Developer cohort unveils Fun Dog Studios

More than three years on from its announcement, little is known about Monolith Productions’ Wonder Woman game even now, but little snippets of information have nonetheless emerged here and there. Another one of those has been caught in a recently published job listing (via Tech4gamers), which reveals that the studio behind Gotham Knights and Batman: Arkham Origins, WB Games Montreal, is providing development support for Wonder Woman.

Naughty Dog announced in December that it had cancelled The Last of Us Online, but stated at the same time that it was working on multiple “ambitious, brand new” single player games. We’ve known for a while that at least one of those is being directed by Neil Druckmann – co-president of Naughty Dog and director of the Last of Us games and Uncharted 4 – and speaking recently on rapper Logic’s podcast Logically Speaking.

It sounds like all is not well at Sony studio Firesprite, which the platform holder acquired in 2021. Despite moving into expensive new digs in its home city of Liverpool, a Eurogamer report paints an extremely grim picture of the outfit, which is allegedly bleeding staff and lost its managing director Graeme Ankers suddenly last May.

Sony has confirmed that «some» unannounced games in development within PlayStation Studios have been cancelled as a result of the decision to lay off around 900 employees. In a separate article from Hermen Hulst, it's explained: «We looked at our studios and our portfolio, evaluating projects in various stages of development, and have decided that some of those projects will not move forward.»

As several Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League players complained about the technical issues faced with Rocksteady Studios’ latest game, PlayStation is reportedly issuing refunds to some users. This decision from PlayStation comes over a month after the release of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

Media Molecule has reportedly avoided closure amid the continuing round of layoffs. In 2023, approximately 9,000 workers in the video game industry were hit by a round of layoffs and some of these workers included employees at Media Molecule. Perhaps the most shocking was the fact that these layoffs had hit the biggest companies, such as Hasbro, EA, Microsoft, and more. It seemed like that was the worst it would get, and many looked to 2024 with hope for the future.

Since it opened back in November 2022, the Studio Ghibli theme park in Aichi, Japan has been slowly expanding and adding more and more things. Each area of the park is based on some of the production company's most famous movies, letting fans of Studio Ghibli's movies feel like they can experience them firsthand. Now, another greatly anticipated and fun new element has been unveiled at the theme park — the Catbus.

We’ve known since before Starfield launched that its first expansion is going to be called Shattered Space, and in December, developer Bethesda Game Studios confirmed that it would be launching sometime in 2024, bringing new locations, gear, story content, and more. And interestingly enough, it seems like it might be formally unveiled not long from now.

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games is the latest games company to cut staff, confirming “a small number of positions were eliminated” as part of a relocation plan some former employees have criticized. CIG failed to specify the number of staff affected.

Insomniac Games has released a public statement in response to layoffs at the studio announced this week by parent company Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games reportedly laid off some of its employees last month. Apart from these layoffs, which were allegedly excused as “staff relocation” at first, the Star Citizen developer is being accused of providing a toxic workplace environment.

BulletFarm, a new «remote-first» studio based in Los Angeles, has been formed by Call of Duty veteran David Vonderhaar, who has appointed former CoD developer Chris Cowell as its creative director. The studio is already hard at work on its first project, which Vonderhaar offered some details about. Fans likely recognize Vonderhaar's name, who directed the multiplayer modes for many of Treyarch's Call of Duty titles.