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Every month, we pick the brain of an up-and-coming talent. This month's Rising Star is Billie McMillan, UX designer at Sega Hardlight

For our third regional spotlight, we take you to Germany. Destination: Hamburg. Following a successful transition from free-to-play browser games to much much more, the ‘epicenter of gaming in Germany’ has a lot to offer, from an excellent quality of life to the support of an incomparable cluster of games talent

Every month Jagex’s developers visit us from Runescape’s Gielinor to talk about their latest adventures. This month Nicholas Beliaeff, SVP game development, provides an overarching way to think about making games

"We've been getting thousands if not tens of thousands of hateful, threatening messages across every possible platform nonstop," Glumberland said after it signed an exclusivity deal with Epic for the PC release of Ooblets

"The ratio of projects getting funded is at its highest ever"

Cherry picked advice to help you reach the next level in your career – this month, Genba Digital’s head of commercial Charlotte Cook tells us more about the ins and outs of digital distribution and what’s needed to thrive in a start-up a team

Following up on Sega’s acquisition of Two Point Studios, we have a chat with Bobby Wertheim, who works at Sega’s incubation programme Searchlight. He details why the firm wants to acquire indie studios, what we can expect from the publishing label and what the process is like when you sign up with Searchlight

Koch Media’s new office, dedicated to the Central Eastern Europe market, will open in October

"A vulnerability was exploited and that list became public. We regret this happened and are sorry," the ESA said following the leak

FIFA 19 charted at No.2, with the Switch version selling particularly well week-on-week