25 January 2023 Activision Blizzard

Brian Birmingham, lead software engineer at Blizzard for nearly two decades, has quit the company due to harsh employee policies.

11 January 2023 Game development

The rise in UK game companies coincides with a growing player base, and mainstream enthusiasm for games.

28 November 2022 CODE

New Zealand games will get a major boost with new government funding on the way.

01 December 2022 Game development

Hop into the Google Doodle for 1 December to learn an essential lesson about video game history.

05 September 2022 crunch

In a since-deleted tweet, Glen Schofield enthused about working 6-7 days a week, 12-15 hours a day.

27 July 2022 Game development

PlayStation will now provide developers with a complimentary PS5 dev and testing kit for loan, mirroring the Xbox process.

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08 December 2021 2pt Interactive

The physics-based puzzles of Heavenly Bodies are equal parts entertaining and frustrating, and both a comedy and a tragedy, depending on whether you have a co-op partner or not.

14 January 2022 Game development

Ratchet & Clank and Deathloop lead the nominations for the 2022 DICE Awards, with Inscryption being the indie frontrunner.

18 January 2022 Australian Games

Ahead of the 2022-23 budget, IGEA has made a push for a direct funding program that would benefit local, small-scale indie game development.

27 April 2022 Activision Blizzard

The games industry has come under scrutiny for poor working conditions. Here are some of the studios pledging to change that.