With Xbox as the new game publisher for Kojima's Physint, I won't be playing it due to the Microsoft boycott over the Gaza genocide.
SpatialOS games under threat as Unity revokes Improbable's license
A change in Unity Technologies' terms of service has left Unity games created using Improbable's SpatialOS platform und…
Introducing XBOX LABS
This message was just sent to Team XBOX employees globally. Team, The first video games emerged some 75 years ago. In the time since, there have been booms and busts, but every year there are more great games to play, more devices to play them, and best of all, more people than ever playing. That […]
As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers'
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Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it
Microsoft is looking to dominate the games industry ecosystem with its aggressive new UWP initiative. Developers must oppose this, or else cede control of their titles
Xbox transfers Rare and Halo franchise to Activision, proposes closure of Ninja Theory, and confirms another 268 roles cut amid studio restructure
Major staff cuts at former 343 Industries and other teams; consultation begins at Ninja Theory; Obsidian transferred to Bethesda, buyer found for Undead Labs
The secret developers of the video game industry
In July 2015, developer Comcept launched a Kickstarter campaign for its game Red Ash. It didn’t go well. Despite raising over $500,000 in pledges, the campaign missed its target and critics pummeled its approach — pointing to Comcept launching the campaign before seeing through a previous one, announcing a console port without identifying which console and continuing the campaign after finding external funding. For production studio Hyde, which had teamed with Comcept to develop the game, the campaign presented a new problem. Hyde has been around since 2002, has worked on over 200 games and has had a hand in some of Japan’s biggest franchises, including Final Fantasy, Persona and Yakuza. It just can’t talk about most of them. The team often works in secret, doing its job but not appearing in the credits or mentioning the work publicly. Speaking with Polygon, Hyde President Kenichi Yanagihara estimates that he will never be able to talk about 70 percent of what the company does. And that worked fine until Hyde asked the public for money.
Inti Creates Announces Gunvolt Chronicles Luminous Avenger iX 3 Game
New game slated for Switch 2, PC via Steam in 2027
Dear Tim Sweeney, You Could Learn A Thing Or Two From The Xbox Exec Who Posted So Bad That He Had To Delete His Account
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Unity Technologies Aims to Bring Video Game Tools Into the Real World
The video game software leader is pushing to sell tools for making virtual worlds to marketers, architects and car makers
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100 updates later. Why we enjoy games, why we stop, and how live game design might bring us back.
cataclysm: The zombie apocalypse starts now
I love it when people suggest console games for Linux are a joke. I can think of three or four games offhand — crawl is one, taipan and gearhead are others — with more depth and intelli…
Only seven PlayStation games have sold more than 100,000 physical copies in the US this year, analyst says | VGC
Sony will no longer be releasing new games on disc from January 2028…
We Need More Open Source in Gaming | Andreessen Horowitz
When it comes to free software, there’s a sharp cultural divide between the tech world and the gaming world. It’s normal for a startup to make heavy use of open source, and it’s normal for a big tech company to give away huge codebases for free. This is because the tech world understands the benefits...
Microsoft will let devs bring more Xbox 360 games to PC in the coming years via backwards compatibility, leaked document suggests
Microsoft are set to start offering devs the option to bring Xbox 360 games to PC, leaked documents seen by The Verge have suggested.
