Get a job: Bit Fry Game Studios is hiring a (potentially remote!) Gameplay Engineer

This mid-to-senior level engineer will join an ongoing product and will be required to innovate major gameplay systems for fast-paced, networked games. ...



GameStop closes FY2020 with a net sales decline (despite a 191% surge in e-commerce)

A powerful pivot to online business slowed the fall, but wasn't enough to completely offset what can only be described as a complicated year for GameStop. ...



2K acquires and rebrands HookBang game division as Visual Concepts Austin

2K has acquired the game division of software design and development company HookBang for an undisclosed fee. ...



Amazon sets up new game development studio in Montreal

Amazon Games joins the growing list of game studios set up in Montreal with the creation of its fourth development studio. ...



Nintendo and Niantic creating new AR apps including unnamed Pikmin project

Nintendo has partnered with Pokemon Go developer Niantic to create a range of new augmented reality titles for mobile. ...



Report: Upgraded Switch arriving this year with new Nvidia SoC and DLSS support

The next iteration of the Nintendo Switch will pack more memory and an upgraded CPU thanks to a new Nvidia system-on-chip. ...



Blog: How and why to write low spoiler hints for adventure games

Low spoiler hints for adventure games are more difficult to write than walkthroughs, but spoilers are no fun either. ...



Report: Microsoft in talks to acquire Discord for over $10 billion

Microsoft is interested in acquiring Discord in a deal that could be worth more than $10 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. ...



How players use the Switch eShop in 2021

A new survey asks 11,000 Nintendo Switch players a bunch of questions, and we wanted to highlight the eShop section & talk about takeaways for devs and publishers. ...



Get a job: Join Jackbox Games as its International Games Lead

We are looking for an experienced business leader to build and manage a development team focused on international expansion. ...



Xbox is dropping the Xbox Live services branding in favor of the 'Xbox network'

Xbox is abandoning the Xbox Live moniker its online spaces have used for ages, and will instead refer to those spaces as the Xbox network moving forward. ...



Report: Discord is looking for a buyer, price tag could exceed $10 billion

Discord has reportedly put pen to paper on an exclusive acquisition discussion and is in a serious conversation about selling itself to another company. ...



Rainbow Six Siege is still hitting new concurrent player peaks on Steam

New seasonal content timed alongside a free week scheduled makes for an appealing time for the masses to flock toward Ubisoft's team-versus-team tactical showdown. ...



Don't Miss: Creating dynamic audio in the destructible levels of Rainbow Six: Siege

In this deep dive, audio director Louis Philippe Dion explores how the Siege dev team used strategically placed nodes to calculate the flow of sound in ever-changing, destructible battlegrounds. ...



Report: Sony to shutter PSP, PS3, and PS Vita storefronts this summer

Sony is preparing to shut down the PlayStation 3, PS Vita, and PlayStation Portable marketplaces later this year. ...