Jeff Bezos himself took to Twitter to praise the Amazon Games division for its first success with New World, the MMORPG launched on September 28th for PC (Steam). Jeff Bezos mentioned the previous failures and setbacks encountered by Amazon in its gaming efforts. As a reminder, the MOBA game Breakaway was canceled while still in …
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The PlayStation 5 has been an unqualified success in terms of sales, but there’s been some, shall we say, spirited debate about the system’s early software lineup. Is Sony delivering enough big games fast enough? Should big games like Horizon Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7 be crossgen? Everyone’s got an opinion, but in a …
Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda smashed through games industry news last week, leaving everyone stunned at the massive deal (priced at $7.5 billion in cash). Bethesda founder Christopher Weaver, who left the company back in 2002, was interviewed by Inverse following the news and shared an interesting angle. According to Weaver, Microsoft might be looking to …
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Diablo Immortal, the first-ever mobile entry of the Blizzard franchise announced with quite the uproar back at BlizzCon 2018, just passed a new development milestone as it is now being tested internally across the entire company. That means the public release isn’t due soon as the developers will first have to go through the feedback …
Saber Interactive is one of those names that weren’t necessarily known by mainstream gamers until a couple of years ago, even though the studio was actually founded back in 2001. That’s likely because, after a couple of mixed attempts to break through with Timeshift and Inversion, Saber mostly dedicated itself to assisting other studios, chiefly …
Frogwares, an independent games studio founded twenty years ago and based in Ukraine (with an office in Ireland, too), made a name for itself thanks to the licensed Sherlock Holmes adventure games. In total, they’ve developed eight games dedicated to the world’s most famous fictional investigator. After the last entry, launched in 2016, Frogwares decided …
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Valve published a new report a few hours ago which details the increasing number of games that are achieving success (according to certain earnings benchmarks detailed below) on Steam each passing year. It is an interesting study that also works as a sort of counterargument for those who are convinced that too many indie games …
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Naughty Dog is widely considered to be one of the best game development studios in the industry, having released titles like the original Crash Bandicoot trilogy, the Jak and Daxter trilogy, the Uncharted tetralogy, and The Last of Us, which is getting a sequel in a couple of months after several delays. However, Naughty Dog …
Retailer GameStop has appointed former Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aimé to the board of directors to help transform the company. GameStop announced Reggie’s appointment alongside two other independent members through an official press release. According to GameStop’s CEO, George Sherman, the Board refreshment is an opportunity for the company to help transform GameStop for long-term success. …
Last week, before attending the fan event where a potential PlayStation 5 version of the Final Fantasy XIV was mentioned, I was able to have an extensive chat with Naoki Yoshida – the director and lead producer of the game from A Realm Reborn onwards. During this fifty-minute conversation, we spoke about many things, from …
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Rockets are great if you want to get someplace fast, but there’s something whimsical about sailing on a beam of light. The Planetary Society has declared its LightSail 2 mission a success after it did just that. The satellite deployed …
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