How SNK will bring back a golden age, with help from Cristiano Ronaldo | Kenji Matsubara interview
Kenji Matsubara joined SNK three years ago as CEO of a Japanese game company with a rich heritage in fighting games like King of...
The contrast between reality and simulation in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | David Dedeine interview
For Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, this is a reasonable question. Is it a game, a simulation or reality? On the reality side, the previous...
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: Adding gliders, bush planes and pre-flight planning
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is so sophisticated as a simulation that its leaders say it is the most realistic flight simulator ever created and...
How Tomohiro Nishikado created Space Invaders 46 years ago | exclusive interview
Tomohiro Nishikado created a global entertainment and gaming phenomenon 46 years ago. He built Space Invaders, the now classic arcade game that changed arcades....
The metaverse didn’t die. It moved inside Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | Jorg Neumann interview
The scale of the ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is pretty astounding. Made with 800 game developers over four years, the title has...
How Ubisoft built the world of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows | Pierre Fortin interview
When Assassin’s Creed: Shadows comes out this fall, players should notice a world full of more dynamism. That’s one of the things that the...
Code Wizards scale tests of Heroic Labs’ Nakama hit 2M CCU — and they say it could have gone higher
Presented by Code Wizards Code Wizards just announced it has run, to the best of their knowledge, the largest and most successful public scale...
How Invoke uses AI to power ethical image generation for games | Kent Keirsey interview
Invoke has unveiled a new breed of tool that enables game companies to use AI to power image generation. It’s one of many such...
Google Cloud’s real-world lessons for flawless game launches
Presented by Google Cloud There’s a lot riding on launch day, including reputation, revenue and long-term relevance. A battle royale game can make $1...
Why Star Fox co-creator Takaya Imamura left Nintendo and created Omega 6 | interview
Takaya Imamura was the rare artist who joined Nintendo in 1989 as the iconic game company was creating some of its memorable intellectual properties....