Tag: gaming industry

Rockstar faces legal action from UK union after firing more than 30 employees last week: ‘We are confident that what we’ve seen here is plain and simple union busting’

Rockstar faces legal action…

The Independent Workers of Great Britain has launched legal action against Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games over…
Welp, says Sony, sure looks like buying Bungie didn’t work out

Welp, says Sony, sure…

Bungie’s been having a rough old time ever since its 2022 acquisition by Sony: there have been multiple rounds…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EA pinky promises to ‘maintain creative control’ in its post-buyout era, but the list of ‘cultural values’ it plans to keep doesn’t mean much at all

EA pinky promises to…

The $55 billion buyout of EA—the largest leveraged buyout in private equity history—has plunged the future of the corporation…
‘I sometimes lie in bed thinking about it’: Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser explains why open world spy game Agent never worked out

‘I sometimes lie in…

Remember Agent? After first mentioning it in 2007, Rockstar formally announced it in 2009—an espionage game in an open…
Rockstar accused of ‘the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry’ after firing dozens of employees who were allegedly attempting to form a union

Rockstar accused of ‘the…

A Bloomberg report says Grand Theft Auto 6 studio Rockstar Games has fired “dozens” of employees over what the…