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Arc Raiders received 'substantial negative PvP sentiment' during testing, causing the devs to second-guess its big pivot before realising it was really frustration with weapons and matchmaking
By Rory Norris published
News "Should we even have done this reset?"

No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game
By Rory Norris published
News "A lot of games would have been cancelled at this point."

Valve says almost 6,000 games made over $100K on Steam last year
By Rich Stanton published
News And "if you have a line on a bunch of RAM, we are in the market and would like to buy it."

'We are definitely not doing QTEs', said Dispatch's creative director before doing QTEs: 'We just needed it to not suck'
By Rory Norris published
News What came first? The dispatching minigame or the Z-Team?

Dispatch directors chose their animators because they'd made a 'really cool apple juice commercial'
By Rory Norris published
News "We could kind of squint and start to see Dispatch for the first time."

Hideo Kojima pulls out of GDC at the last minute
By Andy Chalk published
news Kojima was set to deliver the first GDC keynote in five years, but announced today that he'll be unable to attend.

Nearly one-third of non-US game developers have cancelled plans to travel to the country because of immigration and gender identity policies
By Andy Chalk published
news GDC's 2026 State of the Game Industry survey says that number jumps to nearly half among LGBTQ+ devs.

'A developer who actually listens': Marvel Rivals' devs fix accidental Peni Parker nerf just 9 short hours after saying they would
By Elie Gould published
News "We recognise this as a bug."
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