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March 2024 Archive

    1. Jobs Roundup: March 2024 | Xbox hires Leo Olebe as VP of global partnerships
    2. Helldivers 2 tops US-UK revenue charts for February | Newzoo Charts
    3. It Takes Two moves 16m units | News-in-brief
    4. Adam Boyes: "You can't hide from the realities of what's happening in the industry"
    5. VR hype soars as Facebook buys Oculus | 10 Years Ago This Month
    6. Yellow Brick Games leaves publisher to self-publish debut title
    7. Thunderful selling Headup for €500k
    8. Don’t Nod restructures around three genres
    9. The definitive primer for publishers and developers on striking deals with influencers
    10. Almost 30,000 people visited GDC 2024
    11. Sega sells Relic and will cut 240 jobs across UK studios
    12. Take-Two to acquire Gearbox from Embracer for $460 million
    1. Nintendo makes cuts to US QA contractors
    2. Sega, CWA agree on first major US game dev union contract
    3. Sandsoft Games and NetEase form new firm for the MENA market
    4. Call of Duty's David Vonderhaar on stepping out of his comfort zone with new studio BulletFarm
    5. Misfits Gaming launches game studio, Misfits Interactive
    6. A group of industry professionals have launched Lunacy Games
    7. Report: Smilegate Barcelona has closed
    8. Special Effect to win the BAFTA Special Award | News-in-brief
    9. Judge rules in PlayStation's favour in $500m patent infringement lawsuit
    10. Phil Spencer wants to see other digital storefronts on Xbox
    11. Popularium secures $2m seed funding for next game by Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield
    12. Roblox, CCP Games and more headline London Developer Conference
    13. GameStop reportedly affected by series of layoffs
    1. UK games industry cohort launches Sunset Sugar Studios
    2. Sprout Esports shuts down
    3. Mistplay: 32% of mobile consumers plan to spend less on 2024 in-app purchases
    4. How games companies can protect themselves from cyber attacks
    5. The story of TimeSplitters Next and Free Radical Design 2.0
    6. How Xsolla Funding Club helped Happy Juice deliver its vision for Lost in Play
    1. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry launches So-Fu accelerator
    2. Prytania Media shutters Crop Circle Games
    3. Four days after launching globally Call of Duty Warzone generates $1.4m
    4. GDC 2024, PS5 Pro, and Ubisoft's AI NPCs | GI Microcast
    5. EU Commission investigates Google, Meta, and Apple for possible Digital Markets Act violations
    6. 'Significantly more' market consolidation expected in esports
    7. Bidstack exec team acquires Bidstack
    8. Toys for Bob reportedly signs deal with Microsoft following decision to go independent
    1. Report: Overwatch 2 devs received 0% of profit-sharing bonuses this month
    2. Fighting for better while facing the worst | This Week In Business
    3. Capcom is Metacritic's top game publisher of 2023
    4. IGN Creators Guild loses three members to layoffs
    5. Sony establishes assembly line to create PlayStation 5 discs for Latin America
    6. US suing Apple for blocking cloud gaming, other antitrust practices
    7. France's record €6.1bn year in games spending due to console growth, strong retail
    8. What is the elevator pitch for a PS5 Pro? | Opinion
    9. Shinji Mikami reportedly starts a new studio
    10. Velan Studios announces reorganisation, layoffs likely to occur
    1. Kotaku editor-in-chief exits due to parent company's new guide directive
    2. Behind the scenes of Super Mario Bros Wonder | GDC 2024
    3. Screen Australia puts up $1m for independent developers
    4. US game spending gets a 2% increase in February | US Monthly Charts
    5. Margot Robbie's production company to adapt The Sims movie
    6. Sensor Tower acquires Data.ai
    7. Baldur's Gate 3 sweeps 24th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards | GDC 2024
    8. Microsoft, Meta, X and Match back Epic, say Apple ignores court ruling
    9. Media Molecule layoffs result in end of live curation support for Dreams
    1. Xbox launches new resource to help developers add inclusion into their games | GDC 2024
    2. Rollerdome gets one million players | News-in-brief
    3. Amy Hennig's new Marvel game leads off Epic's State of Unreal | GDC 2024
    4. Lego, dog-fooding, and physics: Epic's plans for UEFN | GDC 2024
