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"Do crazy shit" - What indie developers can learn from the music industry Devcom 2018 - Lessons from the making of God of War Devcom: "This is not the age of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson or other ignorant politicians, racists and idiots" Devolver: "Quality games will always sell"
"Do crazy shit" - What indie developers can learn from the music industry DEVCOM 2018

"Do crazy shit" - What indie developers can learn from the music industry

"Art, at the end of the day, can only be taught backwards."

Devcom 2018 - Lessons from the making of God of War WE KNOW IT'S NOT A PC GAME

Devcom 2018 - Lessons from the making of God of War

In today's keynote at the Cologne development conference, Sony Santa Monica's Cory Barlog took us behind the scenes on the PlayStation 4 exclusive

Devcom: "This is not the age of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson or other ignorant politicians, racists and idiots" DAMN RIGHT

Devcom: "This is not the age of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson or other ignorant politicians, racists and idiots"

Conference head says it is more important than ever for developers to make games "to protect our society against this stupidity"

Devolver: "Quality games will always sell" INTERVIEW

Devolver: "Quality games will always sell"

Producer Andrew Parsons says that good releases will always have their day, even if it isn't on launch

Riot’s creative development head responds to sexual harassment crisis

Riot’s creative development head responds to sexual harassment crisis

Here's what you missed from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki's 2017 PC The Making Of track

Here's what you missed from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki's 2017 PC The Making Of track

Turtle Beach doubles down on PC with new Atlas headset line

Turtle Beach doubles down on PC with new Atlas headset line

Dontnod’s Vampyr has landed a TV series

Dontnod’s Vampyr has landed a TV series

Nvidia reckons crypto is "immaterial" to its GPU revenue for rest of 2018

Nvidia reckons crypto is "immaterial" to its GPU revenue for rest of 2018

Little Nightmares has passed one million units sold

Little Nightmares has passed one million units sold

It could take a while to get your game on Steam for the next few months

It could take a while to get your game on Steam for the next few months

1 Games industry needs be better at catering for kids, Outright's Button-Brown says

Games industry needs be better at catering for kids, Outright's Button-Brown says

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Interviews & opinion

"Do crazy shit" - What indie developers can learn from the music industry DEVCOM 2018 Aug 19th, 2018

"Do crazy shit" - What indie developers can learn from the music industry

Devcom 2018 - Lessons from the making of God of War WE KNOW IT'S NOT A PC GAME Aug 19th, 2018

Devcom 2018 - Lessons from the making of God of War

Wild River makes 80 per cent of its PC revenue from physical retail (on some releases) INTERVIEW Aug 17th, 2018

Wild River makes 80 per cent of its PC revenue from physical retail (on some releases)

Devolver: "Quality games will always sell" INTERVIEW Aug 16th, 2018

Devolver: "Quality games will always sell"

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Features

Games industry roundup: The hottest stories across the mobile, blockchain and influencer sectors ROUNDUP Aug 13th, 2018

Games industry roundup: The hottest stories across the mobile, blockchain and influencer sectors

Why Microsoft is trying to make games more accessible YES! Jul 24th, 2018

Why Microsoft is trying to make games more accessible

Why OPSkins is okay destroying its own business with the blockchain INTERVIEW Jul 18th, 2018

Why OPSkins is okay destroying its own business with the blockchain

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Data & Research

Report: Realm Royale player base has dropped by 94 per cent since launch OH Aug 16th, 2018

Report: Realm Royale player base has dropped by 94 per cent since launch

THQ Nordic has 20 unannounced games in the work $$$ Aug 16th, 2018

THQ Nordic has 20 unannounced games in the work

SuperData: Consumers are on track to spend $1.5bn on streaming platforms by the end of 2018 PAY UP Aug 15th, 2018

SuperData: Consumers are on track to spend $1.5bn on streaming platforms by the end of 2018

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Videos

PC Connects London 2018 - A Conversation With Good Shepherd's Ben Andac

PC Connects London 2018 - Andrew Smith, Spilt Milk - What To Do When You Find Yourself Making an MMO

PC Connects London 2018 - Ashley Gullen, Scirra - HTML5 Games Technology In 2018

PCC London 2018 - Jan Klose, Deck13 - Creating Large Scope Projects With An Independent Studio

