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With not-one-but-two VR games released this year and a keen eye on the technology to come from Meta and Apple, Jörg Tittel feels questions about the platform’s legitimacy should be consigned to the past. Richie Shoemaker is on board with that

With Everspace 2 coming to console this month, Richie Shoemaker talks to Rockfish co-founder Michael Schade about the studio’s successful space shooter series, leaving mobile gaming behind, ditching crowdfunding and why Game Pass is the place to be

Duncan Purves and Lee Kirton talk to Richie Shoemaker about 4media group’s drive to get in2 games and make a difference

Amiqus’ business manager Liz Prince talks to Perri Lewis, CEO of Mastered, about the organisation’s training and mentoring programmes which are helping get grads ‘job ready’, coaching ‘accidental managers’, and supporting those from under-represented groups

Dora Vasiliou, junior game artist at Dlala Studios, tells us about how she ended up working on Disney Illusion Island, and how working in games has improved her confidence

Liz Du, senior artist at Sledgehammer Games, tells us about her route into the games industry, and why having a positive and supportive team is crucial

Chris McCarthy, head of recruitment at Third Kind Games tells us about what their people-first studio is like, and what sort of people they’re looking for

Head of communications at Liquid Crimson, Lauran Carter, gives us a heads up on what the award-winning creative studio has planned for Cologne

What’s it like to make games in Europe’s biggest non-capital city in Europe’s largest games market? Richie Shoemaker quizzed three local studios in the hope of finding out

Ahead of next month’s Women In Games Annual Conference, Vince Pavey asks a panel of 2023’s award nominees from Keywords Studios about why it is important we keep celebrating the achievements of women in the industry