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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
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Are unions actually growing? | This Week in Business
The formation of the IGN Creators Guild is the latest evidence of a trend that might have a stronger basis in perception than reality
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Take-Two cutting costs again as Q3 sales dip 3%
Zelnick says this year's cost-cutting will be "more robust" than last year's; publisher beats guidance despite softness in NBA 2K24 sales
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Stoke Games raises $5.5m for "shooter-adjacent" PvP game
Remote studio from ex-League of Legends and Multiversus developers exploring a "slower-tempo" game with strategic focus
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Hidden Path lays off 44
Developer shelves RPG it had been working on after funding falls through
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Roblox continues to grow revenues, deepen losses
UGC platform expects more of the same in 2024, losing as much as $1.4 billion on revenues as high as $3.4 billion
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IGN workers unionizing
IGN Creators Guild announces 87% of eligible editorial and creative employees at games media outlet have already signed union cards
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Layoffs at Crop Circle Games
More than a dozen devs who had been working at narrative sandbox game developer update social media profiles in search of work after unexpected cuts
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Building a career on a dare | Black Voices Progress Report
League of Legends and Final Fantasy 7 Remake voice actress Danielle McRae discusses her path into and through the games industry
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The future's so bright, I gotta wear Apple's $3,500 shades | This Week in Business
Let's talk about reasons for optimism despite grim industry news and Apple's Vision Pro headset. Despite the headline, the two subjects are not related
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Roughly half of Devolver's Artificer studio laid off
Polish studio behind Showgunners said to have cut about 25 people, with up to a dozen more expected to go once the team's current game is finished
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Mountaintop raises another $30 million
Start-up studio brings influencer investors on board as it gets closer to announcing its debut tactical shooter