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Today Microsoft announced a massive round of layoffs across its businesses via a communication shared by CEO Satya Nadella himself.

The NPD Group has released its sales figures for December 2022, and it's another strong showing for Call of Duty, as well as the Switch and the PS5.

Curve Games' parent company Catalis has bought Secret 6, a co-development and art asset studio with a hand in some major AAA titles.

Several ex-Playground Games developers have banded together to form a brand new studio that's currently working on a "premium" open-world game.

Limited Run Games has fired its community manager after transphobic tweets and right-wing accounts she followed were unearthed by Twitter users.

Dunkey's video game publishing studio Bigmode has announced that it will publish indie Metroidvania Animal Well as its first project.

Chinese gaming giant NetEase has acquired SkyBox Labs, a Canadian support studio known for working on titles like Halo Infinite and Minecraft.

The saga of the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft has become long and convoluted, and another chapter has just been added by the

Dungeons and Dragons studio Wizards of the Coast has reportedly canceled multiple video game projects amid a scaling back of its efforts in that area.

China has approved 45 imported games for publishing, ending an 18-month freeze on foreign titles and allowing games like Valorant into the country.

Another branch of Activision Blizzard, the Proletariat studio, has now formed a union with the CWA and is requesting a representation election.

Atari CEO Wade Rosen has offered to step in and buy Atari after the company released a pretty disastrous financial half-year report.

Brazilian esports pro Cherna has accused Ubisoft of turning a deaf ear to harassment and abuse directed at women and minority gamers in esports.

A UK consumer watchdog has identified a mechanical fault that appears to be at the core of the all-too-common Switch Joy-Con drift issue.

Epic Games has been fined over $500 million by the FTC over deceptive UI design and child privacy law violations in Fortnite.

Roblox enjoyed over 56 million daily users in November alone, and its revenue topped $190 million, according to a report by Roblox Corporation.

A new report suggests that Apple could be about to allow third-party iOS app stores in the EU in order to comply with a new regulation.

It's Private Division's fifth anniversary, and the publisher is celebrating by announcing a brand new survival horror IP alongside Bloober Team.

A new report has revealed that Microsoft apparently offered Sony a chance to put Call of Duty on PS Plus as part of the rejected 10-year deal.

The Outbound Ghost has been delisted from Steam amid an ongoing feud between developer Conradical and publisher Digerati.

This week we talk about the "Woke Reviewers" of Days Gone and Microsoft v. FTC, then Scrappy shares his thoughts about Forspoken's Demo.

Riot Games is bringing a lawsuit against the Chinese gaming giant NetEase for allegedly ripping off its game Valorant with the mobile FPS Hyper Front.

Splash Damage has announced that it has acquired Bulkhead, the developer of Battalion 1944 and The Turing Test, to work on Transformers: Reactivate.

The FTC has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft to block the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, as they say it is a major threat to the industry.

Yuji Naka has been arrested a second time for insider trading, this time allegedly over the battle royale game Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier.

Days Gone director John Garvin has blamed "woke reviewers" for the less-than-rapturous reception to his open-world zombie game.

Microsoft has signed a 10-year Call of Duty deal to bring the series to Nintendo hardware, confirming that the series will remain on Steam as well.

A new round of GameStop layoffs has begun, and this time, it sounds like things are more focused on the blockchain wallet department.

ZeniMax QA workers will vote in the next few weeks to formalize a union, which will be the first of its kind formed at Microsoft.

Alan Bunney, the Panda Global CEO, has been removed from his position following controversy surrounding Super Smash Bros esports events.

The US Army is continuing to pour millions of dollars in funding into gaming and esports in an effort to recruit Gen Z gamers, according to internal

A new crypto dev by the name of Midnight has been set up, and it's already got four games in the works, including a 4X MMO. Yikes.

Nintendo has told the organizers of Smash World Tour that they will have to cancel the 2022 Championships and the 2023 circuit due to a lack of

The rather aptly-named Game Achievements Ltd has apologized for making trophy spam "shovelware", but players don't seem receptive to the apology.

Former Tripwire CEO John Gibson has claimed that "social terrorism" was behind his ousting as the company's head last year.

China has declared a preliminary victory when it comes to battling gaming addiction in minors, potentially paving the way for eased gaming

The Netflix Games Studio in Los Angeles is looking for a Game Director with experience in FPS and Third Person Shooters for a AAA PC Game.

Sony has announced they will be investing in the China Hero Project in order to sell twice as many PS5s in China as it did with the PS4.

There is apparently a dev letter being sent out by Sony stating that shovelware titles offering easy Platinum trophies will soon be banned or

Yuji Naka, who is one of the co-creators of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, has just been arrested for insider trading over Dragon Quest Tact.

Gearbox has announced that it's acquired the Risk of Rain IP from developer Hopoo, and that the two studios are working together on a new "passion

The Chinese government appears to be reconsidering its largely hostile stance towards the gaming industry, if a recent article is anything to go by.

Motorsport Games' board of directors has resigned over a funding dispute, leaving the company currently non-NASDAQ-compliant.

Krafton has acquired Neon Giant, the developer behind cyberpunk looter-shooter The Ascent, and there's more coming from the studio.

This year's Pokemon Go Fest, which returned to live events after the pandemic forced it to go digital in 2020 and 2021, has been good for local

Sebastian Kalemba, the former head of animation on Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3, is now the new Witcher trilogy game director.

In a move that will surprise absolutely nobody, Activision Blizzard is engaging in yet more union-busting activity, this time for a union vote

Planet Zoo and Elite Dangerous developer Frontier has acquired its very first studio in Warhammer 40k: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters creator Complex