Sony plans to lay off 900 employees as part of global restructuring
Sony Interactive Entertainment announced today that it plans to lay off around 8% of its global workforce, or around 900 people. According to SIE...
Lapse raises $30M for authentic social media photo-sharing app
Lapse, a photo-sharing app focused on GenZ, has raised $30 million in funding with the hope of refreshing social media. London-based Lapse is a...
Earn Alliance grows its game discovery platform for Web3 games
Earn Alliance wants to help Web3 games break into the mainstream with the introduction of its gaming discovery platform. This platform not only rewards...
PlayMakers raises $1.5M for user-generated content for games
PlayMakers has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to boost user-generated content across a wide spectrum of games. Founded just a year ago by...
Supermassive Games adds to the expanding list of industry layoffs
Supermassive Games, the developer of Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures anthology, announced today that it is adding to the growing list of studios...
Peter Levin joins Realm board to adapt gaming IP into podcasts
Independent podcast network Realm has appointed Peter Levin to its board of advisors in a bid to break into gaming. Levin currently serves as...
How to find opportunities in the kids game market | Nick Button-Brown interview
There’s still a lot of gloom in the video game business, but it’s not a universal feeling. Nick Button-Brown, chairman of Outright Games, feels...
Tekken 8 takes silver in 2024’s opening salvo | Circana January 2024
Tekken 8 is the top-selling new game in January, though it can’t quite dethrone Modern Warfare 3, according to industry-tracking firm Circana. The fighting...
Conversations from the Dice Awards green room
Last week, the luminaries of the game industry accepted awards on stage at the Dice Awards event in Las Vegas before hundreds of their...
How Coda envisions growth for alternative web shops | Shane Happach interview
Ever since the advent of the app stores, game companies have been paying the 30% “tax” on digital purchases for the mobile app stores....