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Lego, dog-fooding, and physics: Epic's plans for UEFN | GDC 2024
Fortnite ecosystem executive Saxs Persson talks about what the company has in store for Unreal Editor for Fortnite
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2024 game spending down 2% is Circana analyst's "most optimistic" outlook
Mat Piscatella talks about unprecedented uncertainty in the year ahead and why we'll need more overachievers like Helldivers 2 and Palworld
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600 more Activision QA workers unionize
Latest CODE-CWA group is the first to form under Microsoft's labor neutrality agreement
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WB's push for predictable returns carries real risk | This Week in Business
Hogwarts Legacy publisher's pivot to pursue live service games like Suicide Squad shows the cash is always greener on the other side
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Rooster Teeth shutting down
Warner Bros. Discovery laying off about 150 as it closes gaming and entertainment brand
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Warner Bros. addressing "volatile" AAA console space with live services, mobile free-to-play
CEO of streaming and games JB Perrette eager to make games "where people can come in and live and work and build and play… on an ongoing basis"
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The bleatings will continue until morale improves | Creature Comforts
The news in gaming has been 'ruff' of late, but here are a bunch of cute pet pictures that might help us all cope
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Balatro runs into rating trouble
Poker-based roguelike removed from some regional console stores as publisher says PEGI rating was changed from 3+ to 18+ overnight
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What led to Sony laying off 900 people? | This Week in Business
Sony's president complained about unaccountable developers missing budgets and schedules, but there are other culprits behind the game division's thin profit margin
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Toys For Bob splitting from Activision Blizzard
Skylanders and Crash Bandicoot 4 studio being spun out, currently in talks on a partnership with Microsoft
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EA cutting 5% of workforce
Publisher moving away from future licensed IP in order to double down on owned IP, sports, and online communities
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Are games too much like pornography? | 10 Years Ago This Month
EA and 3DO founder Trip Hawkins posed a provocative question, then offered an unimpressive answer
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Die Gute Fabrik halts production
Funding gap forces Saltsea Chronicles studio to disband at least temporarily as entire team looks for new roles
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Tekken 8 wins King of the Iron Grift | This Week in Business
Bandai Namco hiding the in-game store until weeks after release is a deliberate attempt to mislead consumers
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Nightingale developer at an Inflexion point
Ex-Bioware GM Aaryn Flynn reflects on five years building a new studio, and getting back to values the Mass Effect dev "stopped honoring" after the EA acquisition
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Apple to allow alternative app stores in Europe
Update: Epic Games Store to launch on iOS sometime in 2024, will be operated by Epic Games Sweden
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Optic Texas CEO and player sue Activision alleging Call of Duty League monopoly
Publisher accused of anti-competitive practices in charging "extortionate" $27.5 million entry fees to teams, steering owners to give up teams to billionaire investors
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Epic Games Store sees $950 million in PC game sales over 2023
Epic's own games account for most of that with $310 million spent on third-party titles, but overall spending up 16%
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Multiplatform Microsoft and a very different future for consoles | This Week in Business
Get the bingo card ready because we're talking about unsustainable AAA development, "consoles are doomed" predictions, retro handhelds, and the 3DO
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Microsoft bringing four games to other consoles
Phil Spencer says bringing older releases to rival consoles is "not a change to our fundamental exclusive strategy"; slate does not include Starfield or Indiana Jones
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Daybreak confirms "less than 15" layoffs
MMO specialist denies report of larger cuts, attributes decision to "overall assessment and recalibration of our business"
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Scopely layoffs hit Kingdom Maker team
Company confirms about 15 positions at risk after ending publishing partnership with Global Worldwide
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Blackbird Interactive cuts staff again
Homeworld 3 studio has second round of layoffs in six months
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Ziggurat no slave to tradition
Why the publisher is returning to the universe of the 1999 3D shooter Slave Zero with the 2D hack-and-slash Slave Zero X
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Study finds 17% of active gamers are LGBTQ
GLAAD cites Nielsen research for figure, questions why fewer than 2% of games have LGBTQ characters or storylines