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Take-Two Interactive has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) is set for release in fall 2025. Despite circulating rumours about a potential delay into 2026, Take-Two is confident in meeting the new release window. The announcement was made during Take-Two's latest earnings report, providing fans with a more concrete timeline.

Fallout: New Vegas reimagines the gambling capital with a retrofuturistic aesthetic in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse, run by a pre-war CEO clinging onto life by projecting himself through monitors as a talking head. It's easy to see why it's become one of the most iconic parts of the series.

Finally, all those little dumpy Crewmates from Among Us can start shaking their asses on Twitch again. CEO Dan Clancy announced changes to the platform’s Community Guidelines on Wednesday, allowing cute animated emotes where characters shake their butts and twerk will be allowed on the platform.

A former OpenAI leader who resigned from the company earlier this week said Friday that safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the influential artificial intelligence company.

Loongson has revealed that its next-gen CPUs will be able to match Intel's 12th Gen Core i7 & Core i5 CPUs, propelling the domestic Chinese PC market to new heights.

Player1 Events has reportedly laid off an unknown number of staff, believed to be the majority of the company, and shut down long-running UK video games event Insomnia Gaming Festival.

US publishing giant Take-Two made $5.35 billion in revenue for the year ending March 31st, 2024.

GTA 6 sales likely won't be affected by the game's launch window, according to Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick.

Take-Two, the publisher behind Grand Theft Auto and owner of other labels such as Private Division, has denied reports it recently shut down Rollerdrome, OlliOlli developer Roll7 and Kerbal Space Program 2 team Intercept Games. Having been questioned by IGN during a financial call today, CEO Strauss Zelnick responded: «We didn't shutter those studios.»

As the ol’ Spice Girls song goes: two become one. PlayStation has decided to replace Jim Ryan with two executives: Hermen Hulst, the former Guerrilla managing director and current PS Studios chief, will lead a newly named Studio Business Group unit, which will oversee all of the Japanese giant’s first-party studios, as well as its other projects, like PS Productions’ movies and TV shows. He’ll be flanked by Hideaki Nishino, who will lead the organisation’s Platform Business Group, responsible for hardware, accessories, PSN, and third-party relations.

Sony's online PSN service is growing year-on-year at the moment, as 118 million monthly active users for the Q4 period of fiscal year 2023 represents an increase of 10 million compared to Q4 FY2022. The result beats all totals in the past fiscal year, with the only blemish on the record being it could have been even better for Sony. In Q3 of FY2023, it had 123 million active users, meaning it lost five million active members between individual quarters.

Earlier this month, Take-Two announced a cost reduction plan that included project cancellations, the layoffs of 5% of its workforce, and other spending cuts. Amid this announcement came reports based on internal documentation that seemed to confirm Take-Two was closing OlliOlli World developer Roll7 and Kerbal Space Program 2 developer Intercept Games.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has claimed that the publisher didn’t shut down Private Division studios Roll7 and Intercept Games, despite reports suggesting it planned to.

Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar Games’ parent company Take-Two Interactive, just confirmed a more specific release window for the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI.

Grand Theft Auto VI’s return to Vice City is officially scheduled for fall 2025. On Thursday, parent company Take-Two Interactive wrote in its Q4 2024 earnings report that it’s narrowed GTA 6’s previously announced 2025 window to autumn of next year.

Warner Bros. has released new pictures of season 2 of critically acclaimed show The Last of Us, showcasing Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey reprising their roles of Joel and Ellie respectively.

Gamers take a lot of unique and interesting names at face value, but there’s always an insightful origin story to be told. We spoke with Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt about how the name of the studio and Helldivers franchise came to be. Read on to learn how a translated last name, WWII airplane, and tongue-in-cheek humor played into these titles.

Medieval city builder Manor Lords is a smash hit, selling two million copies in just three weeks.

The CEO of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios, Johan Pilestedt, has said that he wants the game to go on "forever", even when the team eventually stops working on new updates.

Swedish games firm Starbreeze has appointed Mats Juhl as its latest interim CEO.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has appointed Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino as its new CEOs.

The popular Hightech Toy event is making a hype-worthy comeback to the Archives in Goddess of Victory: Nikke. You’ll get to revisit this thrilling story and rewarding gameplay from May 16th onwards.

Starbreeze has announced today that its CFO Mats Juhl will be appointed as its new interim CEO.

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has announced that Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino will succeed Jim Ryan as joint PlayStation CEOs.

Microsoft has announced the new Xbox Game Pass games coming to the service in the coming weeks.

By Max A. Cherney and Jeffrey Dastin

By Max A. Cherney and Jeffrey Dastin

Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud-computing division chief Adam Selipsky is stepping down, making way for Matt Garman, the unit's top sales and marketing executive.

The head of Amazon's AWS cloud computing business, Adam Selipsky, who was helping lead the company's expansion into AI, told workers he was stepping down Tuesday.

