Development
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Feature | The games industry's response to AI? Reverence and rage
"Now some f***ing website draws better pictures than me."
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American McGee asks fans to "respect his decision to move on" after EA "killed" a third Alice game
"We are not 'giving up' any more than a person hit by a bus is 'giving up'".
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Women in Games CEO warns "we are going backwards as an industry"
"None of this is okay, none of this should be happening!"
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Former Halo director Joseph Staten has now left Microsoft entirely
"I thank my Xbox colleagues for all their understanding and support as I embark on a new adventure."
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GDC 2023 attendees were reportedly subjected to abuse, assault, and drink spiking
UPDATE: GDC responds.
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Creative Assembly announces new UK studio, Creative Assembly North
"Starting a new development studio from scratch is incredibly exciting."
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Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition was released to preserve the original game
"It looked like it could become unplayable. So, a remaster project was set up."
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Diablo 1 and 2 co-creator Erich Schaefer joins Moon Beast to "redefine the action-RPG genre"
"It fired up my imagination, and that’s why I wanted to come aboard."
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Ubisoft is "working on a strategic reorganisation of its European business"
"This process is ongoing and we don’t have any more detail to share at this stage."
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Check out the World of Sanctuary in this new Diablo 4 BTS video series
"The art style in Diablo 4 is shadowed and macabre, reminiscent of Diablo 2."
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Sega commits to a 30% pay rise for existing staff to "strengthen its global competitiveness"
"We are reforming so that employees can maximise their potential in a comfortable environment."
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Tencent scales back VR hardware plans
"Under the company's new strategy as a whole, it no longer quite fit in."
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Double Fine PsychOdyssey is a 20+ hour series documenting the development of Psychonauts 2
"The studio confronts overly ambitious designs, poor morale, technical challenges, and financial woes."
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NetEase has acquired Skybox Labs
"We will also be able to accelerate our plans to pursue new creative opportunities."
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Keywords Studios opens new Romanian studio
It's "offering remote positions and contributing to the development of regions that have not been visible to most companies."
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Halo Infinite's multiplayer creative director parts ways with 343 Industries
"I couldn't be more proud of my time at 343."
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Marvel's Midnight Suns contains "65,000 lines of voice dialogue"
"...and, gosh, more branching choices than you could imagine."
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Guildford.Games Ltd wants to "bring the talent within Guildford to the attention of the world"
"Guildford is a video-game-development hub that deserves to be celebrated."
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Bayonetta 3 was reportedly "scoped as a semi open-world game"
But it "kept falling apart when it came to pacing".
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Find out more about Forspoken's "magic-enhanced parkour" in this new BTS video
Use your i-magic-nation.