Industry

"Bobby Kotick's decisions made our games worse," says former Call of Duty dev

"I demanded his firing in front of everyone."

Hideo Kojima says he was "opposed by peers, colleagues, and relatives" when he decided to go independent

"Young creators must be given freedom of choice."

Tencent has reportedly shut down "AAA multiplayer" studio Team Kaiju

"Team Kaiju doesn't appear to exist anymore."

Students can meet with over 60 studios and 3000+ devs at next year's free Guildford.Games Festival

"It isn't just about celebrating the present; it's about nurturing the future of gaming."

Opinion | The Game Awards will never represent our industry in the way it needs, so what next?

"Please wrap it up."

UKIE diversity initiative #RaiseTheGame launches its new Empower Up Toolkit

"Empower Up is suitable for all games companies, wherever they are on their EDI journey."

Infinity Ward opens a new studio in Austin, Texas

"Our studio provides a safe, trusting, and empowering environment to unleash your creativity and help make the extraordinary."

Riot Games adjusts its Riot IDs changes following player backlash

"After reviewing feedback from players around the world, we’ve settled on a few adjustments."

Super Mario RPG has been developed by Dragon Quest studio ArtePiazza

It's a-me, Arte!

Konami is looking to employ game creators for "large-scale" Silent Hill projects

"A chance to be involved in game production in a cutting-edge development environment."

Video Games in Concert announces new UK tour

Brighton! Liverpool! Manchester! Bournemouth! Wolves!

PlayStation's Visual Arts is the latest games company hit by layoffs

"I knew this layoff wave was coming."

CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months

"Having a union means having more security, transparency, better protection, and a stronger voice in times of crisis."

Starfield was made to be played "for a very long time"

Todd Howard says it's one of the things the studio has learned "from previous games".

Women in Games' next conference asks "what's being done to disrupt norms and bring fairness for women?"

"There are still challenges facing women in games and esports, and women and girls playing games online."

Stalker 2 developer GSC Game World's servers have been damaged by a fire at its Prague office

"We've dealt with worse than that before. This is fine."

The Chinese Room is developing Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Fangtastic.

SAG-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry

"Here we go again! Now our video game agreement is at a stalemate too."

Rockstar hires a team of modders it had previously banned from playing GTA 5

"We've watched with excitement as our community has found new ways to expand the possibilities of [our games]."

Far Cry has a new IP director

Live and let cry.

Amnesia developer Frictional Games plans to "cut back a bit" on horror games

"I am confident that these games will still feel like Frictional ones."

Fable's narrative lead leaves Playground Games

"Working on Fable was a dream come true for me, and it's wrenching to leave it behind."

GTA 6 hacker has been deemed unfit to stand trial

Teen threatened to release GTA 6's source code in a Slack message, say prosecutors.

FTC's final attempt to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard has failed

"This brings us another step closer to the finish line."

Microsoft's "extreme" options to bypass acquisition block could include withdrawing Activision from the UK

Microsoft president Brad Smith meets with UK Chancellor next week.