News Halo vets team with Jeff Hilbert to form First Strike Games Seattle startup will have a multiplayer focus due to team's experience on Halo, SOCOM and Age of Empires March 18, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News Epic awards another $500,000 in Unreal Dev Grants More than $1.2 million paid out since the initiative started a year ago March 17, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News "Success should always surprise you. Failure should never surprise you" Spiderweb Software's Jeff Vogel doesn't believe in an Indiepocalypse - "the games business has always been hard" March 15, 2016 Matthew Handrahan 2 comments
News Forge Inc. raises $4.5 million seed round Video capture and sharing platform at the heart of WeGame founder Jared Kim's new business March 15, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News InnoGames adds Funatics to its Dusseldorf studio Mass hire follows closure of Funatics, boosts mobile focused Dusseldorf team to 40 people March 15, 2016 Matthew Handrahan 2 comments
News VR devs call for restraint on horror games and jump scares "To throw someone into the most intense experience? We're very against that" March 14, 2016 Matthew Handrahan 7 comments
News App Annie buys AppScotch This is the third acquisition deal in two years for the leading mobile data firm March 14, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News Tom Clancy's The Division claims #1 in the UK Ubisoft's new IP tops the chart following a record breaking first day March 14, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
Feature MaxPlay's engine tech is a modern solution to modern problems "Unity is a ten, fifteen-year-old legacy architecture, and the same thing is true with the Unreal Engine" March 14, 2016 Matthew Handrahan 1 comment
Feature Next Games: Right license, right partner, right result CEO Teemu Huuhtanen on the unexpected benefits of working with licenses, and why The Walking Dead is a smarter bet than Star Wars March 11, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
Feature CD Projekt made a $90 million profit in 2015 The Witcher 3's success pushed revenue past $200 million, series has now sold 20 million units in total March 11, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News Cities: Skylines has sold 2 million units Colossal Order's city-builder reaches a new milestone, buoyed by its vibrant modding community March 11, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News Nexon to acquire Big Huge Games Korean publisher to buy all remaining shares after backing the company at its foundation March 10, 2016 Matthew Handrahan 1 comment
News Legend of Mir is making $100 million a month in China - report At its peak, Shanda and Tencent's mobile hit made $7 million in a single day March 10, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News Everybody's Gone to the Rapture picks up ten BAFTA nominations The Chinese Room's game is out in front, with Her Story and The Witcher 3 picking up seven noms each March 10, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News Sumo Digital takes the reigns on Dead Island 2 British studio signs on to Deep Silver's troubled zombie franchise March 10, 2016 Matthew Handrahan 1 comment
News SuperData and Gfk to unify physical and digital console data Monthly report will give most complete overview to date of key European console markets March 9, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News Ukie and TIGA call for more investment ahead of UK Budget Ukie is asking for £8 million in Lottery money to help British talent, TIGA wants a new fund to help connect devs to finance March 9, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News Kim Kardashian banks $80 million from Glu Mobile's game Payment exceeds Kim Kardashian: Hollywood's total revenue from calendar 2015 March 9, 2016 Matthew Handrahan 3 comments
News Dontnod, Ubisoft Montreal and EA Ghost among Quo Vadis speakers Berlin dev conference will also feature talks from Unity's David Helgason, Coldwood's Martin Sahlin and the IGDA's Kate Edwards March 8, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
Feature “Are you just looking to make a living? Then China has plenty of opportunity” Tom van Dam on NetEase's westward journey, and the problems facing companies with designs on China March 8, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News Is Amazon building a VR content platform? Job listing reveals plans to, "explore and create the platform and interface for immersive storytelling" March 8, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News MAME completes open source transition Popular arcade emulator is now officially open source after 19 years of existence March 7, 2016 Matthew Handrahan 2 comments
News Tranzfuser initiative offers funding to graduate devs in the UK “The way in which Tranzfuser will become a fresh talent pipeline for the UK Games Fund is a real first" March 7, 2016 Matthew Handrahan
News Far Cry Primal beats Zelda to stay UK #1 Nintendo's Twilight Princess HD remake fails to unseat Ubisoft's prehistoric riff on Far Cry March 7, 2016 Matthew Handrahan