Roblox is introducing two new age-based accounts for minors: Roblox Kids for children aged five to eight, and Roblox Select for users aged nine-15. New parental controls are also on the way.
Exit 8 hit cinemas last weekend, a new movie based on the cult 2023 indie game from Kotake Create. Flying in the face of the convention set by many video game to film adaptations of the past, it's actually rather good, currently sitting at a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
If there were one trope of online discussion about video games I could cast into the depths of the ocean never to be seen again, well, it would be the various forms of casual bigotry, obviously. If I got to pick another one to join it, though, it would be the "lazy devs" genre of comment.
Sony's Metal Gear Solid film adaptation has gained momentum with Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, known for Final Destination: Bloodlines, now attached as directors.
Nexon subsidiary Neople has "reorganised its teams" as The First Berserker: Khazan "enters its final stage." No layoffs resulted from this restructuring.
Former and current staff at Gunzilla Games, publisher/developer of blockchain game Off The Grid and owner of US games publication Game Informer, say that the company has not been paying salaries for months.
London Games Festival organisers have announced this year's Ensemble exhibition cohort, spotlighting Black, Asian, and other underrepresented ethnic creatives in the UK games industry.
Rockfish Games has been awarded €8 million from the German government's newly-expanded €125 million games fund to support the development of the next game in the Everspace shooter franchise. Launched in 2020, the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) funding program offers grants covering up to 50% of game production and prototype development costs. Grants range from €300,000 to €8 million per project, depending on size.