The Chinese internet company spent the first half of 2019 buying up minority stakes in game studios and helping western publishers expand into the east. NetEase’s next venture is a new North American studio focused on research and development.
Latest endeavor sees Microsoft continue to open up to collaboration than close itself off.
Known for its tabletop-to-digital conversion of Terraforming Mars, Onitama, and the upcoming Mansions of Madness: Mother’s embrace, Lucky Hammers has been forced to close its doors and lay off nearly 70 staff members.
Willits has worked on id’s biggest properties, including Quake, Doom, and Rage. His departure will not impact in-development projects like this year’s Doom Eternal.
Largelabs, the studio behind Aliens Vs. Cowmander, is a thriving indie studio between countries. Co-founders Karim Aboul-Enein and Sebastien Marty are cognizant of the biggest challenges ahead of them as developers: releasing engaging games for a mostly Middle Eastern audience.
David Evans of Falling Squirrel wants the visually impaired community to feel included. His upcoming game, The Vale, is an attempt to get blind and sighted gamers playing together. (Photo: GameDaily)
Devotion developer Red Candle Games published a deeply apologetic note explaining that its game will remain unavailable ‘in the near term.’
Freelance goods and services platform introduces gaming category, but has come under fire for glorifying overwork in a gig economy that already punishes freelancers in a pricing race to the bottom.
Freshly appointed IGDA Foundation executive director, Nika Nour, talks with GameDaily about keeping diversity and inclusion work fun and approachable and hopefully putting herself out of a job.
A G2A employee has solicited reporters and critics to break laws and post a pre-written advertisement without disclosure or disclaimer revealing the source. The company has angered the development community by allowing ‘shady’ Steam Gift sales, but a proposed key-blocking tool may be a baby step in the right direction.
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