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Kakao Games will be shutting down the North American and European servers for ArcheAge on June 27.

The Federal Communications Commission has voted to restore Net Neutrality.

The US government this week said it will ban TikTok if the platform isn't sold in the next nine months.

Thunderful Group is divesting one of its distribution businesses, Nordic Game Supply, selling the company to a firm run by its current acting CEO.

Capcom has announced that it has revised its full-year earnings forecast for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024.

So, there’s a prestige, high-budget TV show based on Fallout, and it’s not only pretty great, it’s also so successful that a second season has already been greenlit. Perhaps the most surprising thing about this is how unsurprising it has become – how little time it took for us all to become blasé about video games properties being adapted into high-quality, well-received TV shows and movies. Go back in time only ten years or so and try to explain that this would happen to anyone in the industry, and they’d think you a hopeless optimist at best.

Microsoft has released its latest financial results, showing significant growth in gaming revenues — thanks in no small part to the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

Some of the developers behind the BAFTA-winning Before Your Eyes have banded together to form a new studio, Nice Dream Games, and are working on a spiritual successor to the blink-controlled title.

BlizzCon is taking another break, as Blizzard announced its fan festival will skip this year.

Browser-based games platform Arkadium has opened to third-party developers.

Age of Empires was originally launched for PC in 1997. Since then, the historical real-time strategy series has had multiple releases on platforms such as home consoles and mobile devices. With Age of Empires 4 pleasing fans on PC and Xbox, Microsoft is making another attempt to attract smartphone audiences with the upcoming Age of Empires Mobile.

It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a decade since Stefano Petrullo formed Renaissance PR.

Meta reported its first quarter earnings after the close of trading yesterday, showing continued losses in its AR/VR Reality Labs division that were more then offset by growth and profitability in the rest of the business.

Game development is, in some ways, more accessible than ever. Between the ease-of-use of engines like RPG Maker to the release of titles like Game Builder Garage that gamify the act of development itself, there are countless ways into game development that do not require previous experience of coding or design.

Steam has changed its refund policy, with pre-release playtime now factored in when considering eligibility for a refund.

Facepunch Studios has received takedown notices from Nintendo and is currently in the process of removing all Garry's Mod content related to IP owned by the platform holder.

It can be difficult keeping track of the various comings and goings in the games industry, which is why we compile them in semi-regular round-ups.

Linden Lab, the developer of Second Life, has sold its payments business, Tilia, to Thunes.

President Joe Biden today signed into law a package of national security measures, including legislation that will force China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok or see the app banned in the US.

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When Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors declared an end to the company's nine-month restructuring program at the start of this month, you would have been forgiven for assuming that things would finally settle for the troubled games group.

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. You can find all previous Playable Futures articles here.

Gloomhaven developer Flaming Fowl Studios has announced layoffs, and that it's putting its current project on hold.

The Federal Trade Commission today published a final rule banning non-compete clauses in contracts.

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IGN has shared the first details of its IGN Live consumer show, which is set to take place at the same time E3 used to.

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This year’s EGX games event will take place alongside MCM Comic-Con in the UK.

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Yes, it's been a particularly rough start to 2024, especially for studios seeking funding. Finishing out 2023, it felt like venture capital funds closed the faucets of years' past, and publishers hit the pause button. Thankfully, the vibe at GDC was slightly more positive, with new deals being announced by both publishers and VC funds.

It's now been two years since the hotly anticipated launch of Panic's handheld, the Playdate.

Atari has announced the revival of the Infogrames brand, relaunching it as a publishing label.

Take-Two has won its lawsuit against tattoo artist Jimmy Hayden, who claimed that the reproduction of his work on basketball player LeBron James in the NBA 2K series constituted copyright infringement.

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About a year ago, one of Rare's fans noticed something on Google Maps.

Former Psygnosis developer Gary Nichols has formed a new studio, Starlight Games.

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Krafton has taken a minority shake in Polish developer Far From Home.

As we step up to recognise Earth Day 2024 – the 50-year-old global event that seeks to highlight issues affecting our climate, oceans, and planetary peace – not-for-profit organisation PlanetPlay wants to help game studios and players make meaningful change.

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Meta today announced some changes to its virtual reality business to make it a more open ecosystem for developers and users.

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The idea of an industry-led body with a mandate to come up with solutions to skills shortages in the UK, as presented in this week's Skillfull report, is self-evidently a good one.

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Amazon Prime's Fallout TV show has been renewed for a second season.

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Playdate maker Panic has revealed that over 150,000 games have been sold since the launch of its storefront, Catalog, in March 2023.

Sales of Fallout games have shot up across Europe, with Fallout 4 reclaiming the No.1 spot.

GamesIndustry.biz is once again teaming up with Brightmine (formerly XpertHR) on a salary benchmarking project designed to help UK games companies find and retain talent.

Looking at Schell Games' recent output, it's pretty easy to spot a common thread. There's the VR puzzle franchise I Expect You To Die, the VR adaptation of social deduction game Among Us, the VR jumpscare horror game Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire…

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Take-Two Interactive is embarking on another cost cutting program, and this one will see the company layoff about 5% of its employees by the end of the year.

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The community team at 10 Chambers, behind the game GTFO, is using creators at the center of their marketing strategy. To reveal their upcoming title at The Game Awards, the team leaned on Lurkit to execute a marketing stunt that had never been seen before. This wasn't their first time working with Lurkit. After the success of GTFO, Lurkit was 10 Chambers' first marketing pick for this new title.

Red Rover Interactive has closed a $15 million series A funding round led by PUBG firm Krafton.

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Modern Times Group has announced the acquisition of AutoAttack Games via its wholly-owned studio Ninja Kiwi.

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Nintendo will not be showing at this year's Gamescom event, the company confirmed to German news site Games Wirtschaft, as spotted by Video Games Chronicle.

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At the Game Developer Conference last month, Glow Up Games co-founder and CXO Latoya Peterson contributed to a series of micro-talks around sustainability, calling out the fundamental flaws of games funding.

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UKIE published its latest Consumer Market Valuation Report, showing that the UK games market was worth £7.82 billion in 2023, a 4.4% increase compared to 2022's revised total of £7.49 billion.

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Possibility Space has shut down, according to former employees.

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