Development

Students can meet with over 60 studios and 3000+ devs at next year's free Guildford.Games Festival

"It isn't just about celebrating the present; it's about nurturing the future of gaming."

UKIE diversity initiative #RaiseTheGame launches its new Empower Up Toolkit

"Empower Up is suitable for all games companies, wherever they are on their EDI journey."

Modern Warfare 3 was "a labour of love" and "years in the making", says Sledgehammer Games

"Anything said to the contrary is simply not true – this is our game, and we cannot wait to play it with you."

Super Mario RPG has been developed by Dragon Quest studio ArtePiazza

It's a-me, Arte!

Konami is looking to employ game creators for "large-scale" Silent Hill projects

"A chance to be involved in game production in a cutting-edge development environment."

The Last of Us multiplayer director confirms: "Yes, I’m still working on that game"

Naughty Slog.

PlayStation's Visual Arts is the latest games company hit by layoffs

"I knew this layoff wave was coming."

CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months

"Having a union means having more security, transparency, better protection, and a stronger voice in times of crisis."

Starfield was made to be played "for a very long time"

Todd Howard says it's one of the things the studio has learned "from previous games".

Women in Games' next conference asks "what's being done to disrupt norms and bring fairness for women?"

"There are still challenges facing women in games and esports, and women and girls playing games online."

Next Mass Effect will ditch open world and return to series' "classic format", insider teases

Stay massy.

Stalker 2 developer GSC Game World's servers have been damaged by a fire at its Prague office

"We've dealt with worse than that before. This is fine."

Baldur's Gate 3's director hasn't completely ruled out DLC

"You'd need different stakes, different environments, different protagonists, and antagonists, but it's not undoable".

The Chinese Room is developing Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Fangtastic.

Baldur's Gate 3 "feels so alive" because it used mo-cap and 248 actors to bring its characters to life

"Which means Shadowheart's iconic head wiggles were Jen’s actual head wiggles."

The Chinese Room reveals how Still Wakes the Deep's environment will evolve

Rig Bang Theory.

Bethesda's Head of Publishing hits back at Starfield's start screen criticism

"Questioning out a developer's 'care' is highly unprofessional coming from another 'dev'."

Blizzard notes Overwatch 2's review bombs but insists players say it's "in the best state it's ever been"

"If we can’t turn back the clock, then what can we do? We can keep adding to and improving Overwatch 2."

Destiny 2 is "heading into creative territories Bungie has never explored before"

"We're changing some things up in a big way with an all-new mechanic."

Diablo 4's next patch will buff Sorcerers and Barbarians

"We're working on it right now."

Lost Ark thanks you for playing "despite the game not being perfect"

"I express my gratitude and will strive to fix other inconveniences as fast as possible."

Amnesia developer Frictional Games plans to "cut back a bit" on horror games

"I am confident that these games will still feel like Frictional ones."

Fable's narrative lead leaves Playground Games

"Working on Fable was a dream come true for me, and it's wrenching to leave it behind."

GTA 6 hacker has been deemed unfit to stand trial

Teen threatened to release GTA 6's source code in a Slack message, say prosecutors.

Here's when you'll be able to play Skullgirls 2nd Encore on current-gen Xbox consoles

The long-delayed Xbox version has suddenly popped up on the Xbox store.