Juro Watari, creator of the exhilarating mech-fighting series Cyber Troopers Virtual-On, has announced that he is leaving Sega after almost three decades of working alongside the studio. Watari announced his departure on Twitter, thanking S...

Following a glut of rumors and reports, Sony Japan has stated that it is currently in the process of "re-organizing" Japan Studio, Sony's oldest and longest-running in-house game developer. Word of the restructure first came via an in-depth...

Masaaki Yamagiwa, who worked as producer on the critically acclaimed Bloodborne as well as VR title Deracine and apocalyptic survival game Tokyo Jungle, has announced that they will be leaving Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan at the end...

Bandai Namco is the latest industry giant to invest in a smaller studio, as the publisher has purchased a minority stake in German studio Limbic Entertainment, previously responsible for management sequel Tropico 6, as well as several entri...

GameStop has announced that its Chief Financial Officer is to resign from the company next month. Jim Bell, who also holds the position of Executive Vice President within the video game retailer, will officially resign from both roles on Ma...

Troubled developer Starbreeze has released its financial report for 2020. While the new numbers show a 20% decline in year-on-year sales, overall the studio's losses have shrunk from previous years, suggesting that the Swedish developer mig...

Following a quietly successful few years, French publisher Focus Home Interactive is preparing to expand its operations into Canada. A brand new studio, operating under subsidiary developer Deck13 (The Surge), will be established in the pop...

The money continues to flow in a fortnight that has seen seemingly endless mergers and acquisitions, as Tencent has invested a minority stake in Bohemia Interactive, the Czech developer behind Arma, Ylands, and MMO survival adventure DayZ. ...

Like many major names in the industry, Konami posted its financial earnings report for the third quarter of 2020, which showed an overall minor decrease of 0.6% year-on-year, with only the company's video gaming sector seeing any growth on ...

Warner Bros. Interactive has officially secured a patent on its "Nemesis" mechanic, first introduced in 2014's Lord of the Rings-adjacent adventure Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor and its 2017 sequel Middle-earth: Shadow of War. The U.S. Pa...

Electronic Arts has spoken of its delight in the publisher's acquisition of developer Codemasters. EA purchased the racing games specialist back in December 2020 for $1.2 billion - the sudden bid pulling the sale out from under the nose of ...

Video game holding company Embracer Group has announced a series of mergers and acquisitions, which sees the Swedish conglomerate open its doors for Borderlands developer Gearbox Entertainment, Mac developer/publisher Aspyr Media, and mobil...

Last month, the newly revitalized Lucasfilm Games announced that it was currently working with Ubisoft studio Massive Entertainment to create a new, open-world adventure set in the Star Wars universe. What made the news particularly surpris...

Sony Interactive Entertainment has released its financial earnings report for the quarter ending December 31, 2020. This particular report is an important one for the industry giant, as it gives the public its first look at the sales figure...

UK digital marketer Sumo Group has acquired indie developer PixelAnt, adding the Polish outfit to its family of ten-strong studios - although PixelAnt is Sumo's first acquisition from mainland Europe. PixelAnt, based in Wroclaw, will retain...

Digital storefront Epic Games Store has released some pretty hefty figures pertaining to last year's service growth. The store now serves over 160 million registered users, who between them spent a huge $700 million USD in purchases over th...

Dontnod Entertainment, the studio behind titles such as Life is Strange, Vampyr, and Twin Mirror, has announced that it has sold a minority stake to Chinese conglomerate Tencent. The French developer agreed to the Tencent investment as part...

Microsoft has released its quarterly earnings report ending December 2020, revealing that, thanks to the launch of new hardware platforms Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, the company's gaming division saw a huge 51% increase in revenue. In ...

During the never-ending nightmare of E3 2020, Electronic Arts announced that it was bringing back its skateboarding series, Skate. It seems that this project is about to get underway, with the establishment of new studio Full Circle, whose ...

Last week, industry giant Konami announced that it would be going through something of a corporate restructure, consolidating some of its internal departments and rearranging its personnel in order to better streamline its production divisi...

To say GameStop has been struggling as of late would be an understatement. The company wasn't doing great before last year's economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, then things got so bad that the company declared itself essentia...

Klei Entertainment, the studio behind homegrown hits such as Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included, has announced that it has sold a majority stake to Chinese conglomerate Tencent. The news was revealed on Klei's official forums by studio fo...

Former Electronic Arts and Xbox executive Peter Moore announced that he has accepted a new role in Unity Technologies, the developer behind the prolific and widely used Unity multimedia toolsets. Moore will take the role of SVP and GM of Sp...

Playdead, the esoteric indie developer behind creepy puzzle-platformers Limbo and Inside are currently looking for staff to work with the studio on a new, still unannounced project. As spotted by @MauroNL3, Playdead is advertising vacancies...

Opera – as in, the people behind that web browser you might've used years ago – is in the gaming industry spotlight this week. The company picked up YoYo Games, the owner of GameMaker Studio 2, for $10 million as it looks to exp...