Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick — Even with GTA VI’s global awareness, you still have to market it aggressively | exclusive
It might seem to be the simplest task in the world to market Grand Theft Auto VI to a crowd of gamers who are...
MindsEye maker Build A Rocket Boy lays off more staff
Layoffs have hit MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy Again, based on published reports citing posts by laid-off workers. Build A Rocket Boy has...
Dice Awards names Shinji Mikami as its next Hall of Fame Award inductee
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) announced today that Shinji Mikami, globally acclaimed game creator, will be honored with the Hall of...
Dan Houser’s American Caper reveals extremism and crime under an idyllic surface | interview
The writing of American Caper should be familiar to video game fans. That’s because it’s the work of Dan Houser, the creative mind behind...
Scholastic esports firm PlayVS recapitalizes and names new exec team | updated with Q&A
Earlier this year, PlayVS, the leading scholastic and collegiate gaming platform, ran into operational and financial challenges that required the company to act quickly....
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....
Why Roblox is mobilizing its ecosystem around ‘novel games’
Roblox is going all-in on novel games with an effort that involves stakeholders across the company and its user-generated platform. Roblox signaled its prioritization...
Saber Interactive’s Tim Willits dishes on release dates, game pricing and staying out of GTA VI’s way | interview
Saber Interactive chief creative officer Tim Willits came to Cologne, Germany, to show off his company’s games. The lot included Stuntman: Hollywood, Clive Barker’s...
Over half of game developers have lost players or revenue to cheating, new report finds | Exclusive
Anybrain's The Rise of Cheating as a Service report found that 69% of game developers consider cheating a significant problem in their games.