Tag: gaming industry

Arkane temporarily spared in Xbox bloodbath thanks to French law, but its future is up in the air

Arkane temporarily spared in…

In today’s announcement of a staggering 3,200 layoffs at Xbox, the fate of one fan (and PC Gamer) favorite…
Arkane temporarily spared in Xbox bloodbath thanks to French law, but its future is up in the air

Arkane temporarily spared in…

In today’s announcement of a staggering 3,200 layoffs at Xbox, the fate of one fan (and PC Gamer) favorite…
Xbox’s CEO wants its games to cater to ‘more than a billion people each day’, or 24 times more than the peak population of Steam, which is delusional

Xbox’s CEO wants its…

The time has finally come for Xbox’s massive reset—in a statement on the official Xbox site today, recently-minted CEO…
Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading

Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones…

Well, this is a strange one. Just minutes before it was set to deliver its financial results for the…
Steam Week in Review: Steam just got its first ‘dopamine site’, so you can fatten a fake backlog without spending a cent

Steam Week in Review:…

Watch Dogs 2 is currently $2.50 on Steam. It’s hardly a classic, but it’s not terrible either. At one…
Looks like it’s Tencent’s turn to start turning off the money faucet for Western studios, as Bloodhunt developer Sharkmob says layoffs are coming

Looks like it’s Tencent’s…

Tencent-owned Swedish developer Sharkmob, which announced in October that the supernatural battle royale Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt will…
Rockstar faces legal action from UK union after firing more than 30 employees last week: ‘We are confident that what we’ve seen here is plain and simple union busting’

Rockstar faces legal action…

The Independent Workers of Great Britain has launched legal action against Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games over…
Welp, says Sony, sure looks like buying Bungie didn’t work out

Welp, says Sony, sure…

Bungie’s been having a rough old time ever since its 2022 acquisition by Sony: there have been multiple rounds…
‘Fewer than 10’ employees remain at Thick as Thieves studio following another round of layoffs

‘Fewer than 10’ employees…

Thick as Thieves developer OtherSide Entertainment has laid off 18 employees, according to a Game Developer report, a move…
Former Call of Duty frontman launches new studio with a ‘Stop Killing Games’-style mission statement: If the game bombs, it goes open source

Former Call of Duty…

Former Call of Duty strategist Robert Bowlling, whose ill-fated venture with Midnight Society came to an end in 2025,…