Chris Kerr    The Swedish conglomerate laid off percent of its workforce in January and has now started offloading non strategic assets.

Bryant Francis    Veteran game designer Raph Koster thinks there’s a lot of room to explore what ’fun’ is in game design.

Chris Kerr    The LA based studio is working on a spiritual successor to Before Your Eyes called Goodnight Universe.

Chris Kerr    Xbox hardware revenue is expected to fall again in Q .

Justin Carter    Even numbered years aren’t kind to Blizzard, it seems.

Justin Carter    Steam titles big and small have incorporated genAI, from The Finals and Tribes to RetroMaze and Girls of the Tower.

Justin Carter    With commercial hit after hit releasing in the last year, Capcom can’t help but feel itself.

Joel Couture    Art director Pedro Medeiros de Almeida tells us how a one week game jam brought the beloved title from D to D, resulting in Celeste .

Chris Kerr    The cancellation could result in the studio writing off up to million in production costs.

Bryant Francis    Determined to keep from overscoping on Against the Storm, developer Eremite Games built a practical process to predict how long it would take to make the Rainpunk citybuilder.

Chris Kerr    Meta is still haemorrhaging cash through Meta Quest purveyor Reality Labs, but what’s new

Chris Kerr    Dictatorship and chill

Chris Kerr    It’s a me, not quite legally distinct Mario.

Marc Anthony Rodriguez    The key to standing out amongst other recent grads Real world experience.

Justin Carter    Russeil’s day to day duties as executive VP will see her manage multiple departments at Ubisoft, including corporate affairs, legal, and communications.

Justin Carter    You gotta break companies to make moneys.

Justin Carter    The studio behind browser games like Mahjongg Solitaire and Block Champ is inviting smaller teams to join its network and get millions of eyes on their game.

Justin Carter    The post apocalyptic franchise continues to enjoy its time in the sun as players keep raising up recent games like Fallout and Fallout .

Chris Kerr    The company will start tracking pre launch playtime to close a refund loophole.

Christopher Mathes    Many people have been speaking about the unique visual style of the game, so I wanted to break down a scene from the game and explain how I created it.

Dana Sydorenko    Why can players be toxic, is it possible to play without offense, and why place new filters for finding online gamer friends

Chris Kerr    The redundancies are part of the, layoffs announced by Microsoft in January.

Chris Kerr    The ban could have a tangible impact on workers in the video game industry, where noncompetes have been used to prevent staff from moving between studios.

Bryant Francis    Every publisher has their own strategy. Here are the upsides and downsides of working with one co owned by high profile streamers.

James McWhirter    This piece explores the recent development of the market, guided by Omdia’s brand new Games Handheld Database, which forecasts value, volume, and installed base through to across all key devices and categories of dedicated gaming handheld.

Justin Carter    Atlus’ famous Demon Artist is working on a brand new property at COLOPL.

Justin Carter    After previous concerns about the Apple Arcade’s future, senior director Alex Rofman says the platform is going nowhere but up.

Justin Carter    Flaming Fowl is making a last chance bid to attract publisher interest by releasing a demo for Ironmarked.

Justin Carter    The remake of the original Alone in the Dark only just released this past March, but parent company Embracer’s not said much about its sales.

Aoife Gleeson, May Wong    How bringing As Dusk Falls to new platforms presented the perfect opportunity to upgrade accessibility features.

Chris Kerr    Infogrames has returned and is eager to acquire some franchises.

Chris Kerr    The company wants third party hardware makers to leverage the platform, and is reworking key features including the Meta Quest Store and Horizon social layer.

Justin Carter    The proposed plans for archiving older games at libraries don’t strike a chord with the ESA.

Justin Carter    LaKeith Stanfield is on deck to headline a film based on Strange Scaffold’s acclaimed shooter.

Justin Carter    More a relaunch than a rebrand, Starlight already has multiple projects in development as it leaves work for hire behind.

Chris Kerr    Fresh from cutting, jobs and shuttering numerous Embracer studios, Wingefors reassures investors he’s here for the long haul.

Chris Kerr    The cash will be used to support Forever Skies and the Polish studio’s next project.

Chris Kerr    Rather than imposing conformity on thriving businesses, we should foster an environment that amplifies existing success.’

Justin Carter    Ahead of its th birthday, Marvel’s mobile fighting game is growing out to app stores beyond iOS and Android.

Edward Castronova    To understand the impact of your mechanics, you need to know how people will react to them. This means that you have to have some kind of mental model of player behavior. The question is, in your model, how much rationality do you assume

Douglas Guzman, Kyle Grenier    Hippo Havoc’s Disaster Golf demonstrates the power a little guidance can have in an industry flooded with indie games competing for a piece of the pie.

Chris Kerr    It’s the bomb.

Nathalie Lawhead    Tools outside of the mainstream, made by just one person, a group of friends, or a small team... all asking ’what if,’ and then exploring how their tool can empower creation in an idealistically creative way.

Chris Kerr    Blizzard will also punish offending players by forcing them to compete against mouse and keyboard users.

Chris Kerr    Any developer, anywhere, and in any language, deserves access to funding structures and opportunities to make great games.’

Justin Carter    nearly had Devolver in the first half, but the publisher managed to recover with its newer releases and some old favorites.

Justin Carter    The publisher’s cuts come nearly a year after the launch of Cantata in mid , and it’s yet to release a game in .

David Thatcher    I’d like to talk a bit about the development of the game, and look at some of what I thought went well, along with what didn’t go quite so well.’

Tracy Fullerton    This updated th edition brings deeper coverage of playcentric design techniques, including setting emotion focused experience goals and managing the design process to meet them. It includes a host of new diverse perspectives from top industry game designers.’

Chris Kerr    Paradox and Colossal Order are struggling to rework Cities Skylines II after a tough launch window, and have now apologized for rushing DLC out of the door.