The DeanBeat: DICE Summit shows the inspirational highs and depressing lows of gaming
Shawn Layden led off this week’s DICE Summit with an inspirational speech about the need to focus on quality games, the rise of accessibility...
Rainbow Six: Siege continues to drive Ubisoft’s growth
French publisher Ubisoft had another strong quarter thanks to games like Rainbow Six: Siege, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, and Far Cry 5. This powered the...
Game Workers Unite org calls for Activision CEO’s job after layoffs
One of the most visible workers-rights groups for the video game industry is starting a social-media campaign to force Activision Blizzard to fire chief...
THQ Nordic acquires Kingdom Come: Deliverance dev Warhorse Studios
THQ Nordic announced today that it has acquired Warhorse Studios, the developer behind the 2018 PC role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The deal is worth...
Activision Blizzard cuts 8% of jobs amid ‘best’ financial results
Activision is planning to cut “non-development jobs” because it isn’t releasing enough games. This news comes via a Kotaku report that claims new Blizzard...
Radeon VII vs. RTX 2080 — which $700 GPU should you get?
The very high end of the video card market has had no real competition for Nvidia in years. AMD has put its efforts instead...
Mozilla and Ubisoft partner on AI coding assistant Clever-Commit
Mozilla and Ubisoft today announced a partnership to develop Clever-Commit, an AI coding assistant. Clever-Commit is designed to help programmers evaluate if a code...
Apex Legends hits 2 million concurrent players on its first weekend
Respawn Entertainment launched Apex Legends one week ago, and it has had a decent seven days since then. The studio revealed today that it...
Amazon’s New World — hands-on in a massive sandbox MMO
In my first foray roaming the world of Amazon‘s New World, I came upon some animals. I chose to run away from the bear,...
FoxNext Games is now funding indie games, starting with Altered Matter’s Etherborn
FoxNext Games, a division of 20th Century Fox and creator of Marvel Strike Force, has established a development fund for independent game developers. The...