The year 2023 is a BIG CONTRAST of what was 2022 for the Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group after high profile purchases of many gaming and entertainment companies including Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal and the former Square Enix Motnreal.
It is already known that IO Interactive is quite busy with HITMAN: World Of Assassinations as a live service and two new projects that forced the development of the next HITMAN to be a tertiary priority.
Hard days for Daedalic Entertainment as Lord Of The Rings: Gollum did not become the success it was scheduled to become due to hard critics and a game release in a state below a stable release and prompted some impactful movements.
There was not good news in the gaming development community and as incredible as its sound was, after years of success with Pokémon Go, the AR gaming and content studio Niantic ran a layoff this week.
Being known as one of the important first party studios for Activison and one of the best developers for Call Of Duty, is time for Infinity Ward to expand and now they have not only a new presence in Spain, but a brand new partnership.
Ever since it was revealed that Anthem was not aimed to be BioWare’s next success, everything has been kind of bad news with some exceptions and unfortunately, we got a new set of bad news from Electronic Arts 1st party studio.
Late 90’s, the news was that Microsoft acquired a gaming studio known to be a heavy Macintosh gaming creator that was working on an original intellectual property that could star in a secret gaming project based on Windows and later we found out it was Bungie from Seattle creating Halo.
Since last year, we have been hearing Dan Housen keeping himself busy building a life after Rockstar Games, the creators of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption that he co-founded and seems that he is trying again on his own terms.
Corporate news time and I wanted to make two articles in one this time as there is two new news regarding former talents landing news jobs and the founding of a new studios, but first, another win for Netflix.
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.