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October 2024 Archive

    1. Red Barrels partners with Lionsgate Studios for movie adaptation of horror series Outlast
    2. Meta's AR/VR Reality Labs division records further losses of $4.4 billion
    3. CWA criticises Sony for shuttering Firewalk Studios and Neon Koi
    4. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 breaks records for Game Pass subscriptions
    5. Leadership changes for Wolverine and Perfect Dark
    6. Microsoft gaming revenue up 43% year-on-year due to Activision acquisition
    1. ProbablyMonsters lays off "about 50 people" as Battle Barge project cancelled
    2. GameSpot staff endure another round of job cuts
    3. Ubisoft 24-25 half-year results plummet as Star Wars Outlaws "underperforms"
    4. Fingersoft lays off 14 employees
    5. Team17 appoints Rashid Varachia as CFO and COO
    6. Meet the Singapore trade association balancing support for indies with attracting overseas firms
    7. Unity appoints former King exec Steve Collins as CTO
    8. Activision Blizzard QA staff walk out over return to office mandate
    9. Sports titles drive record quarter for EA
    10. EA CEO pushes back against the idea of an Apex 2.0 to solve its issues after the title's disappointing quarter
    1. Capcom insists its making "good progress" despite drop in first-half sales
    2. Sony shuts Neon Koi and Firewalk Studios
    3. Kudos QA announces new leadership team
    4. The Oregon Trail is getting a movie adaptation
    5. Derek Yu's vision for a human-driven games industry in the story of UFO 50's development
    6. SAG-AFTRA announces agreement with AI voice company Ethovox
    7. Kelli Dunlap to become executive director at Take This
    1. Germany launches new grant to fund gaming start-ups
    2. Tencent rebukes layoff and restructuring rumours but admits changes at the top of the company
    3. How video games conquered Hollywood | Microcast
    4. Maintain Altitude raises $500,000 in pre-seed funding round
    5. US Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption supporting remote access for out-of-print games
    6. Sonic x Shadow Generations surpasses 1m units | News-in-brief
    7. Dead Island 2 reaches 10m players | News-in-brief
    8. Netflix's animated Tomb Raider series renewed for second season
    1. Redwood takes majority stake in India streaming startup Loco for $65m
    2. Microsoft CEO pay rises 63% to $79 million
    3. EA Sports FC 25 tops overall revenue charts for September | Newzoo Charts
    4. Games may not be the killer app for VR | Opinion
    1. 3OGS rebrands as The Original Gangsters, expands into new office
    2. Porting studio SneakyBox expands into Poland
    3. Twitch’s monthly hours watched "rebounded" in September, says new report
    4. 2K's Californian Motion Capture Studio files for union election
    5. Global gaming industry sees steady M&A growth, says Drake Star Q3 2024 report
    6. Undisputed hit: An indie-made boxing game featuring real fighters has just sold 1m copies
    7. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 could boost Game Pass subscribers by 2.5m to 4m
