Ubisoft Halifax workers form a union

Game Developer's top 10 games of the year - 2025 Wrap-Up

Chris Kerr's top 5 games of the year - 2025 Wrap-Up

Obituary: Famed developer Vince Zampella has passed away at age 55

Report: Naughty Dog employees hit with mandatory overtime on Intergalactic

Are these the 100 most influential games of all time? ft. Tanya Short - Game Developer Podcast Ep. 62

Who killed the game industry? Union workers make splash at Game Awards protest

NEW from me on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: I wasn’t going to write about the Larian AI backlash. Then I woke up at 5:30 this morning with a whole dang blog in my head. How can you know if your workers are “okay” with using genAI tools if you have so much power over them should they push back?

Dev backlash over Larian CEO's genAI praise is about leadership, not just tech

FIFA and Netflix partner for a new soccer game

The 10 game industry trends that made (and plagued) this year - 2025 Wrap-Up

Update: id Software producer Andrew Willis tells Game Developer that the union has "protected a pretty beloved IP from the volatility that the games industry has been through in the last few years." He added that this volatility may have been avoided if the industry were more "developer-led."

Tencent and Sony reach 'confidential settlement' on Horizon cloning lawsuit

Sucker Punch Productions studio head is stepping down

Update: New comments from CEO Swen Vincke shed further light on Larian's use of generative AI.

Larian CEO says studio is 'more or less OK' around gen AI push

After delay, Bungie's Marathon is set to be released in March

Ubisoft acquires March of Giants dev Amazon Games Montreal

Game Developer's 2025 Wrap-Up: The 10 events that defined the year

id Software workers form wall-to-wall union in response to mass Xbox layoffs

Dispatch devs share storytelling and co-dev secrets - Game Developer Podcast Ep. 61

Disney buys into OpenAI, another studio escapes Embracer, and The Game Awards trailers cost how much? - Patch Notes #34

Obituary: Ratchet & Clank voice actor Jim Ward has passed away at 66

Report: The Game Awards trailers can cost devs up to $1 million

UK Prime Minister promises to 'look into' Rockstar's firing of workers

Call of Duty ditches back-to-back releases of Modern Warfare and Black Ops

Major shareholder denounces Square Enix for 'sluggish' revenue and profit margins

Take-Two hires Perfect Dark studio leads for new team

Pokemon TCG Pocket, Dredge, & Cyberpunk win Apple Game of the Year honors

Paramount bid for Warner Bros. backed by EA acquisition group investors

Kingdom of Gaming event to debut in Saudi Arabia with state backing

Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada is leaving Bandai Namco

Report: iam8bit sues Skybound, alleging fraud

Yes, Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros. Games

Epic bets against Horses, Russia bans Roblox, and Saudi Arabia wants the majority of EA - Patch Notes #33 Plus: Netflix sells game studio back to its founders and more layoffs at Embracer.

"True, honest, earnest, fearless, curiosity-driven reporting and criticism of video games can be valuable. The highest quality execution of such work largely costs money to produce. Reporters gotta eat. Critics (most of them) need to wear clothes."

New Defunctland video is so good I needed to jot down how it can help game devs make better design decisions.

Wreckreation developer puts entire studio on redundancy notice

Three design lessons from Defunctland's deep dive into Disney's 'Living Characters'

Sony partners with J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Games as producer and publisher

EA makes eight more accessibility patents free-to-use

Roblox banned in Russia for hosting LGBTQ+ content

'We survive or fail on our own terms:' The rise and risk of independent game media

NEW: Horses hasn’t been banned from the Humble Store after all. It was taken down briefly today for a reevaluation but is now available for purchase on the marketplace. Full statement on the situation from @santaragione.com below:

Marathon stolen art assets issue 'solved' with Bungie and Sony

Report: Netflix to sell Spry Fox back to founders

Hideo Kojima to deliver Keynote at GDC 2026

Report: Embracer-owned Eidos-Montreal lays off staff

Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA after buyout

Horses banned from Epic Games Store just 24 hours before launch