Mobile studio Dream Games nets $155 million in funding at $1 billion valuation
Turkish mobile studio Dream Games has raised $155 million in Series B funding to continue supporting its debut title,
Royal Match.
Finding hope in the maniacal absurdity of The Game Band's Blaseball
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Blaseball emulates the brokenness of systems that we see around us; the absurdity lets us step back from it, laugh, and maybe learn a little bit."
Don't Miss: Designing unsettling 'hidden horror' in Layers of Fear
Rafal Basaj, producer at Bloober Team, talked with us about
Layers of Fear, and his studio's brand of personal, unsettling horror game design.
SNKRX: anatomy of a sleeper hit
It’s time for a deeper dive into the sleeper success of SNKRX, the "arcade shooter roguelite where you control a snake of heroes that automatically attack nearby enemies."
Get a job: Aardman Animations is hiring a Technical Animator for games
Aardman Animations looking for a Technical Animator to join us at the beginning of an exciting new project.
Developers express ire over PlayStation's promotional policies
A number of smaller developers are sharing details today about seemingly unfavorable conditions selling games on the PlayStation store.
Blog: 12 basic principles of interactive character behavior
Developers and players agree that innovation in character AI has largely come to a halt. This blog series is about finding a way forward, so let's start by taking a look at the concept of 'behavior.'
Game writer Sam Maggs is your host for the 2021 Game Developers Choice Awards
Bestselling game, TV, and comics writer Sam Maggs is your host for the 2021 Game Developers Choice Awards.
Room 8 Group opens Montreal studio to offer external support to more developers
Room 8 Group has opened a new studio in Canada to provide creative, development, and management services to development partners working on free-to-play mobile titles and console games.
Former Riot Games devs band together to establish new studio Amihan Entertainment
A group of former Riot Games developers have established a new studio called Amihan Entertainment.
Blog: When is it time to rewrite your code?
A working system is a valuable asset. It works. It lets you test new ideas cheaply. Don’t take that for granted.
Funcom acquires majority stake in Metal: Hellsinger developer The Outsiders
Conan Exiles developer Funcom has acquired a majority stake in Swedish game studio The Outsiders for an undisclosed fee.
Xbox boss talks mergers and acquisitions, says telling studios not to sell is 'short-sighted'
"If a team actually takes the risk of starting a new company, starting a new studio, building that over years, building value in that. To say they shouldn’t sell, I think, is just short-sighted."
Vela Games raises $17.3 million to create debut co-op title codenamed 'Project-V'
Vela Games, the Dublin-based studio established in 2018 by a group of former Riot and EA developers, has raised $17.3 million in Series A funding to build out its debut title.
PUBG owner Krafton buys interactive content production company Thingsflow
South Korean video game company Krafton has acquired Thingsflow Inc, the interactive production company behind chat-based content platform Hellobot.
Konami and The Medium dev Bloober Team partner to create new games
Konami Digital Entertainment has signed a strategic partnership with
The Medium developer Bloober Team to create games based on existing and new properties.
Playing with expectation to create tension in Local Space Survey Corps, LLC's Vessels
Vessels is a game of ever-shifting identities and pretending to be who you need to be to stay alive, doing anything you can to get out of being dumped into space.
Get a job: Hinterland Studio is hiring a Systems Design Lead
Hinterland Studio is looking for a veteran systems (gameplay) designer to join an early prototyping team for an original unannounced game.
Casey Hudson's new Humanoid Studios focuses on the charm of small, agile teams
Longtime BioWare general manager Casey Hudson has revealed his next adventure after departing BioWare last year: A new game development studio with a small, agile team and flat organization structure at its center.
Magic: Legends is shutting down in beta, refunds promised for in-game purchases
All player purchases made during the beta period will be refunded, while
Magic: Legends is slated to go offline this year.
Playground winds down new content for Forza Horizon 4 as Horizon 5 draws near
Forza Horizon 5 is right around the corner, but the launch of a new game means less time to focus on delivering new content to its predecessor.
GDC 2021 will feature an Xsolla Devnote on the state of the game industry
Don’t miss Xsolla's sponsored Devnote on the state of the game industry at GDC 2021.
Blog: How to pitch a video game
A summary of my experience and knowledge on video game pitching I gathered over the course of years in the games industry.
Thunderful names former [email protected] director as chief strategy and investment officer
Lonely Mountains: Downhill and
SteamWorld Quest publisher Thunderful has named former
[email protected] director Agostino Simonetta as its new chief strategy and investment officer.
Iron Galaxy hires diversity, equity and inclusion program lead to build inclusive teams
Wreckateer and
Killer Instinct Season 2 and 3 developer Iron Galaxy Studios has named Rejess Marshall as its new program lead of diversity, equity and inclusion.