Tag: gaming industry

Epic is reportedly cooking up a Disney extraction shooter, and suggestions staff are lukewarm on it are ‘not reflective of the ambitions of the Disney collaboration’

Epic is reportedly cooking…

In the wake of severe layoffs last month, Epic’s increasingly looking to the House of Mouse to shore up…
NetEase closes studio founded by Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies veteran before it can release a single game

NetEase closes studio founded…

T-Minus Zero Entertainment, the NetEase first-party studio founded in 2023 by veteran MMO developer Rich Vogel, has closed its…
Hollow Knight’s creators didn’t want to be constrained by the ‘metroidvania’ label, but they accidentally set a standard that every game since—even Silksong—has to reckon with

Hollow Knight’s creators didn’t…

In a 2017 interview about the making of Hollow Knight’s map, designer William Pellen told me that Team Cherry…
The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 development teams continue to grow as CD Projekt’s headcount expands to nearly 800

The Witcher 4 and…

The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 are still a long way off, but CD Projekt is slowly but surely…
Former Bethesda exec thinks the studio should get more respect for the complex, open worlds it creates: ‘Go try that s**t in Red Dead Redemption 2’

Former Bethesda exec thinks…

Pete Hines retired from Bethesda in 2023 after nearly a quarter-century at the company, where he did everything from…
The James Bond rights owners have opposed an application for a James Pond trademark

The James Bond rights…

The James Pond games were a series of platformer parodies from the 1990s, most notable for the second one’s…
The ill-advised business software that helped sink videogame pioneers Infocom now runs on modern PCs: ‘It’s a new age for aficionados of failed 1985 database products!’

The ill-advised business software…

Infocom is fondly remembered today as the studio responsible for a string of legendary text adventures including the Zork…
Trippy, psychedelic alien shooter ChainStaff shows there are still new ways for games to be ‘retro’

Trippy, psychedelic alien shooter…

I love a new-old game as much as anyone, but it’s hard to pretend that today’s retro throwbacks aren’t…
Today I learned that Excel incorrectly assumes 1900 was a leap year, and Microsoft will never fix it because the whole house of cards would collapse

Today I learned that…

Nestled away amongst a pile of recently updated pages on Microsoft’s Learn site, which contains product documentation and technical…
Double Dragon and Kunio-kun creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto dies at 64

Double Dragon and Kunio-kun…

Yoshihisa Kishimoto, the creator of the Double Dragon and Kunio-kun (River City) series, has died at the age of…