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January 2025 Archive

    1. Fallout: New Vegas lead story writer is back at Obsidian Entertainment
    2. Retailer Newegg sold out of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs "within minutes"
    3. MultiVersus will shutdown on May 30 after disappointing performance
    4. Quantic Dream's Beyond: Two Souls TV rights acquired by Elliot Page
    1. Kukouri Mobile "moves away from game development"
    2. Entire God is a Geek editorial staff walk out and cut ties with alt-right founder
    3. Generative AI art made without human "creativity" cannot be protected by copyright laws
    4. Video Game History Foundation launches digital archive
    5. PlayStation Plus to solely focus on PS5 games
    6. TIGA appoints four new board members for 2025
    7. Xbox Q2 hardware sales down 29% as Game Pass experiences record growth
    1. BioWare's "agile, focused" approach sees jobs cut and others redeployed across "EA teams"
    2. New publisher Banshee Games wants to "make Northern Ireland a hub for exceptional indie games"
    3. Capcom's financials are "in-line" with forecast despite a 33% drop in net income, 15% fall in net sales
    4. Silent Hill 2 has shipped 2m copies | News-in-brief
    5. Games industry contributed $5.1bn to Canada's economy in 2024
    6. Astro Bot and Black Myth: Wukong lead GDCA nominations
    7. Hideaki Nishino named sole CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment
    1. Humble launches new bundles to support LA fire relief efforts
    2. Square Enix condemns Final Fantasy 14 "stalking" mod and threatens legal action
    3. Staff take to LinkedIn to reveal "mass layoffs" at Moon Active
    4. Fast Travel Games cuts 30 jobs as it braces for a "more uncertain year ahead for VR games"
    5. Report: 82% of mobile game devs say reward-based UA outperforms traditional channels
    6. Taipei Game Show 2025 breaks attendance record with 370,000 visitors | News-in-brief
    7. Phoenix Labs lays off "majority" of workforce
    8. Ustwo Games partners with IFRC to support flood relief
    1. Japanese ratings board demands changes to Assassin's Creed Shadows
    2. Ubisoft cuts 185 jobs in a bid to "prioritise projects and reduce costs"
    3. Another Resident Evil film reboot is in the works
    4. Phil Spencer on multiplatform strategy: "There's no reason to put a ring fence around any game"
    1. Savvy Games hires Nika Nour as SVP and head of international business development
    2. Annapurna appoints ex-Netflix exec Leanne Loombe as head of games
    3. Pocketpair launches publishing arm, partners with Surgent Studios for first title
    4. Ted Price to join the AIAS Hall of Fame
    1. Circana confirms Black Ops 6 is 2024's biggest hit, but overall game spend in the US falls 9% YoY
    2. Don't Nod delays second half of new narrative adventure IP Lost Records
    3. Warner Bros. Games president David Haddad to step down
    4. Team17 Group rebrands to Everplay
    5. Extremely OK Games cancels Earthblade
    6. EA revises FY2025 and Q3 guidance due to underperformance across two franchises
    7. Mortal Kombat 1 tops 5m sales | News-in-brief
    1. Reflector confirms layoffs as Unknown 9: Awakening failed to meet "expectations"
    2. Nintendo, BioWare amongst nominees for outstanding video game at 36th GLAAD Media Awards
    3. Insomniac Games' CEO and founder, Ted Price, to step down after 30 years
    4. Fortnite reclaims top spot on revenue and engagement charts for December 2024 | Newzoo Charts
    5. UK games jobs vacancies fell by 8% in January 2025
    6. Sonic the Hedgehog 4 to release in March 2027
    7. Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at New York Game Awards 2025
    1. Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader sells 1 million copies | News-in-brief
    2. Finland's Film Tampere appoints first head of games to "connect film and games creators"
    3. Indie blockbuster Balatro tops 5m units sold | News-in-brief
    4. Bohemia Interactive's revenue jumps 34% this financial year to $60.8m
    5. BFI invests another £2m in UK's independent screen sector
    6. GDC Survey: 41% of devs affected by layoffs in 2024
    7. EA Origin to shut down in April 2025
    8. Marvel Snap and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang unavailable in US following TikTok ban
    1. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 developer outlines new tools to fight online cheats