    8. EA Sports FC 25 launch breaks revenue record for soccer games | US Monthly Charts
    9. Fawzi Mesmar becomes creative director for Beyond Good & Evil 2
    10. Ubisoft disbands Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown team
    11. Gamescom Asia breaks attendance record with over 40,000 visitors
    12. Roblox to implement changes to protect children under 13
    13. Key Austrian court finds FIFA Ultimate Team packs are not gambling
    1. Arma 2 sells over 47m units in 15 years | News-in-brief
    2. SAG-AFTRA says "more than 120 games from 49 companies" have signed agreements
    3. Fan-made mod Fallout London tops 1m downloads | News-in-brief
    4. Studio Thunderhorse shuts down
    5. Amazon's God of War TV series reportedly loses showrunner, will start from scratch
    6. How the success of Baldur's Gate 3 and Monopoly Go are driving Hasbro's "all in" digital strategy
    7. Bungie creative team moves to PlayStation
    8. NCSoft lays off unknown number of staff
    1. Malaysian government invests $4.64m to boost national esports talent
    2. Inflexion Games' UK division is reportedly closing down
    3. Indie horror Crow Country tops 100,000 sales | News-in-brief
    4. Valve rejects "yearly cadence" of Steam Deck hardware releases to be "fair" to gamers
    5. Twitch has reportedly been banning sign ups from Israel and Palestine for over a year
    6. Making players the "consciousness model for AI" in Ctrl Alt Deal
    7. PopReach closes its Vancouver studio follow sale of mobile games business
    8. Epic launches combined Fab marketplace amid confusion and backlash from artists and developers
    9. Twitch has removed badge identifying game devs in chat streams
    10. Sega sues Memento Mori developer over alleged patent infringements
    11. Netflix shuts down California game studio
    1. Is AA dead? | Microcast
    2. Here's what GamesIndustry.biz is doing at MCM x EGX 2024
    3. Ex-Supercell developers open new studio Antihero
    4. How digital is the video games market in 2024?
    5. 47% of UK Nintendo Switch players are women
    6. Hi-Rez Studios shutting down Realm Royale Reforged and Divine Knockout in February
    1. Super Nintendo World opens in Orlando on May 22, 2025 | News-in-brief
    2. Tales of Kenzera: Zau dev Surgent Studios puts entire games team on hiatus due to lack of funding
    3. Black Ops 6 is make-or-break for the Game Pass strategy | Opinion
    4. UK indies to receive £510,000 in lottery funding
    5. Warhammer Space Marine 2 sells 4.5m copies | News-in-brief
    6. Keywords acquires Halo co-developer Certain Affinity
    7. Ubisoft Milan joins Ubisoft France strike over return to office
    8. European Court of Justice rules against Sony in lawsuit over Action Replay cheats
    9. Unity 6 launches across all major platforms
    1. Outersloth secures more funding, teams up with Slay the Spire's Casey Yano
    2. Resident Evil 4 Remake tops 8 million copies sold | News-in-brief
    3. Stillfront ousts CEO and founder
    4. New publisher Digital Vortex Entertainment is focused on "elevating indie developers"
    5. Warhammer Space Marine 2 drives record results for Pullup Entertainment
    6. Asmongold suspended from Twitch under its "hateful conduct" policy
    7. How Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge highlights the importance of environmental change
    8. Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom defeats all other September releases in four days | Japan Monthly Charts
    9. Companies must make it easier to end subscriptions under FTC's 'click to cancel' rule
    10. It Takes Two sells 20m units | News-in-brief
    11. Silent Hill 2 sells 1m copies | News-in-brief
    12. French union urges Don't Nod workers to strike over layoffs and "reorganisation plan"
    13. International Federation of Actors declares support for SAG-AFTRA strike
    14. Shawn Layden: "AA is gone and that's a threat to the ecosystem going forward"
    1. Don't Nod admits "challenging times" as "reorganisation project" puts up to 69 jobs at risk
    2. Former Assassin's Creed director to lead FunPlus' new Portuguese studio, Studio Ellipsis
    3. 700+ Ubisoft France staff walk out on a three-day strike in dispute over home working and pay
    4. Out on the town: How esports events drive cultural and economic impact | Playable Futures
    5. Live Aware Labs secures $4.8m in seed funding round
    6. Former Edge veterans launch new games publication On
    7. XDefiant executive producer refutes rumours of shutdown amid Ubisoft troubles
