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The Nemesis system has prompted a debate about patenting video game mechanics. We talk to patent law experts to find out more about the practice.
Read More »The Orcish Patent: How do video game patents work, and should you be protecting your ideas?
“Straight indie publishing, signing games, publishing them. It will end, it won’t make it over time.” – Zordix on the future of games publishing
Zordix has come out of Sweden in 2021 to acquire both the UK’s Merge Games and France’s Just For Games. Putting all three under its wizard’s hat. So what’s the strategy behind this latest Swedish force and where does it go next?
Read More »“There are more opportunities than there have been for a decade.” – How a 30% tax relief has boosted the Australian games industry
The Australian Government has announced a 30% tax relief to further grow the nation’s games industry. Chris Wallace reaches out to the indies and triple-As there to find out about the explosive growth in Australian development
Read More »After the Storm: DONTNOD on their ‘new normal’ with a hybrid work scheme
Work from home or come back to the office? Why not both? Chris Wallace talks to DONTNOD’s Oskar Guilbert and Matthieu Hoffman about their new flexible working scheme
Read More »The Park is looking to supersize location-based VR: “Scaling our footprint to hundreds of locations globally is the key to success”
Location-based VR has huge potential. The Park is looking to fulfil that potential and with 13 locations open already, it’s set to spread right across Europe and beyond. We talk to CEO Philippe De Schutter about its approach, content, IP and development pipeline.
Read More »[ICYMI] Is the 30% revenue cut history? – “It does in general feel like devs and publishers are becoming more and more annoyed by the 30 per cent take”
"I can understand people saying that 30 per cent is too much, but arguably, 12 per cent is just too little, and doesn’t even give the platform enough skin in the game to care about your sales.”
Read More »Nurturing a positive studio culture with CCP’s London studio – “It’s an ongoing process, you can’t just turn a culture on, you can’t checklist a culture, you have to grow it”
With a rapidly growing studio in central London, We turned to CCP London Studio’s Adrian Blunt for his take on this tricky and topical subject
Read More »“It’s about treating people as human beings and empowering them to do the things they want” – The Hutch perspective on healthy leadership in the games industry
The industry has been rocked once again by stories of poor working conditions and failed management. Chris Wallace talks about a model for healthy leadership with London’s mobile racers Hutch
Read More »Picture Perfect: Behind the scenes of the Europlay-winning, upcoming game Viewfinder
“That’s the hardest thing to do, puzzles and narratives are the hardest combination. You take something that is systematic like this mechanic, and then build in a narrative that hopefully takes the player on a journey… it’s stupid hard.”
Read More »“Keywords has been hugely focussed on supporting our employees around the world, throughout this unprecedented time” – How gaming’s most global company is building a better workplace out of the pandemic
We talk to Sonia Sedler, COO and joint interim CEO of Keywords Studios, who is using the opportunity to improve the lives of 8,500 staff, across 69 studios and 22 countries
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