Anthony DiMoro

Covering Content Creators, Twitch, YouTube, Streamers & the digital culture. Anthony has written for publications such as Forbes and the Huffington Post, among others, during his career.

Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon Winning in United Kingdom

FromSoftware title 'Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon', which is published by Bandai Namco, has laid claim to the top…

3 weeks ago

Scriptic Raises $6 Million in Additional Seed Funding

Interactive drama developer and BAFTA-nominated studio Scriptic has raised a total $6.2 million in additional seed funding, including $500,000 from…

3 weeks ago

Xbox Scheduled to Release Baldur’s Gate 3 Later This Year

Following news earlier this year that Larian Studios cited technical issues developing the port, there is now official confirmation that…

3 weeks ago

Sony Acquiring Audeze

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is set to officially acquire headphones manufacturer and audio technology company Audeze, officially entering a deal…

3 weeks ago

Gamescom 2023 Sees Impressive Turnout

Gamescom 2023 is celebrating another successful event and a notable uptick in the overall attendance for this year's event that…

3 weeks ago

Riot Games Discusses League of Legends Esports

There is no denying that the esports industry, as a whole, has experienced it's fair share of struggles financially and…

3 weeks ago

Microsoft Unveils Xbox Developer Sustainability Toolkit

Xbox has officially unveiled the Xbox Developer Sustainability Toolkit which is aimed to help creators reduce energy consumption and measure…

6 months ago

Epic Games Store Hits $820 Million in Player Spending During 2022

Epic Games has officially released financial data related to it's growing marketplace on PC, showing that $820 million was spent…

6 months ago

California Judge Dismisses Gamers Lawsuit Filed Against Microsoft

A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that the group of 10 plaintiffs "[lacked] allegations" in their lawsuit filed…

6 months ago

Super Evil Megacorp Expanding Team for Netflix Project

Catalyst Black developer Super Evil Megacorp has expanded their team following the announcement of their new partnership with content streaming…

6 months ago

Team17 Cutting Jobs to Restructure Business Operations

Independent video game label Team17 will be laying off staff, who were informed during a recent meeting that redundancies were…

6 months ago

Canada Judge Rejects Unlawful Gambling Accusation Against EA in Class Action Lawsuit

Canada judge Judge Justice Fleming said that a plaintiff's claim that loot boxes in EA games constitutes 'unlawful gaming' was…

6 months ago

Xbox Q2 Revenue Dips 13%, Game Pass Continues Growth

Microsoft has reported declines in Xbox revenue during the three months ended December 31, 2022 with gaming revenues were down…

8 months ago

Riot Games Victims of Cyberattack

Riot Games issued a statement on Wednesday saying that they  received a ransom email after hackers stole source code for…

8 months ago

Squanch Games CEO Justin Roiland Resigns

Squanch Games CEO Justin Roiland has officially resigned from his position at the company after news broke that Adult Swim…

8 months ago

Washington Post Set to Shut Down Gaming Section

The Washington Post is reportedly gearing up for a round of layoffs and as part of those cuts they will…

8 months ago

Proletariat Unionization Vote Request Withdrawn

The Communication Workers of America said it is withdrawing its request for a unionization vote at Proletariat, choosing to follow…

8 months ago

Judge Blocks Microsoft Request to Pause Gamer-Led Lawsuit

A judge has blocked a request from Microsoft that would have paused to a gamer lawsuit that was aimed at…

8 months ago

Microsoft Launches Pre-Union Advertisement

Microsoft has launched a pro-union ad in the Washington Post, which is cosigned by union CWA, stating that the company…

8 months ago

NetEase Acquires SkyBox Labs

NetEase Games has officially announced their acquisition of Canadian-based game developer SkyBox Labs, which was founded back in 2011 and…

8 months ago

Blizzard’s Proletariat Seeking to Unionize

Activision Blizzard subsidiary Proletariat is seeking to unionize, according to an official announcement on Twitter made in late December by…

9 months ago

Square Enix No Longer Providing Large Content Updates for Chocobo GP

Towards the end of December, Square Enix announced that they would not be providing anymore large content updates, such as…

9 months ago

Gamers Sue Microsoft Over Activision Merger

A groups of gamers filed a private consumer lawsuit in California that intends to stop Microsoft from completing it's $69…

9 months ago

Epic Games Paying $520 Million to Settle FTC Charges on Fortnite

Epic Games will pay $520 million to settle charges from the United States Federal Trade Commission, aka the FTC, over…

