Tag: games

Games Done Quick, the charity video game speedrunning series, is making its European debut in a live event at Germany’s Gamescom this summer. GDQ’s marathon event will run for the duration of the three-day show in Cologne, starting August 28-30, and will feature popular runners and an on-site live audience...

UKIE and entertainment charity OKRE call for industry, government, and academia to collaborate on the framework to address identified research gaps Image credit: James Newcombe UKIE and entertainment charity OKRE have developed a framework to help the UK games industry maximise its economic and social value. The Building a Unified Framework for the UK Video

Iran will take part in the World Cup, and their games will be played in the United States as scheduled, says FIFA president Gianni Infantino...

Founder Wayne Emanuel explains how developers, publishers and content creators can work with charities, and the unexpected benefits of doing so Image credit: Cause+Select The video games sector is no stranger to charity. Industry organisations like GamesAid and SpecialEffect are long-established, in addition to the speedrunning event Games Done Quick, Yogscast's Jingle Jam and Humble

One of the ID@Xbox leads discusses the benefits for developers by Fraser Gilbert Fri 13th Mar 2026 There's obviously been a lot of focus on the future of Xbox at this week's GDC 2026 presentations, and Microsoft executive / ID@Xbox director Guy Richards has been speaking about this in a recent interview with The Game

We've heard talk about how Gen Z and Gen Alpha don't play games or that their attention is being driven elsewhere . They spend way too much time on their phones or watching TikTok, and not picking up the latest $70 AAA release. Some of this is true, according to former Hollywood executive and current

Like it or not, this era of gaming is one heavily dependent on remakes, remasters, or ports of classic titles that fans clamor about often. Games like Final Fantasy 7 Remake brought back a nostalgic journey for a new audience, but not every game ever made can receive the same treatment. In fact, some of

Star Trek is one of the world’s biggest science fiction franchises, and it’s been the source of video game entertainment since 1971. That’s only two years after the last episode of Star Trek aired, and there have been a plethora of titles released in the years since. Unfortunately, the franchise has the undesirable distinction of