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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

X1Esports Acquires Tyrus LLC

X1 Esports and Entertainment Ltd., which is a video games and creator economy portfolio company,  has officially announced the acquisition…

1 year ago

Ireland, Colombia Xbox Insiders Can Preview New Game Pass Offer

Xbox Insiders based in Colombia and Ireland can preview a new game pass offer right now, according to an official…

1 year ago

Jam City Lays Off 17% of Staff

Game Developer Jam City, which is the team behind the mobile titles such as Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery and Disney…

1 year ago

Study Shows Belgium Ban on In-Game Loot Boxes Going Uninforced

A new study shows that Belgium's ban on in-game loot boxes, which initially surfaced in 2018 from the Belgian Gaming…

1 year ago

Activision Blizzard Accused of Undermining Efforts to Unionize

Some of the staff at Blizzard Albany, which was formerly known as Vicarious Visions) have accused Activision Blizzard or attempting…

1 year ago

Playstudios Gaming Platform Creating Blockchain Division, web3 Fund

PlayStudios has announced a new strategic alliance with Forte to power their brand new venture into web3. playBLOCKS will leverage…

1 year ago

Blizzard, NetEast Cancel World of Warcraft Mobile Game

Activision Blizzard and NetEase have officially announced that their World of Warcraft mobile game project has been scrapped, citing financial…

1 year ago

Koch Media Officially Rebrands as Plaion

Koch Media has officially rebranded under their new moniker; Plaion. Managing managing director Klemens Kundratitz spoke at length about the…

1 year ago