Image: Nintendo Life Another tumultuous year has passed — is there really any other kind? While 2023 was a watershed year for incredible video game releases across all platforms, the state of the gaming industry itself—with post-pandemic layoff announcements from major companies coming seemingly daily lately—is sobering. Looking outside the realm of interactive entertainment, much ...
Telecommuting is a debate that goes far beyond what Apple does or does not do, that’s clear. But it is inside the Cupertino offices that, contrary to what Steve Jobs believed, working from home is becoming more limited every day. Tim Cook wants teams in the office for as long as possible. A good sign ...
Yoshinori Kitase, a Japanese game director and producer at Square Enix who has worked on a number of classic RPGs, revealed in a recent interview that staff at the company keep asking him when they’re going to remake Final Fantasy VI. Final Fantasy VI (known as Final Fantasy III since its first North American release) ...
A rather peculiar news from Ubisoft. Apparently, after the layoffs a few days ago, it has now been confirmed that he plans to reinforce the staff dedicated to Assassin’s Creed. Specifically, it seems that it plans to increase the number of employees dedicated to this franchise by 40% “to promote its ambitious expansion.” However, the ...
silent Hill Developer and producer of pinball machines Konami Opened a new studio in Osaka, Japan. The developer and publisher of Yu-Gi-Oh just recently celebrated its 50th anniversary last month, announcing in a press release last week that it had just opened another studio, Konami Osaka Studio (thanks, GamesRadar). According to a press release, the ...
EA laid off about 6 percent of its workforce, the latest in a string of industry-wide layoffs, as games and technology across the board show signs of struggle. This information comes from the EA website, where CEO Andrew Wilson posted a statement after an initial round with employees. Before addressing news of the layoffs, the ...
Shacknews caught up with Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka to chat about the soon-to-be-released Sonic Frontiers. One thing that has dogged the 3D platformer game since its official reveal is the similarity between the starting world in Sonic Frontiers and Nintendo’s critically-acclaimed The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Both games are set in ...
Nintendo is cracking down on the growing worldwide issue of harassment of its customer service staff regarding repairs and notes this in its revised terms and condition page. The Kyoto-based company says that if customers go beyond engaging in behaviour that surpasses socially accepted norms they have the right to refuse repair or replace the ...
photo: SOPA images (Getty Images) “Is there anything you want to pre-order?” Almost nobody goes in and out of a GameStop without hearing those words. Employees are measured by how many pre-orders they can collect, while GameStop collects the money months before a game’s actual release. But recently, a systems overhaul has sabotaged the strategy, ...
Amber La Macchia was primed to deal with crunch before she even got into the video game industry — something she heard over and over again five years ago while studying game design in college. The practice of the crunch — a word used by gaming industry workers to describe brutal overtime hours — is ...
