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The new CEO of Unity, Matthew Bromberg, has explained why the company decided to ditch its unpopular runtime fee policy.  Speaking at the GamesBeat Next 2024 event , the chief exec said that early on in his tenure at the head of the firm was to figure out what to do about the policy that had been introduced under the governance of his predecessor, John Riccitiello. Bromberg says that he ente…

Quality assurance staff at ZeniMax Studios went on strike earlier this week in protest of the company’s lack of remote work options.  The Communication Workers of America (CWA) said that this was due to a lack of progress when it came to negotiations between the union and Microsoft on a few key subjects; lack of remote work options and ZeniMax replacing QA staff with contractors. This follow…

Swedish games firm Embracer Group has reported a 46 per cent decline in PC and console net sales for the second quarter of the year.  This division brought in SEK 2.12 billion ($192 million) for the three months ending September 30th, by far the biggest loss of any single arm at the company. Embracer says that its roster for the quarter was thin as it was, but what PC and console titles did…

The Anti-Defamation League has claimed that Valve allows “the proliferation of hate” on Steam.  In a new report – spotted by Eurogamer – the organisation said that it had found over 1.8 million “unique instances” of extremist or hate content across the PC platform. Over 1.5 million users and 73,824 groups had used “at least one potentially extremist or hateful symbol, copypasta o…

French games giant Ubisoft has hired Sébastien Froidefond as its new chief people officer.  They will be starting on November 20th and will be reporting into Cécile Russeil, the company’s EVP of comms, corporate affairs, DEI, accessibility, HR and legal.  Froidefond has worked in the human resources industry for over 30 years, most recently as HR lead for the Americas for…

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US developer Ruckus Games has secured $19 million in Series A funding.  The investment was led by Korean games firm Krafton, with Bitkraft Ventures, Transcend, and Hypergryph also chipping, and is going to be funding the studio’s debut title. Said project is a co-op shooter.  Ruckus was founded by veterans of Gearbox and Riot Games back in 2021. The creative director on Borderlands 3, P…

Microsoft still has an interest in further mergers and acquisitions for its games business.  That’s according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who told Bloomberg that the Big M was interested in expanding its games business again. The exec did say that there was nothing “imminent” to be announced, adding that it might not be interested in larger deals due to the firm still working to absorb Activi…

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Valve has rolled out some new APIs for Steamworks that will make it easier for players to switch game version on Steam.  In a blog post , the PC giant wrote that developers will be able to have their users move into beta branches or switch back to older versions of the game. The new APIs are called GetCurrentBetaName, GetNumBetas, GetBetaInfo and SetActiveBeta. Players can switch branches fr…

Korean games firm Neowiz has signed a multi-million publishing deal with Polish developer Zakazane.  GamesBeat reports that the Lies of P maker has purchased the global publishing rights for $8 million for the studio’s first project, an Old West RPG. Zakazane was founded back in 2022 by veterans of CD Projekt Red and 11Bit Studios.  “Neowiz is committed to delivering remarkable, s…

Spanish games developer Tequila Works has filed for insolvency.  In a statement to GI.biz , the studio’s general manager Térence Mosca said that “market conditions” have meant that the company has to go under. That being said, the GM said that he is “proud” of what Tequila Works has accomplished.  Mosca previously was chief operating officer at the studio but has since moved to b…

Industry veteran Pim Holfve has been named as the new chief executive officer of indie publisher Raw Fury.  As reported by GI.biz , he is taking over from the company’s previous CEO and founder, Jónas Antonsson, who is moving to become head honcho at Raw Fury’s parent company Combined Effort. Holfve has worked at a variety of companies including Avalanche Studios and King.  “I’m…

Long-time Capcom employee Hideaki Itsuno is helming a new Lightspeed Studio developer.    GI.biz reports that Lightspeed Japan Studio will be working on triple-A titles and is based across Tokyo and Osaka. Itsuno left Capcom in September of this year after over 30 years at the company.  “It is our great honour to have Hideaki Itsuno join Lightspeed Studios,” Lightspeed president Je…