Tag: gaming industry

Xbox creator becomes first console designer to bake bread using wild yeast illicitly collected from Microsoft campus

Xbox creator becomes first…

A game designer, producer, and director who had a hand in developing games like System Shock, Terra Nova, and…
MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy lays off even more people

MindsEye developer Build a…

A week after the release of the anticipated MindsEye DLC Blacklisted, which in case you hadn’t heard was utterly…
Microsoft ends Copilot AI on Xbox to help ‘get the business back on track,’ as new CEO simultaneously welcomes AI executives into the fold

Microsoft ends Copilot AI…

A CNBC report says there’s been a significant leadership shakeup at Microsoft’s Xbox division, and if you’re not a…
Remedy’s latest financials aren’t too bad considering Firebreak flopped, which the CEO puts down to its ‘structurally more efficient budgets’

Remedy’s latest financials aren’t…

Remedy, the creative geniuses behind Alan Wake, Control, and Max Payne, to name a few, has always been an…
How a ’90s Zelda PC port became a fangame factory, turning one legend into a thousand

How a ’90s Zelda…

Have you ever heard of whale falls? The skinny is that when whales die, their carcasses are so packed…
GameStop CEO baffles CNBC anchors in bizarre interview

GameStop CEO baffles CNBC…

After making an unsolicited offer to buy eBay for $56 billion, GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen—sometimes referred to as the…
PC players aren’t Grand Theft Auto 6’s ‘core’ audience, Take-Two CEO says, and that’s why we have to wait for it

PC players aren’t Grand…

Grand Theft Auto 6 will be out on November 19, unless it gets delayed again (never say never), but…
Fortnite will soon let creators earn money peddling items straight from their islands, throws a tomato at Roblox by comparing cuts for good measure

Fortnite will soon let…

Roblox has slowly (but steadily) cemented itself as one of gaming’s giants, even beating Steam for concurrent users back…
Steam announces end of support for Windows 10 32-Bit, saying only 0

Steam announces end of…

Valve has announced Steam will be ending support for 32-bit versions of Windows 10 at the turn of the…
GameStop confirms $56 billion eBay acquisition bid, promises $2 billion in cuts at the company if the takeover is successful

GameStop confirms $56 billion…

GameStop has now confirmed its intent to acquire ecommerce behemoth eBay, first reported over the weekend, saying in a…