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Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that they are laying off around 900 employees of its PlayStation division, an 8 percent reduction of its global staff. Several PlayStation studios are affected, with Sony closing its PlayStation London Studio in the UK. There will also be layoffs impacting Sony’s Firesprite studio. Overall, employee...
Xbox has officially announced that the future of the brand will be revealed in an official episode of the Official Xbox Podcast (via YouTube) at 4am GMT+8 on Friday, 16 February 2024. Three people will participate in the podcast, including Xbox head and CEO Phil Spencer, Xbox President Sarah Bond and Xbox President of Game Content and Studios Ma...
Earlier this week, rumours have been speculating about Xbox exclusives like Starfield and Hi-Fi Rush going multiplatform and coming to non-Xbox/PC platforms. Now, Xbox head Phil Spencer himself has broken the silence and finally given out a statement online on Twitter, promising that he will announce the "future of Xbox" next week. In a tweet, P...
Blizzard Entertainment has appointed Johanna Faries as its new president after the departure of Mike Ybarra following major layoffs of thousands of employees across Microsoft just last week. Johanna Faries was previously the general manager for the Call Of Duty franchise since April 2021 and she led the esports division before that. Check out...
Riot Games has announced that they are laying off 530 people, or about 11 percent of its global workforce. In a statement they shared publicly, Riot Games CEO A. Dylan Jadeja explained that the layoffs are happening because since 2019, the company has been making "a number of big bets", "broadening our portfolio" and growing "quickly", with the...
Messaging and social platform Discord has announced that they are laying off 170 employees, which constitutes 17 percent of the company's entire staff. The official reason given for the layoffs is because they grew too quickly and expanded too fast and as a result, became less efficient. That essentially translates to they're not getting as much...
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is officially stepping down on 29 December 2023. However, Microsoft has yet to announce a replacement for the position. In the meantime, remaining Activision Blizzard executives such as Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Ybarra, Activision Publishing president Rob Kostich, and Activision Blizzard vice chai...
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that the PlayStation 5 AKA the PS5 has surpassed 50 million units sold. It's now been three years since the launch of the PS5 in November 2020. Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, said: “Achieving this PS5 sales milestone is a testament to the unwavering support of the gl...
Indonesian developer/publisher Toge Productions has acquired Mojiken Studio, another Indonesian developer. In their tweet, Mojiken confirms that they will retain their brand as 'Mojiken'. https://twitter.com/MojikenStudio/status/1727527749617946759 Mojiken is best known for games such as When The Past Was Around and A Space For The ...
Wargaming has announced the launch of its first-ever Wargaming Forge internship program in Southeast Asia. Wargaming Singapore will be recruiting young talent to join a 6-month internship program as Community Management Trainees. Held in Wargaming Singapore office, the full paid internship program will run for 6 months starting in Fall 2023. The...
One of Singapore’s largest video game publishing and distribution company, GCL Global, has announced the signing of a first-of-its-kind partnership deal in the region between its subsidiary Epicsoft Asia (EPA), and NetEase Interactive Entertainment (NetEase Games), a subsidiary of one of China’s largest gaming firm and leading internet technolo...
Virtuos has announced the launch of Virtuos Labs - Prague, its latest studio dedicated to networking, UI, mobile, and optimization. Partners will be able to tap on the studio for support in online services, software development and operations (DevOps), UI implementation in games, co-development of mobile games and adaptation of PC and console games...
ReedPop and the Electronic Software Association (ESA) have announced that both the digital and physical events for E3 2023 have been officially cancelled. The news comes after Nintendo, Ubisoft, Sega and Tencent's Level Infinite all confirmed their absence from E3 2023. They also issued the following statement, ReedPop Global VP of Gaming Kyl...
Respawn Entertainment has announced that they have established a third studio in Madison, Wisconsin in the United States Of America, which will be led by Ryan Burnett. Burnett has almost 20 years of experience in the games industry, having previously worked at Raven Software and Epic Games. This is their third studio after the one in Los Angeles...
The BAFTA (British Academy Film Awards) has announced Shuhei Yoshida will be awarded a BAFTA Fellowship at the upcoming BAFTA Game Awards on 30 March 2023. According to BAFTA (via GamesIndustry.biz), Shuhei Yoshida is being recognised for his work "as a champion of independent developers", as well as "through his personal social media presence a...
Malaysian Creative Multimedia Art institution Claz'room College has announced its partnership with Level Infinite, a global gaming brand under the world-renowned Tencent Games, to enhance education quality and support the development of young talent in Malaysia's digital creative industry. The recently signed Memorandum of Understanding signals bot...
It hasn't been a great week for those working in the games industry. The publisher behind League Of Legends and Valorant, Riot Games, has allegedly been laying off its employees. The source comes from esports reporter Jacob Wolf, who tweeted that "multiple people" have told him that Riot Games have been making layoffs across multiple departments...
Mobile games have been growing and growing, but the industry is a fickle one. New genres and games can live or die in an instant, with some fading into obscurity and some booming into popularity. According to statistics provided by analytics company data.ai, the mobile games landscape has changed over the past year. Creative sandbox games such a...
Mike Uyama founded Games Done Quick (GDQ) back in 2010. 13 years later, he has announced that he will be leaving the role of managing director after the upcoming 2023 Awesome Games Done Quick Online event. The current GDQ operations director, Matt Merkle, will take over the role. https://twitter.com/GamesDoneQuick/status/1611014672869720064 I...
It's almost the New Year and most companies, including developers and publishers in the video game industry, are taking a break. However, speaking with Japanese publication Famitsu, Japanese game developers have teased what's coming in 2023. Some of them even tease vague new titles and announcements. Get the notable tidbits below. ArtPlay Shut...
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