Tag: gaming industry

‘AI is no longer optional’: Microsoft is allegedly pressuring employees to use AI tools through manager evaluations

‘AI is no longer…

First reported by Business Insider, a purported internal memo from Julia Liuson, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer…
Facebook users say they’ve caught the app analyzing their camera roll with Meta AI⁠ without their knowledge—here’s how to make sure it doesn’t happen

Facebook users say they’ve…

You might notice eerily familiar AI-generated images in your Story suggestions on the Facebook app lately—because Facebook has been…
Valve’s former economist, now a member of parliament in Greece, is being put on trial for promoting drug use because he admitted to taking ecstasy 36 years ago

Valve’s former economist, now…

Yanis Varoufakis is probably the only Greek parliamentarian with a background in the videogame industry, having been the economist-in-residence…
EA’s CEO pulled in $5 million more this year than last, while his employees took home the least money they’ve made since 2022

EA’s CEO pulled in…

Tragic news: despite steering Electronic Arts as CEO since 2013, Andrew Wilson hasn’t had a pay rise in the…
3 months after laying off a bunch of people, Splash Damage has become ‘Splash Damage Group’ and acquired another studio

3 months after laying…

In the latest example of ‘I don’t understand business,’ Splash Damage, which just three months ago made major layoffs…
‘None of these people have ever made a game,’ BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk says of game industry executives: ‘They just don’t know how it works’

‘None of these people…

It’s been almost 15 years since BioWare co-founders Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka announced their retirements from the videogame…
‘AAA publishers are abusing early access,’ Denis Dyack says, and that’s making things harder for everyone else

‘AAA publishers are abusing…

Denis Dyack, known for his work on games including Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem,…
‘Morale has been terrible’ at EA, workers claim, saying that AI mandates and mismanagement have left the company ‘a cold dead place that’s slowly decaying as leadership pilfers every last cent’

‘Morale has been terrible’…

EA took the axe to BioWare last week after a long, slow death partially born of mandates to either…
The ‘Stop Killing Games’ initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: ‘Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it’s dead’

The ‘Stop Killing Games’…

Ross Scott—also known as Accursed Farms on YouTube—has been fighting tooth and nail for almost a full year to…
Resident game industry weirdo Yoko Taro laments that there aren’t as many ‘weird’ people making videogames as there used to be

Resident game industry weirdo…

If there were to ever be a mascot for the videogame industry weirdos (endearing), it’d most certainly be Nier…