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The employee-owned team is planning Danger Pay, a single-player FPS inspired by Smash TV and The Running Man.
Black Forest Games’ leaders bought the studio and are co-founding Third Signal, with more THQ Nordic collaboration still planned.
The Digital Fairness Act draft would bar paid loot boxes for under-18s and make subscriptions easier to escape.
The Commission’s Digital Fairness Act proposal targets subscription traps, deceptive sales tactics and addictive features, but isn’t law yet.
A Fortis Games employee says Las Vegas Sands ended funding, according to Insider Gaming.
PlayStation says Haven will support other studios, with no job cuts resulting from the cancellation, Bloomberg reports.
PlayStation says GTA 6 tops its store's preorder history ahead of its advertised November 19 launch.
The publisher expects a roughly €21 million extraordinary loss, with no set date for completing the studio’s liquidation.
House House says it used LLMs sparingly, as some IGF jurors refuse to vote for games using generative AI.
Kotaku reports a design director was laid off four months after celebrating Paramount’s dark academia RPG.
The cuts follow 23 layoffs in March; Tripwire says work continues on Maneater 2 and Killing Floor 3.
Bit Reactor employees report job losses, but the total cuts and impact on recalled staff remain unclear.
Silver Lake already owns 8% of the game engine maker; no acquisition agreement has been reached.
The console reportedly leads the original Switch and PlayStation 5 by over six million units at launch-aligned points.
Tripwire Interactive's new initiative is designed to help indie developers bring their games to a wider audience.
The French union says Xbox imposed a 19-month hiring ban and fears Arkane may close despite Blade's progress.
The ads misled consumers by showing gameplay that did not represent the games being advertised.
Arkane Studios reportedly remains without a buyer; Xbox is also said to have weighed a sale to its management.
The financing covers remaining production, marketing and launch costs, with the sequel planned for early 2027.
Operating profit reached €0.6 million, compared with a €16.4 million loss in the year-earlier quarter.