    5. Casual games reportedly coming to LinkedIn
    6. EA, Miniclip, Jagex loot box ads broke UK advertising rules
    7. UK gaming start-ups have increased by 22% in 2023
    8. Roblox unveils new AI-powered creation tools | News-in-brief
    9. New VR company VRAL Games launches | GDC 2024
    10. Katamari Damacy | Why I Love
    11. More than half of US gamers say publishers need to stamp out harassment in games
    12. Remedy revenue drops 22.2% to €33.9 million in 2023
    1. PlayStation veteran Connie Booth joins EA
    2. The return of 1ReasonToBe and why we still need it | GDC 2024
    3. Embracer sells Saber, Sony stumbles with PSVR 2 | Microcast
    4. The Games Industry Social: San Francisco edition in pictures | GDC 2024
    5. Ubisoft debuts NEO NPC AI prototypes | GDC 2024
    6. Nazara Technologies to earmark $100m towards M&A activity
    7. Lies of P hits seven million players | News-in-brief
    8. Dark and Darker coming to Epic Games Store following injunction dismissal
    9. The upcoming Harry Potter Live Service game will be a superb litmus test | Opinion
    10. Thunderful extends distribution agreement with Nintendo
    11. Something Wicked reportedly hit with layoffs
    1. Representation with intention | GDC 2024
    2. Tales of franchise character designer Mutsumi Inomata has died
    3. Balatro sells one million units | News-in-brief
    4. GOG teams up with Amazon Luna to bring titles to cloud gaming
    5. European game sales strong in February thanks to Helldivers 2 | European Monthly Charts
    6. Developers to retain 90% of revenue share on HTC's Viveport store
    7. Sony reportedly stops PSVR 2 production to clear the current backlog
    8. PC games retailer Robot Cache allows players to start games 200x faster than any other games store
    9. Minecraft unveils marketplace subscription | News-in-brief
    10. Unity: "The more places your games are, the more opportunity for discovery" | GDC 2024
    11. How VOID Interactive amassed 5m hours watched for their shooter game ‘Ready or Not’
    12. Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection reportedly used modder's work without credit
    13. Modulate: Reducing toxicity in online games is a positive for profits
    14. New AAA studio Muddy Robot launches
    1. Accessories giant Turtle Beach acquires rival PDP in $118 million deal
    1. Thirdverse raises $3.3m in funding round
    2. Reef Creative Group acquires 70% stake in Bitmap Bureau
    3. What will Embracer sell next? | This Week In Business
    4. Federal agencies to tackle extremism online on social media and gaming
    5. CCP Games' Carbon Development Platform going open source
    6. Palia reaches over 3m players in six months thanks to "invaluable" Switch partnership
    7. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty passes 5m players | News-in-brief
    8. Discoverability is a problem that will never be solved | Opinion
    9. Virtuos acquires Beyond-FX
    1. Behaviour Interactive snaps up Fly Studio
    2. Monopoly Go reaches $2bn in consumer spending | News-in-brief
    3. Gamestream raises €4.5m
    4. Making games faster, more cost-effectively, with end-to-end development
    5. Find out how to make your games cheaper, faster and better with GI Sprint
    6. Grom Social Enterprises to acquire Arctic7
    7. Xbox: AI's influence and future are unwritten
    8. Tencent reportedly takes over two ByteDance games teams
    9. Embracer sells Saber Interactive for $247m
    10. The creative sparks ignited by Global Game Jam
    11. Epic says Apple violates court order with "commercially unusable" payment links
    12. Summer Game Fest 2024 date confirmed
    1. Twitch viewership dips by 8% in February
    2. Take This and Safe In Our World release new event safety guidelines
    3. Roar Games secures $1.5m from The Games Fund
    4. 2024 game spending down 2% is Circana analyst's "most optimistic" outlook
    5. Keoken Interactive: The way games are made and funded is "failing"
    6. Balancy raises $700,000 in funding round
    7. Epic confirms Unreal Engine price change for non-game developers
    1. Global Data: Asia-Pacific region made up 64% of mobile gaming revenue in 2023
    2. Keywords, Active Fence, Take This and Modulate establish the Gaming Safety Coalition
    3. Persona 3 Reload is February's top-selling title | Japan Monthly Charts
    4. Apple rule change allows EU developers to distribute iOS apps via web
