The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has launched a new investigation into 10 "popular mobile games" to assess how they safeguard their youngest users.
The performer behind Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach, Samantha Béart, has lamented the "disconnect" that exists between how developers and the audience perceive them.
Australian developer Team Cherry has said it was "unfortunate" that the release of its eagerly-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong was disruptive to the launch of other indie games.
UK trade bodies Ukie and TIGA have both called on the government to improve the tax relief available to the games industry, after the measure went unaddressed in this week’s Autumn Budget.
Earlier this month, Sony followed Nintendo’s lead by launching a Japan-only version of the PS5 that’s priced at a significant discount to the console’s SRP everywhere else in the world. The first sales data to come in since the launch suggests that the gambit has, unsurprisingly, been quite popular; sales of the PS5 quadrupled in Japan (from an admittedly low starting point) in the first week of the new version being on sale, though the real impact is most likely to be felt in boosted hardware sales around major software launches.
Sega has cautioned against releasing "definitive editions," intimating players are "hesitant to make purchases" of day one games for fear of missing out on the subsequent release of content-complete editions.