Two former Firaxis developers have founded a new studio, Midsummer. The former director of the XCOM series, Jake Soloman, is CEO of the new studio, having left Firaxis last year.

In its latest financial report, Sony has revealed that Helldivers 2 — the scrappy co-op shooter turned online gaming sensation from Sweden’s Arrowhead Game Studios — is the fastest-selling game PlayStation has ever released.

Today, alongside its financial report, Sony announced a new leadership structure for its PlayStation division (Sony Interactive Entertainment). Following the departure of Jim Ryan, they had been looking for a new Chief Executive Officer; as it turns out, they found two.

Sony Group is set to reveal its "long-term vision" – including Sony Interactive Entertainment's role in that – later this month, as two PlayStation veterans are brought on board as new SIE CEOs to replace Jim Ryan. 

Sony Interactive Entertainment is replacing outgoing CEO Jim Ryan with two new co-CEOs: previous head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst and SIE exec Hideaki Nishino.

The PlayStation 5 now stands at 59 million consoles sold, with 20.8 million in the last year, as Sony has announced that former PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan’s job will be divided between two new roles.

The sensational success of Helldivers 2 has led to 12 million copies sold in 12 weeks, making it the new fastest-selling game launched by PlayStation, and surpassing God of War Ragnarok’s 11 million sales over the same period.

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SEI) has announced a new leadership structure that puts two people in charge of different parts of its business. Hideaki Nishino, who is currently serving as the SVP for the Platform Experience Group, will become the CEO of SIE's Platform Business Group starting on June 1. On the same day, Hermen Hulst will take on the role of CEO for SIE's Studio Business Group after serving as SVP and Head of PlayStation Studios.

A PlayStation Showcase could be happening before the end of the month. At least, that's what it sounds like based on a letter from Hiroki Totoki, who took over as Chairman of PlayStation after Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino were named CEOs.

Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino will jointly succeed Jim Ryan as the CEOs of Sony Interactive Entertainment.

In a recent interview with GamesBeat, Embracer Freegroup CEO Lee Guinchard shed some light on the company’s plans with J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. The interview goes in depth about the history of games like Middle Earth and Guinchard’s long career in the games industry – read the entire interview through here.

Australia-based developer Mighty Kingdom has laid off 28% of its workforce, affecting at least 14 people.

US publishing giant Electronic Arts is looking to introduce in-game advertising into its products.

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson made a string of controversial statements in the company's most recent earnings call, with potential in-game ads and comments about the next Battlefield raising some eyebrows. 

Helldivers 2 is still being removed from sale on Steam in more countries, even after publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) scrapped its hugely controversial PSN mandate. 

Get to the chopp- I mean, get to the pelican, divers. Arrowhead Studios' CEO Johan Pilestedt has teased that another alien species, or potentially an entire enemy faction, is plotting its revenge against Helldivers 2 players.

Google's annual developers conference, the Google I/O 2024 is scheduled for May 14. The event is taking place in Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. During the event, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai will be delivering the keynote about its latest plans and developments for Android and AI. If you also want to catch the event to know what will be announced, check how you can stream the entire event live from several platforms.

Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt has taken to X/Twitter to seemingly share a first look at the cape design that was inspired by the review bombing on Steam following the PSN account linking fiasco.

EA CEO Andrew Wilson has revealed in a recent earnings call that the company is working on putting in-game advertisements into its releases, viewing them as a "meaningful driver of growth".

Johan Pilestedt, Helldivers 2's creative director and Arrowhead Game Studios CEO, thinks that the development team may have «gone too far» with balance updates.

Buried in the announcement of the launch of Critical Role’s new subscription service, Beacon, is more good news for fans. The third season of the troupe’s Prime Video animated series,The Legend of Vox Machina, is due out this fall. The release window was confirmed on X by Critical Role CEO Travis Willingham. A release date has not been revealed.

It seems Skillz is fiercely determined to cleanse the fraud in mobile gaming and the eSports industry of any deceitful practices. After winning their million-dollar lawsuit against AviaGames, Skillz spilt the beans on an ongoing billion-dollar scam yesterday. Keep reading to get the latest scoop on the Skillz lawsuit.

New developer Lightforge Games is laying off "the majority" of its staff at the end of May, leaving only a skeleton crew in place.

Engine giant Unity has reported an eight per cent dip in its revenue for the first quarter of its financial year.

Lightforge Games has announced it's cutting the "majority" of its staff by the end of the month, and is pausing development on its upcoming title Project ORCS.

Apple apologized on Thursday after an advertisement for its latest iPad Pro model sparked criticism by showing an animation of musical instruments and other symbols of creativity being crushed, Ad Age magazine reported.

Countless people are flooding Apple's social media accounts criticizing the announcement video for the newest iPad Pro. From the looks of it, the promotional video, which puts the spotlight on the sleekness of Apple's forthcoming tablet, isn't sitting right with its audience.

Electronic Arts (EA) CEO Andrew Wilson has said the use of advanced generative AI would make game development «more efficient» so the company can make games «on a global basis at a faster rate».

