Tag: gaming industry

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney takes yet another victory lap after Apple’s latest appeal fails: ‘The long national nightmare of the Apple tax is ended’

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney…

Last month, after a long and protracted legal battle, Apple restored Fortnite to the US app store. Fortnite had…
‘It’s pretty sad and pathetic that a game with difficult content can’t get on the larger marketplaces:’ Despite creeping censorship on Steam and Epic, these devs are fighting to make a transgressive stop-motion horror game

‘It’s pretty sad and…

Indie duo Talha & Jack Co are working on a disturbing, transgressive horror game in Abide, and they are…
New Blood CEO Dave Oshry says he’s ‘always loved GOG’ but ‘they need enough people to give a s**t, or how long are they even going to be around’

New Blood CEO Dave…

The average PC gamer has to wrangle all sorts of different digital storefronts and launchers if they want to…
Udon, publisher of Street Fighter, Mega Man, Elden Ring, and other videogame comics and art books, is the latest to cut ties with bankrupt distributor Diamond Comics

Udon, publisher of Street…

Until 2020, Diamond Comic Distributors held a near-monopoly on getting comic books to retailers in the US. Publishers like…
MindsEye is set to launch next week, so it’s probably not great that the studio’s chief financial officer and chief legal officer have both resigned

MindsEye is set to…

The pre-release saga of MindsEye, the debut game from former Rockstar Games stalwart Leslie Benzies and his Build a…
Nightdive Studios’ Stephen Kick has 8,544 hours in Dota 2, and just clocked his 5,000th win: ‘I think it’s made me a better leader’

Nightdive Studios’ Stephen Kick…

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come…
Nightdive Studios’ Stephen Kick has 8,544 hours in Dota 2, and just clocked his 5,000th win: ‘I think it’s made me a better leader’

Nightdive Studios’ Stephen Kick…

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come…
Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios cuts ‘senior management positions’ because after all the other layoffs, ‘the company had a lot of senior management in relation to our current size’

Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios…

Less than six months after laying off an estimated 70 people, Smite 2 developer Hi-Rez Studios has made another…
Jajaja! Microsoft finally gives up pestering EU users about goddamn Edge

Jajaja! Microsoft finally gives…

All hail the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which in recent years has been used by the bloc to…
A new Dungeons and Dragons ‘singleplayer action-adventure’ game is coming from the former director of Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi games

A new Dungeons and…

Larian is out of the D&D game and that’s left Wizards of the Coast scrambling a little bit to…