    8. Hitman maker IO Interactive will publish the new action thriller by Leslie Benzies’ Build A Rocket Boy
    9. Report: In-game spending by children decreases to €31
    10. Circana: 71% of US engage with video games
    11. Games Done Quick raises over $45,000 for hurricane relief | News-in-brief
    1. Indian publisher Deftouch secures undisclosed investment to scale up portfolio
    2. Bandai Namco is reportedly cutting workforce following cancellation of "several" titles
    3. Riot Games "eliminates" 32 League of Legends roles
    4. King opens new Berlin office
    5. SAG-AFTRA resumes negotiations with video games companies
    6. Continuing Versus Evil's legacy with Digital Bandidos
    7. Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero sells 3m copies in 24 hours | News-in-brief
    8. Microsoft settles antitrust lawsuit over Activision Blizzard acquisition
    9. South Korea lifts ban on Luck be a Landlord
    1. Indie game Antonblast delayed by hurricanes
    2. UMX Studio secures $4.5m all-cash investment
    3. Rare's Craig Duncan to become head of Xbox Game Studios as Alan Hartman retires
    4. Opening up Google Play offers publishers a three-year window to change mobile gaming | Microcast
    5. Against the Storm has sold 1.2m copies | News-in-brief
    6. Microsoft to sell games in Xbox App on Android
    7. Metaphor: ReFantazio sells 1m | News-in-brief
    8. Summer Eternal is yet another new studio founded by former Disco Elysium developers
    9. Sony developers share how machine learning can improve QA
    10. Game Freak confirms staff data was hacked during data breach
    1. August spending drops 7% to $4.1bn despite Madden and mobile success | US Monthly Charts
    2. The voice actors' strike shows its claws | Opinion
    3. Another group of ex-Disco Elysium developers found Dark Math Games
    4. Steam Deck to launch in Australia this November
    5. Tokyo Game Show stakes a claim for Japan on the global stage | Opinion
    6. Ex-Disco Elysium devs form Longdue, focused on "innovation and trailblazing, not replication"
    1. Age of Empires 3 to be delisted after 17 years | News-in-brief
    2. Sony apologises after banned Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number was playable for a year in Australia
    3. Microids launches new third-party publishing division with Kwalee collaboration
    4. Windwalk raises $4.5m in early seed funding to launch community growth tool, Harbor
    5. NaturalMotion facing potential layoffs in US and UK
    6. Football Manager 25 delayed once again, this time to March 2025
    7. Experts say Google Play opening up in the US will have minimal impact
    8. SAG-AFTRA strike to bring picket line to Electronic Arts LA office today | News-in-brief
    9. Video game sales jump 20% in Europe during September | European Monthly Report
    10. How your original indie IP can engage audiences beyond the game
    11. Konami replaces EA as FIFA's esports partner
    12. Seven employees laid off at Kokku
    1. Shinobi is the next Sega series getting a movie adaptation
    2. Cryptic Studios makes further layoffs in fresh round of cuts
    3. Turkey and Russia ban Discord
    4. First-party Roblox studio Talewind confirms "significant" job cuts following "period of restructure"
    5. Bandai Namco: Publishers face "new risks" when planning releases
    6. Brazil lifts X ban
    7. Bethesda, BioWare, and Naughty Dog alumni form Near Studios
    8. Author sues Bungie for copyright infringement over Destiny 2's story
    9. Roblox refutes allegations of inflating metrics for investors and failing to protect minors
    10. Ubisoft targeted by class action lawsuit for allegedly sharing customers data with Meta
    1. Swery and Suda51's Hotel Barcelona delayed to "early 2025" | News-in-brief
    2. Amazon and NCsoft's Throne and Liberty tops 3m players in launch week| News-in-brief
    3. Sony is delisting LittleBigPlanet 3 on PS4 | News-in-brief
    4. Tequilla Works lays off "small number" of staff, cancels unannounced game
    5. Download this free guide on direct-to-consumer marketing and monetisation
    6. How Paradox weathered delays, developer splits, and Life By You's cancellation
    7. Paradox on Bloodlines 2: "We had a game we could do, but maybe not with the team we had"
    8. Humble Games calls in Good Games Group for support following restructure
    9. Saudi Arabia trims stake in Nintendo
    10. Epic vs Google judge orders Play store to allow rival marketplaces in US
    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 up to 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