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Game Company That's Buying Everything Does Heel Turn, Goes All In On 'Exploiting Lord Of The Rings'
13.6.2023
Embracer Group, a Swedish holding company, has spent the last several years buying up some of the best known studios from Gearbox (Borderlands) to Crystal Dynamics (Tomb Raider) and willing itself into becoming one of the biggest publishers in gaming. Now, after suddenly losing out on $2 billion...
Microsoft Explains Why You’re Waiting So Long For Those Xbox Exclusives
13.6.2023
Microsoft revealed some exciting new first-party games like InExile’s Clockwork Revolution and Compulsion Games South of Midnight at its June 11 Xbox Showcase. But others like Fable and Avowed were first teased years ago and still don’t have clear release dates. What’s taking so long?Read more
What It Looks Like When A $2 Billion Gaming Deal Collapses Overnight
24.5.2023
Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors looked dejected during his gaming conglomerate’s latest earnings presentation. Despite recently acquiring the gaming studios behind Deus Ex and Tomb Raider at a bargain, Dead Island 2 releasing to strong sales and good reviews, and now owning the rights to The Lord...
Amazon Studio Behind Hit MMO New World Working On Lord Of The Rings Next
15.5.2023
Jeff Bezos’ evil empire isn’t done with The Lord of the Rings just yet. Following the nearly billion-dollar debacle that was the first season of The Rings of Power, Amazon is planning to launch a new MMO based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy universe. The good news is that it’s being made by...
Dying Marvel's Avengers Game Unlocks Nearly Everything For Free
31.3.2023
We’ve known since January 2023 that Square Enix’s failed live-service superhero RPG Marvel’s Avengers would have its life support plug pulled on September 30. At that time, developer Crystal Dynamics announced that all cosmetics “will be made available to all players for free” once the game’s final...
Square Enix CEO Who Constantly Pushed NFT Games To Be Replaced
3.3.2023
Square Enix is getting a new boss. Yosuke Matsuda has served as the Final Fantasy publisher’s CEO for 10 years, and spent the last couple of those hyping up NFTs and other blockchain scams. He’s now set to be replaced by a relative newcomer, pending shareholder approval in June.Read more
Amazon’s Tomb Raider Show Reportedly Being Written By Fleabag Creator
27.1.2023
If you, like me, are having trouble keeping track of all the video game adaptations coming to TV and film, you may have forgotten that a Tomb Raider series is in development over at Amazon. Well, friends, I will not be forgetting about this show any time soon, now that writer/actor/comedian Phoebe...
Marvel’s Avengers Is Dying, But Spider-Man Remains Trapped On PlayStation
23.1.2023
Late last week, Square Enix announced that its beleaguered 2020 live-service game, Marvel’s Avengers, will no longer receive new content or major updates after March 31. And all official support for the game will end on September 30, 2023, with digital sales ending on that date too. While you’ll...
Marvel's Avengers Is Ending Development, Giving Away Cosmetics
23.1.2023
This may come as a surprise to the players who abandoned the game long ago and assumed this time had come already, but Crystal Dynamics and publishers Square Enix have announced the impending end of online support for Marvel’s Avengers.Read more
After A Bad Year For NFTs, Square Enix Boss Says Company's Still All In For Them
3.1.2023
A year ago, Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda said NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) and blockchain gaming were the future. Then 2022 happened and it became clear to all but the most diehard NFT investors and crytobros that all of this digital JPEG ownership was a scam that the public continues...
The Next, And 'Biggest' Tomb Raider To Be Delivered By Amazon
15.12.2022
In really stepping things up news, it’s just been announced that Amazon Games is set to publish the next Tomb Raider game. Following Square Enix’s retreat from the Western front, and the sale of both developer Crystal Dynamics and the Tomb Raider license itself, it was unclear what might happen...
2022 Was The Year The Video Game Industry Ate Itself
6.12.2022
The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. Epic Games bought Mediatonic (Fall Guys), Sony bought Housemarque (Returnal), and Embracer bought Gearbox (Borderlands). It seemed like things might slow down in 2022, but instead they ramped up even more into an acquisition free-for-all....
Marvel's Avengers Spokesperson Removed After Offensive Tweets Unearthed
22.11.2022
It’s a tale as old as Twitter itself: Person says stupid, offensive stuff in the past, person comes to prominence, old tweets get dug up, person apologizes, the internet holds court. The whole performance has just taken place once again, this time featuring Crystal Dynamics’ spokesperson and game...
Marvel’s Avengers Reminds You It Still Exists With Addition Of Winter Soldier
15.11.2022
We may be preoccupied with big-budget new releases like Gotham Knights and God of War Ragnarök, but did you know that the Marvel’s Avengers game is still a thing? The servers are still kicking and developer Crystal Dynamics continues to drop new content for the live-service spectacle fighter, like...
It's Nice When A Studio Can Rebrand Into Something Prettier
11.10.2022
From 2011 to 2022, there was a video game developer in Canada known as Square Enix Montreal. A sub-division of a massive international games publisher, they had a logo that looked like a spaceship from an Atari game and a name about as unimaginative as it comes.Read more
Shadow Of The Tomb Raider (And More) Is Free On PC Right Now
1.9.2022
As sure as the next sunset, there will be more free games from Epic. This time, you can grab the decent Shadow of the Tomb Raider, a former Stadia exclusive sequel, and some goodies in EA’s free-to-play dodgeball game Knockout City for the low, low price of absolutely nothing at all. Read more
Former Deus Ex Boss Unloads On Square Enix
28.7.2022
Back in May, Japanese publisher Square Enix announced it was selling a number of Western studios it had owned since 2009, including Eidos Montreal (Deus Ex) and Crystal Dynamics (Tomb Raider). For Stephane D’Astous, who founded Eidos Montreal and left the company in 2013, the deal marks the end...