Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games And Crytek Have Agreed To Settle Two-Year Old Lawsuit

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After two years, Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games and Crytek have finally agreed to settle their differences. Crytek filed a lawsuit against Cloud Imperium Games in December 2017 over CIG’s alleged breach of contract on the use of their proprietary CryEngine. Apparently, Crytek only gave CIG license to use the engine for Star Citizen. The project, however, eventually evolved [...]

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ArenaNet Re-Hires Former Guild Wars 2 Developer

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Over the past year, we’ve been reporting on high-profile developers leaving ArenaNet and Guild Wars 2 left and right, including the studio’s co-founder and president, Mike O’Brien. In a refreshing change of pace, today’s news piece is all about a newly hired developer. Well, technically he’s a re-hire. Let’s all welcome back Ben Arnold, who is now the new GW2 [...]

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Nvidia Says They Removed Activision-Blizzard Games Due To A ‘Misunderstanding’

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Late last week, we reported on Activision-Blizzard’s sudden decision to pull all their games from Nvidia’s recently-launched game streaming platform, GeForce Now. Today, Nvidia admits that it was all a misunderstanding and that it was an error on their part. According to Bloomberg, Activision-Blizzard agreed to participate in GeForce Now’s beta test but wanted a commercial agreement before proceeding with [...]

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Another Veteran Developer Joins The Growing List Of Ex-ArenaNet Developers

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These past few years haven’t been good on ArenaNet. Since last year, the company has been hit with massive layoffs, company restructuring, and multiple high-profile developers leaving for better opportunities including Lead Game Designer and Lead Writer Bill Friest and Co-founder/President Mike O’Brien. Today, another developer has decided to leave ArenaNet’s ranks. Lead Systems Designer Hugh Norfolk announces his departure [...]

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City State Entertainment’s Mark Jacobs Apologizes For Last Friday’s Controversial Colossus Reveal

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Last week, City State Entertainment co-founder Mark Jacobs broke the news that they were working on a tower defense-like game alongside the already delayed Camelot Unchained MMORPG. The new game, called Colossus (Final Stand: Ragnarok) runs on the same in-house engine as Camelot Unchained and will even launch before the MMORPG. As you can probably imagine, Camelot Unchained’s Kickstarter backers [...]

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Activision Blizzard Revenues Are Down Once Again For Q4 2019

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The last quarter of 2019 was an absolute PR nightmare for Activision Blizzard. The company was boycotted for banning a pro-Hong Kong Hearthstone player and was criticized for an utterly disappointing BlizzCon presentation. The question is, would these have a significant effect on the company’s Q4 2019 revenues? Apparently not. Acti-Blizz’s revenues are down by 16.7% compared to Q4 2018 [...]

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Dauntless Developer Phoenix Labs Acquired by Garena For $150M

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Garena, the Southeast Asian tech company, announced today that they purchased Phoenix Labs, the Canadian developer behind Dauntless. No purchase price was disclosed, however according to The Straits Times, the purchase price was ~$150M USD. Nothing is expected to change for Dauntless right now, but the official announcement did include this sentence "Both parties will build on Phoenix Labs’ world-class [...]

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