Tag: gaming industry

Legendary former Tekken boss says people don’t ‘properly evaluate’ Hidetaka Miyazaki’s ‘remarkable’ FromSoft career

Legendary former Tekken boss…

FromSoftware president and game director Hidetaka Miyazaki is one of the most revered names in today’s games industry. Even…
Even Obsidian couldn’t escape the Xbox cuts, with losses ranging from a 21-year veteran artist to an engineer who’d only been there 2 months

Even Obsidian couldn’t escape…

Curiously absent from today’s mass layoff announcement at Microsoft was legendary RPG studio Obsidian Entertainment, which thus far had…
French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon declares ‘Players have rights too!’ over the death of physical discs

French left-wing leader Jean-Luc…

The latest double whammy that both Grand Theft Auto 6 and PlayStation will soon be ditching disks and going…
French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon declares ‘Players have rights too!’ over the death of physical discs

French left-wing leader Jean-Luc…

The latest double whammy that both Grand Theft Auto 6 and PlayStation will soon be ditching disks and going…
Arkane temporarily spared in Xbox bloodbath thanks to French law, but its future is up in the air

Arkane temporarily spared in…

In today’s announcement of a staggering 3,200 layoffs at Xbox, the fate of one fan (and PC Gamer) favorite…
Arkane temporarily spared in Xbox bloodbath thanks to French law, but its future is up in the air

Arkane temporarily spared in…

In today’s announcement of a staggering 3,200 layoffs at Xbox, the fate of one fan (and PC Gamer) favorite…
Xbox’s CEO wants its games to cater to ‘more than a billion people each day’, or 24 times more than the peak population of Steam, which is delusional

Xbox’s CEO wants its…

The time has finally come for Xbox’s massive reset—in a statement on the official Xbox site today, recently-minted CEO…
Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading

Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones…

Well, this is a strange one. Just minutes before it was set to deliver its financial results for the…
Steam Week in Review: Steam just got its first ‘dopamine site’, so you can fatten a fake backlog without spending a cent

Steam Week in Review:…

Watch Dogs 2 is currently $2.50 on Steam. It’s hardly a classic, but it’s not terrible either. At one…
Looks like it’s Tencent’s turn to start turning off the money faucet for Western studios, as Bloodhunt developer Sharkmob says layoffs are coming

Looks like it’s Tencent’s…

Tencent-owned Swedish developer Sharkmob, which announced in October that the supernatural battle royale Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt will…