The makers of Dispatch thought it'd take three years to hit their sales target – but they're 'on track' to hit it in three months. The superhero workplace comedy adventure has sold at least 1m copies, and player numbers keep rising with every release of its weekly episodes. Its final two episodes are out today, which means another injection of players who've been waiting for the whole "box set" to binge.
Following the launch of Arc Raiders – and the ongoing debate regarding the use of generative AI – Nexon CEO Junghun Lee has said "it's important to assume every game company" is using the technology.
Tencent-owned studio Sharkmob has confirmed planned job losses at its Malmo studio, which is currently working on sci-fi extraction shooter Exoborne. The company's London studio was effectively closed in 2024, after local staff were made redundant following the cancellation of an unannounced game.
Keep Driving, a pixel-art management RPG about going on a road trip to a music festival, took home the Grand Prize at the DevGAMM Awards on Friday night.
Unity has published its financial results for the third quarter of its fiscal year, seeing modest but better-than-expected gains across most segments, including its Create Solutions and Grow Solutions. Overall revenue was up 5% year-on-year to $471 million.
When the first Humble Bundle launched as a studio initiative in 2010, it was a novelty: a compilation of indie games at a bargain price, which drove huge sales volume. Fifteen years later, bundles are commonplace and subject to the same abundance problem as the rest of the industry: there are more games than players have time to play, and bundles are another sales channel in a sprawling marketing mix.
Eurogamer's 2 out of 5 review of Embark Studios' extraction shooter Arc Raiders has led to some heated discussions on social media, with reviewer Rick Lane criticising the game's use of AI voice generation. Now, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has joined the argument in defence of AI, suggesting that "AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming."
The PlayStation Portal has become the "most widely used device for PlayStation 5 Remote Play, surpassing mobile, PC, PS5, and PS4," according to a Sony executive.
Sony has published its latest financial results for the first half of its fiscal year, reporting significant increases in revenue for its Game & Network Services division.
Fifteen developers were honoured at the Playing for the Planet Awards and Green Games Summit last week for "demonstrating excellence in the field of sustainable game development and pro-environmental storytelling."
Alex Josef, CEO of the newly resurrected Acclaim, has fond memories of the publisher from his youth. "I definitely was a fan of Acclaim," he says. "I think they did some great things – and they did some not so great things."