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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Games for Gaza bundle on Itch.io raising money for Palestinian aid
Promotion with dozens of video games and almost 200 tabletop games is raising funds for UK charity Medical Aid for Palestinians
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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
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How to successfully run a remote studio, and make it last
Roll7 head of people Nisha Minhas shares the OlliOlli studio's tips for building a strong studio culture when people don't work at the studio
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Activision Blizzard goes into the black box | This Week in Business
The Call of Duty publisher has been good at detailing its business, but that won't happen under Microsoft
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Everybody makes mistakes | 10 Years Ago This Month
The power of the cloud, second-screen gaming, and more promised futures that never came to pass
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Activision made a secret deal for gun product placement in Call of Duty
Agreement with Remington for 2009's Modern Warfare 2 comes to light after lawsuit against arms makers
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Riccitiello's exit a rare bit of accountability | This Week in Business
Let's compare the consequences of Unity's Runtime Fee debacle to those of historical game executive bellyflops
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Activision Blizzard is officially part of Microsoft
Bobby Kotick staying on until the end of this year as Phil Spencer says the work to add ABK franchises to Game Pass begins today
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Team17 layoffs could hit one-third of company
More than 90 jobs reportedly at risk in indie publisher's recently confirmed restructuring
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Redesigned PS5 arrives next month
Slimmer system will launch in standard and digital-only models this November alongside price hikes in US and Japan
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Taking one for the team you've been kicked out of | Last Week in Business
As ex-BioWare devs file suit for severance, EA reportedly tells them Dragon Age: Dreadwolf hangs in the balance
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An allergy to transparency | This Week in Business
How the IARC works, what makes Naughty Dog's layoffs different, and the industry's ongoing effort to control everything anyone knows about it
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Hutch Games slapped for loot box disclosure violations
Mobile game maker argued unsuccessfully that disclosure was optional because loot boxes could be obtained through gameplay as well as purchasing
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Twitch makes another round of layoffs
Latest cuts limited to customer support as streaming service relies more on outsourcing
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Naughty Dog reportedly lays off dozens of contractors
Sources tell Kotaku The Last of Us studio is not giving severance and pressuring employees to keep the news quiet
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Inworld AI names advisory board
Early EA exec Bing Gordon, Google VP of AI Danny Lange, ex-Disney exec Jon Snoddy, and Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson sign on with AI NPC start-up
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Pistol Shrimp and the importance of owning what you make
Ex-Toys For Bob developers Fred Ford and Dan Gerstein talk about The Ur-Quan Masters 2, tools, and what it was like switching engines to Godot midway through development
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Hatoful Boyfriend dev accuses Epic of unpaid royalties
Hato Moa says company hasn't paid for sales of avian dating sim over the past two years
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Failbetter, Alexis Kennedy settle their disputes
Fallen London studio says the pair "have reached a mutually agreeable settlement" of problems going back years
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Engines of Woe | This Week in Business
Who pays the price for Epic and Unity's recent revelations about the need for a sustainable business?
