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“This means treating indie developers like superstars and their games like global franchises"
Read More »Warner Bros veteran Crossley partners with Heaven Media to launch Digital Matters Publishing
Indie Showcase finalists announced for Develop:Brighton
"The final ten really impressed us with their inventiveness, top rate game-feel and stunning audio-visual design."
Read More »Technology and the market will set the cost of triple-A productions – it’s not an inevitable and negative escalation
The idea that the industry will stagnate because of rising costs is a historically flawed argument based on historical data
Read More »South Korea will force Apple and Google to allow other in-app payment systems
Fines will be up to three per cent of total revenue
Read More »Xbox signs multi-year partnership with all of England’s national football teams
“When Everyone Plays, We All Win.”
Read More »Epic Games Store takes first step to Steam-styled self-publishing with closed beta
“This is the first step towards opening up the store so all developers can submit products.”
Read More »Outriders developer in the dark over sales and suspects title hasn’t broken even yet
People Can Fly president Sebastian Wojciechowski uses blog post to discuss the lack of royalty payments to date from Square Enix
Read More »Thunderful acquires fledgling studio To The Sky – looks to invest $5m in its first title
Swedish studio is led by former EA Ghost Games development director Jugo Mirkovic
Read More »Gaining observability over multiplayer games – “Out-of-the-box observability gives you the ability to know what’s going on, but more importantly what is going wrong.”
Would you like increased transparency over the state of the backend systems as you launch and scale? [This content was created with Improbable]
Read More »Mod Mode – a legal view on mods and your game
"Modding can present some thorny legal issues which developers heading down this path should bear in mind"
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