For most of the past decade, large parts of the games industry have been operating with a single, deceptively simple sounding guiding principle – that if you want to make real money, serious money, you have to make it big in live service. It’s not that single-player games are dead in the water, per se. … Read more
Peter Connelly, who composed music for the games Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Chronicles, and The Angel of Darkness, has been jailed for 16 months over a fraudulent Covid Bounce Back Loan. The UK’s Insolvency Service said Connelly overstated his company’s turnover to secure a second Bounce Back Loan of £37,500 in 2020, one month … Read more
The reviews are in for Donkey Kong Bananza, Nintendo’s first major release for Switch 2 since the launch title Mario Kart World. And for the most part, they are ecstatic. The game is currently hovering at a score of 90 on Metacritic, while on OpenCritic it’s a point higher at 91. On Metacritic, that comfortably … Read more
An Italian YouTuber has been subjected to a police raid for reviewing handheld devices with pre-loaded retro games. As spotted by Android Authority, Francesco Salicini, who creates content under the name Once Were Nerd, alleged customs enforcement officers from the Guardia di Finanza turned up with a search warrant earlier this year. After reviewing a … Read more
Ubisoft has appointed Christophe Derennes and Charlie Guillemot as co-CEOs of its new spinoff subsidiary with Tencent. Ubisoft “accelerated its transformation” by developing a new operating model and subsidiary following a $1.25bn cash “injection” from Chinese megacorp Tencent back in March. In a bid to “rapidly” evolve its operating model, Ubisoft created a subsidiary based … Read more
Katherine Mould, senior talent acquisition specialist at Keywords Studios, says she was diagnosed with ADHD at age six. She was outgoing, made eye contact, and coped well in school, but “my speech wasn’t great and I couldn’t keep up with the educational milestones of my peers,” she recalls. Her mother recognised it might be ADHD. … Read more
Fortnite developer Epic Games has confirmed it has taken “legal action” against two players, one accused of cheating, and the other admitting to having organized a “cyber attack” by way of DDoS (denial of service) attacks. In a statement posted to the Epic Games Newsroom X/Twitter account, Epic Games said: “We took legal action against … Read more
At Develop:Brighton last week, Remedy’s Sam Lake reflected on three decades of game development, sharing the inner workings of his role as one of the studio’s creative directors, why collaboration and teamwork is key, and how games are the best outlet for exploring deep, intricate narratives. Lake joined Remedy in 1996 as a writer on … Read more
The FBI has seized Nintendo Switch piracy site, Nsw2u, as “part of a law enforcement operation.” The site – which hosted illegal Switch ROMs for players using emulators and hacked Nintendo systems – now sports a banner that states it was “seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in accordance with a seizure warrant issued … Read more
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