The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, has congratulated developer Sandfall Interactive for its record-breaking success at The Game Awards with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
The Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has responded to Rockstar's justification for dismissing over 30 employees in October.
Staff at Texas studio Id Software, best known for the Doom franchise, have voted to form a union.
The co-CEO of Lies of P developer Neowiz, Sean Kim, has said that the South Korean government is helping the country's indie scene.
Publishing agency Secret Sauce has established a new marketing brand called Weekend Games.
The head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty, has said that the company is continuing to evaluate how it prices its new releases.
Ireland-based Romero Games is working on a new, smaller project that lifts heavily from the shooter it had been working on but was cancelled by its publisher.
Alongside recognising some of the biggest and best releases of the last year, such as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hades 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong, there were – as always – game reveals aplenty at The Game Awards.
EA Sports FC has announced a multi-year partnership with the European Football Clubs organisation (EFC) to bolster the "financial resilience" and visibility of its teams.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 dominated The Game Awards last night, achieving nine wins including Game of the Year.
The promotional calendar for the games industry is basically organised around two poles. At one end you have the cluster of events orbiting around the black hole where E3 used to be in late May/early June; in theory, that's where publishers set out their stalls for the following winter, although the tendency to announce things two years or more out from launch has undermined that function somewhat.
One thing that immediately strikes you about No Law – the cyberpunk-fuelled open-world shooter that was unveiled at The Game Awards last night – is the fantastic upper lip foliage sported by the game's protagonist, grizzled military veteran Grey Harker.
Former Meta president and deputy UK Prime Minister, Sir Nick Clegg, has joined Hiro Capital as a general partner as it launches Hiro III, a "UK/Europe-focused multi-stage VC, focused on spatial AI, robotics, longevity, games, and space and defence."
Rockstar Games says the dozens of staff who were fired for gross misconduct had "distributed and discussed confidential information in a public forum, in breach of company policy and their legal obligations."
Veteran voice actor and long-time voice of Ratchet & Clank's Captain Qwark, Jim Ward, has died aged 66.
Activision has announced it will no longer ship back-to-back releases of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games, as new data shared with GamesIndustry.biz indicates significant underperformance by the recent Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.
Boston Consulting Group has said that live-service titles are either plateauing or declining in popularity.
Chinese tech and entertainment giant Tencent has said that it is having more of a say in the strategy of the companies it owns, such as Techland, Funcom and Sumo Group.
Chinese tech and entertainment giant Tencent has sold UK developer Bulkhead to a newly-formed consortium comprised of Super Media Group (SMG), Team 17 parent Everplay Group PLC and Hiro Capital. The studio was acquired by Splash Damage in 2022, which itself was owned by Tencent, though has since been sold to private equity.
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