Tag: gaming industry

Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise’s dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft

Indie deckbuilder All Will…

Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise is, as Andy Chalk wrote last year, “clearly a game with something to say”.…
Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented the Quicksort algorithm for a sixpence bet, dies at the age of 92

Turing Award winner Tony…

Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, known as Tony to friends, has died at the age of 92. One of…
New report alleges Microsoft Recall is still screenshotting credit card numbers and passwords

New report alleges Microsoft…

Microsoft Recall’s security woes have come back to the fore after a test caught the AI screenshotting tool capturing…
Blizzard vet Rob Pardo closed this year’s GDC keynote by urging executives to cool it with the layoffs: ‘The game team is more valuable than the game itself’

Blizzard vet Rob Pardo…

Today at GDC, San Francisco’s annual summit of games industry professionals, former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo delivered…
PC games revenue will outgrow consoles by 2028, analyst predicts

PC games revenue will…

According to games industry market research firm Newzoo (PC Gamer’s official data partner), PC games revenue has trailed console…
Paradox Interactive is getting a new boss as Fredrik Wester steps down for the second time

Paradox Interactive is getting…

Paradox Interactive is getting a new boss: Deputy CEO Mattias Lilja will take over from current CEO Fredrik Wester…
Valve says almost 6,000 games made over $100K on Steam last year

Valve says almost 6,000…

In a new talk at the Game Developers Conference Valve has shared some Steam data that, among other things,…
Epic’s win against Google is upheld, and the Sweenster is loving it: ‘Total victory’

Epic’s win against Google…

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the decision in the Epic vs Google lawsuit, which began in…
Gabe Newell acquires yacht company building the $400 million ocean-fortress he’ll pick up later this year, because he ‘respects the sea’

Gabe Newell acquires yacht…

Gabe Newell is the Kilroy of videogames, constantly popping up in strange corners where you least expect to find…
Giana Sisters developer Black Forest Games buys itself out of Embracer: ‘Some of the best games of the last decade came from teams of fifty, not five hundred’

Giana Sisters developer Black…

Black Forest Games, German developer of early Kickstarter success Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, as well as remakes of the…