grow in 2025
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Moon Beast Productions secures $4.5m in seed funding
The studio says the funding round marks "a critical moment"
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Activision confirms it has replaced Call of Duty Black Ops 6 voice actors during SAG-AFTRA strike
"We respect the personal choice of these performers," Activision said
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Sponsored | Nitro-powered growth: Rising opportunities in the game resource ecosystem
A vast network of websites that surround live games is responsible for informing many of gaming’s most profitable trends. And for Cody Bye, co-founder of ad tech specialist Nitro, the movement is just getting started
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Regulation galore: Legal trends to watch in 2025
ADVANT Beiten's Dr Andreas Lober reflects on his 2024 predictions and the legal developments that could impact games companies in the year ahead
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Sonic musician suing Sega of America over song rights
Crush 40's Johnny Gioeli seeking damages for use of main theme 'Live & Learn' theme outside the 2001 game
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Horizon: Forbidden West | Games of the Year 2024
A welcome second journey into Guerrilla's incredible post-apocalyptic world
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11 Bit Studios lays off unknown number of staff, cancels Project 8 console game
Studio president said title was "conceived under very different market conditions"
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Sony to become largest shareholder of FromSoftware parent Kadokawa Corporation
PlayStation firm will up existing stake to 10% for $318 million
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The Game Awards live-streams jump 31% year-on-year
2024 show achieved four million peak concurrent viewers across Western platforms
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EA Sports College Football is now the US' best-selling sports game of all time | US Monthly Charts
But video games spending drops 7% to $5.8bn in CODless November, PS5 Pro sells fewer units but generates more dollars than PS4 Pro
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Should Xbox and PlayStation make a handheld console? | Opinion
When it comes to the PlayStation or Xbox handheld console, the question is not whether they could, more whether they should.