14 Game Design — Play Lab

Game Design

Last Flag dev Night Street Games is laying off staff

The Imagine Dragons-funded project did not achieve the 'financial success' the team anticipated.

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Metroid Dread developer MercurySteam conducts layoffs

'While this is something common within the production cycles of our industry, it is nonetheless a difficult and painful situation.'

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Sega is lowering the priority of games-as-a-service titles

The company reported a $200 million impairment loss for Rovio in its latest financial report.

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Report: Microsoft Israel’s general manager leaves amid alleged unethical use of Azure

There are concerns that the company's code of ethics has been violated.

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Video codecs are a nightmare for game developers, but there’s no solution in sight

Developers sometimes take extraordinary measures to make videos play in video games.

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Indika developer raises $5M in funding for next project

'We are still debating whether we would like to partner with a publisher or pursue the self-publishing route.'

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Alex Oxspring and The Stupendium found new studio Stupendium Softworks

"Off-color romance laced with biting political commentary is only one flavor we offer."

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Double Fine petitions to unionize

All 'regular part-time and full-time employees' at the studio will be included.

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EA boasts record year thanks to Battlefield 6 and EA Sports FC

EA is touting net bookings of $8 billion in FY26, a nine percent rise year-over-year.

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Former LucasArts, Ubisoft veteran Clint Hocking founds new studio

Build Machine Games wants to make 'socially relevant games that challenge players' perspectives.'

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