Number of UK game dev freelancers triples amid layoffs and studio closures xxx

At a glance: 12.7% of UK games workforce contractors as of May 2024, vs 4.4% in April 2023 Number of UK games industry workers rose to 28,516 people 248 companies closed down or exited the games industry during the survey period Number of full time roles had lowest annualised rate of growth since 2012 The … Read more

A Dragon Age: The Veilguard Dev BioWare Thanks Fans For Support

Image: EA, BioWare This week marks the arrival of BioWare’s new game Dragon Age: The Veilguard and as part of the game’s launch, the developer has sent out a message via social media to all of its fans, thanking everyone for making this moment possible. You can read the entire thing in the post below, … Read more

Today “I made it in 2014, took you a while”, Witcher 3 dev reveals he was behind hilarious bit of cut Geralt dialogue you only get if you grab a mod, then suffer an embarrassing death

I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent a lot of time playing The Witcher 3 over the years, to the point where you start to feel like you just about know a game inside out. I clearly don’t quite though, as one of the game’s developers has just revealed he was behind a bit … Read more

A Stalker 2 Dev Confirms Mod Support Coming To Xbox Series X|S

One of November’s biggest Xbox titles is of course Stalker 2, with its Game Pass release locked and loaded for next month following multiple delays in recent years. We just learned about GSC Game World’s performance targets for the game on Xbox, and now the team has confirmed that the console version will support mods. … Read more

A Bungie Provides Dev Update On Marathon, Encourages Xbox Fans To ‘Wish List’

Subscribe to Pure Xbox on YouTube27k Former Halo developer Bungie has today provided an update on its new extraction shooter Marathon, which was officially announced in 2023. In today’s update game director Joe Ziegler explained how it’s still a little early to show the game as one piece, but everything in terms of the development … Read more

A Xbox’s Avowed Is A ‘Meaningful’ RPG With Plenty Of Choices, Says Obsidian Dev

A few months ago, there was a load of news coming out regularly about Avowed as Xbox opened up on its new RPG, but things have gone a little quiet since the game’s recent delay. Still, we’re quite excited about this one dropping next February, and some new information coming from GamesRadar is keeping us … Read more

Today One former Bethesda dev thinks Starfield 2 is going to be “one hell of a game”, so it’s a shame we probably won’t get to play it for another decade

Starfield might not have had the warmest of receptions amongst all Bethesda fans, but a former Skyrim designer thinks a sequel has a good chance to be a great game. Look, it’s not exactly a secret that Starfield wasn’t universally loved. Sure, it has its good moments, but there are plenty of reasons to … Read more

Today Desperate for more Killzone? Well, a Guerrilla dev says the studio was “done with it as a team” when it opted to change gears to Horizon

While there are plenty of FPS-heads out there who’d give an arm and a leg for Guerilla Games to put down the Horizon series it’s spent the past decade getting off the ground and go back to making Killzone, it seems the studio itself is still pretty comfortable with the choice to switch to making … Read more

Tales of Kenzera: Zau dev Surgent Studios puts entire games team on hiatus due to lack of funding xxx

Surgent Studios has put its entire games division on hiatus as it struggles to secure funding, placing an unknown number of staff at risk of being laid off. The developer, which also operates in TV and film production, announced the news via a statement on social media in which it said it has “unfortunately had … Read more

Grand Theft Auto Dev Pays Tribute To “The Unsung Hero Of The Franchise” xyz

Image: Rockstar Games The second mainline entry in the Grand Theft Auto series, GTA 2, recently hit its 25th anniversary. So, in order to celebrate, the game’s audio manager (and co-composer) at DMA Design Colin Anderson has published a new thread on social media in tribute to the open-world crime game to explain why he … Read more