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Mintrocket, the developer of Dave the Diver, is now a wholly-owned subsidiary corporation of Nexon.  In a release on its corporate website , the company said that being its own company would “expand” its “brand and reputation” for making innovative titles quickly. The venture sits under Nexon’s Korean arm and Mintrocket’s current head – Jaeho Hwang – has been nominated as the stu…

Microsoft is cutting another 650 jobs from its Xbox division.  In a memo sent to staff earlier today – as reported by Bloomberg – games boss Phil Spencer said that this decision had been taken to “to organise our business for long term success”. The exec claims that the areas most impacted were ‘corporate and support’, adding that no games or hardware had been cancelled as part o…

Factory sim title Satisfactory has attracted over 100,000 concurrent players on Steam in the wake of its 1.0 release.  Per SteamDB – as reported by PC Gamer – the title hit a peak of 104,677 simultaneous users, by far the largest figure the game has had since its Steam Early Access release back in 2020.  Satisfactory actually launched on the Epic Games Store the previous yea…

Developer Midnight Society has confirmed it has had to cut some jobs.  In a statement to PC Gamer , the studio said that it had been forced to make “significant” layoffs due to “multiple unexpected challenges in recent months”. Certainly one of those challenges will no doubt be the controversy surrounding co-founder and internet personality Dr Disrespect, with whom the studio has now cut tie…

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Stock in French publishing giant Ubisoft has taken a slight dip in the wake of an open letter to management from a minority shareholder.  Slovakian hedge fund AJ Investments has called for the company to either be sold or be taken private in order to unlock what it believes is unfulfilled potential. The outfit’s boss, Juraj Krupa, has express “deep dissatisfaction” with Ubisoft’s performance…

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Embracer-owned Lost Boys Interactive has cut 139 jobs.  That’s according to a WARN notice filed with Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development – spotted by GI.biz – which shows that staff across 28 different states have been impacted by this cull.  Lost Boys announced last week on LinkedIn that it was cutting jobs, but did not specify how many members of staff were goi…

Publisher Merge Games is closing down its office in Chelford in the UK.  As reported by GI.biz , there’s no indication as to how many staff are impacted by these changes at the company. Merge’s portfolio is being integrated into parent company Maximum Entertainment as part of these changes.  “Within the context of previously announced reductions, we made the difficult but necessary deci…

Games platform Roblox is increasing the share of revenue that developers can receive from their premium titles on the service.  The news comes out of the Roblox Developers Conference 2024 , in which the company revealed that if players on desktop pay with real-world money, creators will be able to keep between 50 and 70 per cent. This is coming out later this year, with Roblox saying that th…

Today is a sad day for all the Freegunners out there. Concord servers are officially offline, making it inaccessible to those who want to play…….

The founder of Tango Gameworks, Shinji Mikami, has said that he was shocked by Microsoft’s decision to close the studio.  Speaking to IGN , the Japanese development vet said that he thought that the outfit would be safe so long as it continued making games in the Hi-Fi Rush series. He added that this was part of the reason he left the studio.  “I had thought the studio would be safe as…

Street Fighter 6 has shifted over four million units since its release in 2023.  That’s according to the game’s official Twitter , which posted the milestone and thanked its players for supporting the fighting title. Street Fighter 6 was launched in June 2023 and sold over one million copies within its first week on sale.  For the sake of comparison, 2016’s Street Fighter 5 took four ye…

The developers of 80 titles have agreed to become members of SAG-AFTRA.  In a post on the union’s website , the organisation wrote that it had agreements from 80 games, including Ark maker Studio Wildcard and indie developer Little Bat Games. This follows SAG-AFTRA members going on strike over concerns about artificial intelligence. The union recently secured an AI protection deal for actors…

Chinese smash hit Black Myth: Wukong has sold more than 18 million units to date.  That’s according to Daniel Wu, the largest external shareholder in developer Game Science, who shared the figure with Bloomberg . The outlet also told that Black Myth: Wukong had a $70 million budget, a large chunk of which has come from Wu’s Hero Games.  The investor also believes that Black Myth can shi…