UK games industry made record $3.84 billion economic contribution in 2019

The UK games industry made a record £2.91 billion ($3.84 billion) contribution to the country's national economy in 2019. ...



Blog: A postmortem of asynchronous 1v1 horror title Antithesis

Antithesis is an asynchronous 1v1 horror multiplayer game involving a player on PC and a player in VR. Here's how it was made. ...



The Last of Us Part II dominates The Game Awards 2020

The Last of Us Part II took home the top prize at The Game Awards 2020, which returned last night to celebrate the games industry's best and brightest. ...



Blog: How to make a decent game trailer for less than $100

Squeaky Wheel CEO and lead artist Ryan Sumo shares some key concepts to consider when making a low budget trailer for your game. ...



Get a job: LTU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Game Design

We are looking for outstanding and potentially unconventional candidates for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Game Design program. ...



The Game Awards' Future Class highlights 50 people shaping the future of the game industry

A new initiative from The Game Awards aims to highlight those making waves in the game industry and are helping to shape its "bright, bold and inclusive" future. ...



Best of 2020: Nintendo Switch Game Sales - The Three Biggest Misconceptions

The Nintendo Switch is still probably still the hottest console platform for small and medium-sized indies looking to launch on multiple platforms - but what are people getting wrong about it? ...



Revived Telltale isn't developing its next episodic game episode-by-episode

Telltale--that is, the group that revived the studio and some properties after its sudden closure a few years back--has shared a small update on the state of some of its products. ...



Blog: Integrating Joustus in Shovel Knight: King of Cards - Part 3

It†™s time for the final entry in our Joustus deep dive. In this lesson, we†™ll describe the vast metagame that we needed to develop while integrating Joustus in King of Cards. ...



Don't Miss: From The Witcher 3 to Cyberpunk - The evolution of CD Projekt's quest design

We caught up with the quest director of Cyberpunk 2077 to learn more about how his team has adapted to making content for a nonlinear RPG. ...



CD Projekt Red boasts 8 million preorders for Cyberpunk 2077

However we won't know exactly what sales look like for CD Projekt Red's latest until the Polish company's next financial report (or maybe a future celebratory tweet). ...



Zynga-owned Rollic acquires Onnect from dev Chef Game Studio for $6 million

Zynga subsidiary Rollic is now the owner of the matching game Onnect, following a $6 million deal with the casual game's developer Chef Game Studio. ...



Video: How embedded QA can improve games accessibility

In this 2017 GDC session, the BBC's Hannah Bunce discusses the issues raised in training a QA team to effectively test games accessibility in children's games. ...



Bad Robot Games' first in-house dev studio will create 'cross-medium' franchises

Bad Robot Games has established a new in-house development studio to create original properties for all platforms. ...



Control has surpassed 2 million sales 15 months after launch

Control has surpassed 2 million sales after 15 months on sale, according to the latest figures from developer Remedy Entertainment.  ...