Interview with Atari CEO Wade Rosen on the company's emphasis on retro endeavors, its recent acquisitions, its investment in console maker Polymega, and more
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Epic Games lays off 16% of its workforce, or ~830 employees, divests from music storefront Bandcamp, and intends to spin off “kid-tech” company SuperAwesome
Earlier today Tim Sweeney sent the following email to Epic employees: Tim Sweezy / HotHardware : Epic Games Confirms Massive Layoffs After Fortnite And Metaverse Spending Spree Jamie Crawley / CoinDes...
Unity apologizes and says games made with Unity Personal will be exempt from its Runtime Fee, which will only apply to games made with Unity versions from 2024
The fee is no longer retroactive. … Joshua Robertson / TheGamer : Unity Says “Sorry”, Rolls Back Some Download Fees Spitblaze / Corndog Formica : GOOD NEWS: Unity has announced that games made on curr...
Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs Abner L...
Data.ai and IDC: consumer spending on video games will hit $222B globally in 2022, with mobile gaming accounting for more than 61% of the total
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Activision Blizzard reports Q1 revenue down 22% YoY to $1.77B, net income down 36% to $395M, Activision MAUs down 33% to 100M, and Blizzard MAUs down 19% to 22M
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EA reports Q3 revenue of $1.79B, up from $1.67B YoY, net income of $66M, down from $211M YoY, and net bookings of $2.6B, down from $2.4B YoY
it's time to move on Eddie Makuch / GameSpot : EA CEO Shares New Statement On NFTs Electronic Arts Inc. : Battlefield Briefing - The Journey to Season One Marie Dealessandri / GamesIndustry.biz : EA C...
AT&T to spin off WarnerMedia and combine it with Discovery in a $43B deal; the new company will be run by Discovery CEO David Zaslav
Felix Salmon asked a question on Twitter: Wall Street Journal : AT&T's Hollywood Ending Erased Billions in Value Sara Fischer / Axios : Scoop: Discovery CEO David Zaslav signs new contract through 202...
Interviews with 16 Twitch employees from throughout its history detail a culture of indifference to inappropriate and abusive behavior, although some disagree
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EA partners with Valve to bring its EA Access subscription service to Steam next spring and launch games on Steam starting with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
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