News Former Unity and Scopely developers form Outer Haven Games Founders Austin Ashcraft, Stephen Fong, and Chuck Beaver are already working on their first title, RPG Techno Infierno July 31, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn passes 500,000 players | News-in-brief Kepler confirms the action-RPG has "500,000 new members of the Coalition army across PC, Xbox, and PlayStation" July 31, 2024 GamesIndustry.biz Staff
News Devcom Developer Conference announces new speakers In all, there'll be over 200 sessions across 18 topics, including AI, VR/XR, and multiplayer July 31, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Bungie lays off another 220 staff, acknowledging it was "overly ambitious" 155 people also move to SIE; another 75 again are moved to work "with PlayStation Studios" July 31, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Warner Bros hires Bethesda studio director to lead WB Games Montreal Yves Lachance will be vice president and studio head for Gotham Knights developer July 31, 2024 James Batchelor
News US Senate passes online child safety bills KOSA and COPPA 2.0 could impact games platforms significantly July 31, 2024 Marie Dealessandri
News Olympics reportedly dropped Mario and Sonic games in favour of mobile, NFTs This is the first Olympics without a Nintendo and Sega game tie-in since 2007 July 31, 2024 James Batchelor
News Activison continues to boost Xbox revenues but hardware sees further decline Microsoft expects content and services revenue to grow in next quarter, but forecasts lower console sales July 31, 2024 James Batchelor
News EA Q1 results exceed its expectations despite 30% drop in income Revenue was also down 13% year-on-year, and net bookings decreased 20% July 31, 2024 Marie Dealessandri
News Twitch staff fear further layoffs Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has "shown little tolerance for unprofitable businesses", WSJ claims July 30, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Fable developer Playground Games appears to have opened third studio Discrepancies between its website and LinkedIn suggest Playground has added another Leamington Spa studio July 30, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Niko Partners: East Asia games market generated $30.1bn in 2023 Research also found that 97 million players in Japan and Korea play on more than one platform July 30, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News NCsoft invests $3.5m in Moon Rover Games Funds to go towards development of its debut title, co-op shooter Project Aldous July 30, 2024 Marie Dealessandri
News Dotplay obtains $1m in funding Company aims to expand its core team and enhance its platform with investment July 30, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Xbox One update failure "raises awkward questions about the future prospects of console hardware" Digital Foundry finds original Xbox One consoles running pre-2018 firmware may no longer work July 29, 2024 Vikki Blake
News The face of Supermassive Games' The Dark Pictures Anthology, The Curator, dies aged 67 "He was the face of The Curator, and we loved working with him," Supermassive said in tribute July 29, 2024 Vikki Blake
News CWA union says it "stands in "complete solidarity with striking members of SAG-AFTRA" CWA includes workers at "Activision, Bethesda, Blizzard, SEGA, Tender Claws, and ZeniMax" July 29, 2024 Vikki Blake
News My.Games sells off its DonationAlerts and Boosty platforms My.Games says this will allow it to "fully focus on its top priority business: game development and publishing" July 29, 2024 Vikki Blake
News Capcom games sales down 44% during Q1 FY25 Japanese firm says "all business segments outperformed the company's plan" as its income drops 45% year-on-year July 29, 2024 Marie Dealessandri
News Plaion to publish Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra Embracer-owned publisher to bring Amy Hennig's Captain America and Black Panther game to market July 29, 2024 James Batchelor
News Over 90% of Call of Duty players play less without skills-based matchmaking The quit rate of matches rose by 80% when skills-based matchmaking was decreased July 29, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Keywords' Lively Studio faces small number of layoffs Company is streamlining its operations, sister studio Electric Square unaffected July 29, 2024 James Batchelor
News What does the Humble restructuring say about the state of games publishing? | Microcast Latest episode available now, also discusses generative AI at Activision and the SAG-AFTRA strike July 29, 2024 James Batchelor
News Games in development prior to September 2023 exempt from SAG-AFTRA strike Grand Theft Auto 6 one of many titles exempt, union calls for members working for non-struck games to stand in solidarity July 29, 2024 Sophie McEvoy
News Free guide to redundancies and how to avoid them for participants of GI's Salary Benchmarking project Sign-up to submit data today July 29, 2024 GamesIndustry.biz Staff