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Epic aiming for 50 third-party titles and free games program on mobile store by 2025
Fortnite firm also planning to introduce self-publishing tools in early 2025
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343 rebrands as Halo Studios, working on multiple Unreal Engine 5 games
Developer hails changes as "a new dawn for Halo" as it restructures around multiple projects
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Tencent and Guillemot family reportedly planning Ubisoft buyout
Update: Ubisoft responds to reports, says it "regularly reviews all its strategic options"
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53% of gamers prefer single-player games
Almost three quarters of those aged 55+ prefer to play solo
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Is the Star Wars franchise in crisis? | Opinion
Ubisoft is in a tailspin over poor sales of Star Wars Outlaws – but for all the publisher's woes, the real problem here may be Disney's management of the IP
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FromSoftware to increase average basic salary pay by around 11.8%
Starting salary for new graduates will also increase from ¥260,000 to ¥300,000
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11 Bit Studios delays The Alters to 2025 | News-in-brief
Frostpunk 2 dev delays its next game to focus on "quality"
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Mario + Rabbids and Red Dead Redemption creators form new studio: Day 4 Night
The new team has received its first round of funding from Krafton and 1Up Veterans
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French publisher RIVRS raises €4m to "professionalise and industrialise" UGC
"Our proven model puts us in pole position to capture the global UGC market," said co-founder
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Esports Wales receives up to £125,000 in funding
Investment will support the extension of its academy program
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Don't Nod's journey from Life Is Strange to Lost Records: Bloom and Rage
We talk to Don't Nod Montréal about the lessons learned from its most popular series, and how its new IP continues the studio's narrative-driven focus
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Fallout series reaches 100m viewers worldwide | News-in-brief
Amazon's adaptation of the post-apocalyptic franchise premiered on April 10, 2024
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Steam will no longer sell games in Germany without age rating | News-in-brief
Move follows request from regulator BZKJ, developers must use USK rating agency or Steam's built-in rating process
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Antstream Arcade makes "small number" of layoffs
Retro games streaming firm attributed job cuts to a "strategic shift in focus"
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Amazon hires Xbox co-founder J Allard
Allard will be working in Devices and Services team, previously returned to games for Intellivision role
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Indie Studio Black Flag shuts down following "communication breakdown" with publisher
"We appear to be another casualty of the current downturn in the video game industry," Black Flag says
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Future shutters PlayStation-focused Play magazine
A spiritual successor to the UK's Official PlayStation Magazine, it ran for 29 years
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Awesomenauts devs reclaim their unfinished game as new studio Rangatang
Co-founder Olivier Thijssen and Glowfish Interactive's Emiel De Paepe discuss the co-dev deal supporting the startup
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Six ways to create safer spaces to play
Rovio's chief sustainability officer Heini Kaihu shares the basics to combat bullying and harassment in games
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Krafton bringing Palworld to mobile | News-in-brief
Krafton has secured Palworld IP license in deal with Pocketpair, project will be handled by development team of PUBG Studios
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Report: Nintendo further cracks down on emulation
Ryujinx reportedly shut down, while YouTuber issued copyright strike
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Epic Games CEO says company is now "financially sound"
Tim Sweeney said Epic had "spent the last year rebuilding and executing solidly on all fronts"
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Epic Games bolsters Fortnite and UEFN parental controls to monitor playtime and set time limits
Epic says the time limit controls work across all linked devices
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Epic lowers Unreal Engine royalty fee for games released simultaneously on Epic Games Store
Prioritise an Epic Games Store release, and your royalties could drop from 5% to 3.5%
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Hi-Rez Studios to cut an unspecified number of jobs in "difficult but necessary change"
The cuts follow "internal reorganisation and reprioritisation," CEO says