Early this weekend, Valve had to unexpectedly remove the Steam main page of Dolphin, the emulator for the Wii and Wii U and unsurprisingly, developers confirmed that Valve received a DMCA complaint by none other than Nintendo.
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Category Archives: Business
Katsuhiro Harada blamed Bandai Namco Europe for botched early Bryan Fury’s Tekken 8 reveal
As a reminder, Katsuhiro Harada is not the creator for Tekken, but its producer and more than willingly to take the mantle of being the public relationship for the game and this week, served as an example that not even the Europe branch of his employer are free of some scolding when deserved.
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Embracer Group acknowledge a $2 billion development deal fell apart without telling with whom
A Monday-ish Wednesday has been for the entertainment and gaming conglomerate Embracer Group and after quite some time of making deals and purchasing, one big $2 billion deal fell apart unexpectedly but they aren’t saying with whom.
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Sony Business Segment Meeting on Playstation: PC growth and more outside of gaming
A day prior the Playstation Showcase, the main event of what’s next for Playstation and Playstation 5 for 2023 and onwards, Sony ran its annual Investors day, called this year Sony Business Segment Meeting and yes, we are going to focus on everything Playstation.
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Sega confirms its own round of layoff despite raising wages in late 2022
I still remember how impressed I was with Sega Sammy, Sega’s parent company, on raising wages across all their workforce by 30% in part thanks to Sonic Frontiers performance and the urge from the Japanese government for companies to have their part against the inflation.
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NetEase keeping busy after the Activision Blizzard saga in China
Besides Tencent Games, NetEase is a big gaming conglomerate in China, who recently made news after a stormy “divorce” from Activision Blizzard, disallowing more distribution of chinese versions of Blizzard Entertainment games.
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TTK Games is the lasted studio founded by veterans, this time from Battlefield
Time To Kill Games or just TTK Games is the latest gaming studio to be founded and ready for its first big project that is composed of industry veterans and at this time, it is from Electronic Arts’s first party studio DICE.
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Take-Two Interactive expect many good launch on FY24 and we hope it include GTA VI
2K Games, Rockstar and other gaming studios owned by the conglomerate Take-Two Interactive, had their parent company take its turn to announce how everything went on Q4 2023 and the close of Fiscal Year 2024.
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Ubisoft started Fiscal Year 2024 with more staff for Assassin’s Creed & losses
Today Ubisoft decided to take a turn to make their earnings reports and Fiscal Year 2023 full result and in summary, it is not good and it seems that things will begin to tighten for current and future projects.
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Electronic Arts is more of Saudi Arabia Prince’s investment funds than any other shareholder
For a while we had been hearing about many investment groups that were founded by The Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, as a way that the Kingdom is not relying on Petroleum for economic sustainability in the long term and have been investing in many markets.
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