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October 2024 Archive

    1. Detroit: Become Human tops 10m sales | News-in-brief
    2. Sony delists original Horizon Zero Dawn on PC | News-in-brief
    3. Screen Queensland awards $1.3m in funding to nine indie studios
    4. Future Run completes second funding round
    5. The perks and perils of licensed games, and games journalism's ongoing struggle | Microcast
    6. EA Sports FC 25, Space Marine 2, Astro Bot and PS5 impress in bumper September | UK Monthly Charts
    7. Epic aiming for 50 third-party titles and free games program on mobile store by 2025
    8. 343 rebrands as Halo Studios, working on multiple Unreal Engine 5 games
    9. Tencent and Guillemot family reportedly planning Ubisoft buyout
    1. 53% of gamers prefer single-player games
    2. Is the Star Wars franchise in crisis? | Opinion
    3. FromSoftware to increase average basic salary pay by around 11.8%
    1. 11 Bit Studios delays The Alters to 2025 | News-in-brief
    2. Mario + Rabbids and Red Dead Redemption creators form new studio: Day 4 Night
    3. French publisher RIVRS raises €4m to "professionalise and industrialise" UGC
    4. Esports Wales receives up to £125,000 in funding
    5. Don't Nod's journey from Life Is Strange to Lost Records: Bloom and Rage
    6. Fallout series reaches 100m viewers worldwide | News-in-brief
    7. Steam will no longer sell games in Germany without age rating | News-in-brief
    8. Antstream Arcade makes "small number" of layoffs
    9. Amazon hires Xbox co-founder J Allard
    1. Indie Studio Black Flag shuts down following "communication breakdown" with publisher
    2. Future shutters PlayStation-focused Play magazine
    3. Awesomenauts devs reclaim their unfinished game as new studio Rangatang
    4. Six ways to create safer spaces to play
    5. Krafton bringing Palworld to mobile | News-in-brief
    6. Report: Nintendo further cracks down on emulation
    7. Epic Games CEO says company is now "financially sound"
    1. Epic Games bolsters Fortnite and UEFN parental controls to monitor playtime and set time limits
    2. Epic lowers Unreal Engine royalty fee for games released simultaneously on Epic Games Store
    3. Hi-Rez Studios to cut an unspecified number of jobs in "difficult but necessary change"
    4. PlayStation says full-screen PS5 dash advertisements were caused by a "tech error"
    5. UK-based VR studio XR Games' "massive restructuring" reportedly puts dozens of jobs at risk
    6. Crunchyroll alumni launch indie publisher Shorelines Games
    7. Devolver launches Big Fan Games, a publishing label dedicated to movie, TV and comic book adaptations
    8. Microsoft discontinues HoloLens 2, no replacement planned
    9. Sharkmob London faces layoffs after game cancelled
    10. Xbox Research expands to work with developers
    11. "We don't want to just replicate successful games": Behind Krafton's acquisition of Tango Gameworks
    12. EA vets open new studio The Three Thousands in Melbourne