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Surviving Mars and the long-running Cities Skylines are both selling faster than a new-build semi in the southeast, so is the city-building genre having a renaissance?

Andy Parton recently joined Sega Amusements as lead developer, developing arcade machines for Sega themselves. We chat to him about the new role.  Congratulations on the amazing new job! What inspired you about Sega Amusements to come and join them? It’s every game programmer’s dream, at least from my generation, …

Game director Paul ‘Rushy’ Rustchynsky reportedly among the casualties

Strong week for Microsoft titles

Ravi Vijh is account director at Bastion, a PR agency that has been ‘briefing and steering’ in games for 25 years. We need to talk about influencers. More specifically, we need to talk about how influencers have become a key sector in the make-up of modern media and – usually …

Develop:Brighton has announced record attendance figures for Develop:Brighton’s 2019 iteration, with 2,369 attendees over three days at Brighton’s Hilton Metropole hotel. This is a nine per cent increase, year on year, in attendance for the Brighton games event. “I’d like to thank all our speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and attendees for …

UK retail and event outfit GAME has shuffled its senior management team, with several senior departures as David Howard moves from UK retail and property director to the role of UK managing director. This news comes from GamesIndustry.Biz, who dug into the story. Howard will now oversee all commercial and …

Every month in Fresh Meat we check in with a new and upcoming developer. This month we chat to Hangar 13’s Brighton studio head, Nick Baynes, and VP of development, Andy Wilson

“We don’t just find the best students anymore, we make them,” says Ian Goodall, the managing director of Aardvark Swift Recruitment. It may sound like a smart soundbite, but after ten years of Aardvark Swift’s Search for a Star competition for student game creators, it’s hard to disagree. The competition …

Mobile growth backed by 'battle-tested' improvements to engine