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From First-Party to Indie: The Xbox Divestment Survival Guide
Picture this: you’re a mid-level producer at a studio you’ve loved for years. Monday morning you …

Game Dev Unions Are Moving From Sentiment to Strike Action
Something crossed a threshold in Barcelona this summer. On June 30, workers at Ubisoft Barcelona walked off …

Move From QA Testing Into Game Production Roles
QA is the best job in the games industry for getting into production, and almost no one talks about why. …

Assemble Your First Game Dev Team: The Essential Guide
Most first-time game dev team builders make the same mistake: they hire for roles before they understand what …

Level Up Your Game Producer Career: Associate to Executive
You’ve been promoted to Associate Producer. Your first week, someone asks you to “own” the …

Tech PM Skills That Actually Transfer to Game Production
You’re three weeks into your new associate producer role at a mid-sized game studio, and your Jira board …

What Two Decades of Game Dev Postmortems Reveal
Every Game Developers Conference since 2004, studios have lined up on the main stage to explain how their …