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Amazon's Fallout TV program hit 65 million viewers 16 days after release.

Discord has banned an unknown number of accounts that were using bots to scrape messages from up to 620 million users and sold them to other companies.

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

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A movie adaptation of The Sims is under way, with Margot Robbie's production company LuckyChap set to produce.

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The date for Summer Game Fest 2024 has been confirmed, with the gaming showcase taking place on Friday, June 7.

Nintendo has announced a new Mario animated film set to release on April 3, 2026.

IGN parent company Ziff-Davis has voluntarily recognised the recently formed IGN Creators Guild.

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PlayStation Productions and Screen Gems (part of Sony Pictures Entertainment) are working on a movie adaptation of Supermassive horror hit Until Dawn.

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LKA-developed title Martha is Dead will get a film adaptation.

Chris Dring and James Batchelor return with our weekly dive into the biggest news stories from the business of video games.

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Grand Theft Auto 6 has become the most-viewed new game trailer on YouTube.

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Hearst Newspapers has acquired puzzle games hub Puzzmo.

PlayStation is removing purchased Discovery television shows from its platform by the end of this month.

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The winners of the Game Republic 20th Anniversary Awards have been announced, with Revolution Software taking home two accolades.

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Ubisoft has pulled its advertising from X, Axios reported.

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The UK trade body TIGA has revealed the winners of its annual awards, with Dlala Studios taking home the Game Of The Year award for Disney Illusion Island, which also won Best Social Game.

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One of indie gaming's prominent media voices is going to be significantly quieter going forward, as Uppercut editor-in-chief Ty Galiz-Rowe today announced the site is shutting down its Patreon and will stop regularly publishing new content.

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Former The Escapist staffers have announced the formation of Second Wind.

Nintendo is returning to live-action films with a new movie based on The Legend of Zelda, the company announced today.

Crunchyroll is the latest streaming service to add mobile games to its offering.

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Journalists from The Escapist have resigned in response to the termination of its editor-in-chief Nick Calandra.

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There are several major social media cases facing the US Supreme Court this term, all having to do with the First Amendment. The decisions the court issues will effectively create a new legal regime where none existed before. The first major issue, on the constitutionality of public officials blocking other users, shows how hard this is going to be for justices who have not yet fully understood how the architecture of social media platforms can change society.

Ubisoft has lots of reasons to be proud of its mega-successful Assassin's Creed series, but you wouldn't know that from how they've treated poor Ezio on Twitter recently. To celebrate Halloween yesterday, the official Twitter account for Ubisoft in the Netherlands asked fans whether they were team trick or treat, under which was a soulless AI-generated Halloween-themed monstrosity.

Insomniac's first Spider-Man game had a social media feed you could view on the map, seeing what everyone in New York City thought of the web-slinging menace. There were people asking if he ever ate his own webs, celebrating Wilson Fisk's downfall, sharing fan fiction, and poking fun at the Daily Bugle. But if you look at the map on Spider-Man 2, you'll notice there's no social media.

Spyglass Media Group and Sony Pictures have teamed up with AI and metaverse company MeetKai to create a horror metaverse experience for the upcoming horror film Thanksgiving.

has released updated social media guidelines that place new restrictions on the ways in which content creators are allowed to discuss and share footage of the gaming giant’s hardware and software. The move comes a day after the company unveiled controversial changes to its guidelines on how Nintendo games can be used in tournaments, drawing backlash from many in the competitive gaming scene.

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Media Molecule, the PlayStation Studios developer best known for its work on LittleBigPlanet and the PS4 game creation title, Dreams, has confirmed that the roles of staff within “certain departments of the studio” have been put at risk. It stated that starting this process was a “difficult decision”. 

Media Molecule, the developer behind Sackboy, is apparently planning to lay off dozens of staff members and reduce its headcount by around 15 to 20%. As reported by GLHF, Media Molecule will be laying off roughly 20 employees to make its headcount from 135 to 115 which has already been discussed internally through meetings.

Dreams developer Media Molecule, part of PlayStation Studios, announced today that the studio will suffer layoffs. GLHF (part of Sports Illustrated) reports that this will impact about 15-20% of staff.

Earlier today, rumors of layoffs at Media Molecule for 15-20% of the staff were first reported on Sports Illustrated. This afternoon, the Guildford-based studio owned by Sony admitted that the layoffs are real in a message shared on Twitter (X).

The British studio is part of PlayStation Studios and working on an unannounced game.

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Dreams and LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule plans to lay off around 20 employees, according to sources speaking to GLHF.

PlayStation first-party studio Media Molecule, which is the team behind Dreams and LittleBigPlanet, is reportedly set to layoff around 20 employees. That's according to a new report from Sports Illustrated's GLHF, which states the news of impending layoffs was revealed during an internal meeting held today at the studio. 

