Yesterday I shared on my social media about a certain saga that is happening in the North American branch of the League Of Legends esport league and some stuff happened and it could go in a tug-0f-war between Riot Games and LoL pro players.
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.
News from Computex Taipei is already coming in since the pandemic disallowed the event to be public. Now in the 2023 edition and an in-public return, the conversation about artificial intelligence continues with Nvidia.
Besides the newest blow by Nintendo against emulation and game preservation, another big noise in the gaming industry was a potential big acquisition by Sopny to have another member for the Playstation Studios family, and it was polish CD Projekt Red.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.