The mandatory COVID lockdowns of 2020 inspired Big Walk. Melbourne-based developer House House – which was behind the 2019 hit Untitled Goose Game – wanted to create something that was about socialising outside with your friends at a time when this was impossible. But the devs had no idea it would take six years to complete.
Sassy Chap Games' Date Everything won Best LGBTQ+ Indie Game and the Gayming Fan Favourite Award at this year's Gayming Awards.
Last year, the digital distribution platform VaultN partnered with Take-Two Interactive, having already secured customers such as Bethesda, Team17, Landfall, and Curve.
Amazon remains committed to developing a Lord of the Rings game, despite recent reports of its MMO project being cancelled.
Türkiye's mobile revenue rose 6% in 2025 to $347 million, its highest annual total to date. Over the past six years, Turkish developer revenue has grown by 450% to $2.7 billion.
Youth marketing firm SuperAwesome has been appointed Roblox's commercial and technology partner for "under-13 contextual advertising."
Xbox Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball has given more insight into the firm's new commitment to platform exclusives, following the announcement yesterday that both Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution would not be available on non-Xbox platforms.
You might know Toys for Bob from the Skylanders franchise, as well as the 2018 Spyro Reignited Trilogy and 2020's Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. But you might not appreciate just how long this studio has been around. "We're actually one of the longest running game development studios in North America," studio head Paul Yan tells GamesIndustry.biz. "We just celebrated our 37 year anniversary this past April."
Nintendo of Europe has agreed to pay a €35 million fine after a French regulator found the company misled customers about Joy-Con drift defects on original Switch controllers.
Nintendo has announced a revised Switch 2 console for Europe to comply with legislation requiring replaceable batteries.
Xbox opened its summer showcase with the news that Gears of War E-day will not, after all, be releasing on PlayStation 5, and neither will inXile's Clockwork Revolution.
Crystal Dynamics has given more detail to GamesIndustry.biz on how it's using AI in the development of Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, following online backlash to the firm's disclosure in the Steam page for the game.
Summer Game Fest’s 2026 showcase seemed to cement a grim truth for western game-makers: Japanese studios are delivering more and more quality games hardcore players love than the west seems able to right now.
IO Interactive CEO Hakan Abrak says that the studio's recently-released 007 First Light is approaching three million copies sold, and while the game has yet to recoup its budget the goal is well below the $200 million budget previously reported. He says that conversations are ongoing about how the firm will work with Bond licence owner Amazon beyond the first year of content for the game.
Bayonetta dev PlatinumGames signed up to work on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin because the studio were "huge fans" of the IP, according to Dan Prigg, the head of the newly re-announced Paramount Games Studio. Platinum was announced as the developer of the game in the Summer Game Fest showcase today.
Pre-orders are already live for the UK and Ireland launch of the Nex Playground, which is set to ship towards the end of June. The console, which is aimed at families and employs motion-tracking technology – much like Microsoft's long-gone Kinect – proved to be a surprise hit in the United States, pushing the PlayStation 5 into third place for gaming hardware unit sales in November 2025.
Mobile studio Metacore has confirmed layoffs of 159 employees in Finland and the closure of its operations in Germany and Sweden.
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