Mattel has announced the formation of Mattel Game Studios, a global development organisation that will create games based on the company's IP. It follows the company's February acquisition of 100% of...
The digital intelligence firm Sensor Tower reports that 89% of preorders for GTA6 are for the $100 ultimate edition rather than the $80 standard edition. Read more
Testronic has appointed Sonia Kerr as CEO, succeeding Sharon Baylay-Bell, who moves into the role of company chair. Read more
Update: August 12, 7.15pm: CD Projekt has now confirmed that 18 developers previously working on Project Sirius have either been made redundant or "invited" to apply for redeployment oppportunities. R...
Update, August 13, 2026: Saber Interactive CEO Matt Karch has responded to accusations that former lead writer Stella Sacco was replaced with ChatGPT on Rideshare Simulator. Read more
CodeDev Group, also known as The Unreal Guys, has launched a new studio called Full Spectrum Interactive. Read more
Update, August 13, 2026: Amazon Game Studios has ended its publishing deal with Smilegate's MMO Lost Ark. Read more
The story of Planet of Lana is the story of triumph over adversity. But it's also one of naivety. The developers themselves admit they had no clue what they were doing at first. Read more
Entries for the 2027 BAFTA Games Awards are now open, alongside updates to its entry requirements, fee structure, and AI policy. Read more
Pearl Abyss reported a weaker second quarter as the initial impact of Crimson Desert's March launch tapered off. Read more
UKIE-backed educational non-profit Digital Schoolhouse has partnered with Roblox to develop a suite of free tools designed to teach children how to create Roblox games as part of in-classroom educatio...
Gamescom Dev has released its annual speaker survey results, revealing that 83% of respondents expect AI to impact team structure or productivity. Read more
Supermassive Games has announced a third round of layoffs in three years, potentially impacting up to 75 positions. Read more
Reforj developer 4J Studios has debuted a technology called Rixels that offer an alternative way to provide textures using a fraction of the memory requirements. The Dundee-based studio has applied to...
Remedy reported revenue declines in the first half and second quarter of 2026 while increasing marketing efforts for Control Resonant. Read more
GamesAid has appointed six new trustees to its board and raised £82,000 for four charities in 2025/26. Read more
Square Enix reported strong first-quarter growth, with profit rising 175.5% to ¥13.2 billion ($82.9 million). Read more
IllFonic's asymmetric horror title Halloween: The Game has been refused classification by the Australian Classifications Board, barring its sale in both Australia and New Zealand. Read more
Valve has begun notifying European customers who ordered Steam hardware that their personal information may have been exposed following a cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the company that handles Steam...
HandyGames has rebranded as THQ Nordic Mobile, with the publisher shifting its focus toward bringing premium PC and console titles to mobile platforms. Read more
Blizzard closed Microsoft's 2026 fiscal year as the best-performing studio within Xbox Game Studios, according to internal emails obtained and verified by Windows Central. Read more
Andreas Firnigl started his career as a tester on Big Mutha Truckers, way back on Gamecube. He founded Nosebleed Interactive almost 15 years ago as CEO and creative director. Read more
Xbox will begin rolling out age verification for users in Australia later this month. Read more
After launching Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced in June, Ubisoft eliminated 51 positions at its Barcelona studio. Now, a group of former employees, led by Myles Kerwin, has established Dark Ritu...
Bandai Namco reported record first-quarter results overall. Read more
Sega Sammy reported a 17.3% increase in net sales for its first quarter. The Entertainment Contents segment, which includes games, exceeded expectations at ¥68.4 billion ($432 million). Read more
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick tells GamesIndustry.biz that the forthcoming Netflix gameplay premiere of GTA 6, which will air on August 27th, is merely "one of the hors d'oeuvres," for the game's marke...
When Epic Games announced major layoffs back in March, it become clear that Fortnite – once regarded as holding a near-unassailable market position – was facing a serious slump, if not a l...
A new M&A report from analyst S&P has indicated a weakening investment environment for games, with available funding increasingly going to businesse models relying on recurring engagement, platform le...
Fenris Creations has appointed former Icelandic minister Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir as senior director for AI partnerships. Read more
Take-Two's Q1 results came in slightly ahead of guidance thanks to strong performance of NBA 2K6 and GTA supported by the Zynga mobile portfolio, with the firm maintaining its previous projection of $...
