Latest Gaming industry news
id Software dev says mass layoffs like Microsoft's are weakening the games industry, because developers 'don't have the incentive to care anymore'
News "A lot of gamers, even if they don't know it, they can feel it's not right. There's something wrong."
Grand Theft Auto 5 averages more copies sold per year than most megahits manage in their entire lifetime, with a total of 230 million since 2013
news The people yearn for Los Santos.
Steam user data 'may have been compromised' by a cyberattack targeting Valve's European shipping partner
News An attack targeting CEVA Logistics "likely" exposed the personal information of European customers who ordered Steam hardware, Valve says.
Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games'
News "The way they align their spreadsheets for their financial reports—is not the way we used to do it."
Australians must now prove their age to buy R18+ games on the Xbox store
News Microsoft is the first among major games platforms to implement stricter age verification.
Blizzard is now reportedly Microsoft's top studio, according to leaked email
News "This past year has marked our third highest fiscal for top line revenue in Blizzard's history."
Take-Two CEO says he expects the games industry to be in 'commercial streaming mode within 3 years,' which is great news if you hate owning things
News Rockstar's parent company believes cloud gaming will grow its customer base even as hardware prices rise.
Take-Two boss dismisses hand-wringing over the end of disc-based games: 'Our business is well over 90% digitally distributed as it is'
news Strauss Zelnick says Take-Two will still put out physical editions "now and then," but for the most part, the era of games on discs is already over.
