Tag: gaming industry

Avowed director Carrie Patel leaves Obsidian after 12 years to join the Netflix studio behind Oxenfree

Avowed director Carrie Patel…

After nearly 12 years at Obsidian Entertainment, Avowed game director Carrie Patel has left the studio to take on…
Fooled by a false story about Steam account hacks? Have I Been Pwned 2

Fooled by a false…

Last week saw a fairly typical mini-cycle of bad reporting: an anonymous internet account posted a claim that Steam…
THQ Nordic studio that was set to be closed in 2023 somehow escaped the Embracer death spiral and is now working on a new RPG

THQ Nordic studio that…

This is a bit of a weird one: Two years after announcing its planned closure in the aftermath of…
Splash Damage acquired this studio just 3 months after laying off a bunch of people—now it’s laying them off, too

Splash Damage acquired this…

The closure of BioWare and layoff of roughly 400 people at Electronic Arts is being rightly excoriated as an…
Ex-BioWare boss and Mass Effect director Casey Hudson says he’ll ‘forever be grateful’ for his time at the studio: ‘Its legacy will live on’

Ex-BioWare boss and Mass…

Yesterday, EA announced that it’s closing BioWare, the studio behind beloved RPG franchises like the original Baldur’s Gate games,…
Street Fighter 2 producer Yoshiki Okamoto now makes gacha games and spends half a million dollars on each ‘to make sure the people who spend the most don’t end up dissatisfied’

Street Fighter 2 producer…

Fuji TV’s series Where Did That Money Go? interviews people who had it all and lost it, like game…
An MVP of ultrawide patches for triple-A games just had their entire library nuked from GitHub, and nobody seems to know why

An MVP of ultrawide…

Last week, users on Reddit and ResetEra noticed that the GitHub library of DIY developer Lyall had been completely…
Game industry legend Warren Spector blows up over BioWare’s closure: ‘it’s utter bulls**t’

Game industry legend Warren…

Immersive sim legend Warren Spector shared some thoughts on yesterday’s closure of BioWare, and they’re uncharacteristically spicy—so much so…
‘What we were cooking was really cool’: An award-winning science fiction author was working on Mass Effect 5’s story

‘What we were cooking…

Mass Effect 5 is officially cancelled and EA’s shutting BioWare down, putting an end to decades of some of…
Kojima says his next espionage game will keep us waiting another ‘5 or 6 years’, but then he might finally get around to directing a movie: ‘I’m getting older, and I would prefer to do it while still young’

Kojima says his next…

There is, as ever, a lot going on in the world of Hideo Kojima. In an interview published in…