Tag Archives: In-depth

Pole To Win’s ambitions are pleasingly simple but achieving them is still no easy task. We talk to CEO Deborah Kirkham and European president Andy Emery about running a company that enables a lot of the industry to go global

BGI hopes to build on its charitable status to access more funding to extend its programmes and collaborate with more partners

We take a look behind the scenes at the development of Yooka-Laylee. Playtonic talks about the challenges of building upon Banjo-Kazooie’s heritage and having 73,000 people looking out for everything you do

Location-based operators are now the frontline of VR adoption. We speak to one such operator, Centre VR in Bournemouth, about its learnings from running VR games day-in, day-out on the south coast

Creative impact, tech support, business rationale: Sharkmob’s CEO tells us about what happens when your studio is being acquired by Tencent

Over 3,000 of the games industry will travel to the vibrant south coast city for Develop:Brighton this month. For this second regional spotlight, we talk to a handful of the games businesses that call the city home

Media Molecule tells us about Dreams' development journey, making sit-on-the-sofa-friendly tools, curating its growing community, the challenges and benefits of potential monetisation, VR and being amazed by what its players can do

We talk to Gamescom organisers to check what to expect from the 2019 edition, including the brand new opening night live with Geoff Keighley

We take a look behind the scenes at the development of Sea of Thieves. Rare’s senior designer Shelley Preston explains that it wasn’t always intended to be a pirate game and how to build a game that is as watchable and shareable as it is playable

From accessibility to art pipelines, studio management to charting on Steam, production tips to diversity, stage magic to prototyping, character design to public perception, pitching to audio systems...