After time away from the game industry, Arkane founder, Raphael Colantonio, and former executive producer at Arkane, Julien Roby, have come back together to form a fully decentralized game studio.
Rice is ‘setting off on some new adventures’ in the game industry, but hasn’t said what they are just yet. [Image Source: Twitter]
This year’s big Xbox celebration, held in London, isn’t as bold as last year’s plethora of studio acquisitions, but we’re finally seeing some fruit on the vine for incoming Xbox first-party games from Obsidian and Rare.
Starbreeze has had to sell much of its assets in order to keep its doors open while repeatedly requesting extensions from the Swedish government to complete its financial reconstruction.
The company has made available an estimated $4 million worth of Infinity Blade assets for free.
The company is reporting a 14% increase in net sales year-over-year.
Necessary approvals on hardware likely rule out an end of 2019 launch, but the wheels are in motion for a 2020 release.
The popular first-person shooter also broke Activision’s record for PC launches and digital sales.
The Dungeons & Dragons publisher continues its expansion in the realm of digital games.
On a quarterly earnings call earlier this week, COO Blake Jorgensen revealed that EA’s net revenue was $1.348 billion for the second fiscal quarter of 2020, topping the publisher’s original estimate by $33 million.