How to incorporate community into your game’s creation | BOSS Mode with Victoria Tran
BOSS Mode: Women Driving the Future is a groundbreaking new series by GamesBeat, led by Rachel Kaser, that finally puts the spotlight where it...
Hard reset: With layoffs still to come, who is left at Xbox?
Another fall of the axe today: Xbox announced that, as part of its continued company-wide reset, it’s laying off 268 people. Most of those...
Senua might be a casualty of Xbox’s reset as layoffs continue
Xbox announced this morning that it was laying off an additional 268 people as part of its ongoing “reset” to its teams and numbers....
DreadXP and Fireshine on balancing growth | Sustainability lessons for games
In my ongoing quest to learn more about how studios have avoided large-scale layoffs or closures, I spoke with reps from several studios about...
How certain game studios have avoided layoffs | Sustainability lessons for games
If there’s one kind of story that’s taken up an outsized part of the games industry’s news for the last few years, it’s layoff...
Wardogs hits two million units sold within week one
Bulkhead and Team17 announced today that Wardogs, the recent tactical FPS sensation, has sold over two million copies within five days of its launch....
Polyarc Games, developer of Moss VR titles, announces shutdown
Polyarc, the development studio behind the Moss series of VR games, announced today that it is shutting down, winding down active development on its...
Kirby and the World Beyond revealed for 2027 release
Nintendo’s One Last Thing at this morning’s Direct was the reveal of a new 3D Kirby game in the works. Kirby and the World...
Metroid Ravenous is Samus Aran’s latest 2D adventure, coming January 2027
One of the revelations in today’s Nintendo Direct was a new 2D Metroid game, called Metroid Ravenous. The new single-player game launches on Switch...
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake launches on November 5
I never thought I’d say this, but… move over, Grand Theft Auto VI. Nintendo has just confirmed that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of...