Brendan Sinclair
Managing Editor
Brendan is managing editor at GamesIndustry.biz and first joined the site in 2012. Prior to that, he was senior news editor at GameSpot, and served as features editor for the short-lived Polygon Magazine. His work has also appeared in USgamer and Kotaku.
Brendan started his career in game journalism with a round-up of the Sega Dreamcast launch in September of 1999 for the student newspaper at the University of Texas at Austin, and has been writing about games at least part-time ever since. He also spent a couple years working a variety of beats at community newspapers in Illinois and Oklahoma.
He is based out of Toronto and can be found on Mastodon.
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Where to get illegally pirated games | This Week in Business
A look at who is allowed to profit off counterfeit games and how the industry goes after everyone else
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The industry will rally soon, says RallyHere head
Hi-Rez president and RallyHere CEO Stewart Chisam says we're seeing a bullwhip effect from COVID and the recovery will begin this quarter
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GameStop posts lower sales, reduced losses
Retailer sees sales slump across the board, but narrows losses from $92.6 million in the year-ago quarter to $3.1 million
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Phoenix Labs lays off 34 staff
Fae Farm and Dauntless developer makes second round of cuts this year
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Speakerhats off to Atari | This Week in Business
Too many big companies cutting staff this year should have followed the example of the most debased brand in gaming
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Monetization and payments firm "vehemently denies" allegations it fired accounting VP for reporting violation
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CEO Wade Rosen explains how the company's recent investments and acquisitions fit into the bigger picture
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PS4 and Xbox One launches underwhelm, but overperform | 10 Years Ago This Month
People were so eager for new consoles they didn't mind waiting a bit longer for games that would justify the purchase
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Be thankful this didn't happen to you | This Week in Business
The cautionary tale of Red Trigger developer Bold Spirit Game Studio, and a look at ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear's short-lived new job
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What's the gaming M&A market like in 2023?
MIGS panel of experts say deals are taking longer, but there's still "plenty of cash" and buyers looking to add
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China's game market to grow 5.2% this year
Niko Partners projects Chinese game revenue to hit $47.7 billion, more than offsetting last year's 2.5% dip
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Has 2023 been a good year for new games? | This Week in Business
We compare the number of new games on the US Top 10 best-seller charts this year with previous ones and see how the numbers square up with overall industry sales
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NetEase launches Worlds Untold
Mass Effect dev Mac Walters to lead new remote studio working on AAA action-adventures with narrative emphasis
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Osama Dorias: Progress fighting crunch is at risk
Brass Lion developer says the industry has made progress when it comes to burnout and mental health, but some are reverting to old habits during a difficult year
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Strong release slate can't avoid sales dip in October | US Monthly Charts
Spending down 5% as Spider-Man and Super Mario can't offset the impact of Call of Duty's move back to November
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Super Mario Wonder leads a raft of new releases | Japan Monthly Charts
Detective Pikachu Returns and Spider-Man 2 finish second and third in an October marked by big new games
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Code your own adventure, without code
Jordan Weisman talks about applying the Roblox model to narrative-game-making software with Adventure Forge, and the industry's evolution on M&A
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EIC Ty Galiz-Rowe says gaming site will no longer update regularly citing burnout, underfunding, understaffing
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Nintendo announces live-action Zelda movie
Maze Runner director Wes Ball to direct production co-financed by Nintendo and Sony Pictures
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Phoenix Games acquires Sad Panda
German games group picks up maker of multiplatform idle dating sim Crush Crush
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Let's fake a deal | This Week in Business
Console user agreements represent a poor excuse for consent
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Microsoft has control issues | This Week in Business
The effort to squash unlicensed controllers hurts plenty of paying customers, and might not even achieve its goals
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Games for Gaza bundle on Itch.io raising money for Palestinian aid
Update: Promotion with dozens of video games and almost 200 tabletop games has raised more than $200,000 for charity
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Nintendo patent details a handheld that splits into two
Portable hardware's clamshell design would include a third screen visible when system is closed
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Why is Trust and Safety so hard? | This Week in Business
From Andreessen Horowitz's Techno-Optimist Manifesto to Discord's efforts to reform toxic users, we look at the causes of – and ineffective solutions to – a long-running problem