Tag: gaming industry

Xbox reportedly wants to put a stake in Blade and sell off Arkane, even though Todd Howard says development is going well

Xbox reportedly wants to…

Microsoft has been extremely busy lately, taking a well-earned break from polluting the world with AI to eviscerate the…
The ESA quietly starts walking back baffling statements about private servers being ‘illegal’, though it’s still tutting and wagging its finger

The ESA quietly starts…

The Entertainment Software Association, in an ongoing attempt to slow the roll of the games conservation movement Stop Killing…
‘I cannot do my job when Microsoft refuses to do theirs’, say Xbox union workers as destructive reset looms from a company that spent over $80 billion on AI last year

‘I cannot do my…

Microsoft’s likely got another wave of layoffs and studio closures coming, it’s my displeasure to say—with multiple studios on…
Fresh off of dumping on Xbox’s flailing, former Sony exec says PlayStation’s pullback from PC releases doesn’t make any sense either

Fresh off of dumping…

Earlier this month, former SIE Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden said the still-ongoing flailing at Xbox “evince a basic…
Ahead of next week’s expected Xbox bloodbath, IO Interactive loses funding for its online fantasy RPG

Ahead of next week’s…

Just over a month after the successful launch of 007 First Light, the fastest selling game in its history,…
Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: ‘We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it’

Open source game engine…

Godot has been suffering from a slop problem. In February, the maintainers of the open source game engine, which…
ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers ‘illegal’ in Stop Killing Games hearing: ‘We consider it piracy, we have lawsuits’

ESA bafflingly declares private…

In a remarkably strange statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over the Protect Our Games Act (AB…
Hearing about the future of PlayStation from its top dogs made me so depressed I had to go lie down

Hearing about the future…

First shared on Bluesky by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, Sony has provided a glimpse of PlayStation’s future and priorities…
After leading the studio through 2 rounds of layoffs and 1 game release, the CEO of Supermassive is stepping down

After leading the studio…

Less than two months after the release of its latest game, Directive 8020, Supermassive Games CEO Robert Henrysson has…
Larian publishing director balks at Square Enix’s push to replace QA workers with AI: ‘The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid … They are a massively advantageous vibe check’

Larian publishing director balks…

Quality assurance—the sacred task of making sure games break as infrequently as possible—is a non-negotiable part of development, especially…