Tandem is taking Develop to Liverpool

• event news
• develop
• develop north

Microsoft says FTC's Game Pass complaints are "misleading"

Xbox giant says it is false to call the tweaked subscription tiers "degraded"

• subscription service
• xbox game pass

Bethesda US studios have unionised

This is the first full bargaining unit within Microsoft's games business

• unionisation

Kickstarter hires Exploding Kittens vet Clayton as its new games boss

"I am thrilled to join a platform that has consistently been at the forefront of bringing innovative projects to life"

• Job News

Blizzard and Bungie vets join Hasbro

John Hight and Holly Barbacovi have joined the entertainment giant

• Job News

The FTC isn't happy with Xbox Game Pass price increase

The organisation

• subscription service
• xbox game pass
• pricing

It turns out that relatively few people work on Steam

Only 23.5 per cent of Valve staff worked on the platform in 2021

• Steam

NetEase backs Swedish industry vets at new studio Blue Scarab

The Chinese giant has been part of a $7 million seed funding round

• Funding
• New Studio

Sega sued someone for harassing an employee

Settlement has been reached

• Legal
• harassment

Report: Former Microsoft lead lays into company after axing DEI team

Staffer warns of the risk to these kinds of programs across the board, too

• diversity
• dei

IGDA concerned Supreme Court trademark ruling spells bad news for devs

Organisation says that trademark application address requirement opens up devs to harassment

• harassment
• legal news

Saber and Focus "saddened" by Space Marine 2 leak

A pre-release build was let out into the wild earlier this month

• warhammer 40k
• leak
• space marine 2

Animation firm Axis Studios goes into administration

162 staff lose jobs

• layoffs
• studio closure
• administration

Murky Divers hits 100k sales

The game hit this milestone after four weeks

• data
• sales data
• murky divers

CHARTS: PUBG is back at No.1 on Steam

Thanks for a sale and the Summer Bikini event

• Steam
• data
• steam top ten
• pubg: battlegrounds