The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast

This week, Dan and James are joined by Miles Jacobson, studio director of Football Manager dev Sports Interactive. Skirting around our lack of football knowledge, this episode explores the use of Football Manager data by some of the sport's biggest clubs, the work that goes into adding new features, and demand for localisation from different markets around the world. Jacobson also discusses extens...

Recorded at EGX Rezzed 2017, James is joined by some of the experts and mentors who offered advice at the first of this year's GamesIndustry.biz Careers Fairs. Failbetter's Hannah Flynn, Creative Assembly's Pawel Wojs, UKIE's Sophie Densham and Ant Workshop's Tony Gowland discuss the various potential paths to a career in the games industry. Along the way, they touch upon the importance of an impr...

In the second of our GDC 2017 specials, Dan is joined by long-serving game designer Raph Koster and Subset Games co-founder Justin Ma. The trio discusses how the Game Developers Conference has evolved over the years, as well as the changing role of consumer and industry events - particularly for indies. They also ponder the biggest challenges that independent developers face today, including the e...

This is the first of two episodes recorded in San Francisco during this year's Game Developers Conference. Dan is joined by Jason Della Rocca, co-founder of early stage investor Execution Labs and all-round indie champion. Together, they discuss the art of the pitch, how devs can identify new opportunities and gaps in the market, and the difficulties indies and start-ups face in standing out from...

Dan and James are joined by Thomas Bidaux of ICO Partners to discuss crowdfunding; not only how to get it right, but what to do when it goes wrong. Following high-profile campaign failures such as Erebus' open-world Apocalypse Now title and John Romero's retro-style FPS Blackroom, we discuss how studios have handled crowdfunding failures, how other devs can learn from them and why remaining honest...

This week, we present two recent interviews with not only a highly successful games developer but a musical legend. First up, we speak to Playground Games' creative director Ralph Fulton about the success of Forza Horizon 3, the intricacies of the racing genre and the increased competition in that space in 2017. Then we have Phil Campbell, guitarist of the world famous rock band Motörhead, and Hae...

Recorded at Mobile Games Forum 2017 in London, James is joined by Reigns developer François Alliot, Altered Gene's Des Gayle and Space Ape Games' Martyn Jones. The quartet discusses the challenges that face premium games, the desire for new play patterns in 2017 and the distinct differences between mobile users and other gaming audiences. Elsewhere, Dan and James reflect on their own experiences w...

James and Chris report back from the UK premiere of Nintendo's latest device: the console-handheld hybrid now known as Switch. We're joined by Konami's Asim Tanvir, retailer Mike Fethers and NintendoLife's Anthony Dickens and Thomas Whitehead, who share their views on the hardware, the launch line-up, the price and the challenges Nintendo faces in the year ahead. Meanwhile, Chris discusses his own...

The GamesIndustry.biz Podcast is back! For our first episode, Dan and James are joined by Kirsty Rigden, development director at UK studio FuturLab, to discuss the firm's first project for virtual reality. We also explore the possibilities for VR – both in the games space and beyond – and where we believe the technology needs to head in the near future. Finally, we hint at what to expect from the...