The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast

We weren't able to get together this week, so instead we have an interview special: a conversation with industry veteran Peter Molyneux. This was recorded shortly before the release of his latest - and, he says, final - game, Masters of Albion, and discusses both the game and his legacy as one of a dwindling number of brand-name auteurs in the games industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

Lewis dials in from Sao Paulo to report from GamesCom Latam, where a burgeoning industry is crying out for government support, and Jon reports from his time at the ESA's new iicon event, which had a stellar audience that nevertheless missed a few key people. Plus, a quick look at the Roblox and Xbox financials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Hicks and Lewis Packwood get together to discuss Xbox's decision to pull Call of Duty from Game Pass, and cut the subscription price - and Asha Sharma's changes to the Xbox organisation, which unfortunately was recorded shortly before Xbox posted its strategy update. Plus, the Mario Galaxy movie proves to be a hit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to the alpha re-release of the GI Podcast. This instalment was recorded as London Games Week draws to a close, and discusses the highlights of what we saw at the event. We also cover the announcement of new UK government funding for the games industry, the revenue figures allegedly revealed by a hack of Rockstar Games, and Roblox's new parental controls being swiftly followed by the s...

The latest episode of the GamesIndustry.biz podcast focuses on how recent court rulings have opened up the mobile game landscape. Developers now have the green light to accept payments outside of Apple's systems, potentially allowing them to secure a larger slice of an app's revenue. GamesIndustry.biz features editor Lewis Packwood is joined by Xsolla president Chris Hewish and Xsolla's chief mark...

Welcome to the weekly GI Podcast. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Podcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. For this special episode, sponsored by Virtuos, we look at what co-development can offer game developers creatively and commercially, with a particular focus on mid-sized teams, and those in emerging markets across regions such as Southeast Asian, MENA, Brazil, and Austr...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. This week, our show focuses on the year ahead with Chris and James both sharing their expectations, predictions and hopes...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. For our penultimate episode of the year, we look back at the biggest trends of the past 12 months. Topics covered include...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. This week, our show focuses on The Game Awards 2024. Chris reports on his experiences from attending the event, we discus...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. Our main topic this week is Ubisoft's decision to shut down XDefiant next year, and what this says about the challenges o...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. Our main topic this week is the spreading reports that Sony is making a new games handheld. We discuss how the platform h...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. Our main topic this week is the struggles of consumer games events like PAX, EGX and the now-defunct WASD. Hands-on exper...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. Our main topic this week is Nintendo's long-awaited (but very much expected) confirmation that Switch 2 will be backwards...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. It's financials seasons, so we discuss the highs and lows from some of the biggest publishers, including Electronic Arts,...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. This time, we're joined at MCM x EGX by Big Fan Games' Amanda Kruse to talk about the evolving ways in which video games...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. This time, our main topic centres around comments by former Sony boss Shawn Layden, who declared that not only is the AA...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. For our main discussions, we're joined by MobileGamer.biz's Neil Long to discuss the recent US court ruling that opens Go...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. This week, we use Devolver's unveiling of Big Fan Games - a new publishing label dedicated to indies working on licensed...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. This week, our main topic is Ubisoft not only delaying Assassin's Creed Shadows to February 2025, but also drop the seaso...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. This week, the big story is Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are taking legal action against Pocketpair developer Palworl...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. This week, we are joined by Ampere Analysis' Piers Harding-Rolls to discuss Sony's unveiling of the PS5 Pro, its potentia...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. This week, we continue our discussion of Concord's troubles with Sony pulling the shooter from sale two weeks after launc...

Welcome to the weekly GI Microcast giving you the latest in video games news. Join James Batchelor and Chris Dring as they give you their take on the biggest stories in video games. Never miss an episode and subscribe to the GI Microcast on all podcasting platforms and YouTube. This week, we talk about the struggles of Concord, PlayStation's latest foray into the live service space, and the potent...

Chris and James recap their time at Gamescom and predict how Star Wars Outlaws might do next week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this podcast, we did something a little different: a live Q&A show recorded as part of the official Devcom 2024 Twitch stream. Chris Dring and James Batchelor were joined by Altered Gene's Des Gayle, answering questions submitted by GamesIndustry.biz readers ahead of the show. Topics tackled in this episode included: Why do developers create huge expansions over standalone games? Can Nintendo...