Behind-the-scenes looks at the gaming world, including studio acquisitions, layoffs, sales charts, and legal disputes.
The canceled standalone multiplayer project set in the The Last of Us universe was far deeper into development than most fans ever realized. Former Naughty Dog director Vinit Agarwal says the game was roughly 80% complete, “very, very close to done,” and performing “really, really well internally”…
Shift Up—the South Korean studio behind Stellar Blade and GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE—has acquired Unbound, the Tokyo-based new studio founded by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami. It’s a major power move: Shift Up says the deal strengthens its global PC and console publishing ambitions, while…
Warhorse Studios—the Czech team behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2—is now at the center of a fast-spreading rumour that it’s leading a major The Lord of the Rings game for Embracer Group. The chatter ties into an earlier report of a $100 million Middle-earth project with funding linked to the Abu…
Epic Games is facing a brutal backlash after its recent round of layoffs—more than 1,000 jobs cut—swept up an employee whose family says he’s fighting terminal brain cancer and lost life insurance as a result. After the story spread widely online, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney publicly responded that the…
Eidos-Montréal — the storied studio behind Deus Ex and a key contributor to the modern Tomb Raider era — has announced a major workforce reduction impacting 124 employees, alongside the departure of Head of Studio David Anfossi. The news lands as yet another gut-punch in a games industry that can’t…
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has reportedly pushed past 2 million copies sold, and the catalyst is exactly what PC players have been arguing for years: a proper PC port that didn’t arrive ages after the conversation moved on. New estimates peg the game at 425,000 copies sold in its first week on…
A brutal human story has erupted out of Epic Games’ recent mass layoffs: Mike Prinke, a longtime Epic employee currently undergoing treatment for terminal brain cancer, was among the more than 1,000 people let go—and his family says the cut also meant losing his life insurance at the worst possible…
A former Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 translator and editor says he was abruptly let go by Warhorse Studios and told his role would become “obsolete” because the studio plans to use “AI for all translations going forward.” The claim, posted publicly on Reddit by Max Hejtmánek (also identified as…
Crimson Desert has pulled off a rapid post-launch reversal—and the market whiplash has been just as dramatic as the game’s combat. After a mixed critical reception helped trigger a sharp drop in Pearl Abyss’ share price, the studio’s quick-fire patching and a blockbuster 3 million copies sold…
Nintendo is officially breaking with one of its most consumer-predictable habits on Switch 2: the company will now set different MSRPs for physical and digital versions of its first-party, Switch 2–exclusive games. The shift begins in May with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, and the early signal is…
