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Read More »Have your say on your working conditions in this UK video game industry survey
Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Epic Game Store exclusives are ‘unpopular’ but ‘do work’
The lower revenue split will result in "reinvestment in game development"
Read More »Bungie pushes back Destiny 2 weapon fix to ‘preserve work-life balance’
"We try to be really careful about stuff like that"
Read More »Lily Zhu: ‘The role of lead artist is not something you land, it’s something you grow into’
Cherry picked advice to help you reach the next level in your career – this month, Splash Damage's Lily Zhu tells us why lead artist doesn’t mean best artist and the importance of cultivating leadership skills
Read More »EA CEO reflects on Anthem’s launch, microtransactions, and loot boxes
"It may not have had the start that many of us wanted."
Read More »When We Made… Sea of Thieves
We take a look behind the scenes at the development of Sea of Thieves. Rare’s senior designer Shelley Preston explains that it wasn’t always intended to be a pirate game and how to build a game that is as watchable and shareable as it is playable
Read More »Woman’s hour: We talk to every woman leading a session at this year’s Develop:Brighton
From accessibility to art pipelines, studio management to charting on Steam, production tips to diversity, stage magic to prototyping, character design to public perception, pitching to audio systems...
Read More »A British horror story: Supermassive on how Until Dawn shaped The Dark Pictures Anthology
We talk to Supermassive CEO Pete Samuels about how to deal with crunch when you plan to release a game every six months and how Until Dawn impacted The Dark Pictures Anthology
Read More »In the pipeline: Unity’s HDRP brings next-gen graphics to the world’s most-used game engine
System Shock 3 and Oddworld: Soulstorm are among the first wave of titles to show that Unity is all-set for bigger things on console and PC
Read More »Dontnod partners with Epic Game Store for year-long PC exclusivity deal for Twin Mirror
The French developer also announced it acquired the rights to Twin Mirror from publisher Bandai Namco
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