Tag: gaming industry

Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics lays off 17 employees ‘to better align our current business needs and the studio’s future success’

Tomb Raider developer Crystal…

Crystal Dynamics, which is currently working on a Perfect Dark reboot and a new Tomb Raider game, has announced…
As layoffs and studio closures continue to deathroll the western AAA industry, analyst points out 5 of 8 major Japanese companies hit all-time share prices this year

As layoffs and studio…

It feels like every other day I’m writing some article about AI carving through people’s livelihoods and studios closing.…
‘I’m the type of player who loves to 100% a game’: SungWon Cho on achievement hunting, why he doesn’t like multiplayer games, and the one Balatro joker that nearly drove him to despair

‘I’m the type of…

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Game Informer is back from the dead: ‘The whole team has returned’

Game Informer is back…

After being tossed to the curb by struggling retail chain GameStop last year, long-running gaming magazine Game Informer has…
Gabe Newell’s cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he ‘delighted in people on the team just being really good at what they did’

Gabe Newell’s cult of…

I’m not sure there’s any single figure in the games industry that people are more intrigued by than Gabe…
One of Valve’s original executives shares a very simple secret to its success: ‘You can’t use up your credibility’ by trying to make bad games work

One of Valve’s original…

Hey, did you know these Valve guys are doing pretty well for themselves? Handily going toe-to-toe with Amazon, making…
Shadow of Mordor’s beloved nemesis system exists because the publisher threw a tantrum about second-hand sales

Shadow of Mordor’s beloved…

Remember that weird time about 15 years back when the videogame industry filled its nappy over the existence of…
‘Google must divest the Chrome browser:’ DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next

‘Google must divest the…

The Department of Justice is reaffirming its demands for action to break up Google’s search monopoly, calling for the…
FTL-like Void War was DMCAed by Games Workshop due to ‘oversized convex shoulder pads with a metallic rim’

FTL-like Void War was…

Void War is an FTL-like, a space strategy sim of the roguelike variety, but it’s hard to get a…
Gabe Newell is hooked on Stalker 2 and once he’s got the fourth ending (!) will ‘figure out what I’m going to play next’

Gabe Newell is hooked…

It’s been one heck of a week for serious Valve news, thanks largely to founder Monica Harrington’s new GDC…