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December 2024 Archive

    1. DFC: Nintendo Switch 2 will be "the clear winner" of next-gen consoles
    2. Amazon renews Secret Level for a season 2
    3. Community matters: How audience engagement in games is shaping other industries | Playable Futures
    4. Switch 2 (finally), GTA 6 to dominate, AI in game dev (again): Analysts predictions for 2025
    5. AIAS to honor Nintendo of America veteran Don James
    6. 2024 in Review | GI Microcast
    7. Aonic secures over €150m in funding
    8. Hothead Games shuts down
    1. 2024 was the year of Microsoft's grand pivot | Opinion
    2. Raccoon Logic: We're doing the last hurrah of the games industry we grew up with
    3. GamesIndustry.biz presents… The Year In Numbers 2024
    1. Tencent directors step down from Epic Games' board after US Justice Department "expressed concerns"
    2. Twitch watch time broadly stable in 2024 at 18.9bn hours
    3. Australian games sector employment "steady" as industry generates $211.9m in 2024
    4. Moon Beast Productions secures $4.5m in seed funding
    5. Activision confirms it has replaced Call of Duty Black Ops 6 voice actors during SAG-AFTRA strike
    6. Regulation galore: Legal trends to watch in 2025
    7. Sonic musician suing Sega of America over song rights
    8. Horizon: Forbidden West | Games of the Year 2024
    9. 11 Bit Studios lays off unknown number of staff, cancels Project 8 console game
    10. Sony to become largest shareholder of FromSoftware parent Kadokawa Corporation
    1. The Game Awards live-streams jump 31% year-on-year
    2. EA Sports College Football is now the US' best-selling sports game of all time | US Monthly Charts
    3. Should Xbox and PlayStation make a handheld console? | Opinion
    4. Elite Dangerous | Games of the Year 2024
    1. Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance servers close next February | News-in-brief
    2. James Wan is adapting indie horror Pacific Drive for TV
    3. Investigation claims "network of illegal casinos" lets children gamble with their Roblox account details
    4. Catly dev "surprised" at AI speculation - "we don't think there are AI tools that could produce that"
    5. Flashbulb Games makes cuts as unannounced project cancelled
    6. Jingle Jam raises £2.7 million after impressive 2024 fundraising event
    7. Alan Wake 2 - Night Springs & The Lake House | Games of the Year 2024
    8. Black Friday video game sales dip in the UK | UK Monthly Charts
    9. Loot Box State of Play 2024: Another trip around the world of regulation
    1. Reflecting on The Game Awards 2024 | GI Microcast
    2. What impact have layoffs had on the games industry over the past two years?
    3. Former CD Projekt dev art Dark Passenger raises $3m
    4. Stardew Valley | Games of the Year 2024
    5. Capcom exploring further IP revivals following Okami, Onimusha reveals
    1. Sounds disruptive: How video games are resetting the music medium's conventions | Playable Futures
    2. Marvel Rivals is a bright spot in a dark year for live service | Opinion
    3. Zenimax Online Studios workers unionise
    4. Why Krafton "made a sizeable bet" on India
    5. Astro Bot takes home Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024
    6. Hideki Kamiya returns to Capcom with new Clovers studio, working on Okami sequel
    1. 99 jobs cut at Warner Bros Games Montreal
    2. Ex-Bungie dev Chris Barrett sues Bungie and Sony for "falsely destroying his reputation"
    3. uBroker Spa acquires a 49% stake in Italian indie Memorable Games
    4. Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket surpasses 60m downloads | News-in-brief
    5. Former Gearbox, Id and Warner veterans form new publisher Cooldown Games
    6. How Ogre Head Studio found its niche with Indian folklore
    7. How game studios can benefit from video game concerts
    8. Glow Up Games is shutting down
    9. Epic Games announces deal with Telefónica
    1. Pokémon and Aardman partner up for "exciting" 2027 collaboration | News-in-brief
    2. Balatro and AFK Journey among 2024 App Store Award winners
    3. Why RuneScape creator Andrew Gower has returned to MMORPGs with Brighter Shores
    4. Meet GDAI, India's first video games trade body
    5. Nintendo acquires remaining shares of Monolith Soft
    6. People Can Fly hit with another round of layoffs
