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As Nintendo’s sole major launch title, Mario Kart World is carrying a lot of weight on its shoulders. There’s arguably no more proven quantity to do so. Mario Kart 8, across its two iterations on Wii U and Switch, has sold more than 76 million copies. With more than 11 years having passed since its…

There’s been a lot of writing about Aonic in recent years. Since its founding in 2021, the company has established a name for itself, in large part thanks to a mergers and acquisitions strategy that has enabled it to acquire virtual reality specialist nDreams, Warren Spector’s Otherside Entertainment, and Liverpool-based Milky Tea. Like many businesses,…

With both Summer Game Fest 2025 and Steam Next Fest wrapping up, each member of the GamesIndustry.biz team suddenly has many more games clogging up their wishlists than ever. While the blockbuster picks of SGF were fairly self-evident – 007: First Light, Pragmata, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, and Resident Evil: Requiem all impressed –…

Digital Eclipse has gained a reputation throughout the industry for its lavish collections of retro games, featuring generous helpings of extra content that help to tell the story of the games’ development. At Sony’s State of Play presentation in June, the company revealed its latest project – Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection. “It’s a long time…

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,…