Andy Gavin, who co-founded Naughty Dog with Jason Rubin in 1986, is a surprisingly prolific LinkedIn poster who recently shared some memories of the company's early days. He posted about it this week the studio's financial condition over the yearsIt details how much it cost to develop some of Naughty Dog's early games, and how ...
Steve Jobs could be more present than ever at Apple, thanks to AI! Many projects have taken advantage of artificial intelligence tools to recreate the personality of Steve Jobs Join the conversation Artificial intelligence has demonstrated its ability to do amazing things, such as the ability to digitally recreate historical figures with astonishing accuracy. Panasonic, ...
Masayuki Kato, the founder of Nihon Falcom, died at the age of 78 on Sunday, December 15, 2024. The cause of death is not yet known. Kato founded Ys and Legend of Heroes developer in 1981 at the age of 34, and his games continued to build the foundation of the action RPG genre. He ...
CCP Games is giving players access to the alpha phase of the new space title EVE Frontier starting next week. To do this, you need to secure the Founder Access that is now available. With EVE Frontier, CCP Games is known to have a fresh spin-off to the long-running sci-fi hit EVE Online in the ...
In an internal interview from Monolith Soft’s 2024 brochure, Hirohide Sugiura, one of the company’s three founders, talked about its strengths – pointing out how it manages to be as productive as it is while also caring deeply about its employees. Some excerpts are below, translated by the Nintendo Everything team: “The fact that we ...
When Studio Ponoc released its first full-length animated film in 2017, Mary and the Witches’ FlowerAudiences and critics celebrated Ponoc as the successor to the famous Japanese studio Ghibli, which at the time seemed to be facing a possibly permanent break. With the studio’s latest film, The ImaginaryPonoc is aiming for higher things. In an ...
This week’s news that Microsoft is shutting down a number of studios, including Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin, left a particularly bad taste in almost everyone’s mind. It’s the latest development in the takeover saga – which appears to be one of the hottest things happening in the video game industry right now. Post-acquisition cuts ...
Do you know the Hug Group? The company that has a bad reputation for selling studios and laying off tons of people over the past year or so? Well, according to Saber Interactive founder Matthew Karch, we’ve all got publishers wrong. It’s, uh, not evil. Regardless of what you think, this company has been in ...
We know the legacy that Steve Jobs left, and we know that his widow, Laurene Powell, continues to work to build on that legacy and strive to leave her own mark on the world. But does this carry over to the descendants of Apple’s co-founder? Jobs had four children throughout his life, no less. And, ...
Cases of exploitation in the anime industry are, unfortunately, common in most studios. While some production companies seek the convenience of their employees, others face great pressure from publishers to release products as quickly as possible. Tomoyuki Miyata, founder of JC Staff, responsible for Toradora, Danmachi and the second season of One Punch Man, has ...
