Tag: gaming industry

Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM unionizes in the UK: ‘We like being here. We want to continue being here

Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM…

Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM has unionized. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, representatives of the studio’s new Workers’ Alliance, as…
Capcom legend tackles Palworld-Nintendo battle and manages to annoy almost everyone: ‘It’s a game that transcends the boundaries of war’

Capcom legend tackles Palworld-Nintendo…

Pocketpair’s Palworld has certainly found an audience since release: even if, unfortunately, those interested include Nintendo’s lawyers. The ongoing…
EA’s $55 billion acquisition is the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history

EA’s $55 billion acquisition…

On Monday, news broke that EA, one of the world’s largest publicly-traded game publishers, is being taken private in…
YouTube rolls over and pays $24

YouTube rolls over and…

YouTube has joined the ignominious list of tech companies rushing to settle lawsuits brought by US president Donald Trump.…
Teenager pleads guilty to sending Epic staff death threats: ‘I intended for the messages to be viewed as a threat’

Teenager pleads guilty to…

A teenager from South Dakota has changed his plea to guilty over threatening messages sent to developers at Epic…
Ubisoft’s new Tencent-backed company is called Vantage Studios, a ‘creative house’ that will take over development of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six

Ubisoft’s new Tencent-backed company…

The new thing being launched by Ubisoft and Tencent to take control of Ubi’s biggest games now has a…
BioWare’s just waiting for the axe to fall after EA’s $55 billion buyout, say anonymous staff

BioWare’s just waiting for…

EA went private in a Saudi-backed $55 billion deal earlier this week, and pretty much no one with a…
EA CEO says company values will ‘remain unchanged’ under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner’s investment firm

EA CEO says company…

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson says the company’s acquisition by a consortium made up of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment…
Writer Andrew Dice, whose work helped popularize Japanese indies like Recettear in the West, has died

Writer Andrew Dice, whose…

Writer Andrew Dice, one half of videogame localization team Carpe Fulgur, has died. The news was shared to Twitter…
Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that ‘guns and football’ are in, ‘gay stuff’ is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

Former BioWare lead writer…

The rumours have been swirling for a while, before today brought a major industry announcement: EA has struck a…