    7. Zynga sells Chartboost to AI-driven advertising company LoopMe | News-in-brief
    1. Clear Angle Studios opens new location in Los Angeles
    2. Why gaming is India's "new entertainment frontier"
    3. GamesIndustry.biz's India Games Week kicks off today
    4. Build A Rocket Boy acquires PlayFusion
    5. Making a Monument Valley for the Netflix generation
    6. Infinity Nikki reaches 10m downloads | News-in-brief
    7. FTC starts issuing refunds to Epic Games users following settlement
    1. Xsolla teams with StarNest to establish new game development academy
    2. Marvel Rivals tops 10m players in 72 hours | News-in-brief
    3. Rocksteady ends Suicide Squad development less than a year after release
    4. Croc: Legends of the Gobbos delayed to 2025 | News-in-brief
    5. Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D remake tops November charts | Japan Monthly Charts
    6. Why Cult Games decision to acquire Neonhive was a no-brainer
    7. Itch.io back online after temporarily takedown by "bogus phishing report" from Funko
    8. Crazy Taxi | Why I Love
    9. The end of XDefiant and the state of live service games | GI Microcast
    10. Tencent and Guillemot Brothers' Ubisoft buyout reportedly held up by dispute over control
    11. Hunter x Hunter Nen x Impact banned in Australia
    12. Deck Nine Games lays off more staff
    1. 75% of UK students in favour of esports education in schools
    2. Apple faces UK class action lawsuit for "anti-competitive" 30% fee
    3. Stories from 30 years of PlayStation
    1. Google's Genie 2 AI tool can generate a playable 3D world from a "single prompt image"
    2. UK specialist media publisher Future signs strategic partnership with OpenAI
    3. EA expands free library of accessibility patents to make more games inclusive
    4. Ex-Disco Elysium devs at Dark Math Games secure seven-figure investment
    5. PTW opens new studio in South Carolina
    6. Top App Games raises $10m in funding
    7. Blue Owl Capital acquires minority stake in Bitkraft Ventures
    8. The challenges and opportunities Black Myth: Wukong created for China's developers
    9. Reforged Studios acquires Yellow Lab Games
    10. Fortnite UGC studio Creators Corp receives $2m investment
    11. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 to release a week early | News-in-brief
    1. IllFonic "re-aligns to a refined strategy" as it makes "cuts" to its teams
    2. Nintendo delays Alarmo's public launch in Japan
    3. Tantalus Keywords Australia CEO steps down
    4. Deceive Inc studio Sweet Bandits shuts down
    5. Why Raphaël Colantonio's next game is and isn't like Dishonored
    6. The Dundee effect: How industry hubs are elevating more than games | Playable Futures
    7. Chivalry developer Torn Banner Studios lays off staff
    8. Ubisoft to sunset XDefiant in 2025, nearly 300 people affected by layoffs
    9. Phasmophobia has sold 1m copies on consoles | News-in-brief
    1. Call of Duty tops revenue chart for October 2024 | Newzoo Charts
    2. Game Developer publisher Informa merges with TechTarget
    3. Smilegate makes strategic investment in Dan Houser's Absurd Ventures
    4. Report: Staff laid off at NetEase after relaunched Hyper Front fails to meet expectations
    5. SpecialEffect's One Special Day 2024 raises over £600,000 | News-in-brief
    6. Will the third time be the charm for new Sony handheld? | Microcast
    7. Unpacking the BEUC complaint against in-game purchases | Opinion
    8. Pokémon TCG Pocket reportedly surpassed over $200m in first month
    9. RNIB launches accessibility toolkit for devs to support gamers with sight loss
    10. How Nintendo Switch has changed Firaxis' approach to making Civilization
    11. Ryosuke Yoshida leaves Ouka Studios to join Square Enix
    1. New report claims gamers spend more time watching videos about gaming than playing games
    2. Project Party developer Lilith Games lays off 40 employees
    3. Motorsport Games sunsets NASCAR games following IP license transfer
    4. My.Games sells hyper-casual game publisher Mamboo
    5. Tencent acquires majority stake in Kuro Games
    6. Yasuyuki Oda on why it's taken over a quarter of a century for a new Fatal Fury game
    7. Riot Games to issue penalties for "off-platform conduct"
    8. UK counter-terrorism unit demands ban on pro-Palestinian shooter