9 months ago

Microsoft Gauging Interest in Xbox Game Pass Ad-Supported Tier

Microsoft is reportedly gauging interest for an Xbox Game Pass ad-supported tier subscription with a new user survey exploring the…

9 months ago

Riot Games Files Motion to End Deal with FTX

Riot Games, the company behind such titles as League of Legends and Valorant, has filed a motion to end its…

9 months ago

John Carmack Resigns from Meta

John Carmack has officially resigned from his position as an executive consultant for virtual reality with Meta, informing Meta employees…

9 months ago

Blaze Entertainment Says Evercade Units Stolen in Robbery

Blaze Entertainment says that they were the victims of a robbery back on December 6th that saw a lorry carrying…

9 months ago

GameStop Continues Troubling Trend in Q3

GameStop continues to see a dip in sales and Q3 data shows that the company is not showing that it…

9 months ago

Embracer Approved to Trade on Nasdaq Stockholm

Embracer Group has officially been approved to trade on Nasdaq Stockholm, which is the main market for Nordic companies, and…

9 months ago

Metal: Hellsinger Surpasses One Million Player Milestone

Rhythm-action first-person shooter Metal: Hellsinger, which is now available on Playstation 4 and Xbox One, has surpassed the 1 million…

9 months ago

Activision Blizzard Representation Data Report for 2022

Activision Blizzard has release it's 2022 representation data report, which includes data on full-time employees who identify as non-binary. Per…

9 months ago

Sega of America Launches New Office in California

Sega of America has officially announced that they have opened a brand new office in Irvine, California which will house…

9 months ago

Keywords Studios Opens Office in Romania

Keywords Studios has officially announced that they have opened a brand new location in Bucharest, Romania, which comes a year…

9 months ago

PUBG Mobile Surpasses $9 Billion in Lifetime Revenue

PUBG Mobile has reached $9 billion in global lifetime revenue and has notched 1.1 billion installs worldwide across the App…

9 months ago

Tencent Facing Allegations of Infringing on Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

Tencent will appear in court on this Tuesday to face allegations of copyright infringement in China, filed by Shanghai-based studio…

10 months ago

Disco Elysium Lawsuit Alleges ZA/UM CEO Illegally Took Majority Share

The ongoing battle between partners at Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM has taken another turn as new information has recently surfaced…

10 months ago

FTC Reportedly Considering Lawsuit Over Microsoft Activision Deal

The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly considering filing an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard and a potential…

10 months ago

Ubisoft’s Hungry Shark Reaches 1 Billion Downloads

Ubisoft is celebrating the long-standing success of it's most downloaded mobile series 'Hungry Shark', which initially launched back in 2010…

10 months ago

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Become Fastest Selling Games in Nintendo History

Nintendo has made history thanks to releases of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet which shifted 10 million copies, including both physical…

10 months ago

God of War Ragnarok Surpasses 5 Million Units Sold

Sony Santa Monica's newest release 'God of War: Ragnarok' has become the fastest selling first-party Playstation launch title, surpassing 5…

10 months ago

Sony Planning to Expand Incubator for Chinese Games

Sony is reportedly planning to expand it's program, the PlayStation China Hero Project, that is aimed to help fuel games…

10 months ago

Court Rules That Cooking Mama: Cookstar Infringed On Office Create’s IP

The International Court of Arbitration has officially ruled that Planet Entertainment's selling and distribution of Cooking Mama: Cookstar infringed upon…

10 months ago

Niko Partners Releases 2022 Asia-10 Games Market Report

Nike Partners has dropped their new 2022 Asia-10 Games Market report that houses projections that indicate that by 2026, the…

10 months ago

NetEase Invests in PlayPulse

NetEase has invested in Norwegian fitness gaming startup PlayPulse which will be used to help PlayPulse launch its first product,…

10 months ago

Blizzard, Netease End 14-Year Partnership

Blizzard's biggest games will become unavailable in China following the end of their close to 15 year partnership with NetEase,…

10 months ago

Former Square Enix Employees Arrested On Insider Trading Accusations

Two former employees of Square Enix have been arrested over allegations of insider trading as it is believed that the…

10 months ago

AimJunkies Countersuit Against Bungie Dismissed

US District Court Judge Thomas Zilly has dismissed  complaint from cheat provider AimJunkies against Destiny 2 developer Bungie on the…

10 months ago

Bethesda Speaks On Mick Gordon’s Doom Eternal Soundtrack

Bethesda has commented on the allegations of Mick Gordon regarding his involvement with the Doom Eternal's soundtrack, rejecting what the…

