ZeniMax union reaches tentative agreement with Microsoft
Unionized quality assurance workers on ZeniMax Media announced today that they had reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft, ZeniMax’s parent company. The workers,...
Xbox and Bethesda will talk this week about what the acquisition means
Regulators in the United States and Europe approved Microsoft’s acquisition of Zenimax Media, and that means Bethesda is now an Xbox studio. But what...
Bethesda faces broad class-action lawsuit over Fallout 4 DLC as Microsoft takeover looms
Bethesda Softworks and its parent firm, ZeniMax Media, are about to face some uncomfortable questions in a class-action lawsuit about how they treated the...
ZeniMax Media CEO Robert Altman passes away at 73
ZeniMax Media chairman and CEO Robert Altman has passed away at the age of 73. The leader of the parent company of video game...
Xbox’s Bethesda acquisition is evidence of blockbuster gaming’s volatility
Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is acquiring The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim publisher Bethesda for $7.5 billion. And it’s difficult to overstate how much this...
Take This: Game developers face serious mental health challenges
Take This, a mental health nonprofit organization geared toward game developers, released a white paper today that describes the severe challenges that game makers...
Bethesda sues Warner Bros. for ripping off Fallout Shelter with Westworld mobile game (updated)
Bethesda Softworks is always trigger-happy with the lawsuits, and this time the company is suing Warner Bros. and developer Behaviour Interactive over the release...
Judge tells ZeniMax and Oculus to end their legal battle
One of the biggest stories of 2017 for the VR industry is also one of its longest. The year started out with ZeniMax Media...
Oculus CTO John Carmack sues ZeniMax Media for $22.5 million
John Carmack’s legal fight with ZeniMax Media widened as the legendary game developer and current chief technology officer of Facebook’s Oculus division filed a...
ZeniMax v. Oculus: Jury orders Facebook’s VR company to pay $500 million because Palmer Luckey broke his NDA
The jury has come in on one of the first major lawsuits for the burgeoning virtual reality industry. Facebook’s Oculus VR must pay $500...