Tag: gaming industry

Steam Week in Review: Steam sales are the best time to hoard dozens of forgotten ’90s PC gaming oddities

Steam Week in Review:…

Even if building a gaming PC is prohibitively expensive for most people in 2026, software continues to be cheap…
Square Enix aims to have AI doing 70% of its QA work by the end of 2027, which seems like it’d be hard to achieve without laying off most of your QA workers

Square Enix aims to…

With the release of its latest quarterly financial results, Square Enix published a progress report on its “Square Enix…
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…
D&D and Magic owner Hasbro is reportedly trying to get child actors from Peppa Pig to sign away their voices to AI

D&D and Magic owner…

Hasbro really can’t catch a break—nor do I think it deserves one. The parent company of Dungeons & Dragons…
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…
With Destiny 2 over, Bungie lays off ‘most of the Destiny team and some Marathon team members’

With Destiny 2 over,…

Bungie has announced a “reduction in force” as it reorganizes following the end of development on Destiny 2, saying…
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…
‘Generational talent just gone’: Developers react in shock at the brutal scale of Bungie layoffs, which has reportedly seen the Destiny 2 team almost completely wiped out

‘Generational talent just gone’:…

The other shoe has dropped. Following Destiny 2’s last major update and widespread reports that Bungie was preparing for…
It’s not layoffs, but you can see them from here: Numerous Compulsion Games employees are looking for new jobs

It’s not layoffs, but…

As reports that major layoffs are coming to multiple Microsoft-owned game studios continue to swirl, numerous developers at South…