10 months ago

Xbox Explains Decision to Abandon Plans for Keystone Streaming Console

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has discussed the thinking behind Microsoft's decision to abandon their plans to release a streaming-only version…

10 months ago

Noodle Cat Raises $4.1 Million in Funding

Noodle Cat Games has officially announced that they have raised $4.1 million in seed funding as they aim to build…

10 months ago

Activision Says Modern Warfare 2 Hits Record Sales Numbers

Activision says that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 has sold through more than $1 billion in its first ten…

10 months ago

Square Enix Releases Financial Report

Square Enix has officially released their financial report for the first half of the financial year, and the data shows…

10 months ago

EA Dropping Project CARS

EA has confirmed that they will "stop further development and testing" in the Slightly Mad Studios-developed series 'CARS', which was…

10 months ago

Nintendo, DeNA Forming Nintendo Systems Joint Venture Company

Nintendo and DeNA are joining forces on the launch of a new joint venture company, which will be called Nintendo…

10 months ago

Remedy Entertainment Shows 7% Increase in Revenue

Remedy Entertainment has officially released it's financials for Q3, the three month period that officially ended on September 30th, and…

10 months ago

Unity Completes Merger with IronSource

The merger of Unity and IronSource is officially complete, which was confirmed by Unity CEO John Riccitiello via their official…

10 months ago

ÜberStrategist Acquires VirTasktic

Vide game marketing firm ÜberStrategist has officially acquired Raleigh, North Carolina based marketing services provider VirTasktic, which was initially founded…

11 months ago

NetEase Takes Minority Stake in Liquid Swords

NetEase has officially taken a minority stake in Swedish indie game devs Liquid Swords, which was founded in 2020 by…

11 months ago

Activision Blizzard Files Motion to Impound Albany Union Vote Ballots

Blizzard Albany's QA team is currently set to have their votes regarding unionization officially tallied on November 18th, but Activision…

11 months ago

Frontier Acquires Complex Games

Publisher and Game Developer brand Frontier has officially acquired Canadian studio Complex Games, the developer behind Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate…

11 months ago

Netflix Acquires Spry Fox

Netflix has officially added it's 6th game studio to their company, Cozy Grove and Alphabear developer Spry Fox marking it's…

11 months ago

Playstation 5 Reaches 2 Million Units Sold in Japan

Playstation 5 has surpassed the 2 million sale mark in Japan since it's November 2020 launch, according to Siliconera. The…

11 months ago

NetEase Introduces New Studio GPTRACK50

NetEase Games has officially launched a brand new studio, called GPTRACK50, that will focus on creating and distributing new Japanese…

11 months ago

YouTube Game Streaming Sees Spike in Viewership

YouTube Gaming has seen a spike in their viewership during the month of September as many streamers are finding their…

11 months ago

Magic Games Raises $5 Million

Turkish mobile developer Magic Games has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Makers Fund, which also included…

11 months ago

London Mayor Renews Investment in London Games Festival

The Mayor of London has continued to fund Games London, which is the organization behind the London Games Festival and…

11 months ago

Riot Games Acquires Wargaming Sydney Studio

Riot Games has officially acquired Wargaming's Sydney development studio and will be rebranded as Riot Sydney where it will assist…

11 months ago

Google Shutting Down Stadia

Google announced that it is shutting down it's Stadia gaming service effective in January 2023, the company announced this week.…

12 months ago

Bethesda Promotes Pete Hines to Head of Global Publishing

Bethesda Studios has officially announced that they have promoted former senior VP of global marketing and communications Pete Hines to…

12 months ago

Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Acquisition Approved by Brazilian Regulator

Regulators in Brazil officially approved Microsoft's marked acquisition of Activision Blizzard, with the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) announcing…

12 months ago

Tencent Adds Former Sony Executive Shawn Layden

Tencent has added former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden to their team, and Layden will now serve as a strategic advisor.…

12 months ago

G2 Esports CEO On Unpaid Leave Following Sharing of Video with Andrew Tate

G2 Esports CEO Carlos Rodriguez has agreed to take eight weeks of unpaid leave from the company following the sharing…

12 months ago

Tencent’s Fanbyte Lays Off Staff

Tencent owned media company 'Fanbyte' has laid off a number of their staff this week, although the total numbers of…

1 year ago

G4TV Reportedly Laying Off Staff

Less than a year following it's highly-anticipate relaunch, G4TV has reportedly laid off between 20 and 30 members of staff…

