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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. 

This is a press release posted in addition to our usual editorial content. DAVE THE DIVER developer Mintrocket revealed the release date for the forthcoming ‘In the Jungle’ DLC, launching on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 platforms on June 18th worldwide. ‘In the Jungle’ sees …

After eight months in Early Access and ongoing community-driven updates, German indie developer and publisher ByteRockers’ Games has now launched the full 1.0 version of Net.Attack() – Code or Die! on Steam. Net.Attack() – Code or Die! puts a unique coding spin on the bullet heaven genre: players program their attack patterns in a visual coding interface. It has 190+ drag-and-drop nodes, as well as synergising optimisation picks and run-defining modification drops. ​ ​ ​

NC America has announced a partnership with independent developer emptyvessel to publish the close-quarters cyberpunk shooter DEFECT. The agreement enables NC America to publish emptyvessel’s intense, tactical shooter on multiple platforms at a date yet to be revealed. 

Ryan Lastimosa joins Devoted Studios as Studio Art Director. A more than two-decade AAA veteran behind Apex Legends, Titanfall, and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – his decision to make this move says something about where the industry is headed.

Team17 and Beehive Studios are proud to announce that Lumentale: Memories of Trey is coming to Steam and Nintendo Switch 1 on May 26th 2026! Explore the Italian-inspired region of Talea, catch over one hundred Animon of different varieties, assemble your team and cook hundreds of meals in a brand-new Monster-Collector from the minds behind Xenoverse: Per Aspera Ad Astra, with a beautifully written, story-driven approach.

Entity Component System (ECS) architectures have become a standard approach for scaling modern games. They offer predictable performance, efficient memory usage, and a clean way to extend gameplay logic.

Nitrado and Hathora announced today that they are working together to provide Hathora customers with a structured and supported transition to GameFabric by Nitrado following Hathora’s decision to wind down gaming operations, as the team will work on compute orchestration for AI inference at scale. The collaboration is designed to give studios and game operators a clear path forward, with hands-on migration support focused on continuity, stability, and minimising disruption to live operations.

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 …

Second edition follows tangible business wins for attendees in 2025 Following a successful inaugural event that resulted in confirmed new partnerships and commercial deals for attendees, Games Meets Music returns for its second year with an expanded programme aimed squarely at developers, publishers and commercial leaders. Launched in 2025 to …