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"We are very eager to learn from the real veterans" – How Tencent's TiMi Studio Group collaborated with Capcom on Monster Hunter Outlanders

The development director for the new mobile title, which launches today, explains TiMi's working relationship with Capcom and what's changed in the transition to mobile devices

Oct. 29, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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"I wish I had the formula" – 2Awesome Studio on navigating indie development while creating Altered Alma, its biggest project to date

Co-founder Alexander Santiago discusses running a studio in a market of "smaller teams delivering bigger successes"

Oct. 29, 2026 Sophie McEvoy

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"Taking several years with several thousand people… It's almost impossible" – PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi on the current state of gaming

The father of the PlayStation says gaming platforms have become "super expensive"

Oct. 28, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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Gamescom Asia touts new records for international attendance and showfloor size

Subsidiary enters its sixth year with an expanded audience and a growing number of formal representatives from nations worldwide

Oct. 28, 2026 Jon Hicks

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"Developers need to treat Early Access like a real launch, because players do" – Early Access games are on the rise, but so are player expectations

The studios behind Valheim, Subnautica, Hades, Phasmophobia, Paralives, and Deadhaus Sonata discuss the highs and lows of Early Access

Oct. 27, 2026 Vic Hood

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"It was a pretty harrowing three months" – Undead Labs head Philip Holt on what happened after Xbox cut the studio loose

The CEO explains what the new employee-owned structure looks like, why State of Decay 3 has taken so long, and how the studio is embracing co-development

Oct. 26, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Critical Consensus

After 2025's poorly received Black Ops 7, critics say Modern Warfare 4 is a return to form for the franchise

Oct. 23, 2026 Sophie McEvoy

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Podcast: Landfall's Rebecca Lautner on Peak's 23 million sales and looking past friendslop

Plus why Landfall works on games for just one month before deciding whether to drop them

Oct. 23, 2026 Jon Hicks

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"It was crushing how hard it was" – The chaotic development of Dispatch, and what AdHoc Studio plans next

CEO Michael Choung on getting a boost from Steam, the importance of caring about characters, and negotiating the funding wilderness

Oct. 22, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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How Pantaloon is curating an "evolving library of bold and bizarre games" with its new subscription service

Co-founder Jamin Smith explores how the Playbill is "another mad experiment in a series of mad experiments that have – so far – not sunk the business"

Oct. 22, 2026 Sophie McEvoy

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Indies and original IP blew up in 2026

More than half of the games that sold more than 500,000 units in their first month were the start of a new series, and 43% were indies

Oct. 21, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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Demystifying unions: What games leaders need to know

We collect insights shared by union representatives at this month's GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit

Oct. 21, 2026 James Batchelor

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"Players want to engage with brands, not just consume them" – Mattel on its new Game Studios arm, why it's releasing on Roblox, and what it learnt from NetEase

The games industry has seen entertainment giants come and go, but Mattel's Marcus Liassides insists this new games-focused division is here for the long haul

Oct. 20, 2026 Alex Forbes-Calvin

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New Croatian conference Splitscreen wants to keep "that half-holiday, half-work feeling" of Reboot Develop

New event in Split promises seafront venue, an international audience blending AAA and indie – and no meeting app

Oct. 19, 2026 Jon Hicks

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The AI state of play: AI laws and game development

A run through of key areas in which the changing AI legal landscape is affecting game studios, from acting to advertising

Oct. 19, 2026 Anna Poulter-Jones

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How Star Wars: Galactic Racer kept the core team small and sustainable through "distributed development"

"When you shrink, there's a personal impact to people, but you also lose an incredible amount of knowledge, which I think is probably way more expensive to retrieve"

Oct. 16, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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An oral history of the Tomb Raider game no one wanted to make

Tomb Raider Chronicles, the fifth game for the original PlayStation, was greenlit for the sake of Eidos's bottom line, much to the annoyance of the design team

Oct. 15, 2026 Daryl Baxter

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"I wanted to make the show I wanted to watch" – How Galaxies found a place in the crowded showcase landscape

Founder Chris Thomas on taking a gamble on trying to recapture the E3 magic with "tapas-style" curation

Oct. 14, 2026 Jon Hicks

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"Years of building, pitching and raising for games made the same failure painful to watch" – Why GameDataCore wants to find out how players feel

The Brighton-based start-up's new platform analyses Steam reviews to find out what players think, and what studios should do next

Oct. 13, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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Game Developer veteran Chris Kerr launches Vertical Slice, a games publication "giving workers a voice and holding power to account"

The outlet, which is entirely funded by reader subscriptions, will also include a free repository of pitch and design documents

Oct. 12, 2026 Jon Hicks

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The happiest man in gaming hates generative AI

Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams on bloated AI code, vampire computers, and surviving on Steam

Oct. 12, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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"A creative idea can save more money than AI can right now" – Glen Schofield on his retirement, Callisto Protocol's development, and the state of AAA

The Call of Duty and Dead Space alumnus explains why he doesn't view AI as a tool and why he isn't a fan of remote work

Oct. 8, 2026 Alex Forbes-Calvin

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Resident Evil games engagement leapt 50% following release of Zach Cregger's movie, but analysts say real value is in brand building

Resident Evil 2, which like the film is set in Raccoon City, saw a particularly high jump in daily active users

Oct. 6, 2026 Sophie McEvoy

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Brazil wants to be in "the top five game producers in the world in less than 10 years"

The country's games industry body has set some lofty goals – but the region is growing fast in terms of players and revenue

Oct. 6, 2026 Lewis Packwood

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"It's less risky to be the masters of our own fate" – The AAA developers going indie

Veterans from Warner Bros and 2K explain why the low pay and uncertainty of the indie space beats "doomscrolling on LinkedIn"

Oct. 5, 2026 Lewis Packwood