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January 2025 Archive

    1. Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director Corinne Busche reportedly leaves BioWare
    2. Winking Studios announces proposed acquisition of Mineloader
    3. Huuuge Games cuts 29% of workforce
    4. Sony confirms cancellation of live service projects from Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games
    1. 90% of Africa's games industry revenue generated by mobile games
    2. Nintendo patent attorney clarifies company's zero-tolerance position on emulation
    3. IGF Awards 2025 finalists revealed
    4. Report: 77% of devs expect games industry to grow in 2025
    5. Nintendo Switch 2 officially revealed
    6. Soul Assembly cuts 15% of workforce
    7. European game sales rose 1% in 2024 | European Annual Report
    1. Palestinian game developer concludes crowdfund almost $50,000 over goal
    2. Nintendo under fire once again for omitting original devs from remaster credits
    3. Aonic invests $10m in mobile gaming loyalty firm Mega Fortuna
    4. Sony donates $5m to support LA wildfire relief | News-in-brief
    5. Microsoft to lay off unknown number of staff
    6. Meta to lay off 5% of staff as part of "performance-based cuts"
    7. Baldur's Gate 3 exceeds 100m mod downloads | News-in-brief
    1. GOG bolsters game preservation efforts by joining European game archivist organisation
    2. Godfall developer Counterplay has reportedly shut down
    3. App growth firm SplitMetrics appoints new CRO
    4. Sony's new patents include AI system to predict player behaviour and reduce online lag
    1. Robocraft 2 developer Freejam shuts down
    2. Audiomob establishes MENA headquarters in Abu Dhabi
    3. FuturLab drops VR support for PowerWash Sim | News-in-brief
    4. Space Ape spins out new studio NextBeat
    5. Toadman Interactive shuts down, layoffs at Piranha Games
    6. Super Evil Megacorp studio head Ian Fielding appointed CEO
    7. Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 raises $2.5m | News-in-brief
    8. Square Enix updates harassment policy protecting employees
    9. Astro Bot, Indiana Jones, and Helldivers 2 lead 2025 DICE Awards nominations
    1. Exient appoints Paul Topping as CCO
    2. Infinity Nikki generates $16m in player spending on mobile
    3. Ubisoft appoints advisors to oversee "strategic options"
    4. Hitman World of Assassination reaches over 75m players | News-in-brief
    1. Grand Games secures $30m in Series A funding round
    2. Infinite Reality secures $3bn in funding
    3. PTW appoints David Dorans as CFO
    4. Squid Game: Unleashed reaches over 10m installs
    1. OV Entertainment refreshes strategic board with several new key appointments
    2. Atelico's new AI Engine doesn't require "prohibitively expensive cloud solutions"
    3. Plaion CEO steps down 31 years after co-founding Koch Media
    4. Splash Damage jobs at risk following Transformers: Reactivate cancellation
    5. Ubisoft+ Classics coming to cloud gaming platform Blacknut
    6. Wonder Legends Studios raises $1m in pre-seed funding round
    7. Lenovo Legion Go S is first officially licensed third-party PC handheld to use SteamOS
    8. Jar of Sparks halts production on debut game as it looks for new publisher
    9. US adds Tencent to list of firms allegedly connected to Chinese military
    1. Former Annapurna Interactive staff reportedly form company and acquire Private Division's portfolio
    2. Rocksteady cut further jobs at the end of 2024
    3. Development costs for 2020's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War exceeded $700m
    4. Sony unveils prototype VR headset Xyn for "creating 3D objects for films, animation, and games"
    5. Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 movies announced
    6. Ghost of Tsushima to get anime adaptation
    1. 2K sunsets WWE 2K23 | News-in-brief
    2. Meta's Quest Pro headset now no longer available
    3. Xbox brings cloud gaming to LG Smart TVs
    4. Dynasty Warrior M servers to shut just 15 months after launch
    5. Resident Evil 4 Remake sells 9m copies | News-in-brief
    6. Sonic movie franchise grosses over $1bn at global box office
    1. Tango Gameworks rebrands following Krafton acquisition | News-in-brief
    2. Stardew Valley reaches 41m lifetime sales | News-in-brief
    3. SNK opens new studio for fighting game IPs | News-in-brief
    4. DoubleU Games acquires Paxie Games for up to $67m