picture: Kotaku / Superstar (Shutterstock) / Charley Gallay (Getty Images) E3? More like E0! That’s the kind of groan you might expect at an E3 press conference — you know, if the games industry’s biggest marketing event in history actually happened in 2022. This post was originally published on May 19, 2022. We are re-publishing ...
screenshot: Square Enix Do you know what no one could have ever predicted? That a market based on imaginary ownership of infinitely duplicable JPEG images may not be the end of the game and sustainable in the long term. When The Wall Street Journal reports, the NFT market is “flattening out” and is down 92 ...
screenshot: Eidos Montreal It’s been a long six years deus ex Fans understandably worried that the long-dormant cyberpunk series would remain untouched. But today, in the cold, harsh light of an industry-shattering takeover, we feel… is it hope? That’s what hope feels like, isn’t it? Last night, Embracer Group scooped a bunch of stuff from ...
picture: Square Enix The Embracer Group, a planet-eating mass of video game publishers that already includes Gearbox and THQ Nordicannounced tonight a deal to purchase a number of studios and properties from Square Enix. Although the purchase isn’t final — this is just an “agreement to acquire her” until everything is signed later in the ...
Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, seen here in a luxe cashmere turtleneck in 2017.photo: Stuart C Wilson (Getty Images) In 2020, as the world grappled with a paradigmatic societal shift in the form of a global pandemic, the CEOs of the largest gaming companies collectively brought home almost $1 billion. This is acc a new ...
picture:: transmission Gearbox Studios, developers of games like Border areas and also publishers of things like the new one Homeworld Have title was bought by Embracer Group, the same Swedish company that owns THQ Nordic and Koch Media. The acquisition makes Gearbox the company’s seventh video game holding company, alongside other companies like DECA and ...
