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2026-02-23
Tencent shut down TiMi Montreal Opened in 2021, no games released in 5 years. Staff: “We had been aware this was coming... but it doesn't make the reality any easier.” [image]
2026-02-23 View on X
Game File

Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios

The game industry's contraction is unrelenting.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Tencent has shut down its TiMi Montreal studio without …

NetEase Shuts Down TiMi Montreal (Pokemon Unite, CoD Mobile) “We had been aware this was coming, [but] it doesn't make the reality any easier.” [image]
2026-02-23 View on X
Game File

Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios

The game industry's contraction is unrelenting.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Tencent has shut down its TiMi Montreal studio without …

2026-02-22
Tencent shut down TiMi Montreal Opened in 2021, no games released in 5 years. Staff: “We had been aware this was coming... but it doesn't make the reality any easier.” [image]
2026-02-22 View on X
Game File

Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios

The game industry's contraction is unrelenting.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Tencent has shut down its TiMi Montreal studio without …

NetEase Shuts Down TiMi Montreal (Pokemon Unite, CoD Mobile) “We had been aware this was coming, [but] it doesn't make the reality any easier.” [image]
2026-02-22 View on X
Game File

Tencent closed its TiMi Montréal studio after nearly five years, without ever releasing a game, as Chinese giants scale back funding for Western game studios

The game industry's contraction is unrelenting.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Tencent has shut down its TiMi Montreal studio without …

2026-02-20
Gamers are extremely mad after PlayStation Studios posted a marathon trailer following Bluepoint Games' shutdown, one of fans' favourite studios. [image]
2026-02-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Sony shuts down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation subsidiary behind remakes of older games like Demon's Souls and Uncharted; ~70 employees will lose their jobs

The PlayStation subsidiary previously made remakes of games like 'Demon's Souls'  —  Sony Group Corp. is shutting down Bluepoint Games …

2026-02-19
Gamers are extremely mad after PlayStation Studios posted a marathon trailer following Bluepoint Games' shutdown, one of fans' favourite studios. [image]
2026-02-19 View on X
Bloomberg

Sony shuts down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation subsidiary behind remakes of older games like Demon's Souls and Uncharted; ~70 employees will lose their jobs

The PlayStation subsidiary previously made remakes of games like 'Demon's Souls'  —  Sony Group Corp. is shutting down Bluepoint Games …

2026-02-16
Western Digital's HDD production capacity for 2026 is fully sold out, CEO Irving Tan confirmed in recent statements, due to AI demand. Firm orders from top customers cover the entire year, with long-term agreements extending into 2027 and 2028 for some. [image]
2026-02-16 View on X
Wccftech

Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had “pretty much sold out” its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue

HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to Western Digital's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.

Western Digital's HDD production capacity for 2026 is fully sold out, CEO Irving Tan confirmed in recent statements, due to AI demand. Firm orders from top customers cover the entire year, with long-term agreements extending into 2027 and 2028 for some. [image]
2026-02-16 View on X
Counterpoint Research

Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600%+ over the past year for routers and set-top boxes, hitting telcos targeting aggressive broadband rollouts

MS Hwang is a research director at Counterpoint, specializing in memory semiconductor research.

2026-02-15
Western Digital's HDD production capacity for 2026 is fully sold out, CEO Irving Tan confirmed in recent statements, due to AI demand. Firm orders from top customers cover the entire year, with long-term agreements extending into 2027 and 2028 for some. [image]
2026-02-15 View on X
Wccftech

Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had “pretty much sold out” its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue

HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to Western Digital's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.

2026-02-11
Discord is trying to clarify its upcoming global age verification, and it looks like it's getting double community notes. [image]
2026-02-11 View on X
The Verge

Discord says that the “vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today” without needing to use a face scan or ID to verify their age

Either because they aren't accessing age-restricted experiences, or if its AI predicts they're old enough.

2026-02-10
Discord is trying to clarify its upcoming global age verification, and it looks like it's getting double community notes. [image]
2026-02-10 View on X
The Verge

Discord says that the “vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today” without needing to use a face scan or ID to verify their age

Either because they aren't accessing age-restricted experiences, or if its AI predicts they're old enough.

2026-02-03
Epic Games Store VP Steve Allison explained the platform's approach to games using generative AI: “We do not police how developers make their games,” emphasizing that Epic imposes no restrictions or requirements based on the use of AI during development. Allison further [image]
2026-02-03 View on X
GamesIndustry.biz

Epic reports third-party game revenue on the Epic Games Store up 57% YoY in 2025 to $400M, total spend up 6% to $1.16B, and total player hours down 14% to 6.65B

Epic Games Store 2025 Year in Review highlights: > 317 million total PC users accessed the store. > Record 78 million monthly active users in December (up 6% year-over-year peak). > Average monthly active users reached 67 million (down 1% year-over-year). > Average daily active [image]
2026-02-03 View on X
GamesIndustry.biz

Epic reports third-party game revenue on the Epic Games Store up 57% YoY in 2025 to $400M, total spend up 6% to $1.16B, and total player hours down 14% to 6.65B

2026-01-06
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Vera Rubin AI platform at CES 2026, succeeding Blackwell. Named after astronomer Vera Rubin, it features the Rubin GPU and Vera CPU (88 custom Arm cores), built on TSMC 3nm with HBM4 memory. The platform delivers up to 5x faster inference [image]
2026-01-06 View on X
The Verge

Nvidia launches the Vera Rubin platform, saying it will offer dramatic reductions in inference and training costs compared to Blackwell, across six new chips

The Rubin GPU boasts five times more AI training compute power than Blackwell. … Nvidia is kicking off 2026 …

2026-01-05
“Microslop” trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession [image]
2026-01-05 View on X
sn scratchpad

Satya Nadella says the tech industry needs to move past “slop vs sophistication” arguments and view AI as a “cognitive amplifier”, not a human substitute

As I reflect on the past year and look toward the one ahead, there's no question 2026 will be a pivotal year for AI.

2025-11-28
Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: ‘It makes no sense,’ he says, because ‘AI will be involved in nearly all future production’ [image]
2025-11-28 View on X
GamesIndustry.biz

Tim Sweeney says it “makes no sense” for stores like Steam to label games that are made using AI, since AI “will be involved in nearly all future production”

“It makes no sense for game stores, where AI will be involved in nearly all future production.”

2025-03-28
Ubisoft and Tencent are officially teaming up to create a new subsidiary within the company. > Tencent will invest €1.16 billion to acquire a 25% stake in the new entity. >Contains Ubisoft's biggest gaming IPs like Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. [image]
2025-03-28 View on X
Bloomberg

Ubisoft plans to spin off a unit, which includes Assassin's Creed, into a ~€4B subsidiary with Tencent investing €1.16B for a 25% stake; UBI jumps 10%

Ubisoft Entertainment SA shares jumped as much as 10% after the video game maker said it will carve out a unit including Assassin's Creed …

2024-07-16
>Disney has been hacked >1TiB of data stolen (unreleased projects, logins, images codes..) [image]
2024-07-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Nullbulge, a hacktivist group critical of AI art, leaks Disney's alleged Slack messages over “how it handles artist contracts” and AI; Disney is investigating

‘Hacktivist’ group critical of AI-generated art says it has obtained swaths of data from Disney's Slack channels, some of which it has published online