Microsoft announced its financial results for the second quarter of the fiscal year 2024, including details on the ongoing performance of the Xbox business. Interestingly, as mentioned in the past…
January 30, 2024 | 04:18 EST
A group of industry veterans who've worked on games like BioShock and Cyberpunk 2077 have banded together to form Antistatic Studios, a new developer currently working on its first project. Per a…
January 30, 2024 | 11:19 EST
Shadowrun: Dragonfall and BattleTech director Mike McCain has returned to his former studio Harebrained Schemes to head up work on the developer's next title. Per a press release, McCain will both…
January 30, 2024 | 10:50 EST
Square Enix announced that it has scored a point against the widespread manufacture and distribution of counterfeit figures from its games in China. According to the announcement made via press…
January 29, 2024 | 10:28 EST
Koei Tecmo's Integrated Report 2023 published this morning alongside the company's financial results includes interesting insight from a veteran developer who may sound familiar for many fans, Yosuke…
January 29, 2024 | 06:41 EST
A group of veteran developers who used to work at Saints Row studio Volition teamed up to form a new studio, named Shapeshifter Games. The studio, revealed on Linkedin, is headquartered in Champaign…
January 29, 2024 | 04:40 EST
Today Eidos Montreal officially announced that its employees have been affected by a round of layoffs, part of Embracer Group's continued effort to cut costs. The announcement, made on X (formerly…
January 29, 2024 | 01:34 EST
Today Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the first 9 months of the fiscal year that will end on March 31, 2024, and they're a bit mixed. On one side, the documents reveal that sales for…
January 29, 2024 | 02:08 EST
Today the developers of Palworld at Pocketpair took to X to denounce a rather egregious impersonation case that surfaced yesterday. According to the post, the account @Palwcrld_jp, designed to…
January 29, 2024 | 12:16 EST
The first legal clash between the developer of the PvPvE FPS game Dark and Darker Ironmace and Nexon ended pretty much in a draw as preliminary injunctions from both parties have been dismissed. …
January 28, 2024 | 04:17 EST
Xbox is apparently the latest company to join the long line of studios laying off employees, if new reports are to be believed. According to an internal Xbox memo seen by both The Verge and IGN,…
January 25, 2024 | 09:41 EST
The Pokemon Company has issued a statement obviously related to Pocketpair's new crafting survival game Palworld, without actually mentioning it by name. The statement mentions that the company has…
January 25, 2024 | 12:17 EST
It appears that another well-known development studio has been hit by layoffs today, and it's Polish developer People Can Fly. The studio, known for games like the recent Bulletstorm VR and…
January 24, 2024 | 07:55 EST
2023 has been an annus terribilis for employment in the gaming industry, but 2024 isn't starting any better. Riot Games, developer of League of Legends, Valorant, and more, has announced a large…
January 22, 2024 | 08:47 EST
As the commercial success of Palworld continues to grow, Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe took to X to denounce comments received from part of the community. Mizobe-san posted on his personal X (…
January 22, 2024 | 03:04 EST
Elex and Gothic developer Piranha Bytes has taken to social media to share a somewhat cryptic update on the current state of the studio. In the message, which was posted to X (formerly known as…
January 22, 2024 | 09:09 EST
Square Enix published the transcript of the Q&A from the latest financial results conference call, in which the new CEO Takashi Kiryu offered information about the publisher's business and plans…
January 18, 2024 | 02:54 EST
A dispute between Remedy and Rockstar regarding the former's logo was resolved in late 2023 and is no longer ongoing, according to a Remedy representative. Earlier this week, it was reported that…
January 18, 2024 | 10:05 EST
Circana (formerly The NPD Group) has released its sales data for December 2023, as well as a roundup of the best-selling games of 2023 (in the US, at least) on each platform. As usual, the group's…
January 18, 2024 | 09:33 EST
CI Games has laid off around 10% of its workforce in order to "preserve business strength and stability", the studio has revealed. This news comes via GamesIndustry.biz, which initially found…
January 18, 2024 | 07:28 EST
Microsoft and the Federal Trade Commission are trading procedural blows in the legal battle over the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, with Sony and Ubisoft dragged into the fighting…
January 18, 2024 | 08:14 EST
Seeing big games appear on subscription services like Xbox Game Pass or PlayStation Plus is almost the norm nowadays, but it won't happen with the acclaimed Baldur's Gate 3. Larian Studios' CEO and…
January 17, 2024 | 08:24 EST
Thunderful Group, the parent company of studios like SteamWorld developer Image & Form, has announced major layoffs as part of a "restructuring program". In a press release on its official…
January 17, 2024 | 08:47 EST
While 2024 has just started it appears to be a continuation of 2023 in the loss of many gaming industry jobs, especially under Embracer's leaky umbrella. We now learn that another studio has let go…
January 13, 2024 | 05:36 EST
