Tag: gaming industry

Discord is preparing to sell you skins for your favorite games now that it’s monetized just about everything else it can

Discord is preparing to…

It seems like every other day Discord is bugging me to watch a movie trailer or play a game…
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…
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…
‘I sometimes lie in bed thinking about it’: Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser explains why open world spy game Agent never worked out

‘I sometimes lie in…

Remember Agent? After first mentioning it in 2007, Rockstar formally announced it in 2009—an espionage game in an open…
Rockstar accused of ‘the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry’ after firing dozens of employees who were allegedly attempting to form a union

Rockstar accused of ‘the…

A Bloomberg report says Grand Theft Auto 6 studio Rockstar Games has fired “dozens” of employees over what the…
Japanese patent officials reject one of Nintendo’s Pokémon patent applications for being too similar to ARK, Monster Hunter, and—embarrasingly—Pokémon Go

Japanese patent officials reject…

The trio of patents asserted by Nintendo as the basis for its ongoing lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair represent…
International Olympics Committee cancels 12-year deal with Saudi Arabia after just one year, says it ‘will develop a new approach to the Olympic Esports Games’

International Olympics Committee cancels…

The International Olympic Committee has cancelled a 12-year deal with Saudi Arabia that would have seen the first-ever Olympic…
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says game prices ‘have resisted matching inflation’ because publishers have been pocketing the ‘cost savings’ from digital distribution

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain…

Wind blows, birds fly, and Tim Cain YouTubes. The Interplay, Troika, and Obsidian developer (and OG Fallout co-creator) is…
Anime-based therapy is being trialed in Japan

Anime-based therapy is being…

Have you ever been sitting there, watching an anime, and gone: Man, I wish I could get drawn into…