Daedalic Entertainment has announced that it will close its development studio and shift its focus to the publishing division. News of the reorganization was first reported by German games industry website GamesWirtschaft, which said the Hamburg development studio would be closed, affecting 25 of its 90-plus employees. Daedalic told the site it will support its ...
With titles like Heavy Rain, Quantic Dream cemented its reputation as a studio with plenty of story-adventure expertise. So far, the games have mostly been large-scale productions. With the new label Spotlight by Quantic Dream, however, they now want to give indie developers their place in the limelight. The French studio Quantic Dream is best ...
PLAIONa leading distributor, publisher and developer of entertainment products, is proud to announce the signing of a publishing agreement with Straight4 Studios. The new studio led by veteran racing simulator developer Ian Bell. His resume includes titles like Need for Speed: Shift, Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends, Shift 2: Unleashedand ...
In early March, the Xbox Game Publishing team visited Hideo Kojima’s studio. Con Aaron Greenberg in the leadThe team of Xbox game studios visited the past March 1 the studies of Kojima Productions in Tokyo. That’s mainly because, as Hideo Kojima announced last December, Microsoft was backing him in his next ambitious project. Our first ...
Last September 8th Jim Ryan himself threw the glove on Microsoft: the previously closed agreement between Sony and Activision for the future of the Call of Duty saga was insufficient. At least, para PlayStation. Ryan wanted Xbox to guarantee that their players “will continue to have access to the Call of Duty experience“Today, Phil Spencer ...
NIS America has confirmed that it will be handling publishing duties for R-Type Tactics I & 2 here in the west. This will be the first time that R-Type Tactics II will be available in the west, with both games making their way from the Sony’s legacy handheld the PSP to modern consoles for the first time. NIS ...
Pete Hines, formerly senior vice president of marketing and communications at Bethesda Softworks, has been promoted to head of global publishing at the studio. It is a privilege to lead global publishing for Bethesda, a place I have called home for 23 years. It makes me proud to think about how far we’ve come in ...
Although Bethesda Softwork is part of Xbox Game Studios, the truth is that full merger will take a few more years and part of the company still operates almost independently on many issues. Bethesda has also served as a publisher, so there are some parts that are not yet fully included in the Microsoft studios ...
Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube YouTuber Jason ‘Dunkey’ Gastrow has announced his very own indie game publishing company called Bigmode. In a five-minute upload on his YouTube channel, Gastrow explained how he felt he had been sitting on the sidelines for too long, waiting for “great games” to appear, and now wanted to leave ...
Image: Playasia The online independent retailer Playasia turns 20 years old this year, and to celebrate this special occasion – it’s launching its own publishing label. Playasia Publishing is officially described as a “new video game software branch” that aims to “further the goal” of providing games for video game fans around the world. It ...
