Game industry business news

Chris Wallace gets behind the scenes of Bonfire Peaks. A contemplative, sombre puzzle game that pulls inspiration from the Beach Boys, because of course it does.

“Dinga is an incredible talent we’re delighted to be honouring at The Develop:Star Awards"

The game development fund that has helped finance the production of Sifu and Godfall, has announced that it has hit a new revenue milestone of $150m

“This purchase helps increase our visibility and activity in America whilst strengthening our offering in the field of the game merchandise business in Europe for our own portfolio, and importantly for other Embracer companies and games partners within the industry”

The new partners are as follows: Die Gute Fabrik, Evening Star, Piccolo Studio (of Arise: A Simple Story fame) and Yellow Brick Games. 

Gunzilla Games has reasoned that to create an era-defining next-gen multiplayer shooter, it needs some serious narrative firepower to back it up. Richie Shoemaker fired some questions over to Neill Blomkamp, Richard K. Morgan and Olivier Henriot, as well as Gunzilla co-founder Alexander Zoll, to gauge what calibre of game we might end up with as a result

Payload Studios has already begun the process of inviting a new intake of gaming start-ups to apply to join it’s Tentacle Zone Incubator. Richie Shoemaker sits down with program director Nisha Valand to find out what’s changed for 2022, before catching up last year’s founder intake

Ukie’s second Diversity Census illustrates the pandemic’s effects on our mental health and working habits, as well as raising questions about promotion opportunities for for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic workers

Izzy Jagan, junior global PR manager at Square Enix, talks about her varied role and the need to listen to people with different perspectives

“Fireshine Games is an exciting new chapter for our publishing business"