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Starbreeze lays off a bunch more people as it cancels its co-op D&D game and shifts focus to building Payday 3 into a 'modern live-engagement game'
news The videogame industry strikes again.
EA could sell off studios after Saudi and Kushner-funded $55 billion acquisition, says former Dragon Age producer: 'It's hard to imagine that you'd have BioWare pivot from having very progressive messaging to having the reverse'
News Also, the debt. The $20 billion debt thing.
EA's $55 billion acquisition is the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history. Here's why it has everyone terrified
collateral Private equity and PIF investment aren't a reassuring pair.
YouTube rolls over and pays $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit after suspending his account in the wake of the Capitol riots, president calls himself a 'shadowbanned patriot'
News This is fine.
Teenager pleads guilty to sending Epic staff death threats: 'I intended for the messages to be viewed as a threat'
News The defendant had previously pleaded not guilty.
Dune Awakening was 'the biggest release' in Funcom's 32-year history, so you can probably guess what comes next in this rotten world: layoffs
news Yet more proof that making a hit game offers no protection.
Ubisoft's new Tencent-backed company is called Vantage Studios, a 'creative house' that will take over development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six
news Vantage Studios is the first of multiple new studios Ubisoft and Tencent plan to launch in the future.
BioWare's just waiting for the axe to fall after EA's $55 billion buyout, say anonymous staff
News "Kind of feels like a matter of time."
2 months after halting work on its latest project, Just Cause developer Avalanche is closing its Liverpool studio and laying off employees in Malmö and Stockholm
news Avalanche, which halted work on Contraband following Microsoft's massive layoffs in July, says the closure and cuts are necessary "in light of current challenges to our business and the industry."
