Disney executives want to get ahead in the video game industry. They want to leapfrog through the growth process by acquiring Electronic Arts or a company on that scale.
It appears that Virtuos Studios has now shut down Calypte. The news became evident through LinkedIn posts of former employees including senior game designer Mark Vernon and creative director Sean Ainsworth.
Since 2018, Ipsos has conducted annual research on in-game spending by children and how their parents supervise their spending. The new report by Ipsos is the fourth since the inception of the study.
On August 28 we reported that the Internet had exploded with PS5 Pro rumors. Well, Sony has finally announced the launch of a smaller PS5 digital edition and disc design through its blog.
At the time of writing this post on October 10, 2023, FC Mobile has been downloaded over 100 million times. EA Sports FC 24 was released on September 26 and was the first title in the rebranded soccer franchise.
According to an IGN report, more than 100 Avalanche Studios developers have joined Unionen, the Swedish trade union. The increasing call for video game workers to unionize intensified this year following the brazen layoffs in the industry.
After CD Projekt Red announced the third round of layoffs, the staff of the company formed a union as a means of “improving their workplace/industry standards in a way that has legal power and amplifies their voice”.
An almost 40-minute video shared by the German gaming media, Game Two, took a deep dive into the production of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.
CD Projekt Red had its Investor Day on October 5 in Warsaw, and it was quite revealing. During the presentation, the studio talked about its changes in video game production as part of its RED 2.0 transformation.
In 2018, Telltale Games shut their doors and laid off almost all their staff without prior warning. Huang was one of the staff let go by the studio at that time. When a new owner took over the company and reopened in 2019, Huang was rehired