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Suicide Squad Publisher Promises Even More Live-Service Games
9.11.2023
During Warner Bros Games’ 2023 Q3 earnings call, WB Discover CEO David Zaslav explained that the publisher behind games like Batman: Arkham Knight and Suicide Squad will focus on creating more always-online, free-to-play, live-service games. Read more
Final Fantasy Publisher Square Enix Reveals How to Obtain NFTs for Upcoming Game Symbiogenesis
8.11.2023
Source: Symbiogenesis / Twitter The Japanese gaming giant Square Enix has shared how players can get characters for its upcoming non-fungible token (NFT) game Symbiogenesis. Ethereum and Polygon NFT game Symbiogenesis is nearing its December launch. Therefore, the Final Fantasy series creator...
Assassin’s Creed Publisher Continues To Downsize, Lays Off More Staff
7.11.2023
In a year full of video game layoffs, Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft Montreal is the latest to get hit by ongoing cuts. Kotaku has learned that the publisher announced 75 new layoffs across its Canadian offices today as part of a “reorganization” of its general and administrative teams, Ubisoft...
Report Claims Lord Of The Rings: Gollum Publisher Used AI To Write Apology
9.10.2023
An investigation by German outlet Game Two into what went wrong during the development of Lord of the Rings: Gollum has made claims that the publisher’s apology for the terrible state of the released game was written by AI ChatGPT. The claim appears alongside a laundry list of alleged issues behind...
GTA Online Publisher Execs Get $72M Thanks To Player Spending
1.8.2023
According to new documents, GTA, Borderlands, and NBA 2K publisher Take-Two Interactive is paying two of its top execs over $70 million this year, over twice what it paid the same executives last year. And that number could increase next year, as players continue to spend more and more on in-game...
Assassin’s Creed Publisher Axes Sequel To BotW-Like That Was Pretty Good
26.7.2023
The 2020 action-adventure game Immortals Fenyx Rising won’t be getting a sequel after all. Drawing clear inspiration from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the game seemed like the start of a fresh new franchise for Ubisoft, a company that’s struggled to ship new original hits. But a sequel...
Genshin Impact Voice Actors Say They Aren’t Getting Paid, Want Game Unionized
14.7.2023
Genshin Impact is one of the biggest, most successful video games in the world, bringing in tens of millions of dollars a month for developer/publisher miHoYo. However, according to some voice actors involved with the popular game, they don’t get paid for months, and it’s causing some to possibly...
Sources: Assassin's Creed Publisher Remaking Black Flag, The Pirate One
30.6.2023
Ubisoft is doubling down on its most popular franchises, including Assassin’s Creed. Kotaku has learned that strategy now includes a remake of Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag, the 18th-century pirate fantasy period piece, and one of the more fondly remembered entries in the series. It’s what many...
Duke Nukem Promo Caught Using AI Images, Publisher Apologises
2.6.2023
What would otherwise have been a fairly minor announcement, the news that the first two Duke Nukem games were coming to an Evercade handheld, has blown up after the rapid discovery that the bundle’s promotion included a bunch of terrible machine-generated imagery.Read more
Steam publisher sales: how does having a big hit affect one?
22.5.2023
Some great YoY data. Also: 'games as a platform' and lots of news
GTA Publisher’s Boss Not Seeing Any ‘Pushback’ On $70 Games
20.5.2023
During Take-Two Interactive’s recent earnings call with investors, CEO Strauss Zelnick was asked about other publishers selling AAA games at a discounted price shortly after launch. His company has been one of the many to start charging $70 for games, and at least according to him, he hasn’t seen...
GTA VI Publisher Suggests 2024 Will Be A Very Profitable Year (Wink, Wink)
18.5.2023
Grand Theft Auto VI, the next entry in the popular open-world franchise from Rockstar Games, might be coming out as soon as next year based on some big numbers found in a new earnings report. Read more
Assassin's Creed Publisher Is Putting 800 More Devs To Work On The Hit Franchise
16.5.2023
Ubisoft is more committed than ever to Assassin’s Creed. After reporting a $500 million operating income loss for the last year, the French publisher announced it would increase the number of developers working on the hit historical fantasy franchise to almost 3,000. If you thought there were...
Jeffrey Tucker on De-Dollarization: USD Will No Longer Be King, We’re at Turning Point for US Dollar
16.4.2023
Jeffrey Tucker says we are at the turning point for the U.S. dollar, citing a growing de-dollarization trend. “The dollar’s just not going to be king,” he warned, adding that history will record recent events “as the turning point for the dollar.” Jeffrey Tucker...
Publisher says it's trying to scrub all traces of 'Mashinsky Method' book
10.2.2023
A slated financial literacy book by Alex Mashinsky has already been canceled but the book's publisher is still trying to wipe all traces of it from the internet
Africa Web3 games publisher Carry1st raises $27M
17.1.2023
VC firms Bitkraft Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz participated in the funding round, which aims to advance Web3 gaming in Africa
Major Game Publisher Square Enix Continues to Invest in Blockchain Games Despite Bear Market
3.1.2023
Prominent Japanese video game developer and publisher Square Enix has revealed that it will continue to invest in blockchain games despite the recent turbulence in the crypto market.
In a Sunday letter, Yosuke Matsuda, the president of the company, said the game publisher will double down on Web3...
Animoca Brands and TinyTap to disrupt education with auction of second set of Publisher NFTs starting 15 December 2022
12.12.2022
Animoca Brands, the company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the open metaverse, and its subsidiary TinyTap, the leading platform for user-generated educational games, today announced that the second series of teacher-authored Publisher NFTs would be auctioned on OpenSea starting...
TinyTap publisher NFTs generate 67.7 ETH for 6 teachers
8.11.2022
TinyTap’s first-ever publisher NFTs were all sold off, lock, stock, and barrel. However, this helped bring home an amount of 138.926 ETH, equivalent to U S $228,000. Incidentally, all the amount generated due to the sale will ultimately be distributed amongst six selected teachers, per the plans....
Square Enix Announces Symbiogenesis, a Story-Driven NFT Interactive Experience
7.11.2022
Square Enix, the Japanese AAA game developer and publisher, announced the launch of a new NFT-based gaming franchise, titled Symbiogenesis. The experience, which will be built on top of Ethereum, will leverage the use of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) as art that users can set as profile pictures...