Update: Sony has identified individuals responsible for The Last of Us Part 2 leaks, saying they were not affiliated with either Sony or Naughty Dog
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Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft to require loot box odds disclosure
The former head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios believes the AAA model needs a rethink
"Instead of spending five years making an 80 hour game, what does three years and a 15 hour game look like?"
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Psychonauts 2 wins Game of the Year at New York Game Awards 2022
"From Microsoft Flight Simulator to Psychonauts 2 to Age of Empires 4 to Forza Horizon 5 to Halo: Infinite, Xbox has finished 2021 as the year's top games publisher, and made Game Pass look even more irresistible in the process"
Masayuki Uemura, Nintendo engineer behind the NES and SNES consoles, has died
Rockstar has been “working 100-hour weeks” on Red Dead Redemption 2
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Studio co-founder Dan Houser details the effort put into the upcoming Wild West epic
People of the Year: Phil Spencer
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PlayStation may have dominated the charts, but it was Xbox that got the games industry talking
A lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing details Activision Blizzard's toxic culture, a "breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women"
"The main reason we [were] shooting for a sequel is because the codebase of Among Us 1 is so outdated and not built to support adding so much new content"
Update: Sony has denied reports it has cut PS5 production numbers
GTA V has outperformed the highest-grossing films, albums and books to become the biggest entertainment product of all time gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-
Respawn's new Vancouver studio will focus entirely on Apex Legends
In June, The Last of Us Part 2 sold more copies than the rest of the Top Ten combined
Nintendo's latest game comfortably beats Metroid Prime 3's launch week gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-
Playtonic removes controversial YouTuber JonTron from Yooka-Laylee gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has sold around 8m units
Xbox buys Bethesda parent Zenimax, including internal studios such as id Software and Arkane - but Bethesda will still publish its own titles
Half-Life and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw returns to Valve
PS5 hits 10m sales. Spider-Man: Miles Morales delivers 6.5m sales, MLB: The Show surpasses 2m, Ratchet & Clank over 1m
"The Game Pass deal allowed me to fund the rest of the game, make it profitable, and still do everything I wanted to do with a publisher, without having to get a publisher"
Three businessmen with links to CEO Bobby Kotick bought $108 million worth of Activision Blizzard shares four days before Microsoft acquisition
Borderlands 3 has broken multiple series and publisher records, with sell-in of more than five million units
Man breaks into Valve, steals $40,000 of equipment, games
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Nintendo, Xbox, Capcom, Konami, Ubisoft, Take-Two, Warner Bros and Koch Media will take part in June
Guerrilla's Hermen Hulst is now head of Worldwide Studios at PlayStation as Shuhei Yoshida takes charge of indie dev relations
Bethesda's Todd Howard to receive Industry Legend Award gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018- Howard will be interviewed by Geoff Keighley following award presentation at the Barcelona dev conference
God of War reaches ten million lifetime sales
Sony will buy Jade Raymond's Haven Studios, which is currently working on a live service multiplayer game for PS5
The Last of Us Part II is Sony's fastest-selling PS4 release in the UK
In a space that's still struggling with a lack of diversity, @SonicFox5000 refuses to let anyone stop them from showing the world that everyone, regardless of gender, sexuality, or ethnicity, belongs in esports and the fighting game community.
"PS5 is about God of War and Final Fantasy and Horizon and Resident Evil and Spider-Man and Hitman. Big, high-quality, AAA gaming experiences that you play on your own, with a fancy headset and controller"
"We want to take that success and capitalise on it by building the first great studio of the 2020s"
Team Adopt Me's on what the future holds for the most successful studio on Roblox
In light of Cyberpunk's console performance "the heavy-handed NDAs and refusal to provide any console code at all amounts to CDPR deliberately trying to cover up a major problem with its game that it was fully aware of"
PlayStation: "In support of the #StopHateForProfit campaign, we have globally suspended our Facebook and Instagram activity."
Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red is being investigated by Poland's Office of Competition and Consumer Protection
Update: Xbox Game Pass reaches 10m subscribers
UPDATE: Deal was worth $7.5 billion, all future Bethesda titles will be available via Game Pass from launch
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Xbox buys Bethesda parent Zenimax, including internal studios such as id Software and Arkane - but Bethesda will still publish its own titles
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"It's disturbing Wolfenstein can be considered a controversial political statement" gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017- on anti-Nazi stance
Epic's Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite video is an irresponsible piece of corporate propaganda | Opinion
SOC calls for Activision Blizzard to cancel all 2021 bonuses for execs due to the "unaddressed problem of sexual harassment" at the firm
"Simply launching a good, competent demo that lets people genuinely sink their teeth into the game for a couple of hours is a rare enough event, then – but the success of FF16's demo is far more deep-rooted than that."
