Make The Switch To Blizzard’s New Battle.Net Mobile App Or Suffer The Consequences

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Earlier this year, Blizzard Entertainment revealed plans to move its Battle.net two-factor authentication tools to the Battle.net Mobile app. Back then, Battle.net users either had the choice to use the new app or stick to the old Battle.net Authenticator app. That’s going to change at the top of the year when the studio phases out the old authenticator in favor [...]

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Downsizing Continues At Embracer As Insurgency: Sandstorm Studio Lays Off Employees

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Another Embracer Group studio has been caught in the backblast of its failed $2 billion deal as Saber Interactive announces layoffs and restructuring at its subsidiary, New World Interactive. The studio is best known as the developer of multiplayer shooter Insurgency: Sandstorm and was initially rumored to be shutting down. Saber Interactive has denied the rumors alongside the layoff announcement. [...]

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Electronic Arts Lays Off An Undisclosed Number Of Employees At F1 Studio Codemasters

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2023 has unfortunately turned out to be the year of video game layoffs, with multiple companies succumbing to the financial pressures and challenges sweeping across the industry. The year isn’t over yet and its claimed even more victims as Electronic Arts lays off an unknown number of employees from F1 racing game developer Codemasters. “Our business is constantly changing as [...]

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Epic Vs. Google Trial Unearths Activision Blizzard’s Failed Attempt At A Mobile Storefront

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Epic Games ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Google has unearthed some pretty interesting information about the power play that’s afoot in the video game industry. Those include Google’s plans to acquire Epic. Epic’s plans to take Sony to court if it didn’t allow crossplay, and more recently, Activision Blizzard’s plans to launch their own mobile storefront. Activision Blizzard’s top brass had [...]

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Take A Peek At Amazon’s Fallout TV Series In Its First Official Trailer

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Amazon gives Fallout fans their first look at the upcoming Fallout TV series in its first official teaser trailer. The trailer gives viewers their first look at the post-apocalyptic world inspired by Bethesda’s popular role-playing adventure game, the blue jumpsuit-wearing protagonist, and several of the show’s main characters. The trailer introduces Lucy, played by Ella Purnell, a vault-dweller who’s spent [...]

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Sony Inks Partnership Deal With NCSoft To Explore ‘Global Collaboration Opportunities’

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Sony Interactive Entertainment and NCSoft have entered into a strategic partnership to explore “global collaboration opportunities” across various fields of business. There aren’t any solid plans at the moment, but there’s speculation that Sony might be diving headfirst into the mobile gaming market. The partnership agreement might also have something to do with Microsoft’s recently completed acquisition of Activision Blizzard [...]

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Embracer Group’s Phil Rogers Says Layoffs Were An ‘Agonizing Process’

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The past year has been a particularly challenging time for the video games industry with several thousand employees having been laid off across dozens of big-name companies. One company that was hit pretty hard was Swedish video game holding company Embracer Group. After a multi-year studio shopping spree that saw it acquire THQ Nordic, Perfect World Entertainment, Cryptic Studios, and [...]

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