The Game Developers Conference has revealed the details behind its rebrand as "GDC Festival of Gaming," following a month of almost entirely negative speculation following the brand announcement in September. The show returns to San Francisco from 9th-13th March next year.
Ubisoft has announced plans to offer voluntary redundancies to staff at its Swedish subsidiary Massive Entertainment.
Borderlands 4 dominated the US charts for September, helping drive a 10% growth in consumer spending to $4.8 billion alongside new releases and Switch 2 hardware sales.
Over 40% of adolescent gamers in the US avoid media depicting women in a "stereotypical and harmful way", according to a new study.
Microsoft has reportedly hiked up the cost of its Xbox Series X/S dev kits (XDK) from $1500 to $2000.
12 Welsh game studios have collectively secured over £580,000 (c.$775,000) to "help them to develop innovative video games and immersive experiences for commercial release."
The GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit 2025 took place on October 2 at the Royal Institution in London, with more than 60 industry leaders and studios sharing their insights and advice.
Rovio has announced layoffs affecting 36 employees in response to Angry Birds Dream Blast underperforming.
Over a quarter of game developers in Europe experienced layoffs in 2024/25, with 10.4% of those still searching for new roles.
Sports Interactive and FIFA have signed a new multi-year partnership to bring official licences for FIFA's "biggest competitions to the Football Manager series, including the FIFA World Cup 26 held in Canada, Mexico and USA."
Web-based services across the world – including Fortnite, Roblox, PlayStation Network, and more, including major banks – are starting to cover after Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down earlier today.
Employees from Blizzard's Hearthstone and Warcraft Rumble teams have "voted strongly in favour" to unionise with Communications Workers of America (CWA).
Beethoven & Dinosaur's narrative adventure Mixtape won Game of the Year at the SXSW Sydney 2025: Games Showcase Awards.
One of the concerns that is often voiced about "new" business models – we're really going to have to stop calling F2P and live service "new" at some point – is that they can bring the business needs of a game in conflict with the demands of good game design.
The south tends to dominate things in the United Kingdom. London in particular tends to suck in all the jobs and opportunities like a black hole. And of course, the UK's premier games industry conference, Develop, is about as far south as you can get, located on the (sometimes) sunny shores of Brighton.
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