Games industry events

BAFTA has announces the nominations for the 22nd BAFTA Games Awards 2026, highlighting an outstanding level of creative excellence from a broad range of UK and international development teams. A total of 42 games across 17 categories were nominated today. View the full list of nominated games here. The 22nd BAFTA Games Awards will take place at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London on Friday 17 April 2026. The Awards will be available to watch on BAFTA YouTube here. 

Accessibility in games is increasingly discussed as both a design discipline and an industry expectation, but it’s still too often approached late in development. Game Jam for All, delivered by Tencent in partnership with the University of Staffordshire, set out to flip that thinking by making accessibility the starting point of the brief.

The MCV/DEVELOP Awards return on Thursday, June 18, 2026, heading back to the glorious Royal Lancaster Hotel, overlooking London’s Hyde Park.  BUT THERE'S NOT LONG LEFT TO ENTER!

Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams seeking AI innovation at scale, today announced a series of community initiatives, including a conversation with Tom Guillermin, co-founder of Sandfall Interactive — the studio behind Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, that will kick off at the 2026 GDC Festival of Gaming Conference. Each initiative is designed to connect, inform, and empower the artists, technical directors, and pipeline engineers creating tomorrow's digital worlds and experiences.

Battlefield 6 Dev Director Anna Norrevik has been announced as a headline speaker at Europe’s premier B2B games conference, Nordic Game Spring 2026 (NG26), which returns on 26–29 May to Malmö’s iconic Slagthuset venue.

Facepunch Studios, the developers behind Rust and Garry’s Mod two of the biggest selling games on Steam, are officially sponsoring DreamHack Birmingham this March. 

The 6th annual Games Growth Summit returns on 4th June at RSM Global in Farringdon, bringing together industry leaders to explore growth, resilience, and the evolving future of the games sector. Organisers are pleased to announce the first speakers confirmed for this year’s event, with two compelling sessions set to …

MCV/DEVELOP has announced Into Games as the charity being supported for the MCV/DEVELOP Awards 2026. The MCV/DEVELOP Awards have been around for over 20 years, and aim to recognise the successes of the UK games industry in every area that it excels, from innovations in game creation, to accomplishments in …

The Insomnia Gaming Festival team and their partners confirmed, after much consideration, the difficult decision to cancel i74, which was scheduled to take place from 30 April to 3 May 2026 at the Staffordshire County Showground. All ticket holders and booked exhibitors will receive a full refund, which has already …

ESL FACEIT Group (EFG), the global leader in esports and video game entertainment, and ZOWIE, the renowned gaming brand by BenQ, have today announced the expansion of their partnership in key global Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) competitions.