Tag: gaming industry

Consoles continue their trend of just becoming worst PCs

Consoles continue their trend…

Six years ago, PC Gamer’s Evan Lahti wrote a headline that captured the feeling of the moment, when PlayStation…
Reinstated Subnautica 2 studio CEO immediately peaces out after Krafton agrees to pay the developer bonuses it went to court to avoid

Reinstated Subnautica 2 studio…

Culminating a messy, year-long legal spat, Krafton has agreed to pay bonuses to the studio staff of Subnautica 2…
Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic

Former Unreal Engine director…

Former Unreal Engine director and longtime Epic engineer Nicholas Penwarden is stepping away from the company after 15 years.…
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…