I love a good Double Fine behind-the-scenes video, and so far, they've all been good! Over the years, 2 Player Productions' documentaries, in particular, have been entertaining and insightful looks into how multiple disciplines can come to...

Naughty Dog, a studio seemingly locked into making Uncharted and The Last of Us releases until the end of time, has closed down internet hopes that it is secretly working on a new entry in fantasy franchise Jak & Daxter. The fevered fan...

Former Tango Gameworks designer Ikumi Nakamura is in the process of founding her own independent studio, with which she intends to utilize her wealth of ideas and industry experience in the development of original video games and other desi...

There one more gaming studio in Montreal this morning, as Amazon Games has announced the founding of Amazon Games Montreal, which will look to design and develop original AAA titles. The new studio joins Amazon's previously established deve...

Dust off that suit, don that mask, and prepare to do your best Michael Mann monologue. Starbreeze has announced that it has finally scored a publishing deal for its long-in-development multiplayer sequel Payday 3, essentially guaranteeing t...

Canadian video game producer Jade Raymond has announced the founding of a brand new studio. Based out of Montreal, Haven Studios is a new and independent developer that has already gotten straight to working on a brand new mystery IP for Pl...

Katsuhiro Harada, the affable and charismatic Tekken producer, has debuted a brand new web series, which sees the sunglasses-sporting icon operating a classy drinking establishment whilst interviewing famous names from both the FGC and the ...

I enjoy reading Hideo Kojima's thoughts on movies – enough to warrant buying a book? Sure! The Gifted Gene and my Lovable Memes, a collection of essays from the Metal Gear and Death Stranding creator published in 2019, "explores the i...

Resident Evil Village has already done a fine job in stoking the hype fires for its upcoming release. With a morally grey Chris Redfield, a terrifying new locale, a fan-pleasing demo, and the big ol' Ascot hat of Lady Dimitrescu, fans are a...

That "something" new teaser from Playtonic Games wasn't for a Yooka-Laylee sequel – at least not yet. Today's announcement is a new publishing label, Playtonic Friends, meant to bolster hidden gems. To start off with, Playtonic Frien...

We tend to associate Stadia with third-party games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Cyberpunk 2077 rather than home-grown games created from within Google, and that'll remain the case. As announced today, the company is moving away from de...

PlatinumGames has expanded a little on its teasing fifth reveal, which was added to the "Platinum4" website. The Bayonetta developer notes that the mystery announcement is definitely "smaller in scale" than the studio's previous reveals but...

According to an in-depth report by Vice, Activision Blizzard is resisting a union-led suggestion that it interviews "at least one diverse candidate" for any of its future company vacancies, with the publisher's legal team calling the rule "...

During the never-ending nightmare of E3 2020, Electronic Arts announced that it was bringing back its skateboarding series, Skate. It seems that this project is about to get underway, with the establishment of new studio Full Circle, whose ...

IO Interactive has confirmed that its upcoming James Bond video game, tentatively known as Project 007, will not feature any of the actors who have portrayed the character on the silver screen, instead featuring an original interpretation o...

Before the weekend, the industry heard the surprising news that Vicarious Visions, the developer behind the recent Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 and Crash Bandicoot remakes, had become an official support studio for World of Warcraft titan B...

Popular developer PlatinumGames has updated its teasing "Platinum 4" website, now confirming that its bonus fifth reveal, added to the initial quartet back in April 2020, will be ready to show its hand at some point in 2021. The site itself...

Vicarious Visions has had quite the trajectory as a studio, but things just took a turn for the worse for fans of the acclaimed Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 remakes. As reported today by GamesIndustry.biz...

Opera – as in, the people behind that web browser you might've used years ago – is in the gaming industry spotlight this week. The company picked up YoYo Games, the owner of GameMaker Studio 2, for $10 million as it looks to exp...

In a wide-ranging interview with Valve co-founder Gabe Newell, TVNZ's 1 News asked if there were any new Valve games "coming out soon" – to which he laughed and responded, "I'm sure there are." "Yes, we definitely have games in develo...

Aside from my normal rotation of gaming-adjacent YouTube subs that I keep tabs on a few times a week, lately, my feed has been full of anything but modern video games – hardware mods, console restorations, little-known tidbits about m...

Project: Mara is Ninja Theory's "most ambitious and realistic game setting ever," and in a behind-the-scenes video, we're shown how technology and art are coming together in new ways at the studio. Better yet, co-founder Tameem Antoniades b...

It looks like there's a new gun in town. Charismatic producer Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of fighting franchise Dead or Alive and the head honcho behind the modern Ninja Gaiden titles, has announced that he has formed his own studio - Itagaki...

In a pleasing piece of news, Viz Media has announced a release date for the English language edition of 2019 book Iwata-san – a compendium of interviews conducted by the late Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata. Retitled Ask Iwata...

When the discussion of beautiful video games is raised, very rarely does the conversation go long without someone mentioning Square Enix's iconic RPG franchise Final Fantasy. And with good cause, as the decades-long adventure franchise has ...