    5. Naughty Dog, Id Software, and Activision alum form Empty Vessel
    6. Respawn veteran Stig Asmussen forms Giant Skull to build AAA single player games
    7. From California to the Philippines with friendly goblins: The story of Orc Chop Games
    8. Monster Hunter World tops 25m sales | News-in-brief
    9. Stellar Blade studio Shift Up files for IPO
    10. Ex-Focus chief Juergen Goeldner named interim CEO of Starbreeze
    1. Report: Minors and young adults say safety in gaming spaces is crucial
    2. MultiVersus steps into the ring on May 28
    3. Apple's losing battle against the EU | Microcast
    4. Former Loaded director launches Beck Interactive Partners
    5. Demade, remade: What game demakes offer to publishers
    6. New Mario movie set for April 2026
    1. PlayStation-backed Deviation Games closes
    2. 600 more Activision QA workers unionize
    1. Report: Warner Bros. is removing Adult Swim-published games
    2. Apple reverses ban on Epic's developer account following European Commission enquiry
    3. WB's push for predictable returns carries real risk | This Week in Business
    4. Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama has died
    5. From Epic to the EU, Apple is all about the drama | Opinion
    6. Viewfinder wins Game of the Year at the UKIE Video Game Awards 2024
    7. Brain Jar Games secures $6.7m in seed funding round
    8. A Broforce to be reckoned with
    9. Helldivers 2 is a major hit in the UK | UK February Charts
    1. Former EA devs' Simply Sweet Games aims to "raise the bar for the entire industry"
    2. Why Bandai Namco is betting big on Unknown 9's transmedia universe
    3. Balatro sells 500,000 copies in ten days | News-in-brief
    4. Best time to remake a video game? Between 10 and 20 years later
    5. Why external and distributed development is the future of AAA games
    6. Sea Monster: "Play with a purpose can change the world"
    7. Limpho Moeti: Collaboration is key to South Africa's future in games
    1. Apple calls Epic 'verifiably untrustworthy' and blocks Fortnite and App store on iOS
    2. Rocket Science launches Atomic Theory
    3. Eggnut ceases operations
    4. Industry group reveals new indie-focused publisher Rock It Games
    5. Mattel begins self-publishing mobile games
    6. Xbox's Partner Preview reveals slate of new games launching in 2024
    7. Rooster Teeth shutting down
    8. Top 20 UK video game sales are 38% physical
    9. Glow Up Games on bringing Black stories to games and why AI doesn't recognize rap
    10. Capcom increasing all salaries by around 5%, 28% rise for new graduate hires
    11. Torus Games lays off team, goes on hiatus
    12. Spearhead Games lays off majority of staff
    13. SteamWorld's Brjánn Sigurgeirsson: "We were terrified of making the same game over and over"
    14. Studio Bolland and the highs and lows of entering the South African game dev scene
    15. 24 Bit Games' journey to joining Annapurna Interactive
    1. Warner Bros. addressing "volatile" AAA console space with live services, mobile free-to-play
    2. Persona series moves over 22m units | News-in-brief
    3. The bleatings will continue until morale improves | Creature Comforts
    4. Remedy's Thomas Puha: "You never know what's going to land on your launch date"
    5. Nine Dots branches out into publishing
    6. Temtem to drop microtransactions in June
    7. NetEase revenue rises 7.2% to $14.6bn in 2023
    8. Nyamakop: "There's demand for African-created content outside of the continent"
    9. Unlocking South Africa's talent through co-development
    1. Nintendo and Yuzu developer settle lawsuit for $2.4m
    2. Gamecity Hamburg to provide €400,000 for game prototypes
    3. Remedy takes Control (of our podcast) | Microcast
    4. Nintendo eShop delisting of Octopath Traveler is temporary
    5. Yuzu emulator developer responds to Nintendo lawsuit
    6. The South African games industry in numbers
    7. Bringing the global games industry to Africa's unexplored markets
    1. Balatro runs into rating trouble
    2. What led to Sony laying off 900 people? | This Week in Business
    3. Brazilian games industry grew by 3.2% in 2023
    4. City State Entertainment is now Unchained Entertainment
    5. Nintendo's Yuzu lawsuit puts emulation in the spotlight | Opinion
    6. GamesIndustry.biz's South Africa Games Week starts this Monday
    7. Radical Forge lays off "handful" of staff