AMD will lay off nearly 1,000, or 4% of staff, as AI competition heats up
AMD said today it will lay off 4% of its global staff, or perhaps somewhat less than 1,000 of its estimated 26,000-person workforce. The...
Squido Studio raises $3M for social XR game DigiGods
Squido Studio has raised $3 million in funding to develop DigiGods, an ambitious social extended reality (XR) platform. The Montreal-based maker of immersive virtual...
Nintendo president confirms Switch successor will be backward-compatible
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said that the company’s upcoming Switch successor will be backward compatible. But he did so without saying anything about what...
Take This clinical director resigns from mental health for game devs nonprofit
Raffael “Dr. B” Boccamazzo, the clinical director of Take This, will leave the nonprofit for gaming mental health at the end of this year....
AMD reports record revenue but Q4 forecast disappoints
Advanced Micro Devices reported record revenue of $6.8 billion for the third fiscal quarter, up 18% from a year ago. But the shares fell...
Lamborghini and Animoca’s Motorverse tap Base blockchain for in-game assets
Lamborghini and Animoca’s Web3 racing game Motorverse are tapping Coinbase’s Base blockchain to deploy interoperable Revuelto in-game assets. Automobili Lamborghini and Animoca’s Motoverse said...
Project Helping Hands helps the long-term unemployed in games
Project Helping Hands is a new community-based initiative to help game industry job seekers who have been out of work or underemployed for more...
Xsolla announces certified parental controls, a boom in Web Shop revenue and expansion in SE Asia
Presented by Xsolla During the latest GamesBeat Live session, Dean Takahashi, lead writer for GamesBeat, sat down with Berkley Egenes, chief marketing and growth...
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite as world’s fastest mobile CPU
Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon 8 Elite, which it claimed is the world’s fastest mobile centralized processing unit (CPU). The CPU features Qualcomm’s second-generation custom...
Surgent Studios puts staff on hiatus while searching for a publisher
Surgent Studios, the developer behind indie title Tales of Kenzera: ZAU, has made its entire game development staff redundancy notice while it searches for...