Dragon Age: The Veilguard sees BioWare refocus on companions (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Why some games can't work well on Steam Deck (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Families of Uvalde victims sue Activision, say Call of Duty is 'the most prolific and effective marketer of assault weapons in the United States' (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Palia studio Singularity 6 confirms 36 workers have been laid off (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Ubisoft headcount declined by 1,700 on the path to its highest net bookings ever (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Building game worlds with creative lifehacks from the field of writing (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Activision Blizzard boosts Microsoft financials as Xbox hardware revenue falls (www.gamedeveloper.com)
More Personal Computing (which houses Xbox) revenue increased by 17% year-on-year during Q3 to $15.6 billion....
ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online (www.gamedeveloper.com)
ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online (www.gamedeveloper.com)
The 'rushed' attempt to rehabilitate Cities Skylines II is becoming a cautionary tale (www.gamedeveloper.com)
70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability (www.gamedeveloper.com)
70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Unity’s Runtime Fee debacle cost it the trust of several indie developers, and led to Slay the Spire 2 being made in Godot.
Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Interim CEO Jim Whitehurst explains Unity's product-led path to profitability (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Square Enix is testing AI-driven fictional language generation (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Sega sells off Relic Entertainment, will axe 240 jobs (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Canada-based studio Relic Entertainment, which recently released Company of Heroes 3, did receive some good news in the midst of these layoffs. The company announced on X (formerly Twitter) that it is becoming an independent studio thanks to the help of “an external investor” who went unnamed.
Embracer sells Borderlands maker Gearbox to Take-Two Interactive for $460 million (www.gamedeveloper.com)
In today’s episode of “watch Embracer crash in slow motion”
Are game studios suddenly abandoning Black developers? (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Keywords tried to make a game using GenAI but said the tech was 'unable to replace talent' (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Global service provider Keywords, which recently worked on acclaimed projects like Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, and The Legends of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, conducted an experiment last year....
EA will spend over $125 million laying off 5 percent of its workforce (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Thunderful says SteamWorld Build underperformed, reveals it's looking to sell Headup (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Thunderful says SteamWorld Build underperformed, reveals it's looking to sell Headup (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Starbreeze admits Payday 3 is massively underperforming (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Payday 3 launched for Windows PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S in September 2023 but has seemingly struggled to win over players. The title currently has a ‘mixed’ rating on Steam with over 36,000 user reviews, although the vast majority of recent reviews have been ‘mostly negative.’...
