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“While relying on the cloud might eat up your budget, relying on bare metal alone might not allow a studio to scale up fast enough if a game becomes popular.” [In association with Improbable]

"One of the top pieces of feedback we've received from parents about the Xbox Family Settings app is to include options to track and manage kids' spending"

The winners of the 2021 Green Game Jam, organised by the UN-facilitated Playing for the Planet Alliance, have been announced.

“The team at Shiro is proud of what we’ve built over the years and are driven to apply that collective knowledge and experience to lifting up other talented independent studios"

"Expanding on the opportunities that developers have to generate revenue opens up more opportunities for player engagement and content creation, which ends up benefitting our community."

Timbre Games is Sumo's second studio in Canada, and its 14th overall, with the Group now employing over 1100 people across three continents.

Work on bringing cross-progression to Apex Legends has been frustrated by a recent spate of hacks

"To allow very young children to pay cash for a randomised event that may or may not reward them that would meet any definition of gambling"

The two events will celebrate the best unreleased game in the UK and across Europe, with UK Game of the Show taking place on Tuesday 24th August.

EA has made changes to their Dual Entitlement program, and has restricted free next-gen upgrades for FIFA 22 and Madden NFL 22 to players who purchase the more expensive special editions of the games.