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After a stint on Warzone, Toys for Bob is thrilled to be back on Spyro – "We were moving away from the types of games that are near and dear to our hearts"

Newly independent of Activision, the studio behind Spyro: A Realm Beyond and Skylanders says it wants to focus on "joyful experiences"

June 8, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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"We walked away from years of work" – The long and troubled journey of The Wolf Among Us 2

Telltale CEO Jamie Ottilie explains how the long-awaited sequel faced every setback going

June 8, 2026 Alex Forbes-Calvin

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"We have secured our components for this year" – Nex Playground hopes to avoid any further AI-related price rises

Ahead of the console's UK launch, David Lee and Thomas Kang discuss payments for developers, avoiding shovelware, and that all-important RRP

June 5, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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"We're always on the hunt for new content" – Secret Mode on the surprise acquisition of Chained Together

CEO Ed Blincoe explains how the deal came about, backed by Emona Capital, and what's next for Anegar Games' 2024 viral hit

June 5, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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"Indie titles now routinely produce launches with AAA-level concurrent player counts" – How to prepare in case of viral success

Nitrado CEO Raphael Stange, whose firm provided servers for Windrose and Palworld, warns that indies need to plan ahead to avoid the disaster of overloaded servers at launch

June 4, 2026 Sophie McEvoy

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"Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers

Games are overwhelmingly made by and marketed to younger generations, argue analysts, while the older demographic is being ignored

June 3, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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"The problem with online toxicity, that's something that we can solve today" – The AI system that promises to detect signs of grooming

The head of Norwegian company Aiba says their system can monitor voice chat and flag up incidences of grooming, bullying, and radicalisation in near real-time

June 2, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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"These sports games that were loved and revered... just went away" – How a group of ex-EA devs are launching a new NBA game

Play By Play has secured an official license for the NBA Street-style title NBA: The Run, which it's making with a small team and a tight focus

June 1, 2026 Alex Forbes-Calvin

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BitSummit 2026 showed Japanese indies pursuing a new multimedia model, backed by major entertainment firms | Opinion

Once a small-scale showcase, the event is now attracting major companies looking to gaming for their next big global IP

May 28, 2026 Alicia Haddick

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"It has done something useful for the world": how Ubisoft uses its games to create content for museums and TV

Ubisoft's Deborah Papiernik explains the company's small but expanding educational sideline

May 27, 2026 Alex Forbes-Calvin

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"People want MMOs, and the sales of New World proved it" – Cryptic Studios head Jack Emmert on why MMOs are ripe for reinvention

"I think that the idea that the MMO crowd doesn't exist is belied by the number of players who are still in World of Warcraft"

May 22, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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The big Strauss Zelnick interview: GTA, AI, Roblox and building the biggest entertainment company in the world

"Technology is not going to take people's jobs, and the big tech companies who laid off thousands of people and said it was because of AI were not telling the truth"

May 21, 2026 Jon Hicks

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Pokémon Go 2 isn't on the cards, but Niantic has big plans under new owner Scopely

One year on from Scopely's $3.5 billion acquisition of Niantic, president of games Ed Wu and head of M&A operations Heather Tacskovics reflect on what's changed and what's next

May 20, 2026 Alex Forbes-Calvin

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Sponsored | What is Huqiao Games?

Wojciech Jaworski, the founder of Huqiao Games (琥桥游戏), explains the company's origins and how it is helping publishers and developers to find success in China

May 20, 2026 Sponsored Article

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How Fireshine Games backed a winner with Far Far West

Chief portfolio officer Jasper Tanner-Barnes and CEO Brian Foote discuss game discovery – "A game with very few wishlists on Steam might be doing incredible things on TikTok"

May 19, 2026 Alex Forbes-Calvin

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Meet Seed, the planet-sized society simulator

Klang Games CEO Mundi Vondi explains the thinking behind a vast, emergent, persistent world that's been more than a decade in the making

May 18, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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"Hydra is polished and battle-tested" – Why Saber Interactive is opening up its live-ops tool all developers

Head of games services Dmitri Brevdo discusses how the tool can help studios navigate critical phases of a game's lifecycle

May 18, 2026 Sophie McEvoy

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"The old school publishing model is dead" – Silver Lining Interactive joins the new wave of pick and mix publishers

"It's the most open market I've ever seen, where anyone can do whatever they want," says founder Luke Keighran

May 13, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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Why the founder of Kongregate believes that Roblox is its successor

Jim Greer on why Roblox has a "similar creator community" to legacy Flash titles, and how its supporting developers to make hits and reach older audiences

May 11, 2026 Sophie McEvoy

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"I'm not going to fight the Chinese Communist Party" – Why Eve Online firm CCP Games rebranded to Fenris Creations

Plus, CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson explains the decision to break away from Crimson Desert maker Pearl Abyss, and why they've partnered with Google DeepMind

May 8, 2026 Alex Forbes-Calvin

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"These guys are really nice" – Why the developer of PlateUp has joined forces with Yogscast Games

In a reversal of the usual state of affairs, a game studio is investing in a publisher, with the simple aim of finding more cool indie games

May 7, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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Rebellion has its fingers in all the pies

Games, books, comics, board games, movies, even costumes – the independently owned UK company has built a transmedia empire

May 6, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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"It's a totally crazy market" – The seismic impact of the AI boom on video game hardware

Industry experts share their thoughts on the skyrocketing cost of components such as RAM, GPUs, and SSDs, how development is affected, and how long this could go on

May 5, 2026 Alex Forbes-Calvin

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Inkle's Jon Ingold on why self-publishing is where it's at

"You can never have a conversation with a publisher across an equal gradient, because it isn't an equal gradient. They have all of the power."

April 30, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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How Evil Empire makes one of the most effective indie showcase events – while juggling Castlevania, live ops, and building its own IP

The flat-rate Triple-I initiative has a high hit ratio. "We had several games that made more than 100,000 wishlists only five days after the event"

April 29, 2026 Alex Forbes-Calvin