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Kakao Q2 2024: Profits nosedive as ArcheAge 2 faces another potential delay
The second quarter for fiscal year 2024 has ended up being a pretty awful one for Kakao Games. The latest earnings summary confirms that...
Pearl Abyss America CEO steps down for ‘a new career challenge’ after six years
The very tippy top of the organizational structure at Black Desert and EVE Online company Pearl Abyss America is changing: Jeonghee "JJ" Jin, who...
MMO Business Roundup: Bandai Namco’s Q1 2025, My Games’ publishing arm, Tencent at Gamescom
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! And much like yesterday's digest, we begin with some quarterly financials! Woo!
Bandai Namco:...
Finnish game studio Social First secures $4.2M in funding for a ‘cross-platform social MMO’
At first blush, the announcement that's the source for this story looks like a corporate word salad bar, but once you cut through all...
Tencent and Square Enix are reportedly working on a mobile version of Final Fantasy XIV
How do you put 10 years' worth of MMORPG like Final Fantasy XIV into a mobile version? We could all be seeing an answer...
Roblox Q2 2024: Revenue rises, CFO steps down
It's time for a fresh quarterly report, and this time it's coming out of Roblox, which saw its second quarter earnings for 2024 rise...
Game studio execs weigh in on reasons for the high costs of American game development
This year has been a bloodbath for game developers, with job cuts happening across companies big and small, so that naturally brings up questions...
Activision-Blizzard artists express anxiety and disgust as the studio foists AI tools on existing workers
Like it or not, AI tools are proliferating throughout gamedev, and the human cost is already being showcased. According to reporting from Wired, which...
SAG-AFTRA is prepared to strike if game companies don’t address demands related to AI tools
Members of the SAG-AFTRA voice actors union are once again pushing back against game companies and their use of AI tools. The union has...
Former World of Warcraft general manager John Hight is named president of WotC and digital gaming
Back in the middle of June, we learned that World of Warcraft general manager John Hight was stepping down from his position in pursuit...
Microsoft calls FTC’s Game Pass filing ‘misleading’ owing to multiplayer functionality and Call of Duty availability
Over the weekend we reported on the FTC putting a fresh legal filing before the US Court of Appeals that argued Microsoft's price hike...
Devs from multiple Bethesda offices formally create a ‘wall to wall’ union of over 200 workers
The unionization movement among video game developers has taken yet another large step forward this weekend, as workers from Bethesda Game Studios offices located...
Layoffs have once again impacted workers at Ubisoft and Microsoft
We have the unfortunate duty to report that layoffs in the gaming industry don't appear to be abating anytime soon, as there are new...
Amazon Games shares its long focus approach while saying that the Lord of the Rings MMO is ‘not too far away’
It can be pretty easy to assume that the strategy of Amazon Games is to throw handfuls of anything at the wall to see...
Embracer Group talks up aspirations for AI tool integration with a ‘human-centric approach’
Embrace Group would like gamers to remember that it's still pretty villainous. The company's annual report for 2024 is out, and among its colorfully...
Valve faces an $838M UK lawsuit that accuses Steam of overcharging consumers and monopolizing prices
That's right, it looks like another legal firm is hoping to take a big meaty swing at Valve's enormous and probably jowly face: The...
World of Warcraft general manager John Hight leaves Blizzard ‘to explore new opportunities and challenges’
The World of Warcraft team and Blizzard at large has seen another one of its long-standing senior devs leave the company. After 12 years,...
‘I have to run a sustainable business’ – Microsoft’s Phil Spencer addresses layoffs and studio shutdowns
Some new statements out of Microsoft CEO Phil Spencer during this year's IGN Live gaming presentation can be absorbed as either admission of the...
Twitch eliminates its safety advisory council after just four years of operation
How long does it take for Amazon and Twitch to believe that people will forget about improving safety and security on the streaming platform?...
Mike Morhaime’s Dreamhaven game studios open playtest sign-ups for their upcoming games
Back in 2020 we got wind of Mike Morhaime's return to the games industry after leaving Blizzard thanks to the formation of Dreamhaven, a...
