Tag: gaming industry

Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios cuts ‘senior management positions’ because after all the other layoffs, ‘the company had a lot of senior management in relation to our current size’

Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios…

Less than six months after laying off an estimated 70 people, Smite 2 developer Hi-Rez Studios has made another…
Jajaja! Microsoft finally gives up pestering EU users about goddamn Edge

Jajaja! Microsoft finally gives…

All hail the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which in recent years has been used by the bloc to…
A new Dungeons and Dragons ‘singleplayer action-adventure’ game is coming from the former director of Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi games

A new Dungeons and…

Larian is out of the D&D game and that’s left Wizards of the Coast scrambling a little bit to…
Apple is reportedly creating its own Steam-like game launcher, but it’s still missing the key to making gaming on Mac great

Apple is reportedly creating…

Apple’s 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC,is just a couple weeks away. Like every year previous, it sounds like…
‘We wish to express our deepest regret’: Bulletstorm and Outriders dev People Can Fly suspends unannounced projects in yet another wave of gaming layoffs

‘We wish to express…

Sebastian Wojciechowski, People Can Fly CEO, shared some disheartening news in an announcement on LinkedIn on Sunday. Not only…
The Future Games Show returns this March with the voices of Lae’zel and Batman as hosts

The Future Games Show…

The Future Games Show is shortly to become the right-now games show (metaphorically, various trademark lawyers instruct me to…
Roblox responds to LA County lawsuit, the latest of many alleging the game fails to protect children from predators: ‘While no system can be perfect, our commitment to safety never ends’

Roblox responds to LA…

On Thursday, February 19, Roblox was sued by Los Angeles County for allegedly failing to guard the children that…
Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic confirms layoffs: ‘The landscape is shifting, and with it, so must we’

Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic confirms…

Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic Games has laid off an undisclosed number of employees, confirming reports of cuts shared by former…
ZeniMax QA union reaches a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft including ‘substantial across-the-board wage increases,’ worker protections, and more

ZeniMax QA union reaches…

Just two months after voting to authorize a strike action over stalled negotiations with Microsoft, ZeniMax Workers United-CWA has…
The CIA operated a network of gaming sites and even a Star Wars fanpage that were part of one of its worst-ever intelligence catastrophes

The CIA operated a…

Head to the URL starwarsweb.net and you may be somewhat surprised to find yourself on the Central Intelligence Agency…