According to Moon Studios ' CEO, the unfortunate closure of Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks and Prey, Redfall developer Arkane Austin may not be as senseless as it appears.

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson has doubled down on the company's commitment to generative AI in game development processes.

In the Fallout TV series, it's revealed that Vault-Tec is willing, and even planning, to drop the bombs themselves as they have invested everything in the apocalypse. It has to happen or they will collapse, so they invite some of the biggest corporations in America to a shadowy meeting where they discuss how to bring about the apocalypse from which they will all rise as unstoppable monopolies.

After the recent fiasco surrounding and Sony's attempt to make PSN account linking on Steam mandatory, the game's community is campaigning to commemorate its victory with a special cape. After days of backlash following the announcement that players on PC would need to create a PlayStation Network account to keep playing, users showed their dissatisfaction by «reviewing bombing» the game's Steam page with hundreds of thousands of negative reviews. The tactic proved effective, forcing Sony to walk back its decision while accidentally creating what could be a very cool cosmetic.

Remedy has announced that it has cancelled Project Kestrel, formerly (formerly Vanguard), which was in development with Tencent. Project Kestrel was meant to be Remedy’s first entry into the Games-as-a-Service business model. The cancellation has been announced as Remedy looks to focus on its existing catalogue of games and IP.

Helldivers 2’s first patch since the PSN login debacle is out now, making some much-needed fixes to the game.

Remedy has announced the cancellation of its multiplayer title codenamed Kestrel in order to focus on its existing franchises.

Two years later, JiDion's Twitch account has been restored after leading a hate raid against Pokimane. On January 12, 2022, users on Twitch were led from JiDion’s stream to bombard Pokimane’s chat with spam. Pokimane had to resort to ending her stream after her chat went completely out of her control. Pokimane and JiDion have since cleared things up between each other, yet JiDion's reputation with Twitch was unaffected.

Helldivers 2 announced over the weekend that players would soon have to link their Steam accounts to PSN to continue playing, a move that drew so much backlash that Sony completely walked back the announcement mere days later. However, it wasn't quick enough to stop a review bomb that tanked the game's overall score.

With the PSN account linking fiasco now in the rearview mirror, what was nearly a disaster moment for Helldivers 2 is now becoming a part of community lore. Fans have been busy working on cape designs since Sony reversed course, at least some of which have seemingly caught the eye of the development team.

The creative director of Helldivers 2 has said he's impressed by the "willpower" of fans after their feedback caused Sony to reverse its decision regarding PlayStation Network accounts being required by all players.

Sony has reversed a decision that would have required Helldivers 2 players to link their Steam accounts to PlayStation Network accounts.

Realm of Ink will be moving to early access on Steam from May 17th, 663 Games has confirmed. The early access version of Realm of Ink will expand upon the current demo with eight bosses, 20 ink gem skills, 15 ink pets which will have 40 forms, 150 perks, the first 30% of the storyline, and an endless challenge mode. Red the Swordsman will remain as the only playable character in early access.

India has become a key market for global tech giants, with a burgeoning developer base attracting significant attention. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, expressed his contentment with India's growing developer community, underlining Apple's holistic approach covering everything from developer support to market strategies and operational efficiency.

It sometimes feels like NVIDIA was destined to be in the position it currently is, and CEO Jensen Huang has highlighted the company's "secret sauce" in an interview.

As Helldiver 2's reviews continue to collapse on Steam, Arrowhead's best-selling action game has been pulled from around 177 countries in the wake of the new PSN account linking requirement that has turned its fanbase upside down.

Helldivers 2's creative director and CEO of Arrowhead Game Studios, Johan Pilestedt, has revealed that he doesn't know what players affected by the game's removal from Steam can do next.

Arrowhead CEO Johaan Pilstedt has released a statement apologizing to disgruntled Helldivers 2 fans in the wake of Sony forcing Steam players to link their accounts to a PlayStation Network Account in order to continue playing the wildly popular third-person shooter.

The Apple Vision Pro might not be a hit in the consumer market as updated shipment estimates have dropped to 400,000 to 450,000 units for 2024, but the $3,499 head-mounted wearable is a success in the enterprise division, with companies thoroughly impressed with what has been crammed into the device. During Apple’s Q2 2024 earnings, CEO Tim Cook revealed that half of Fortune 100 companies have purchased the AR headset, and it has proven itself to deliver immense utility in various applications.

Level-5 founder and CEO Akihiro Hino has said he wants to make erotic and violent games one day, something his studio certainly isn’t known for.

The boss of Level-5, the developer behind family friendly titles such as Professor Layton, Ni No Kuni, and Yokai Watch, wants to create a violent and erotic video game one day.

Deliver Us the Moon and Deliver Us Mars developer KeokeN Interactive has laid off its entire staff, the studio announced.

Deliver Us Mars developer Keoken Interactive has laid off the majority of its staff after struggling to secure funding or future work during GDC 2024.