The Outsiders co-founder, David Goldfarb, has confirmed that the team is "not dead," and he is "working on something" with the plan of "getting everything together" for the 2.0 version of the studio.
As part of GamesIndustry.biz's year-end, we're welcoming back Leon Y. Xiao of Beclaws to provide his annual look at the state of lootbox legislation worldwide.
Dino Patti made his name as co-founder of Playdead – the studio behind the indie classics Limbo and Inside – alongside Arnt Jensen back in 2006. But Patti left the company in 2016, shortly after the release of Inside, and since then has focused his efforts on Coherence, a tool that enables small developers to easily implement multiplayer and flexibly scale up (or scale down) the back-end server architecture.
Ubisoft has announced it has acquired the upcoming MOBA March of Giants, including a Montreal-based dev team headed by a number of veteran ex-Ubisoft developers, from previous owner Amazon Game Studios.
Games Industry Africa has announced the winners of this year's Games Industry Africa Awards (GIAA), with Free Lives' Stick It to the Stickman winning Game of the Year and PC Game of the Year.