As a composer, Filippo Beck Peccoz worked closely with the German studio Mimimi Games – known for titles like Desperados 3 and Shadow Gambit – until its closure in 2023. Beyond that, he has created music for a wide range of indie games, including Tavern Talk by Gentle Troll Entertainment and Innkeep by Boot Disk Games.
UK indie The Chinese Room, which divested from Tencent-owned Sumo Group last year, has announced a partnership with newly-mined publishing label Lyrical Games, which was itself launched last year by veterans of former Take-Two label Private Division.
Scopely has acquired an undisclosed majority stake in Loom Games, the developer of mobile title Pixel Flow.
Starbreeze Entertainment has released its 2025 financial results, with revenue rising from SEK 185.9 million ($20.5 million) to SEK 221 million ($24.5 million).
Football (soccer) commentator, Guy Mowbray, has given Electronic Arts permission to "replicate his voice" via AI to generate player names.
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 commercial for trivializing sexual violence.
Full of Cats developer Devcats has expanded into publishing to "lend their expertise to indie developers." Its first published title is Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery from Nobody Crown.
Global video game content sales grew 5.3% to $195.6 billion in 2025, while private funding fell another 55%.
Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group reportedly served as the "lead financial backer" of Highguard developer Wildlight Entertainment.
Contractor management platform Mellow has launched a support program for indie developers to reduce operational costs.
US consumer spending on video games is expected to rise 3% to $62.8 billion in 2026, according to data from Circana.
UK PR and comms mainstay Bastion has opened a North American office, headed by US veteran Rebekah Nicodemus, to serve gaming clients in North America.
Valve has confirmed that the Steam Deck OLED may be "intermittently" unavailable in some regions due to the ongoing RAM shortage.
Veteran game developer Shutaro Īda has died aged 52 following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Nintendo has issued a fresh batch of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices to several emulators using repositories on GitHub.
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