An Itch.io charity bundle supporting industry workers affected by layoffs in the US and Canada is close to reaching its $200,000 goal. Read more
Tripledot Studios has acquired mobile publisher Supersonic from Unity for $40 million. Read more
Unity CEO Matt Bromberg described the company's latest financial results as the "best quarter in its history as a public company." Read more
Roblox shares have declined 70% after second quarter results showed monetisation was 2% below company guidance, which impacted overall bookings. Read more
This is the second article in our series analysing the potential impact of the new Employment Rights Act (ERA) 2025 on games businesses operating within the UK. Read more
Kudos Games Services has expanded its senior leadership team by appointing Michael Hanna as chief operating officer and Ann Hurley as board advisor. Read more
Indie publisher Devolver Digital is looking to once again become a private company later this year. Read more
Nintendo reported a 9.5% decrease in first-quarter net sales, but operating profit rose 150.5% due to higher software revenue and $300 million in US tariff refunds. Read more
Candy Crush developer King has rejected a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with Swedish trade unions Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer. Read more
Kinetic Publishing, the publishing label founded by Phasmophobia developer Kinetic Games, will reveal the first games signed to the label at a showcase on August 12. Read more
Indie games publisher Silver Lining Interactive has revealed the first title from its internal IP development label, Silver Bullet. Read more
It can be difficult keeping track of the various comings and goings in the games industry, which is why we compile them in semi-regular round-ups. Read more
Electronic Arts has completed its $55 billion leveraged buyout, with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) now the majority owner. Read more
Raptor PR has launched Early Gaming Growth (EGG), a communications platform designed for gaming startups. Read more
Indie publisher Secret Mode has set up a new internal development studio in Sheffield to support the label's line-up of games, starting with recent hit Escape the Backrooms and Chained Together, which...
Co-development studio Vertpaint has appointed former Sumo Group co-founder and CEO Carl Cavers OBE as non-executive director and shareholder. Read more
Player relationship and marketing platform FirstLook has launched Creators.gg to connect studios with creators of any size, rather than limiting opportunities to those with the largest audiences. Read...
At the Madeira Games Summit in May, Michal Bujko, senior business development manager at Modma Studios, asked a question: If we were looking back at 2026 five years from now, what should we have fixed...
Roblox could become the first game to be classified as a very large online platform (VLOP) under European legislation. Read more
UPDATE Aug 4th: studio owner Nathan Burba confirmed to Gamesbeat that the studio had laid off 85% of its staff. This story has been updated to reflect this information. Read more
Atari has released its consolidated financial results for the full 2025-26 fiscal year, reporting revenue growth of 66% year-on-year to $65 million (€56.0 million), its highest level in more than...
Razer has acquired the assets of the cloud-based live streaming platform, StreamElements. Read more
Ustwo Games has always been synonymous with tactile mobile game experiences, chiefly their breakout hit Monument Valley and subsequent releases Assemble With Care and Desta: The Memories Between. Earl...
Generative AI platform Reforged Labs is shutting down after three years due to challenges scaling beyond the gaming sector. Read more
Game distributor Rokky has partnered with Revolution Software to co-publish its Broken Sword franchise in China. Read more
Tencent-owned Lightspeed LA has undergone layoffs as it "shifts the creative and development direction" of its debut title, Last Sentinel. Read more
Xbox consoles in the UK and Europe will increase from between £130/€150 and £170/€200 following worldwide price hikes announced in late June. Read more
For much of this year, each new week has brought with it a new impetus for a rash of articles on Microsoft’s Xbox misfortunes. From deep wounds like layoffs and project cancellations, to stingin...
Asha Sharma has outlined key priorities to help Xbox recover after it reported a $1.7 billion decline in revenue last year. Read more
Unity has launched dedicated engine support for Netflix platforms, making it easier for developers to ship titles on the streaming platform's ecosystem. Read more
Sony reported flat sales in its Games & Network Services (G&NS) segment for its first quarter, but operating income rose 37%, primarily due to US tariff refunds. Read more
The $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts is set to close on August 4 following approval from all required regulatory bodies. Read more
Roblox has announced its second-quarter financial results, highlighting substantial year-over-year revenue growth, despite a minor shortfall in net bookings. Read more
Following the release of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey film on July 17, daily active users of Assassin's Creed Odyssey increased significantly across all platforms. Read more
Pokémon Go generated over $48.5 million in in-app purchase revenue during its 10th anniversary week, according to AppMagic data. Read more
The number of active creators and streamers after launch is the clearest predictor of success for player-versus-player first-person shooter games, rather than the total hours watched, according to new...
