A Lagos-based solo game developer, Feranmi Oladosu, has secured a publishing deal with Acclaim after a Twitter challenge ...

Another day, another wave of gaming layoffs. Today it's Riot Games with the announcement that it's cutting jobs on its pair-based fighting game 2XKO. For context, a representative from Riot confirmed ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer the "future" of game development. It’s already reshaping how studios build, ship and scale mobile games. Rather than a theoretical trend or an optional experiment, ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year. Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward ...

Just after Christmas, the surprise news emerged that GOG, the DRM-free distribution platform focused on classic games, had been sold by Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt RED (CDPR). The buyer was ...

Update [Fri 9th Jan 2026, 4:07pm]: The outlet is now saying the game is from a first-party Xbox studio: "CORRECTION: VGC has since been told this is a smaller original game from a first-party studio, ...

It's official! Microsoft has revealed that the date of the Xbox Developer Direct 2026 showcase is January 22nd, and the start time will be 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm GMT on that day. "Presented by the ...

Gen-AI showed up in the year’s biggest releases including game of the year. Gen-AI showed up in the year’s biggest releases including game of the year. is a reporter who covers the business, culture, ...

Vince Zampella, the video game developer behind the massively popular Call of Duty franchise, has died in a car wreck while driving his Ferrari in California, according to news reports. Zampella, ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

SMU is launching a new Bachelor of Arts in Game Development designed for exceptional undergraduate creators who want to shape the future of digital interactive environments. SMU Guildhall, one of the ...

Sega has decided that now's the time to join the myriad other companies in the games industry adopting artificial intelligence to streamline their development processes. In response to a question ...