Tag: gaming industry

The tech industry came for Steam and whiffed so hard that it’s had to admit that it didn’t even really like making games in the first place

The tech industry came…

Amazon didn’t spin up its game development studios a decade ago just to be a regular game publisher: It…
With Destiny 2 over, Bungie lays off ‘most of the Destiny team and some Marathon team members’

With Destiny 2 over,…

Bungie has announced a “reduction in force” as it reorganizes following the end of development on Destiny 2, saying…
One of the studios NetEase killed earlier this year is back from the dead as an ‘independent production company,’ but its original boss is nowhere to be seen

One of the studios…

One of America’s greatest poets once said, “Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact. But maybe everything that does someday…
EA pinky promises to ‘maintain creative control’ in its post-buyout era, but the list of ‘cultural values’ it plans to keep doesn’t mean much at all

EA pinky promises to…

The $55 billion buyout of EA—the largest leveraged buyout in private equity history—has plunged the future of the corporation…
‘Generational talent just gone’: Developers react in shock at the brutal scale of Bungie layoffs, which has reportedly seen the Destiny 2 team almost completely wiped out

‘Generational talent just gone’:…

The other shoe has dropped. Following Destiny 2’s last major update and widespread reports that Bungie was preparing for…
It’s not layoffs, but you can see them from here: Numerous Compulsion Games employees are looking for new jobs

It’s not layoffs, but…

As reports that major layoffs are coming to multiple Microsoft-owned game studios continue to swirl, numerous developers at South…
Tim Sweeney on the future of games, AI, and whether Valve will ever join forces with Epic: ‘It’s now clear that nobody’s going to end up with an absolute monopoly’

Tim Sweeney on the…

At Unreal Fest in Chicago last week, Epic unveiled its masterplan for Unreal Engine 6. Rather than the usual…
Elden Ring ‘profit leakage’ has Kadokawa investors looking for a new boss

Elden Ring ‘profit leakage’…

You remember Elden Ring, right? Pretty good game, pretty successful, won a few awards? Well, forget about all that:…
Path of Exile co-creator used to think ‘live service was entirely upside, in all cases’, but 10 years of experience and games like Baldur’s Gate 3 have shown him another way

Path of Exile co-creator…

It’s easy for us, sitting in our chairs of critique and our long, weary experience with the live service…
Italy’s second-largest independent game studio buys its freedom from Embracer

Italy’s second-largest independent game…

After six years as an Embracer studio, Carmageddon: Rogue Shift developer 34BigThings is independent again. The studio announced today…