Image via Embracer Group Savvy Gaming Group, a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabian government’s Public Investment Fund, has acquired a $1 billion stake in Embracer Group, the holding company that owns numerous media parent companies and game development studios. ...
Image via ESA E3 might be absent for now, but it’s making its return next year, according to Entertainment Software Association president and CEO Stan Pierre-Louis. The Washington Post reported today ESA’s intention to bring E3 back in 2023, ...
Image via Ubisoft Despite regularly holding their own presentation alongside E3 around June, there won’t be any Ubisoft events taking place this month in 2022. According to a report by Axios, Ubisoft’s regular June showcase won’t be taking place ...
Image via Stunlock Studios V Rising developer Stunlock announced in a blog post yesterday that over 1 million players have purchased the vampire survival game since its early access release two weeks ago. It was a stunning mark to ...
Image via Microsoft Dozens of Microsoft employees have come forward to accuse executives of the company of verbal abuse and misconduct, with some reports dating back decades, according to a recent report from Insider. The report says that employees ...
Image via Activision Blizzard Twelve Activision Blizzard employees have come together to form a committee that aims to combat discrimination based on gender and sex within the company, according to a report by the Washington Post. This news comes ...
Photo by Robert Paul via Blizzard Entertainment The largest shareholder in Enthusiast Gaming, the holding company of Luminosity, the Vancouver Titans, and the Seattle Surge, has penned an open letter to the company in which it called for the ...
Image via Activision Blizzard The U.S. video game industry has its first union. Quality assurance testers from Raven Software, the Activision studio responsible for maintaining and updating Call of Duty: Warzone, formed the Game Workers Alliance earlier this year. ...
Image via FaZe Clan FaZe Clan has added Disney to its growing list of merchandise collaborations, the organization announced today. FaZe’s most recent project, The Armory, was the centerpiece for the FaZe1 competition before it was postponed due to ...
Image via Sony After her initial sexual discrimination lawsuit against Sony had a majority of the claims discarded in April, former PlayStation employee Emma Majo is now engaging in a second suit with a narrower scope focused on the ...
Image via Respawn Entertainment Electronic Arts is actively pursuing a merger or sale and have recently been in talks with companies like Comcast subsidiary NBCUniversal, according to multiple new reports. In a report surrounding potential acquisitions for Comcast CEO ...
Photo via Activision Blizzard / Mergr Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard is “moving fast” toward regulatory approval, according to Microsoft vice chairman and president Brad Smith in a recent interview. Smith told Belgian business publication L’Echo that ...
Screengrab via GameStop GameStop’s bizarre journey over the past two years is continuing to twist and turn. Polygon reported today that a former GameStop employee has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company in New York state. The lawsuit, ...
Image via 100 Thieves 100 Thieves has announced it has begun development on its own video game. In a new video released by the esports organization today, Nadeshot and John Robinson revealed that the company is working on its ...
Screengrab via Nintendo Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has officially purchased a 5.01 percent stake in Nintendo, marking the group’s third direct investment in a major Japanese game developer over the last several months. According to Bloomberg, this ...
Image via Sony In an email viewed by Bloomberg last week, PlayStation president Jim Ryan wrote to employees asking them to “respect differences of opinion” regarding abortion rights before detailing his two cats’ recent birthday parties. Now, PlayStation and ...
Image via Twitch Twitch deleted the video of the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, yesterday. The company is also “monitoring for any accounts rebroadcasting this content,” according to a statement. Yesterday, a white 18-year-old male attacker opened fire ...
Screengrab via Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Executive director and video game industry advisor for the NPD Group Mat Piscatella said today that LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was the best selling game of April this year and the ...
Image via Square Enix Final Fantasy XIV has continued to bring in a solid profit for Square Enix amid the tepid drip of income from other non-MMO games produced by the company. Net sales declined from the previous fiscal ...
Image via Nintendo With financial report season in full swing, the NPD Group has confirmed that the Nintendo Switch has surpassed the PlayStation 4 in total lifetime sales in the United States, making it the fourth best-selling videogame console ...
