Influence

The Playing for the Planet Alliance today unveiled “Beyond the Endgame: How Climate and Nature Enhance Game Narratives”, a new resource designed to help game studios integrate themes of climate, nature, and the environment into the worlds and stories they create. The guidance was commissioned by Playing for the Planet and produced by Context Collab (home of the Hollywood Climate Summit) and the Rewrite the Future project at NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council).

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 …

A free platform that matches developers, publishers and creators with charity initiatives and causes they care about – Cause+Select, a new web platform built to connect people and studios in games with charity campaigns has been announced and is now officially live in beta stage. The platform is completely free …

Richie Shoemaker has taken shore leave from steering the good ship Debug++ to talk with Catt Small, executive director of Game Devs Of Color

We caught up with Sky Tunley-Stainton, Safe In Our World’s Partnerships and Training Manager, to learn more about its brand-new Mental Health Star Accreditation

Unless you’re familiar with the excellent Access-Ability blog and newsletter, you may not have heard that there’s a new podcast on the way. Called Ctrl, Alt, Access and hosted by accessibility advocates LauraKBuzz and Arevya, the twice-monthly show aims to shine even more light on gaming accessibility issues than the …

For the third year in a row, the developer community told us that flexibility is the most crucial factor influencing their decision to stay in a job or move elsewhere. As technology businesses fight to retain talent to stay ahead in the GenAI era, the question arises – why are they not prioritising remote work?

Renaissance PR was acquired by 1SP Agency last week. We checked in with both companies to ask some questions about the acquisition, and what it’ll mean for them going forward

Voting for this year’s MCV/DEVELOP Awards is now open!

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