Arrowhead Games Studio CEO Shams Jorjani has criticised other games industry executives for letting rank-and-file developers take the fall for what he styles “very unsound business decisions”… Continue reading
Tag: Industry
rps
As the games industry continues to be a mess, the devs behind Hyper Light Drifter share why they took to Patreon
It’s not exactly much of a secret that a lot of indie devs are struggling to stay afloat these days given the economic *gestures vaguely at a… Continue reading
This morning’s announcement that Nintendo is delaying US preorders for the Switch 2 immediately increased the salience of President Trump’s proposed wide-reaching import tariffs for millions of American… Continue reading
“Last year we ran a big games careers festival in Downham, on the border of Lewisham and Bromley in London, in a leisure center in the heart of… Continue reading
Gaming News
Trump tariffs will “have a real and detrimental impact” on games industry, says US trade group
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which represents all major gaming companies in the US, has responded to US president Donald Trump’s sweeping trade tariffs, saying the measures… Continue reading
Gaming News
“Don’t Let Nintendo Ruin The Entire Industry” – Is $80 For Mario Kart World A Bridge Too Far?
Image: Nintendo Yesterday’s Nintendo Direct gave us an absolutely mammoth amount of information about Switch 2, but one of the less welcome revelations was that game prices are… Continue reading
Gaming News
NieR: Automata revived the Japanese games industry, says former Sony exec Shuhei Yoshida
Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida has called NieR: Automata the “game that changed everything”, as it was responsible for reviving the Japanese games industry on its release. Speaking… Continue reading
Gaming News
Helldivers 2 boss says industry doomed to “unnecessarily brutal” layoffs while “chasing after the battle royales”
Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt has slammed the current spate of video games industry layoffs as “unnecessarily brutal” and said that companies needed to learn lessons to… Continue reading
The Communications Workers of America and the American Federation of Musicians have announced the United Videogame Workers Union, the first North American industry-wide union that any employee working… Continue reading
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) are set to launch an industry-wide union of video game workers in the U.S. and Canada at this year’s GDC. The United… Continue reading
