Xbox has confirmed it is reducing the price of its top-end Game Pass subscription and will no longer include new Call of Duty releases on day of release, following internal communication from Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma stating that the service had "become too expensive for players". Sharma repeated the observation in a post on X anouncing the change.
The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has initiated legal action against Mindseye developer Build a Rocket Boy over alleged data privacy violations.
Japanese entertainment company Toei has established Toei Games, an in-house publishing label.
Sony is starting to introduce age verification for PlayStation users in the UK and Ireland to meet the requirements of the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA).
BAFTA said the reason it pulled an indie game trailer from last weekend's 2026 BAFTA Games Awards was a "compliance decision."
Venerable games media site Kotaku has announced the appointment of Rebekah Valentine as Senior Reporter, the brand's first significant hire since it was purchased from G/O Media by Swiss firm Keleops Media in July 2025. Valentine's arrival is the first of several planned by the site, which Keleops says has grown rapidly post-acquisition. Valentine previously worked at IGN and before that GamesIndustry.biz.
Organisers for Nordic Game 2026 have revealed the speakers for this year's Masterclass Friday programme.
GamesIndustry.biz will host The Games Investment Panel at Game Republic's Indie Games Summit during MCM London Comic Con next month.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 developer Iron Galaxy Studios has cut an unknown number of roles in response to "current market conditions."
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Dispatch were the standout titles at last week's BAFTA Awards, with both taking home three awards.
I am delighted to announce the return of the GamesIndustry.biz podcast, in response to popular demand. The previous incarnation of the show, anchored by James Batchelor and Chris Dring, became an industry staple, and we've had many, many requests for its return.
We talk a lot about the major challenges that the games business currently faces due to external economic factors, from fears of a consumer-spending-led recession through to price rises driven by component scarcity. That focus can sometimes overshadow other looming challenges – none of which, I would argue, is more potentially damaging and destabilising than the long-term impacts on industry staffing as a result of the past few years of massive layoffs.
Ahead of today's BAFTA Games Awards, GamesIndustry.biz sat down with BAFTA CEO Jane Millichip to discuss what's new this year and what might change in the future.
Roblox has released an agentic AI feature for its Roblox Studio tool for game creators, which it claims will turn text prompts into a game design document which the tool can then implement and test. "Creators can just describe what they want and Planning Mode will break down every step to make it, take feedback to refine the details, and implement the plan," the company said in a press release.
Alternative app store Aptoide has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging that it maintains an "anticompetitive chokehold" over third-party app stores.
I have just returned from a whirlwind two days flitting around the London Games Festival, which is rumbling on until the end of this week, with events like New Game Plus and the BAFTA Games Awards still to come.
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