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India’s game industry concludes a structural reset and market realignment in 2025

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 26, 2025
5 min

India’s gaming industry concluded 2025 after a year of significant regulatory, structural and market change that has reshaped the sector’s business models, investment landscape...

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Entertainment

Game jams and documentaries are surfacing underexplored talent | GamesBeat Next

Posted byby Jen Larsen
December 25, 2025
3 min

At GamesBeat Next, a panel on “Surfacing Ideas and Talent from Underexplored Places” brought together two creators taking radically different approaches to the same...

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Navigating gaming’s data deluge and finding opportunities for growth | GamesBeat Next

Posted byby Jen Larsen
December 24, 2025
3 min

At GamesBeat Next, three industry veterans joined forces to tackle a pressing question: in an age drowning in data, where will gaming’s next growth...

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Thank you for supporting GamesBeat during its year of going independent

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 24, 2025
6 min

We have so much to be thankful for this year. In the past few years, when the game industry suffered record layoffs and studio...

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Gaming Culture

The narratives that defined gaming in 2025

Posted byby Alexander Lee
December 24, 2025
4 min

There’s never a dull moment in gaming — and 2025 was no exception. From AI to UGC and everywhere in between, the past year...

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Jonathan Blow’s Order of the Sinking Star is his largest and most complex puzzle game to date

Posted byby David Jagneaux
December 24, 2025
5 min

For more than 15 years, Jonathan Blow has been one of the most influential figures in modern puzzle game design. From Braid to The...

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Pearl Abyss strives for independence in South Korea’s fast-paced market

Posted byby Rachel Kaser
December 23, 2025
2 min

Pearl Abyss is a developer based in Gwacheon, South Korea, best known for its online MMORPG, Black Desert Online. The studio has since announced...

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Maingear offers BYO RAM for PC gaming DDR5 sticker shock

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 23, 2025
2 min

AI chips are driving up the cost of accompanying memory semiconductors, and that’s making gaming PCs and other gear more unaffordable. So Maingear announced...