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GDC Festival of Gaming shares a new GDC Side Quest clip with Sam Carlisle of XDS Spark, focusing on the practical line between outsourcing and co-development. For studios planning external …
Game Developer says XDS Spark co-founder Sam Carlisle and GDC Festival of Gaming content marketing manager Beth Elderkin are digging into how co-development is changing. The focus is on how …
GamesIndustry.biz reports that Keywords Studios has rolled seven marketing and trailer shops into FreeAnimal, a single global creative agency for games clients. The move keeps existing contracts intact while giving …
GamesIndustry.biz reports that Side has signed a six-month MOU with Modl.ai to build an AI-assisted QA workflow with a human still in the loop. The pitch is to automate repetitive …
GamesIndustry.biz reports Testronic has broadened its senior leadership with Mike Guttman named vice president of senior partnerships. The company is also adding QA and business development hires across Warsaw, Manila …
Testronic has named Sonia Kerr as CEO, with Sharon Baylay-Bell moving to company chair. The QA provider is also reshaping its leadership team as it pushes deeper into its global …
Kudos Games Services has added two senior hires to push its QA business beyond its current UK and Tunisia footprint. Former Testronic board member Michael Hanna becomes COO, while ex-Team17 …
External development lives or dies on trust, and a new round of exdev studio reflections puts that ahead of raw talent. Across art, engineering, porting, and support work, the recurring …
NeoBards says Silent Hill f worked because Konami trusted the co-dev team to deliver without constant oversight. The Taipei studio handled most programming, production, and design on the hit horror …
External development is shifting from simple headcount relief to a deeper, more strategic role in game production. Studio leaders expect more co-development, feature ownership, and specialist outsourcing as budgets tighten, …
External development is moving from a side channel to a core production strategy as studios face layoffs, ballooning budgets, and tighter margins. GamesIndustry.biz is kicking off a week-long focus on …
Keywords has cut 128 staff in San Francisco, and the article doesn’t yet say which teams were hit. For developers, the immediate takeaway is uncertainty: layoffs at a services-heavy company …
Side’s leadership shuffle is the main takeaway here: Olivier Deslandes moves up to COO, while the company also adds fresh coverage across marketing, services, localisation QA, and player support. For …
Room 8 Group has brought in Juanita Draude as CEO, replacing Anna Kozlova after seven years. For studios that rely on external co-dev and production support, the signal is a …
UK studios are still feeling the talent squeeze: 29% report skill shortages, and programming is the hardest role to hire for. The bigger practical hit is internal overload, with 62% …
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