Take-Two is working on ‘significant cost reductions’ but has ‘no current plans’ for layoffs
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says the company has “no current plans” for layoffs, despite the launch of a strategy to reduce costs across the company.
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Persona 3 Reload is fastest-selling Atlus game ever
Persona 3 Reload has reached 1m sales globally less than a week after it released.
RuneScape developer Jagex soon to be acquired in £900m deal, report suggests
Cambridge-based RuneScape developer Jagex could soon be snapped up in a £900m deal.
Homeworld 3 demo available on Steam
UPDATE 11.46pm: With a launch tantalisingly close for developer Blackbird Interactive's oft-delayed Homeworld 3, it's happened again: the studio has announced it'll be pushing back the real-time sci-fi strategy's release once more, this time until 13th May, to «ensure that we're making the final tweaks needed to deliver at the level of quality that we strive for».
Get Warcraft: Orcs & Humans on Battle.net now
As fearsome invaders from another world threaten the peace, Azeroth calls for a hero to lead its human defenders in battle…or conquer this realm in the name of the orcish Horde!
Microsoft Isn’t Going Fully Multiplatform or Exiting the Console Market, Says Leaker
This week started with lots of high-profile rumors suggesting that Microsoft would soon switch its strategy on exclusive games. Following the previous rumors of titles like Sea of Thieves and Hi-Fi Rush, we heard from various journalists, leakers, and insiders that big games like Bethesda's Starfield, MachineGames' Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and possibly even The Coalition's Gears of War could be landing on other consoles like Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's Switch.
Stormgate Steam Demo Already Supports NVIDIA DLSS 3
A new Steam Next Fest is now in full swing, featuring tons of interesting demos, including that of Stormgate.
Games Industry to Become Even More Concentrated; Pure-Play Companies Will Be Challenged, But Hits Like Palworld Will Still Occur
It's not even the end of January yet and the games industry has already announced layoffs for several thousand employees, showing that 2024 could be even more problematic than the already troublesome 2023 in this regard. We reached out to MIDiA Research Senior Analyst and Strategy Director Karol Severin to discuss the state of the games industry in this post-pandemic, high-inflation environment.