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As a BAFTA winner for her role as Selene in Returnal, and the actor behind more than 80 other video game characters, Jane Perry is the perfect candidate to kick off Develop:Brighton 2025’s first ever Performance track. Ahead of her keynote on Wednesday, July 9, ‘From Data to Drama‘, GamesIndustry.biz speaks to Perry about some…

Alternative distribution is big business on PC, but companies have understandable concerns about the ‘grey market’. Here to dispel some of the myths surrounding this thorny topic is Vadim Andreev, co-founder and CEO of the global distribution platform Rokky. You can easily play word association within the games industry. Sonic and hedgehogs, anti-cheat and Denuvo,…

“I would like Citizen Sleeper 2 to have been on Switch 2 at launch, but that wasn’t possible,” says Gareth Damian Martin. They’re not the only indie developer that wasn’t invited to the Switch 2 party. Looking at the current list of titles for Nintendo’s latest console, there are very few games from indie devs….

How many people came up with the idea to launch a Squid Game video game after the Korean TV show broke Netflix records in 2021? The answer, with one glance at the cursed depths of mobile game stores, was plenty. In his ‘Demystifying Creativity’ talk at this year’s Nordic Game conference, Ubisoft’s Fawzi Mesmar –…

Yingxian Lu is a content producer at Thatgamecompany, where she leads in-game event/season production and cultural localization for Sky: Children of the Light. Her work focuses on emotionally resonant, globally inclusive content. She previously led interactive campaigns at JD.com, and her work was also widely covered by media outlets in China. In today’s global games…

On June 5, 2025, over eight years after Nintendo debuted its innovative hybrid handheld/home console, the publisher launched its successor – the Nintendo Switch 2. Four days after release, the console had already broken internal records, reaching global sales of 3.5 million units. It surpassed expectations in the US, with over 1.1 million units sold,…

If there’s one lesson to be learned in the games industry, it’s that past success is no guarantee of future success. It’s something that Travis George has found out the hard way over the past few years. George began his career at Activision, but joined Riot Games as a game designer in 2008, just in…

“We’re all pretty happy,” beams Logie MacDonald, communications manager at UKIE. The trade association has welcomed with open arms the publication of the UK government’s Creative Industries Sector Plan this week – a plan that MacDonald says satisfies many of UKIE’s proposals. “We’ve never seen this level of support before,” he says. “It’s a really…

It’s fair to say that April 30, 2025 was a watershed moment for the mobile gaming landscape. That was when the Epic vs. Apple ruling in the United States prohibited Apple from discouraging links to third-party storefronts, or collecting fees on any payments made outside the App Store (Apple is appealing the outcome). “This ruling…

Halfway through the development of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, creator Hideo Kojima reportedly made significant changes to the game after playtesting results were deemed “too good”. According to one of the sequel’s composers, Yoann “Woodkid” Lemoine, Kojima felt that because players “liked it too much” it meant that “something [was] wrong”. “If everyone…