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French consumer organisation UFC-Que Choisir has announced that it is suing Nintendo for planned obsolescence and anti-consumer practices
Read More »Nintendo sued over Joy-Con drift in planned obsolescence claim
Simon Carless founds GameDiscoverCo
GameDiscoverCo is designed to help developers and publishers with the issue of their game's discoverability.
Read More »[From the industry] 2020 Game Devs of Color Expo Online Awards Winners Announced
The 2020 Game Devs of Color Expo Online awards ceremony concluded the two-day conference last weekend, revealing the winners of the No More Robots x Game Devs of Color Expo Grants and Humble Bundle Game Creators of Color Award.
Read More »Xbox’s Phil Spencer on Zenimax and Bethesda: “Our plan is to leave it alone.”
"Our goal is to make Zenimax the best Zenimax they can be."
Read More »Hyper casual developer Voodoo wins copycat case against Zynga’s Rollic Games
Hyper casual titles come to loggerheads about who carved it first
Read More »Regional Spotlight: How Guildford became the ‘Hollywood of Video games’
From Molyneux to Media Molecule, we spoke to the games community in Guildford to find out why the area has become synonymous with the UK games industry
Read More »Stadia unveils the first seven games under its Stadia Makers program – We talked to the developers to find out more
To find out more about the games, and the benefits of being part of the Stadia Makers program, we reached out to each of the seven studios.
Read More »Microsoft acquires Bethesda-parent Zenimax Media for $7.5bn on the eve of Xbox Series pre-orders
Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Doom, Dishonored, Prey, Quake, and the upcoming Starfield, all join "Team Xbox"
Read More »Rayman creator Michel Ancel leaves the games industry to work on a wildlife sanctuary
Rayman creator Michel Ancel has announced that he is leaving not only Ubisoft, but the games industry as a whole, in order to work full-time at a wildlife sanctuary.
Read More »Trump administration scrutinises Tencent’s gaming investments
The Trump administration is reportedly asking US games companies who have received investment from Tencent to share information about their data security protocols.
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