The Australian games industry has been on a real roller-coaster ride over the past couple of decades. The country had built up some big studios like Pandemic, Krome, Blue Tongue, 2K Australia, and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Baobab Studios, the Emmy-winning animation studio led by Eric Darnell (Madagascar franchise) and Maureen Fan (FarmVille), has acquired exclusive film and television rights to popular Roblox ...

AAA game development budgets now routinely exceed $300 million in addition to taking years to make, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier. AAA game development budgets have ...

Despite earning an estimated $6 billion in revenue in 2025, Epic Games has laid off over 1,000 staff due to Fortnite's apparent "downturn" in revenue. This news comes as the game industry is in ...

Plus other cuts in mobile games development. According to ResetEra’s J-Soul, who broke the story ahead of Schreier, Dark Outlaw Games was still in the early stages of its first project. It is unclear ...

It’s tremendous to see something that’s just unambiguously good. After the recent discussions of just how hard it is to see a game succeed on Steam, what a pleasure to see the unabashed emotional joy ...

This article is part of AI Week. The question of what place AI could and should hold in the games industry is one of the hottest and most divisive topics at the moment. And judging by the posts we ...

Google Cloud is pushing “Living Games”, powered by autonomous AI agents that interact with players and game worlds in real time. Agentic AI tools could automate playtesting, code generation and other ...

The developer of games like 'Pokemon Go,' 'Monopoly Go' and 'Marvel Strike Force' does not intend to slow down. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Scopely has quickly become one of the defining players in ...

NetEase Inc. will cut off funding to the studio led by Yakuza franchise creator Toshihiro Nagoshi, the latest to be affected by the Chinese company’s broader strategy to shrink game development ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The blood of the dragon is headed to the big screen. While details of the plot have yet to be confirmed, the film ...

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