The industry’s voice actor union has called a strike against Riot Games’ League of Legends
Last night, the ongoing voice actors strike took a new turn as SAG-AFTRA announced it has filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the...
Wayfinder studio Airship Syndicate’s latest layoff cuts the teams down to 50 people ahead of launch
Wayfinder studio Airship Syndicate has already faced a round of layoffs over the last year, and I'm sorry to report this morning that it's...
PlanetSide 2 studio Toadman was hit with some nasty layoffs and studio closures this month
A few weeks back, Daybreak's Enad Global 7 announced that it was laying off a chunk of its subsidiary Toadman Interactive and closing down...
Legal analysts paint a grim picture for Pocketpair’s chances in Nintendo’s Palworld lawsuit
Last week saw Nintendo's lawyers rouse themselves from slumber and roar forth at Pocketpair's wildly successful critter-catching survivalbox Palworld as the company filed a...
Elder Scrolls Online has reportedly earned $15M in monthly revenue for over a decade
It would appear that game industry professionals just can't stop sharing revenue details on their Linkedin profiles. You might recall that a senior product...
Concord devs anticipate layoffs as Sony moves their director to a ‘support role’
The sad story of the team vs. team hero shooter Concord doesn't appear to simply stop at the game being killed after roughly two...
NCsoft renames Blade & Soul Neo Classic to BNS NEO, confirms western launch
Almost a year ago, NCsoft announced a new spin on Blade and Soul called Blade & Soul Neo Classic. The game as planned would...
Microsoft inflates its stock price through a $60B buyback of shares in the shadow of 650 layoffs
Corporate America has once again proven itself to be the full mask-off villain it's lampooned as: After a memo found that Microsoft was preparing...
Nintendo hit Palworld’s Pocketpair studio with a patent lawsuit in Japan
Palworld's unexpected explosion of fame has been one of the recurring narratives of 2024 - and so has been its obvious inspirations. In fact,...
‘Bullet-heaven’ co-op game The Spell Brigade is now available in early access
What is friendship? Is it listening when someone has a problem? Is it offering resources and succor to bosom companions? Is it playing a...
Ubisoft broadens return-to-office mandate in spite of last year’s blowback over Ubisoft Montreal’s implementation
What do you do when you really want to lay off the people doing all the work at your company, but you also don't...
EA says it won’t replace The Sims 4 with a sequel as it preps fall playtest for multiplayer Project Rene
The fate of The Sims franchise in the last few years has been a little bit messy: EA has been working on what it...
Bethesda accidentally prices Fallout 76 DLC for $1999
Ever since the release of horse armor DLC for Oblivion many years ago, Bethesda has been pioneering new and potentially ill-advised DLC prices for...
How hyper investment and greed led to the games industry’s ‘GaaSacre’ and downward slump
Hindsight is always 20/20, and no more is that axiom more appropriate than a look back at how the gaming industry got to the...
Diablo IV has made Blizzard $1 billion in revenue since launch
In spite of some gamer grumbling over the prices of things like crossover cosmetic outfits and portal effects, there has been a whole lot...
PlayStation 5 Pro’s $700 price tag fuels debate over PC rigs and console preferences
Last week saw the gaming world get hit with a meteorite when Sony introduced the $700 PlayStation 5 Pro, an upgraded version of the...
Palworld shoots down business model shift rumors after ambiguous CEO interview
Palworld is a buy-to-play early access game. There's no cash shop, no DLC, no battle pass, and to this point, no suggestion that was...
A year after vaporizing industry trust, Unity abandons runtime fees, raising subscriptions instead
A year ago this week, the doofuses running Unity surprise-announced they were adding new per-install and runtime fees with multiple tiers designed to leech...
Microsoft is laying off yet another batch of games division workers – 650 this time
A Microsoft memo leaked to the press today heralds another round of layoffs at the company's games division: Microsoft Xbox boss Phil Spencer informed...
Ghostcrawler makes the case for slower leveling in his upcoming MMORPG Ghost
The vast majority of MMORPG fans have yet to experience any part of Fantastic Pixel Castle's upcoming MMORPG simply known as Ghost through any...
