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Criterion’s Future Is Battlefield, but Don’t Forget the Burnout Heritage Within Its Walls

As the Burnout and Need For Speed developer turns 30, let’s remember it’s about more than Battlefield. “We’re not here to talk about the past,” says VP & GM of Battlefield Stud...

Purplecade Realms

The ultimate Purplecade crossover game....

Criterion says Burnout isn’t forgotten… but that’s exactly what worries me

Criterion says Burnout remains an important part of the studio's identity, but Battlefield is now its future. While the decision makes perfect business sense after Battlefield 6's...

Mastering Game Design Principles for Creating Engaging Interactive Worlds

Have players open any of the most acclaimed video games of all time. The Last of Us (2013). Tetris (1985). Half-Life 2 (2004). They’ll notice something instantly. Controls feel tig...

EA’s Battlefield Studios backs the Godot Development Fund

Battlefield 6 developer becomes the latest - and highest-profile Corporate Platinum sponsor - of the open-source game engine.

Больше никаких Burnout и Need for Speed: спустя 30 лет создания гоночных игр Criterion «целиком сосредоточена» на Battle...

Принадлежащая Electronic Arts студия Criterion Games в 2026 году празднует 30-летие, однако для фанатов Burnout и Need for Speed этот юбилей больше похож на похороны гоночного насл...

This quirky award-winning game looks like Mr Men and explores the deep psychological challenges of growing up

Discover the winners of the BAFTA Young Game Designers Awards 2026.

Cadence: Musical Playgrounds is a "time capsule to how games used to be" 13 years in the making

While free-to-play has firmly established itself as the dominant force in mobile games, even in 2026 there remain those outliers that opt for the traditional one-time payment appro...

Mastering Game Design Flow: Tips for Creating Engaging Player Experiences

Tetris, Minecraft, and Super Mario Bros. None of these games became one of the best-selling video games of all time by accident. In contrast, Superman 64, The Lord of the Rings: Go...

How to Design a Game: Steps to Create Your Own Video Game from Scratch

Almost everyone has a video game that got them into game design. Some people found it in classic titles like Circus Charlie or Super Mario Bros. Others were inspired by big AAA gam...

The Top 50 UK Game Makers of 2026

When putting together this year’s Top 50 UK Game Makers, published in partnership with Xsolla as part of our UK region report, a few common themes came to light. As everyone readi...

Summer Game Fest 2026 | Australian & New Zealand Games, Part 1 (Indies)

by Forbidding Summer Game Fest is an all-digital, multi-month global festival. It features gaming news, events, and free playable content. Each developer or publisher will announ...

Canadian game makers have a cheat code when it comes to funding

Amidst mass layoffs, a still-tough job market, and rapidly rising hardware costs, the video game industry is feeling the squeeze. The process of making video games gets pricier and...

Grim Games

A new rpg designer has been added to the database: Grim Games

Rules of Play Game Design Fundamentals: Key Principles Every Designer Should Know

Coming up with an idea can be easy. But designing a game that is actually fun, balanced, and feasible is, to say the least, difficult. In reality, game design is a systems discipli...

Color Game Online in GameZone: Key Interactive Features Explained

Color Game Online has transformed traditional Perya games into digital platforms, emphasizing user-friendly navigation, responsive controls, and stable performance. As casual playe...

Games made with Unity: May 2026 in review

A lot happened in games in the month of May: hotly anticipated life sim Paralives officially entered early access, ZA/UM launched ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies to critical acclaim,...

"I couldn't write a normal game" - how quirky shopkeeper game Discounty took over the indie market

I talk to Anne Elser and Magnus Wahlers about Discounty’s journey from a humble university project to a smash-hit management game.

# вљ™пёЏ I Spent Months Building a Pixel-Art Universe Called *Cog & Cosmos* рџЊЊ

Every developer eventually faces a difficult choice: Build another to-do app. Or create an absurdly over-engineered game with eight interconnected worlds, giant numbers, prestige...

These ingenious optical illusions are hiding in some of our favourite games

Indie devs reveal the graphics tricks that make game design easier and more efficient.

New Image for Games for Freaks (Issue 3 - Nov 2025)

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Atari to acquire Crossy Road developer Hipster Whale

The deal could eventually cost Atari almost $40 million.

Calcolo!

Calcolo refers to itself as “Ochimono Shooting” (“Falling Object Shooting”). The closest point of comparison is ADK’s Twinkle Star Sprites, but while that was a shoot-em-up with so...