"It's very hard to launch a $120m game on a subscription service charging $9.99 a month" - Shawn Layden
PlayStation exclusive games received 38% of all the nominations available at this year's BAFTA Game Awards
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CMA calls on the public for its views on Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Maneater co-developer Shipwright Studios is cancelling all contracts with Tripwire Interactive over president's anti-abortion views
A senior PlayStation exec has been fired after being caught by an amateur paedophile sting operation
The State of California has expanded its lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, now suing on behalf of contractors and claiming the publisher has shredded documents needed for the investigation
PlayStation 5 is the biggest console launch in history, as Sony confirms it outperforms PS4
As legal proceedings are kickstarted, internal sources point at the lack of accountability since reports of toxic culture emerged at Ubisoft last year
CD Projekt CEO Adam Kicinski says abandoning Cyberpunk development is “not an option”
"To me, Blizzard is like what Hong Kong is to me right now. Maybe it's getting worse, but do I hate it? No, I don't hate it."
Solidaires Informatique accuses Ubisoft of tolerating sexual harassment "because it is more profitable for the company to keep harassers in place than to protect its employees"
PS5 will far outsell Xbox Series X, predicts analyst
Sony and Nintendo have agreed to update their subscription guidelines following CMA investigation
CD Projekt Red's share price fell by 29% in the run-up to Cyberpunk 2077's launch -- and continued to decline when the game finally arrived
IGN and Game Informer had their Palestinian charity round-up stories pulled, but we've included their links in our write-up of the story
PS5 games take the No.1, No,2 and No.3 spots
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Update: With Los Angeles having declared a state of emergency, ESA's E3 team is "actively assessing" the coronavirus situation
Twitch staff call the company out on sexual assault, racism, more
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EA agrees $1.2 billion acquisition of Codemasters
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"Not a week goes by without us thinking, 'Imagine if we hadn't launched with loot boxes the way we did'"
"That is the end of the Kickstarter list. That's it. This will be the wrap up, this will be the end of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove"
Sony accounted for 46% of all spend on console games, hardware and services
Spider-Man: Miles Morales is the first PS5 game to top the UK boxed charts this week, knocking Mario down to No.2
Epic launching Steam rival with 88% revenue share for developers
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Free games, direct access to customers, mod support and more; Tim Sweeney reveals the plan for the Epic Games Store
Blizzard's chief legal officer left the company last week
President Biden signs executive order to find solutions to semicondutor shortage as PS5 and Xbox continue to suffer supply constraints
Xbox Series X|S was Microsoft's biggest console launch to date, selling more units in more countries than any of its predecessors
"PlayStation has established this identity as the purveyor of huge, expensive blockbuster games, and PS5 is the console manifestation of that"
A report has revealed an alleged culture of mistreatment and gender discrimination at Paradox Interactive
Update: 70% of Xbox Series X and S consoles are attached to Xbox Game Pass memberships
"With PS4, we were coming out of a very lacklustre PS3 platform... Now we are starting with 100 million gamers"
Xbox Game Pass has 5x more subs, despite launching three years later
Exclusive Interview: Sony's Jim Ryan and Bungie's Pete Parsons on the reasons behind the deal, why it's staying multiplatform and the prospect of more acquisitions to come
EA fined €10m over loot boxes as Dutch court sides with gambling authority
Average Nintendo Japan employee earns $80,000 working less than eight hours a day
"Game Pass allowed the breadth of video games to be a constant in my life in 2020, to a degree that the limits of my bank balance wouldn't have allowed if those purchases had to be made individually"
Activision Blizzard warns investors that plans to cut 8% of its workforce might "negatively" impact its business
Spider-Man is the fastest selling game of the year in the UK (so far). Just ahead of Far Cry 5 gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-
EA will move Need for Speed development back to Criterion gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-
"'Kill yourself asap disgusting Corporate Slave.' That's an actual email sent in the last week after I wrote an article describing Microsoft as the publisher of the year."
Scavengers Studio creative director accused of belittling, screaming at, groping employees
Sony open to PC versions of PlayStation exclusives
"The top-down model is inherently exploitative, so let's just lose that mess altogether. We set our own rules, expectations, salaries, and schedules together."
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IO Interactive reports record-breaking revenues for the last year, driven by success of Hitman 3
Microsoft's Sarah Bond tells us more about how the Xbox firm is making its development tools and services more accessible to studios of all sizes
Devolver valued at close to $1bn as it floats on London Stock Exchange, Sony Interactive Entertainment makes 5% investment in indie publisher
CD Projekt has appointed a new game director to lead Cyberpunk's upcoming expansions
Revealed: 100 of the most influential women working in the UK games industry gamesindustry.biz/top100/2019/
"If Xbox leadership doesn't think consistently delivering high-quality software on the platform is its top priority, then that leadership has lost focus and needs to change, either by rethinking its strategy or by making way for new leadership"
PlayStation buys Firesprite, the 250-person development team that was set-up by members of Sony's old Liverpool studio.
We speak to and studio head Graeme Ankers
Opinion | Square Enix' latest has massively shifted word-of-mouth with the arrival of an excellent demo – but the choices that allowed Final Fantasy 16's demo to shine lie in the game's fundamental design
Bethesda's Pete Hines has been promoted to head of global publishing, GI can confirm
CD Projekt now faces two class-action lawsuits filed on behalf of its own investors
2,025 personal details of journalists, analysts and YouTubers accidentally leaked by E3
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Apex Legends updates less to maintain dev quality of life
Harry Potter bested by Dr Mario, but Korean pop sensation BTS reigns supreme
