Tag: gaming industry

In the wake of Perfect Dark’s cancellation, Joanna Dark’s voice actor urges fans to help save the series: ‘Agent Dark doesn’t give up and neither should any of you’

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Perfect Dark was one of the biggest projects gutted by Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs, which is really saying…
Hideo Kojima’s mysterious OD reportedly escapes the cancellation axe at Microsoft

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Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees earlier this week, cancelling games Everwild, the Perfect Dark reboot, and an unannounced MMO…
Out of the blue: How a Quake blog turned PC gaming news site has stayed a haven from ‘internet enshittification’ for nearly 30 years

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You’ve been feeling it too, haven’t you? You try to scroll up on a gaming news article and the…
Valve’s reported profit-per-head from Steam commissions is out there, and at $3

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Remember last year when leaked documents from a court case between Valve and indie dev Wolfire Games revealed that—per…
Tech billionaires including Palmer Luckey set up dumb new bank for those who didn’t get burned enough in the 2022 crypto crash

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Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus and occasional Bond villain, has taken a break from getting trapped in his…
Xbox exec suffers bout of terminal LinkedIn brain, suggests folks laid off by Microsoft use AI to ‘reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss’

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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes—every so often, in times of deep economic equality, someone with a…
Stop Killing Games surges past its goals, but a possible signature spoofing campaign could cause trouble: ”This is not a Change.org petition

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Less than two weeks ago, it looked like the Stop Killing Games initiative was in trouble: Founder Ross Scott…
‘There has to be a better way than this’: Game developers call Microsoft’s latest layoffs ‘a colossal waste of talent’ from a publisher that seems like it’s in ‘a death spiral’

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Yesterday, despite posting $26 billion in profits and outperforming Wall Street forecasts in the last quarter, Microsoft began its…
20 foolproof ways to get laid off in the videogame industry

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In these trying economic times, it is tempting to visit the website LinkedIn.com in search of gainful employment in…
Founder of world’s biggest mod site hits back at fans angry about upcoming age verification for NSFW mods: ‘The law is the law and Nexus Mods will, and must, follow the law’

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Last week Nexus Mods said it would be moving to tighten up how it handles access to adult content.…