1 year ago

Despite Positive Revenue Projections, ‘Future’ Making Layoffs

Future, the United Kingdom based media outlet, has official announced a series across it's publications despite high profit margins forecast…

1 year ago

343 Industries Reportedly Loses David Berger Following Bonnie Ross’ Exit

343 Industries is reeling after the loss of Halo studio head Bonnie Ross, and reportedly is set to lose another…

1 year ago

Meta Cuts Responsible Innovation Team

Meta has officially disbanded a team of experts that it initially formed several years ago who had a mission to…

1 year ago

EA Announces New Studio Ridgeline Games

EA today officially announced it has launched Ridgeline Games, a brand new studio that will focus on the narrative development…

1 year ago

GameStop Posting Losses Again

GameStop is again reporting quarterly losses despite growing sales, ever since the meme stock boom that helped lift the company…

1 year ago

Xbox Asks Insiders To “Help Shape” New Xbox Home Experience

Microsoft is set to make some changes to the UI on Xbox consoles and is looking to insiders for their…

1 year ago

Playstation Calls Xbox’s Call of Duty Offer “inadequate on many levels”

Microsoft has promised to keep Call of Duty games available on PlayStation for three years beyond the current agreement between…

1 year ago

Netspeak Games Receives $12 Million Funding

United Kingdom based game developer Netspeak Games has officially completed a Series A investment round of $12 million, which was…

1 year ago

Aaron Greenberg Promoted to VP of Xbox Games Marketing

Microsoft veteran and general manager Aaron Greenberg, who has spent nearly 25 years at the company, has been officially promoted…

1 year ago

Tencent Acquires 49.9% Stake in Ubisoft Holding Company

Tencent is again making it's mark in the gaming world, purchasing 49.9% stake in Guillemot Brothers Limited, the holding company…

1 year ago

Garena Lays Off Staff

Games publisher Garena, who is behind titles such as Free Fire, has laid off staff from around the world, according…

1 year ago

Super.com Rebrands as Super Good Games

Games publisher Super.com has officially rebranded and will be now known as Super Good Games, and will also be moving…

1 year ago

Warner Bros, Rocksteady Studios Launch Training Program for Underrepresented Devs

Rocksteady Studios, who is behind such titles as the Batman: Arkham franchise, is launching a new training program to help…

1 year ago

VP of Meta’s VR Social Platform Exits Company

Vivek Sharma, the vice president of Meta's virtual reality social platform, has officially left the company after nearly six years,…

1 year ago

Amazon Acquiring EA

Amazon is expected to officially announced their acquisition of Electronic Arts (EA) in a massive move, however financial details regarding…

1 year ago

PQube Games Facing Accusations of Exploiting Developers

United Kingdom based games publisher PQube Games is now facing allegations of exploiting two studios it was working with on…

1 year ago

Something Wicked Games Launches with New Game Announcement

A brand new studio has launched, formed by former Bethesda Game Studios and Obsidian Entertainment veterans called 'Something Wicked Games'…

1 year ago

Team Asobi Striving For Unique Game Experience

Team Asobi, the team behind Astro's Playroom which was really fun during the launch of the Playstation 5, is now…

1 year ago

TikTok Surpassing Facebook in Influencer Marketing Spend in 2022, YouTube by 2024

When it comes to influencer marketing and the budgets that businesses and brands spend (US) on the digital marketing campaigns,…

1 year ago

Soedesco Acquires Superlumen

Game publisher Soedesco has officially acquired 100% of the share in Spanish studio Superlumen for a pricetag that has not…

1 year ago

Microsoft Accuses Sony of Paying Game Devs to Stay Off Game Pass

Microsoft claims that Sony has been paying video game developers to keep their games off the Xbox Game Pass subscription…

1 year ago

Spin Master Acquires Nørdlight

Spin Master, the entertainment company centered on children's entertainment, has officially acquired Sweden-based developer Nørdlight, following their minority investment made…

1 year ago

Sales Drop 15% in Square Enix Q1 Report

Square Enix, the team behind the classic franchise Final Fantasy, has officially released their financial earnings for the three months…

1 year ago

BBC Proms Features Video Game Music

The annual BBC Proms event celebrated another milestone, and took the headlines, by adding video game scores to their library of…

1 year ago

Playstation Asking Players About NFTs

Playstation has issued a survey for players that attended EVO, asking about the type so NFTs they may be interested…

1 year ago