Wonder Woman video game, announced in 2021, reportedly canceled
As part of today’s vast and far-reaching closures of Warner Bros. Games originally reported by Bloomberg, numerous studios have had to end their ongoing...
Balatro and others re-rated by PEGI after successful appeal, prompting a rule revision
Balatro, the wildly successful indie game that portrays a mystical and decidedly fictionalized deck of cards dependent on the magical powers of various Joker...
Supergiant Games battles back accusations it is working around SAG-AFTRA strike
Supergiant Games— developers of titles like Bastion, Transistor, and the Hades series — has long taken pride in narrative-rich game development. Voice actors are...
Xbox’s AI initiative with Muse is an attempt to read the tea leaves, not the room
Earlier today, the heads of Microsoft’s Xbox division revealed Muse, a generative AI model that intends to create both visuals and gameplay for games....
North American Marvel Rivals team laid off by NetEase
Marvel Rivals, a multiplayer shooter that by any metric is largely successful, is a product of joint-development at NetEase games between a team in...
Epic Games Store hits nearly 300 million PC users in 2024
What started as a quixotic attempt at competing with Valve’s Steam in 2018 has now become a little less quixotic as Epic posts its...
Square Enix shuts down Final Fantasy iOS game due to irreparable bug
Developers beware of the haunting downsides of changes to a game’s in-app purchase models. It turns out they can be so catastrophic that they...
Former Activision CEO on former EA CEO: ‘He was the worst CEO in video games’
Both Activision and Electronic Arts, at least prior to Microsoft’s acquisition of the former, can lay claim to being industry-leading third-party publishers. So it...
Ready at Dawn co-founder says Ubisoft demanded their game’s protagonist be male
Ready at Dawn, a now-shuttered studio that was acquired by Meta in 2020 and shut down in 2024, has a long history in game...
An industry waits for Grand Theft Auto VI to get a release date
In Take-Two’s earnings today, the massive video game publisher behind hits like the Borderlands series and Red Dead Redemption was unsurprisingly coy about Grand...