Since the indie boom of the 2010s, one piece of advice commonly given to smaller studios has been the value of merchandise. Read more
Grand Theft Auto 6 download codes will expire in Japan on May 8, 2027. Read more
Microsoft has published its latest financial results, with Xbox revenue down 7% for the full year and 10% in the fourth quarter. Read more
When we last heard from Fiona Sperry in December, she had just put the entire team at Three Fields Entertainment on notice of redundancy. Read more
Capcom's strategy of remaking classic Resident Evil titles is generating the financial resources needed to develop new games and IP, according to producer Masachika Kawata. Read more
Krafton experienced record second-quarter growth, with revenue rising 94.9% to ₩1.29 trillion ($889.1 million), while operating profit also rose 67% to ₩410.9 billion ($283.1 million). Read more
The UK Games Fund has announced its largest group of funded companies since its launch in 2015. Read more
Double Fine Productions has reduced its workforce by 25% following its full separation from Xbox earlier this week. Read more
New data from the ASGC Games Industry Layoffs Tracker predicts job losses will reach 14,259 by the end of 2026, representing a 78% increase over an initial forecast for the year. Read more
2025 was a very bad year for Mike Bithell. In August, he announced that the majority of full-time staff were being let go from Bithell Games, with 11 jobs being made redundant. Read more
Capcom has released its Q1 financial results, reporting significant growth in net and ordinary profit driven by strong sales of Pragmata and catalogue titles – particularly its Resident Evil fra...
Atari has partnered with Twin Galaxies to launch the Atari World Championships. Read more
John Hight, the president of Wizards of the Coast, will be stepping down on September 1. The news was given through a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on July 27. Read more
Games for Change (G4C) has announced that its annual festival will be hosted in a new city during odd-numbered years, starting with Arizona in 2027. Read more
Xbox has provided an explanation for yesterday's hours-long outage, which prevented players from signing in, accessing their libraries, and playing games. Read more
The Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) has published new collections documenting the history of E3, the industry trade show that ran from 1995 to 2021. Read more
Atari has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to develop 10 of its game IPs into feature films. Read more
Cyan Worlds has confirmed a new title in the Myst franchise is now in early development. Read more
UK co-development house CodeDev, also known as The Unreal Guys, has launched a specialist optimisation division called The Performance Guys, built explicitly to tackle project-critical optimisation wo...
Last month, London hosted the Valorant Masters, one of the biggest dates in the calendar for Riot Games' tactical shooter. Read more
Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show has announced that id Software co-founder John Romero will headline the business area conference of this year's event in Bangkok, with a keynote entitled "Why We Sti...
The EU AI Act's deepfake transparency rules present an interesting challenge for game studios. The obligation is broader than the popular understanding of a deepfake, extending beyond fake videos of p...
The past five years of writing about the games business has come with a helping of cognitive dissonance so severe that it often felt like whiplash. Record success one week; record layoffs the next. St...
The games industry is stifled by a culture of fear that prioritises algorithmic trends and market research over the creative conviction and personal taste required to produce genuine hits. Read more
Ubisoft CFO Frédérick Duguet said it expects Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced to "deliver superior financial performance" due to lower production costs. Read more
Indie hit Meccha Chameleon was a breakout success in June, ranking as the second-highest PC title in revenue behind Fortnite, according to Newzoo. Read more
Ubisoft has published its first quarter financials, with net bookings reaching €255.8 million. Read more
The EU Commission has cleared the $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. Read more
Microsoft has begun testing ad-supported game streaming on Xbox. Read more
Bethesda union OneBGS has said it has filed a legal complaint against the developer "for continuing to violate labour laws in Canada." Read more
Jeff Gattis, general manager for Amazon Luna and Amazon Game Studios, has clarified his earlier comments that sequels to 007: First Light will be "done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studio...
The ESA Foundation has provided 31 university students with scholarships worth $5,000 to $10,000 to support careers in game development and esports. Read more
Amazon's cloud gaming service Luna is now available for Prime Video subscribers with Fire TV in the US and UK. Read more