A few years ago, several DICE developers and executives have decided to break off from the EA subsidiary to form their own studio called Wayfinder Games. The fully-remote video game development studio was founded in 2020 by former DICE Studio Director Fia Tjernberg, who now serves as the new studio’s CEO, and former Star Wars Battlefront Creative Director and now-Game [...]
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For the first time in three years, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, will be returning to an actual, physical, in-person event. Although, it looks like it’s going to be a rather lonely affair as the big three of the gaming industry – Xbox (Microsoft), Sony, and Nintendo – won’t be attending the gaming convention this year, or ever for [...]
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Electronic Arts has released its Q3 financial report which shows a slight revenue increase compared to the same period last year but essentially remained the same year-over-year. “In Q3, EA delivered high-quality experiences, driving record engagement across some of our biggest franchises and growing our player network. While our teams delivered for our players, the current macro environment impacted Q3 [...]
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Riot Games fell victim to a social engineering attack this past weekend which led to a breach in its development systems and environment. The studio, however, was quick to assure its game community that no user data or personal information was compromised during the attack. What was affected though was Riot’s ability to release new content, and subsequently its update [...]
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Not all unionizing efforts are destined for a happy ending, especially when a big bad bully is doing everything it can to stop it. Over the past few months, Activision Blizzard has been actively trying to derail the formation of worker unions in several of its studios, including Raven Software, Blizzard, Albany, and Proletariat. Unfortunately, the company has succeeded in [...]
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Last summer, Tamagotchi-like virtual pet website Neopets suffered a massive data breach that gave a hacker access to the personal information of over 69 million users. The leaked data included names, email addresses, and passwords which the hacker later offered to sell for $100,000 worth of Bitcoin. While the issue had seemingly blown over with time, it looks like it’s [...]
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Last week saw Microsoft lay off around 10,000 employees which included 343 Industries developers working on Halo Infinite’s single-player campaign. The game’s creative director was also transferred to Xbox’s publishing division and the position permanently removed. Naturally, this has caused concern among the game’s community over the future of the multiplayer shooter. 343 Industries’ studio head Pierre Hintze, however, was [...]
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The past year has been rough for Ubisoft with another delay for its long-awaited Skull and Bones pirate MMORPG, an impending worker strike brought about by the CEO Yves Guillemot blaming the workforce for the company’s poor performance, and multiple game cancellations. Just last week, Ubisoft cancelled three more unannounced titles in addition to the four games that were cancelled [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase’s long-running partnership to publish World of Warcraft and other Blizzard titles in China will officially be coming to an end this Monday. Normally, the end of a publishing deal doesn’t merit a lot, but there seems to be a whole lot of drama surrounding the dissolution of this particular deal as both companies lay the blame [...]
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Fractured Online will soon be coming back online after it was discreetly removed from Gamigo’s official site last month. This was after the publisher suffered a sweeping round of layoffs, shut down the Aeria Games Portal, and pawned off several other games to different publishers. Back then, Fractured Online’s developer, Dynamight Studios, claimed that the game’s sudden disappearance from Gamigo’s [...]
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