    2. Cognosphere to pay $20m to settle FTC complaint on Genshin Impact
    3. Activision donates $1m to support fire relief in LA | News-in-brief
    4. Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director Corinne Busche leaves BioWare
    1. Winking Studios announces proposed acquisition of Mineloader
    2. Huuuge Games cuts 29% of workforce
    3. Sony confirms cancellation of live service projects from Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games
    1. 90% of Africa's games industry revenue generated by mobile games
    2. Nintendo patent attorney clarifies company's zero-tolerance position on emulation
    3. IGF Awards 2025 finalists revealed
    4. Report: 77% of devs expect games industry to grow in 2025
    5. Nintendo Switch 2 officially revealed
    6. Soul Assembly cuts 15% of workforce
    7. European game sales rose 1% in 2024 | European Annual Report
    1. Palestinian game developer concludes crowdfund almost $50,000 over goal
    2. Nintendo under fire once again for omitting original devs from remaster credits
    3. Aonic invests $10m in mobile gaming loyalty firm Mega Fortuna
    4. Sony donates $5m to support LA wildfire relief | News-in-brief
    5. Microsoft to lay off unknown number of staff
    6. Meta to lay off 5% of staff as part of "performance-based cuts"
    7. Baldur's Gate 3 exceeds 100m mod downloads | News-in-brief
    1. GOG bolsters game preservation efforts by joining European game archivist organisation
    2. Godfall developer Counterplay has reportedly shut down
    3. App growth firm SplitMetrics appoints new CRO
    4. Sony's new patents include AI system to predict player behaviour and reduce online lag
    1. Robocraft 2 developer Freejam shuts down
    2. Audiomob establishes MENA headquarters in Abu Dhabi
    3. FuturLab drops VR support for PowerWash Sim | News-in-brief
    4. Space Ape spins out new studio NextBeat
    5. Toadman Interactive shuts down, layoffs at Piranha Games
    6. Super Evil Megacorp studio head Ian Fielding appointed CEO
    7. Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 raises $2.5m | News-in-brief
    8. Square Enix updates harassment policy protecting employees
    9. Astro Bot, Indiana Jones, and Helldivers 2 lead 2025 DICE Awards nominations
    1. Exient appoints Paul Topping as CCO
    2. Infinity Nikki generates $16m in player spending on mobile
    3. Ubisoft appoints advisors to oversee "strategic options"
    4. Hitman World of Assassination reaches over 75m players | News-in-brief
    1. Grand Games secures $30m in Series A funding round
    2. Infinite Reality secures $3bn in funding
    3. PTW appoints David Dorans as CFO
    4. Squid Game: Unleashed reaches over 10m installs
    1. OV Entertainment refreshes strategic board with several new key appointments
    2. Atelico's new AI Engine doesn't require "prohibitively expensive cloud solutions"
    3. Plaion CEO steps down 31 years after co-founding Koch Media
    4. Splash Damage jobs at risk following Transformers: Reactivate cancellation
    5. Ubisoft+ Classics coming to cloud gaming platform Blacknut
    6. Wonder Legends Studios raises $1m in pre-seed funding round
    7. Lenovo Legion Go S is first officially licensed third-party PC handheld to use SteamOS
    8. Jar of Sparks halts production on debut game as it looks for new publisher
    9. US adds Tencent to list of firms allegedly connected to Chinese military
    1. Former Annapurna Interactive staff reportedly form company and acquire Private Division's portfolio
    2. Rocksteady cut further jobs at the end of 2024
    3. Development costs for 2020's Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War exceeded $700m
    4. Sony unveils prototype VR headset Xyn for "creating 3D objects for films, animation, and games"
    5. Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 movies announced
    6. Ghost of Tsushima to get anime adaptation
    1. 2K sunsets WWE 2K23 | News-in-brief
    2. Meta's Quest Pro headset now no longer available
    3. Xbox brings cloud gaming to LG Smart TVs
    4. Dynasty Warrior M servers to shut just 15 months after launch
    5. Resident Evil 4 Remake sells 9m copies | News-in-brief
    6. Sonic movie franchise grosses over $1bn at global box office
    1. Tango Gameworks rebrands following Krafton acquisition | News-in-brief
    2. Stardew Valley reaches 41m lifetime sales | News-in-brief
    3. SNK opens new studio for fighting game IPs | News-in-brief
    4. DoubleU Games acquires Paxie Games for up to $67m