Dreams and LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule is to lay off 15-20% of its staff, according to a new report.

If you're a Virgin Media O2 customer and want to get stuck into Tekken 8's closed beta test this weekend, you might be in luck.

UK  media and telecom firm Virgin Media O2 is offering its customers access to this weekend’s Tekken 8 closed beta test.

Virgin Media is giving O2 customers early access to Tekken 8 closed beta codes on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.

Sometimes, it’s hard to know what to make of Twitch. On the one hand, the streaming platform is experiencing peak viewership, but on the other, the company is reportedly laying staff off. Still, it’s business as usual, and it looks as though the Amazon-owned company now wants a slice of that social media pie.

I remember the good old days, when each of the three or four giant social media platforms offered a somewhat unique experience. Snapchat was good for quick and erasable goofs. Instagram actually showed you cute photos of your friends, instead of just ads. Facebook carved out a niche for the being the only platform that allowed for both Minion memes and the vast extraction of private user data. Now, the differences between them seem to narrow by the day, a trend that the livestreaming platform Twitch appears to be continuing with a newly announced stories feature.

Minors and parents suing Meta Inc.'s Facebook and other technology giants for the kids' social media platform addictions won an important ruling advancing their collection of lawsuits in a California court.

As we’re all gradually coming to terms with, physical media is on the way out. The video games market is slowly transitioning to digital sales, and the switch has occurred even more abruptly in other industries, where most people prefer to stream movies and music these days. Best Buy, one of the United States’ largest retailers, is allegedly planning to phase out all physical media next year.

With Microsoft's $69bn Activision Blizzard acquisition now officially a done deal as of today, Ubisoft has been discussing its new ownership of all Activision Blizzard streaming rights, which also kick in today — and as part of the conversation, it's talked a little about physical media, saying that while interesting might decline as streaming rises, it doesn't think it's «going away».

For years now there’s been a battle between game publishers and a certain segment of players over physical games – while publishers would clearly prefer and all-digital future, many consumers still want physical games. Well, the battlelines may be changing, as it seems brick-and-mortar retailers may no longer be interested in selling those physical games.

Today is significant for the video game industry. We knew for quite some time now that Microsoft would be closing on the acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The only thing in their way was the regulator’s approval from the CMA. However, it was a lengthy battle for Microsoft, and one of the means to ensure this deal went through was to appease the CMA. Initially, the regulator was not fond of the deal, but Microsoft managed to win them over by giving streaming rights to Ubisoft when it came to Activision Blizzard titles. That was a huge deal, and today, Ubisoft’s SVP of Strategic Partnerships & Business Development, Chris Early, chimed in on what Ubisoft+ subscribers can expect.

New York would restrict the way online platforms like Instagram and YouTube can collect and share children's personal information and let parents keep their kids from being bombarded by “addictive” feeds from accounts they don't follow, under legislation proposed Wednesday.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is highlighting the huge profits scammers are generating through fraud started on social media platforms.

Apple’s latest concern in China might not be over its actual phones but instead over the apps that run on them.

Social media or mass media has become a weapon of mass distraction, but there are no concerted efforts yet to tackle them, Justice Mahesh Sonak of the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court said on Saturday. Addressing the students of G R Kare College of Law in Margao town during a lecture series 'GRK-Law Talks', Justice Sonak also said that he prefers to remain "uninformed" about several issues by not reading or seeing the news, which he thinks is "better than being misinformed".

There is a moment in Gen V, the Gen Z-centric spinoff of X-rated superhero satire The Boys, that actually managed to shock me. I’m going to talk about what that moment was, but first I need to talk a little about what it wasn’t.

Meta Platforms Inc. is introducing artificial intelligence features to its apps that will give the company's 3 billion users an experience akin to OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Officially, in-development fighting game Project L hasn't been confirmed for a console release, but a social media mishap may have just outed the title for PS5. The PlayStation Europe Twitter account seemingly meant to post about Street Fighter 6 features — which is weirdly timed to begin with — but the tweet includes what is clearly footage taken from Project L, complete with a PEGI rating logo in the bottom left. As such, we assume the footage is taken from some kind of trailer or gameplay video.

Last spring, my tween was begging for more independence, starting with being allowed to walk home from school alone. The mile-plus walk involves crossing a few busy streets. I was hesitant; she doesn't have a phone, so she had no way to contact me if something went wrong. But we practiced a few times (with me trailing her a block behind) to be sure she was confident of the route and talked about what she would do in various scenarios.

Meta’s would-be Twitter killer Threads will not fare much better than Meta’s past attempts at branching out into smartphones and video conferencing, according to Insider Intelligence.