Image via Unity Unity Technologies, the company responsible for the game engine Unity, will donate $623,000 to four international humanitarian charities—Ukraine International Medical Corps, Unicef, Nova Ukraine, and the Canadian Immigrant Aid Society—that are supporting the people of Ukraine ...
Image via Activision While mobile gaming has usually been all about casual gaming, this has started to change in the past few years. Now, one of the fastest-growing genres in mobile development is shooter games. The tremendous growth has ...
Image via Embracer Group It seems that news about the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has been on plenty of people’s minds lately. Those who were unaware of international affairs now have their eyes on its people as they ...
Image via Epic Games Epic Games has completed an unexpected deal, acquiring online music store and community Bandcamp. Bandcamp is best known as a platform that gives fans ways to support independent musicians directly while giving artists an average ...
Image via Galaxy Racer Galaxy Racer has appointed Akemi Sue Fisher as the CEO of Galaxy Racer’s new North American division as the MENA-based esports organization continues to diversify its stake in esports. Fisher has become a leader in ...
Image via GodLike Esports Indian esports organization GodLike Esports has signed professional cricket player, Rahul Tewatia, it revealed today. Tewatia doesn’t have a gaming or esports background and his signing has come as a surprise. GodLike, which has primarily ...
Image via Nintendo Nintendo has finalized its first studio acquisition since January 2021, bringing long-time development partner SRD Co. on as a subsidiary. SRD has closely worked with Nintendo on everything from developing full games to supplemental assistance with ...
Image via Riot Games Riot Games is reorganizing its business in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region with a “massive focus” on hyper-localization, it revealed in a press release. As a part of this, the company will be expanding its ...
Screengrab via Platinum Games In part of a larger interview with VGC, recently promoted PlatinumGames president and CEO Atsushi Inaba and vice president Hideki Kamiya have shared a lot of information about their thoughts and plans for the company ...
Image via Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed has long been Ubisoft’s premier franchise, spanning over 12 games across countless platforms. And the latest entry in the series, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, made history by becoming the first game in the long-running franchise ...
Image via Juked Esports streaming aggregation platform Juked officially launched its new mobile application today, but it’s more than what you might expect. The new application, available on the Apple App Store, is aiming to be a social esports ...
Image via Nerd Street Gamers Nerd Street Gamers has revealed its new partnership with FTX will see the US-regulated cryptocurrency exchange be a title sponsor for multiple Nerd Street events in the future. Cryptocurrency is the future for esports ...
Image via Nintendo Nintendo announced plans to buy back $432.9 million (56.36 billion Japanese yen) worth of shares in today’s annual financial results. The transaction will take place tomorrow, May 11. Nintendo has seen great sales success with the ...
Image via Garena Garena’s parent company Sea Limited shares have fallen substantially after reports emerged claiming its marquee mobile title Free Fire is getting banned in India. India was one of the biggest markets for Free Fire. According to ...
Image via Galaxy Racer Dubai-based esports organization Galaxy Racer has become the “Leading Arm” sponsor of the Canadian men’s national cricket team at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier A, it revealed in a press release today. As ...
Image via EA Sports EA and FIFA are set to end their long partnership. EA announced today that following the release of FIFA 23 later this year, the franchise will transition to a new name: EA SPORTS FC. Since ...
Image via Astralis Astralis, a major Danish esports organization that has teams in CS:GO, League of Legends, FIFA, Rainbow Six Siege, and Fortnite, is now the majority owner of PIXEL.TV, the first internet-based TV platform in Denmark. This is ...
Image via Nintendo Gary Bowser, who was arrested more than a year ago for his involvement in a piracy group known for its exploitation of various companies’ video game console devices, including Nintendo, has been sentenced to 40 months ...
Red flags Nobility Token Toxicity and blurred lines End of the line Employees left in limbo Image via Noble For a short time on Feb. 7, Noble Esports ceased to exist. After social media managers took over the company’s ...
Image via Activision Blizzard Activision Blizzard was a common sight in headlines during 2021. The company was hit by a massive gender discrimination lawsuit levied by the state of California, and its firings of QA workers at Raven Software ...