Tag: gaming industry

Why private equity acquisitions like the one that just claimed BioWare are so dreaded

Why private equity acquisitions…

The closure of BioWare has not come as a huge surprise. The LGBTQ-inclusive developer of Mass Effect and Dragon…
Arc Raiders is such a huge hit, Nexon has put Embark Studios CEO Patrick Söderlund in charge of everything else too

Arc Raiders is such…

Patrick Söderlund is the founder and CEO of Embark Studios, the maker of Arc Raiders. And Arc Raiders, you…
Time could be running out for Arkane

Time could be running…

Arkane Lyon may soon be facing closure, according to a new report by French site Le Monde, which says…
‘I’m forever grateful to BioWare’: 16 game developers share the moment a BioWare game inspired them to join the industry

‘I’m forever grateful to…

Early BioWare (Image credit: BioWare) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Image credit: BioWare) Dragon Age (Image credit:…
Players spent roughly 10,250,000,000 monthly hours in Roblox in 2025, analyst says—more than Steam, PlayStation, and Fortnite combined

Players spent roughly 10,250,000,000…

As you may have heard, Roblox is big—but the scale of the platform’s dominance over the attention span of…
Most players ‘know next to nothing about how games are made’: New Blood devs sound off on gamedev misconceptions

Most players ‘know next…

Hang out with a game developer in a casual setting for an hour and the topic of gamedev misconceptions…
Remembering Leif Johnson, the gaming industry’s one and only cowboy poet

Remembering Leif Johnson, the…

Jeremiah Leif Johnson, a writer and editor for a number of gaming and tech websites including IGN, Vice Motherboard,…
If Xbox is ‘recommitting’ to its console, what does that mean for its recent ‘everything is an Xbox’ strategy?

If Xbox is ‘recommitting’…

After struggling to compete with the PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, Microsoft’s gaming division has spent the last few years…
New Xbox boss Asha Sharma promises no ‘soulless AI slop’ after moving over from Microsoft’s CoreAI products division

New Xbox boss Asha…

Long-time Microsoft Gaming boss Phil Spencer has retired, and Xbox president Sarah Bond has resigned. Filling their shoes will…
Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that ‘easy’ additions and updates are sometimes really hard: ‘That’s half a year’s work

Helldivers 2 and Palworld…

I don’t envy game developers sometimes, nor do I envy the assumptions they have to hear time and time…