Unity Laying Off Over 1800 Staff Due to A 'Company Reset'

Fans of Taylor Swift and politicians expressed outrage on Friday at AI-generated fake images that went viral on X and were still available on other platforms. One image of the US megastar was seen 47 million times on X, the former Twitter, before it was removed Thursday. According to US media, the post was live on the platform for around 17 hours.

It’s no secret that Hogwarts Legacy was a huge revenue earner for Warner Bros. last year after becoming the best-selling title in the United States and the UK. However, after it sold over 22 million copies in 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav recently told Variety that it crossed 24 million sales.

Cyberpunk 2077 is probably in the running for the open world game with the most hidden references and secret Easter eggs, with new discoveries being made on an almost weekly basis. GTA: San Andreas, The Matrix, Death Stranding, The Witcher 3, and pretty much every other popular game or movie release over the past two decades has made a little cameo somewhere, but one of the game's more interesting secret messages has been hiding in plain sight ever since launch.

Tencent Holdings' Riot Games plans to lay off 530 employees, or about 11 percent of its staff globally, the online gaming company said on Monday in a blog that included a letter to employees from CEO Dylan Jadeja.

Masimo CEO Joe Kiani, waging a legal fight with Apple Inc. over a blood oxygen feature on Apple Watch, said that consumers are better off without the iPhone maker's version of the technology. The remarks followed Apple's decision to cease sales of smartwatches Thursday that had the tool — a gauge of blood oxygen saturation known as a pulse oximeter — which had been a heavily marketed health feature on the devices. The move stemmed from a ruling by the US International Trade Commission that found the technology violated Masimo patents.

HBO Max's live-action adaptation of is set to premiere on Jan. 15, 2023, and of course its trailers, posters and other marketing materials already have fans of the game on which its based champing at the bit.

The teaser video was then followed up with a secondary tweet, which revealed that the currently unnamed Indiana Jones game is being developed by MachineGames - the team that has brought us the Wolfenstein series. 

PTW, a support studio that's worked with some of the industry's biggest companies like Blizzard, Capcom, and Sega, has laid off about 45 people, as first reported by Kotaku. PTW was previously called Pole To Win and its services include quality assurance, studio support, and localization. Last week, on January 11, someone with knowledge of the studio told Kotaku about the layoffs, noting that roughly 45 people lost their jobs. 

Finnish games firm Remedy has come into conflict with Take-Two Interactive over its new logo design.

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a challenge by Apple to a lower court's decision requiring changes to certain rules in its lucrative App Store, as the justices shunned the lengthy legal battle between the iPhone maker and Epic Games, maker of the popular video game Fortnite.

Ubisoft appears to be developing a Far Cry spin-off based on the Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix animated series, some newly emerged evidence suggests. Called Captain Laserhawk Niji Warrior, the game in question is poised to be the series' first spin-off since the Zero Latency-developed Far Cry VR: Dive Into Insanity, which hit the market in June 2021.

Take-Two Interactive, which owns Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games, and Remedy Entertainment are doing more together than just making Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne remakes. Both companies are also in a trademark dispute, in the United Kingdom, over the use of the letter “R,” as first reported by gaming website RespawnFirst.