Insights

INSIGHTS

Industry insights and deep dives

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Four armoured soldiers armed with futuristic guns stand amid burning ruins, fiery explosions, and a large skull shape in smoke dominates the background. The scene is intense and action-packed, evoking the immersive qualities of video game narrative design to suggest a gripping battle or war scenario.
InsightsAugust 3, 2026

Why the Best Remakes and Remasters Are About More Than Nostalgia

Discover why successful video game remakes require more than updated visuals. Learn how Sumo approaches modernising classic video games for today’s players.

InsightsJuly 13, 2026

Where Story Meets System: Creative Design Innovation

A Storied Life: Tabitha reimagines narrative design through a memoir system, blending player choice and language. Discover how Lab42 built it and what it means for future storytelling.

A person in a futuristic, armoured suit explores a cave filled with glowing blue crystals, concepting the scene as one large, radiant crystal illumines the underground environment.
InsightsJune 10, 2026

Co-Creating Possibility: The Future of Mobile Gaming Performance

What happens when advanced neural technology frees up performance budget on mobile? You make room for real innovation. Discover how Arm’s neural technology enables our teams to push the boundaries of real-time lighting and visual fidelity on mobile devices.

InsightsMarch 9, 2026

Moving Images: The Future Of Concepting

Sumo Digital’s Atomhawk explains how to explore visual direction, animation, spatial logic, and player experience as if it were in engine, without committing production level budgets or pipelines.

InsightsFebruary 9, 2026

Strategy Games Infrastructure

Experts from Sumo Digital’s Lab42 take Strategy Games under the microscope and explore their features, top tips and more.

InsightsDecember 11, 2025

Nurturing Nokko: Creating the 62nd Warframe

Artists from Sumo Digital share insight into their collaboration with Digital Extremes to create the 62nd Warframe Nokko, as well as the Sprodling Ephemera.

InsightsOctober 15, 2025

How Handheld Continues To Reshape The Gaming Landscape

What should to consider when approaching developing games in this new dawn for handheld gaming.

InsightsSeptember 25, 2025

Are All Day Rates Equal?

Discover why the real value of an outsourcing partner extends beyond cost and why its important to not treat retainers as simple bookings.

InsightsJune 26, 2025

Concept 2.0 and the Nakatomi Story

Sumo Digital’s, Atomhawk, explains how it used technology to explore the possibilities of concepting directly in game engines and found the best and most efficient way of doing this.

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