Publishing

NC (formerly NCSOFT) has announced that it will transition the global publishing service of Throne and Liberty from Amazon Game Studios to its own online publishing services this year.

GamesAid, the UK's games industry charity, has appointed six new trustees to its board - including Dom Shaw as Vice Chair, Amelia Suchy as Treasurer and Catherine Anderson as Secretary - as £82,000 raised in the 2025/26 financial year begins making a tangible difference for the seriously ill, disabled and neurodivergent children and young people it supports.

Amazon Games and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have announced Batman: Caped Crusader — Chronicles, a brand-new interactive experience developed in collaboration with Blazing Griffin, the Glasgow-based independent studio behind detective and mystery games Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin. The game launches exclusively on Amazon Luna — Amazon's cloud gaming service — as part of its GameNight collection on 31st July 2026, the same day Season 2 of Batman: Caped Crusader premieres globally on Prime Video.

This is a press release posted alongside our usual editorial content. CodeDev Group today officially announces the launch of its new studio, Full Spectrum Interactive (FSI). Building off the group’s expert-first ethos, the new studio is steered by a core team of UK game development veterans, and is set to …

Research by distribution platform Playgama shows the number of HTML5 games released in the first half of 2025 had almost tripled year-on-year to 15,000. That's also 4.9 times the number that launched in H1 2023. Fellow distribution service Poki reports that it is seeing 100m monthly active users in 2026, up an order of magnitude since 2020's 10m.

The Ukraine Pavilion will return to gamescom 2026 in Cologne, bringing together leading Ukrainian game development companies and independent studios to showcase their projects, services and expertise to the global games industry.

Frontier Developments has announced the appointment of Dan Lazarides as Chief Marketing Officer. Dan will join the studio’s Executive Board and lead Frontier’s publishing and commercial teams across all current and upcoming projects, reinforcing Frontier’s player-first approach.

Raptor PR, the B2B communications agency behind leading games industry, media & technology brands, today announces the launch of EGG (Early Gaming Growth), an integrated communications, reputation and growth-building platform designed for early-stage gaming technology companies.

Into Games, the UK charity widening access to games careers, has published a new evaluation of Boost, its paid work placement programme, showing that 88% of participants went on to full-time, part-time, or major freelance work in the industry after their placements ended. The charity is now raising £25,000 to fund at least 10 further placements for its 2026 cohort.

Marking 10 years of providing indie game developers and publishers with key marketing and creative support, Game If You Are is today celebrating with a fresh brand overhaul and a new initiative intended to provide indies with a low cost way to promote their games in the current market.