Intel Announces New Wave of Layoffs, Implementing On Its Restructuring Policy
Intel has started to implement its restructuring plans, with reported layoffs in the Sales and Marketing division, according to details acquired by CRN.
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After a Hefty Fine, A Major Change in App Store Guidelines Will Allow Developers to Offer Game Emulators on The App Store
Apple allowed users to sideload apps and install third-party app stores on the iPhone with its big iOS 17.4 update, but it appears that the company did not do enough. The EU has imposed a hefty fine over the non-satisfactory changes that Apple implemented on the App Store and has requested to further comply with the Digital Markets Act. With a $2 billion fine, Apple was required to update the App Store again with the required changes. The updated App Store guidelines offer the ability for streaming apps to be redirected to an external website along with developers to offer game emulators on the App Store.
CD Projekt exec pokes fun at Ubisoft's "AAAA" game Skull and Bones, says the studio will now make"AAAAA" games
A CD Projekt Red executive has slyly poked fun at fellow publisher Ubisoft and its failed attempt to label Skull and Bones as a "AAAA" game.
AMD's RX 6700 XT is the best mainstream GPU for the money and right now it's just $310
Radeon RX 6700 XT | 12GB GDDR6 | 2,560 shaders | 2,581 MHz boost | <a href=«https://shop-links.co/link?skuId=6513905&publisher_slug=future&exclusive=1&u1=hawk-custom-tracking&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bestbuy.com%2Fsite%2Fxfx-speedster-swft309-amd-radeon-rx-6700xt-12gb-gddr6-pci-express-4-0-gaming-graphics-card-black%2F6513905.p%3FskuId%3D6513905&article_name=hawk-article-name&article_url=hawk-article-url» data-link-merchant=«bestbuy.com»" target="_blank">$409.99$309.99 at Best Buy (save $100)It's not the lowest price we've seen for an RX 6700 XT but it's pretty close, and the graphics card itself is probably AMD's best mid-range model. This or an RTX 4060? For outright gaming speed, the RX 6700 XT is definitely better.
X-Silicon Unveils Low-Power C-GPU Architecture Combined With RISC-V CPU, Open Standard & Supports Vulkan
X-Silicon, a firm known for silicon IP solutions, has unveiled a new "C-GPU architecture," which combined with a RISC-V CPU focuses on low-power & efficient performance solutions.
Roblox executive acknowledges 'you can say, okay, we are exploiting child labour,' but would prefer you saw them as job creators
Acknowledging that your company's practices could be seen as exploiting child labor is a bold move, even if you go on to say that you actually think you're doing a good thing. It's a gambit that Roblox Studio head Stefano Corazza took in a recent GDC interview with Eurogamer about the company's reputation for taking advantage of work that's often produced by children.
Smaller games can be 'more creative,' says designer who made one of Ubisoft's most acclaimed games with a tiny team
Upcoming multiplayer combat foot-racing game DeathSprint 66 looks pretty cool, but I still might be a little nervous if I were responsible for making back its budget. A genre of news story we've become pretty familiar with is «niche multiplayer game was great, but not enough people played it to justify keeping the servers on.» Knockout City, for example, shut down a couple years after it launched. Rumbleverse lasted only six months.
Newly-minted Saber Interactive boss says Embracer CEO 'gets a bad rap' for massive layoffs, studio closures, and game cancellations
There is probably no company more emblematic of the workplace chaos that's gripped the videogame industry than Embracer. After rapidly expanding into a gaming behemoth, the studio went off a cliff in 2023 after the collapse of a planned $2 billion investment deal with Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group. But Matthew Karch, CEO of the newly spun-off Saber Interactive, believes Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors «gets a bad rap» for all the layoffs and studio closures that followed, saying in an interview with GamesIndustry that in reality, «nobody has been guided by more of a sense of fairness and reasonableness.»