Tag: gaming industry

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 devs tweet ‘Blame the French!’ after losing every Game Awards category to Clair Obscur, but it was in good fun: They partied together after

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2…

The developers behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 prepared thoroughly for Thursday’s Game Awards. In a tweet posted a few…
The 9 biggest no-shows at The Game Awards 2025

The 9 biggest no-shows…

In terms of new game announcements, this was one of the most exciting Game Awards we’ve seen in a…
More than 19,000 games launched on Steam this year—but almost half have fewer than 10 reviews

More than 19,000 games…

There are, as you may have noticed, a lot of videogames nowadays. We’re spoiled by the constant flow of…
Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs lays off employees and cancels in-development projects, says it’s ‘the last resort to ensure Phoenix Labs can survive’

Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs…

Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs is laying off “many” employees and cancelling in-development projects as part of a major restructuring…
A week after Microsoft closed 4 game studios, Microsoft-owned Activision announces a new game studio

A week after Microsoft…

Just over a week after Microsoft abruptly shuttered four studios—Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog Games, and Roundhouse Games—Microsoft-owned…
Crypto boss sentenced to 15 years over ‘epic, generational scale’ fraud that lost over 40 billion dollars

Crypto boss sentenced to…

Cryptocurrency Terraform Labs co-founder, Do Kwon, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a district judge in…
AI is listening: Omnipresent robo-moderators are the latest online anti-toxicity strategy

AI is listening: Omnipresent…

“Toxicity” is one of a few words that has come to define today's internet culture, and for online game…
Take-Two CEO says he expects the games industry to be in ‘commercial streaming mode within 3 years,’ which is great news if you hate owning things

Take-Two CEO says he…

During Take-Two’s latest earnings call, CEO Strauss Zelnick said the current computing hardware crisis—you know, the one that’s making…
The 5 biggest announcements and trailers from The Game Awards 2025

The 5 biggest announcements…

Another year of The Game Awards is in the books with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 taking home the GOTY…
Take-Two boss dismisses hand-wringing over the end of disc-based games: ‘Our business is well over 90% digitally distributed as it is’

Take-Two boss dismisses hand-wringing…

Take-Two Interactive chief Strauss Zelnick has waded into the discs vs. digital debate, and given the company’s decision to…