Tag: gaming industry

CD Projekt rebrand makes things simultaneously simpler and more confusing

CD Projekt rebrand makes…

I confess, even after several years writing about videogames for money, I still have to pause sometimes and remember…
Sony games boss says company will bravely keep sending live services over the top, despite cancelling 8 of the 12 ones planned for 2025 and wiping out most of Destiny 2’s developers

Sony games boss says…

Sony had a rough track record last year. As one of our contributors Rick Lane pointed out, the company…
Sally Beaumont, voice actor in Old Skies and The Séance of Blake Manor, extols the virtues of narrative singleplayer games ‘You can have lots of them in your PC toolbelt’

Sally Beaumont, voice actor…

Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC…
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…