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2 What happens when two Ubisoft vets and Catalan artist Conrad Roset Tenllado start making an indie platformer? Meet Gris Indie Interview Aug 13th, 2018

What happens when two Ubisoft vets and Catalan artist Conrad Roset Tenllado start making an indie platformer? Meet Gris

New IP Strange Brigade, a Rogue Trooper film and lots of 2000AD - Rebellion sure has a lot going on at the moment Industry Icon Aug 10th, 2018

New IP Strange Brigade, a Rogue Trooper film and lots of 2000AD - Rebellion sure has a lot going on at the moment

"Going into Quarantine Circular I was unsure whether Subsurface was a fluke or a repeatable event" Success Story Jun 29th, 2018

"Going into Quarantine Circular I was unsure whether Subsurface was a fluke or a repeatable event"

"Valve is damned if it does, damned if it doesn't" The PC Pulse Jun 7th, 2018

"Valve is damned if it does, damned if it doesn't"

Profiles

SteamSpy's Galyonkin: 'I would love to see Valve's data solution come sooner rather than later' INTERVIEW Jul 6th, 2018

SteamSpy's Galyonkin: 'I would love to see Valve's data solution come sooner rather than later'

Why GameMaker firm YoYo is getting into indie games publishing PUBLISHING May 25th, 2018

Why GameMaker firm YoYo is getting into indie games publishing

Inside Track - Andi Ewington on collaborating to create narrative content with The Same But Different PROFILE May 24th, 2018

Inside Track - Andi Ewington on collaborating to create narrative content with The Same But Different

Inside Track - Natalie Griffith tells us about brand and marketing firm Identity Spark's five years INSIDE TRACK May 4th, 2018

Inside Track - Natalie Griffith tells us about brand and marketing firm Identity Spark's five years

Kongregate doesn't see Kartridge as a Steam competitor KARTRIDGE KIDS Apr 19th, 2018

Kongregate doesn't see Kartridge as a Steam competitor

Why Blade turned to influencers to sell its Shadow cloud gaming PC BLUE SKY THINKING Apr 3rd, 2018

Why Blade turned to influencers to sell its Shadow cloud gaming PC

Job News

Hi-Rez splits development staff into three teams JOB NEWS Aug 15th, 2018

Hi-Rez splits development staff into three teams

Worldwide Studios boss Patrick Söderlund to leave EA JOB NEWS Aug 14th, 2018

Worldwide Studios boss Patrick Söderlund to leave EA

ZeniMax and Trion Worlds vets take senior dev jobs at RuneScape firm Jagex JOB NEWS Aug 14th, 2018

ZeniMax and Trion Worlds vets take senior dev jobs at RuneScape firm Jagex

Crystal Dynamics expands with new Northwest studio, HQ staffs up for Avengers project JOB NEWS Aug 13th, 2018

Crystal Dynamics expands with new Northwest studio, HQ staffs up for Avengers project

Deals

Nordisk Film Games puts $5.5m behind indie label Raw Fury $$$$$ Aug 16th, 2018

Nordisk Film Games puts $5.5m behind indie label Raw Fury

Logitech will acquire audio accessory manufacturer Blue Microphones MIC DROP Aug 2nd, 2018

Logitech will acquire audio accessory manufacturer Blue Microphones

NetEase has invested $50m in Improbable $$$ Jul 27th, 2018

NetEase has invested $50m in Improbable

Multiplay to host Playerunknown's Battlegrounds EU servers $$$ Jul 19th, 2018

Multiplay to host Playerunknown's Battlegrounds EU servers

Events News

"Do crazy shit" - What indie developers can learn from the music industry Devcom 2018 Aug 19th, 2018

"Do crazy shit" - What indie developers can learn from the music industry

Devcom: "This is not the age of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson or other ignorant politicians, racists and idiots" Devcom 2018 Aug 19th, 2018

Devcom: "This is not the age of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson or other ignorant politicians, racists and idiots"

One week to go: Games Mixer and Big Indie Pitch at Gamescom G-STAR Games Mixer (mobile, PC & blockchain) in association with Merculet & Laya.one @ Gamescom 2018 – presented by Pocket Gamer Aug 15th, 2018

One week to go: Games Mixer and Big Indie Pitch at Gamescom

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