Tag: gaming industry

Hearing about the future of PlayStation from its top dogs made me so depressed I had to go lie down

Hearing about the future…

First shared on Bluesky by Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, Sony has provided a glimpse of PlayStation’s future and priorities…
After leading the studio through 2 rounds of layoffs and 1 game release, the CEO of Supermassive is stepping down

After leading the studio…

Less than two months after the release of its latest game, Directive 8020, Supermassive Games CEO Robert Henrysson has…
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…
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…