All 25 employees of the gaming team at Annapurna Interactive (publisher of well-known indie games such as Outer Wilds, Stray and Neon White) have reportedly resigned after talks to spin off the division into an “independent entity” broke down. As reported by Bloomberg and confirmed by IGN, Annapurna Interactive and New Media President Hector Sanchez ...
The developers of the main Pokemon series, Game Freak, have faced a lot of criticism when it comes to developing the main Pokemon titles, with Pokemon Scarlet & Violet being a particularly bad point for the company, despite the games selling millions of copies. The company is likely looking to address this by recruiting new ...
Image: GAME Staff at British retailer GAME are reportedly facing redundancies as the company moves the majority of its workforce to zero-hours contracts. As reported Eurogamer, it is currently unknown how many employees will be made redundant, but it is understood that all non-executive staff will be on part-time contracts going forward. For those who ...
Activision Blizzard is currently hiring for an unannounced game and is looking for multiple senior employees to fill vacancies on the project. These include Creative Director, Combat AI Design Director, Senior Art Director, etc. While there’s not much indication of exactly what genre the game will be, the creative director’s job posting states that they’ll ...
You know how many of us spent at least several months of the last year building weird, wacky, and/or impressive things in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Realm? Well, during a panel at GDC, some of the great people working on the game at Nintendo provided a little more insight into how the ...
The video game industry is experiencing one of its worst times in terms of job cuts. The day in the video game industry begins with a new wave of massive layoffsas companies try to explain why it is necessary to lay off a certain percentage of their employees to survive in an ever-changing gaming industry ...
2024 has just begun and we are already starting to see how many games announced for this year are arriving little by little on the market, giving examples like the new Prince of Persia or Tekken 8, being two authentic great games that we are finishing what is was widely produced last January. Another important ...
Deus Ex: Humanity Divided And Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Developer Eidos-Montreal is laying off 97 people and reportedly canceling an unannounced Deus Ex game. Eidos Montreal confirmed the layoffs at Xformerly Twitter, on Monday according to a Bloomberg report about the canceled game, which has reportedly been in development for two years. “The global ...
“We did our best to avoid this position.” Bossa Studios, the British team behind the Surgeon Simulator series, has been forced to lay off around one-third of its staff at the end of 2023. Co-founder Henrique Olifiers told GamesIndustry.biz that this was the result of a “perfect storm of events” and the team tried hard ...
Image: Tokyo Game Life / Nintendo Life During the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! There’s no shortage of fascinating Nintendo-related spots in Tokyo. You can explore the shops for boxed Famicom games, sit down and eat a Kirby burger, ...
