Categories Posted inin BusinessDevelopment How Double Fine is charting its destiny outside of Xbox, starting with a Kickstarter campaign | Tim Schafer interview Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 2, 2026 21 min Tim Schafer, CEO of Double Fine Productions, has been busy dealing with a lot of change in the past couple of months, but he... Continue Reading 21 min
Categories Posted inin BusinessGaming Culture How to bring a legacy brand into the future | BOSS Mode with Maya Rogers Posted byby Rachel Kaser September 2, 2026 7 min As games industry CEOs go, Maya Rogers‘ story is unique. Not only did she grow up with the intellectual property that she now stewards,... Continue Reading 7 min
Categories Posted inin BusinessGaming Culture Blacknut expands into Middle East and North Africa with Media Ranch partnership Posted byby Jolie Feld September 2, 2026 2 min Blacknut is going carrier-first in the Middle East and North Africa. The gaming service is teaming up with Media Ranch to push cloud gaming... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin BusinessDevelopment How Dubai is stepping up its beachhead in the game industry | Faisal Kazim interview Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 2, 2026 11 min Dubai showed up at Gamescom last week to show that it was serious about gaming. The emirate, which is part of the United Arab... Continue Reading 11 min
Categories Posted inin BusinessDevelopment In Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, the leopard has a thick skin Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 2, 2026 3 min In Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, Lara Croft meets a leopard. It springs out of a crack in the tomb and attacks her. She... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Rovio Copenhagen closes; Bit Reactor reportedly furloughs staff Posted byby Rachel Kaser September 1, 2026 2 min It’s only Tuesday, and we’ve already had a story about a studio closing and layoffs at a completely different studio. So what happened? To... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin BusinessDevelopment Game jobs champion Amir Satvat joins 1Up Ventures to invest in game startups Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 1, 2026 2 min Amir Satvat, the game jobs champion who has helped thousands of game developers find jobs, is himself changing jobs and joining 1Up Ventures as... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin BusinessDevelopment Dragon Snacks Games’ Farhaven co-op sandbox RPG lets you build worlds with friends Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 1, 2026 3 min Dragon Snacks Games, an independent studio founded by gaming veterans, announced Farhaven, a cooperative sandbox RPG built from the ground up to be shared... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Brian Ward leaves role as Savvy Games Group CEO Posted byby Alexander Lee September 1, 2026 2 min Brian Ward is no longer leading Savvy Games Group. Savvy Games Group is the video game division of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF),... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin BusinessDevelopment Following in a legend’s footsteps, Frederik Hammes grows game dev event by 15% in its 1st year under Gamescom | interview Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 1, 2026 16 min This year was the first time that Gamescom assumed control of its game developer conference, formerly known as Devcom and now renamed Gamescom Dev.... Continue Reading 16 min