The latest episode of the Game Maker's Notebook Podcast published by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences featured an interesting interview with Final Fantasy XIV director and producer and…
January 12, 2024 | 11:38 EST
Following yesterday's announcement of an agreement with gaming AI voice company Replica Studios, actors' union SAG-AFTRA is not backing down despite widespread criticism. The union published the…
January 11, 2024 | 03:18 EST
The UK boxed sales charts data for the week ending January 6th is finally here, and lo and behold, it's still the Wizarding World to which gamers have been flocking. Hogwarts Legacy retains its…
January 11, 2024 | 08:42 EST
Today the developers of the Team Fortress: Source 2 fan project have announced that development will come to an end. The decision was taken after the team received a DMCA takedown notice from Valve…
January 11, 2024 | 03:16 EST
Remedy has filed a new trademark for something called FBC: Firebreak, suggesting that we finally have a name for the studio's upcoming multiplayer Control spinoff. The trademark, which was first…
January 10, 2024 | 09:18 EST
Today Valve announced that the rules on its Steam digital marketplace regarding games that utilize generative AI are changing. The change has been announced in an official post and Valve claims…
January 9, 2024 | 11:02 EST
Today SAG-AFTRA announced a deal, which it defines as "groundbreaking," with AI voice technology company focusing on the gaming industry Replica Studios. According to the press release, the…
January 9, 2024 | 04:32 EST
The endless Saga of the legal battle between Microsoft and the FTC over the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard continues, but a Judge just shut a door in Microsoft's face. A while ago…
January 9, 2024 | 01:03 EST
Unity will slash 25% of its workforce in an effort to "refocus on its core business" and to move towards growth, a new report has revealed. According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange…
January 9, 2024 | 09:38 EST
TikTok owner ByteDance has revealed that it's currently holding talks with Tencent and several other companies regarding the sale of its gaming assets. According to Reuters (which cites a ByteDance…
January 9, 2024 | 08:39 EST
Following a pause for the New Year holiday, the preliminary battle has restarted between Microsoft and FTC about what documents and testimonies will be included in the administrative court hearing…
January 5, 2024 | 11:18 EST
The storm of layoffs that has been hitting the gaming industry continues, as two more studios are forced to downsize, letting several developers go. The first is virtual reality developer Archiact…
January 5, 2024 | 03:21 EST
Korean gaming giant Netmarble has appointed a new co-CEO, pending approval from the company's shareholders in March. Current vice president Byung Gyu Kim, who's currently in charge of business…
January 4, 2024 | 10:26 EST
The South Korean Fair Trade Commission has fined Nexon over violations of the Electronic Commerce Act in its popular games MapleStory and Bubble Fighter. Specifically, the regulator imposed a…
January 3, 2024 | 01:53 EST
It's time for a look at the final UK boxed sales charts data of 2023, and one of the year's most popular games has once again emerged victorious. Hogwarts Legacy takes the last top spot of the year…
January 3, 2024 | 08:39 EST
Microsoft president Brand Smith spoke during a brief interview on the BBC about the battle with the British competition authority CMA that happened last year over the $68.7 billion acquisition of…
January 2, 2024 | 01:04 EST
Former Sega Europe CEO Jurgen Post will return to the company as part of some pretty big management changes, Sega Europe has announced. According to GamesIndustry.biz (which cites a Sega…
January 2, 2024 | 11:25 EST
The Sinking City developer Frogwares has announced that it has obtained publishing rights for its game after a lengthy dispute with former publisher Nacon. In a new post on Steam, the developer says…
January 2, 2024 | 09:56 EST
Today, new Square Enix CEO Takashi Kiryu sent his traditional New Year's Letter from the President, outlining the strategy for the developer and publisher in 2024. Within the fairly long-winded…
January 1, 2024 | 06:02 EST
The UK boxed sales charts data for the week ending December 23rd is here, and you'll never guess which perennial sports favorite has managed to cling to the top spot. That's right: it's EA Sports FC…
December 29, 2023 | 08:54 EST
Today the Japanese gaming website 4Gamer published its traditional end-of-the-year post in which many developers talk about the past year and their ambition for 2024. Usually, this is a chance for…
December 27, 2023 | 03:34 EST
Square Enix may be famous for its Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games but it also handles plenty of mobile games, which aren't always successful, like the recent Engage Kill and Fullmetal Alchemist…
December 27, 2023 | 11:07 EST
Jukai Studio, the developer of othe action-horror game Stray Souls has announced its shutdown. This follows the closure (at least in its previous form) of the game's publisher Versus Evil.…
December 24, 2023 | 01:04 EST
With the administrative law proceeding that sees Microsoft face off against the FTC over the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the parties are scrambling to line up their weapons for…
December 23, 2023 | 09:15 EST