Sony has confirmed their plans to shut down the PlayStation 3, PS Vita, and PSP online stores this summer. The PS3 and PSP online stores will be taken down on July 2 while the PS Vita store will stick around just a little bit longer before it’s permanently shut down on August 27. According to Gamasutra PS3, Vita, and PSP [...]
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Anthem Game Director Jonathan Warner has left BioWare one month after EA decided to cancel Anthem Next, a proposed reboot of the original game. Warner broke the news on Twitter last Friday saying that he was “moving on to do new things.” Warner worked with BioWare for 10 years and, aside from his role as Game Director, also served as [...]
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PAX East 2021 has been cancelled again this year amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While the organizers were optimistic about the possibility of holding a live event, they were still prepared for the worst and decided not to sell tickets or space until they were sure. “While we hoped PAX East could safely take place, we remained realistic and did [...]
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PUBG Mobile has reached over one billion downloads, not counting those in China, and is now one of the most successful games in the world according to Reuters. Oddly enough, the data was revealed by Chinese publisher Tencent, the game’s Chinese publisher during their recent earnings call. According to data from Sensor Tower, the mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds puts [...]
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The mass layoffs at Activision Blizzard continues this week with confirmation from the company that they will be closing down their publishing offices in Europe. An undisclosed number of employees from France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, and the UK will be affected by the closures. The move is part of the company’s recent restructuring in response to the current marketing trends [...]
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Activision Blizzard employees have just experienced another round of layoffs across various departments. According to a report by Bloomberg, less than 2% of the company’s total workforce was affected which equates to fewer than 190 employees, with 50 of them working in departments related to e-Sports and live events. The dismissals are part of the company’s plans to shift away [...]
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Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media has officially pushed through following the European Commission’s approval of the $7.5B deal last week, making it the largest merger in the video game industry to date. Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s VP for Gaming, welcomed the ZeniMax team in a blog post on Xbox Wired: “Today we officially complete the acquisition of ZeniMax Media, parent company [...]
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Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media and its studios is nearing completion with the European Commission’s recent approval of the $7.5 billion deal. According to GamesIndustry.biz, the EC, the executive branch of the European Union, officially approved the deal last Friday citing that the acquisition “does not raise serious doubts as to its compatibility with the common market,” based on the [...]
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The Arizona House of Representatives has just passed a sweeping amendment to bill HB2005 that prevents app distribution platforms from forcing Arizona-based app developers to exclusively use a particular payment system, effectively putting a dent on Apple and Google’s profit from in-app purchases. The bill applies to app stores exceeding one million downloads in the past year but exempts “special-purpose [...]
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And so it begins. With the Epic Games vs. Apple lawsuit on its way to trial, Apple has once again come under fire for their alleged monopoly of the mobile app market. The UK Competition and Market Authority, or CMA, has recently started an investigation into the tech giant’s supposed anti-competitive practices. According to the CMA, several developers reported Apple [...]
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