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Neowiz to publish new title from Dishonored vets Korea’s Neowiz has acquired the publishing rights to the first title from Wolfeye Studios.  The yet-to-be-named title is a retro sci-fi first-person action RPG – sound familiar? – and is set to come to PC and console. Wolfeye Studios was founded in 2019 by Arkane veteran Raphael Colantonio ( pictured ) and Julien Roby; the developer’s first title was 2022’s Weird West.   &ld…

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Report: 94% of devs say AI is going to play “critical role” in QA’s future An overwhelming majority of game developers believe that artificial intelligence will play a “critical role” in the future of quality assurance.  That’s according to the new The State of Games QA report from AI startup Modl.ai, which spoke to over 300 game developers, including former staff from Netflix, Microsoft, Jagex and Reliance.  “Game development budgets are cli…

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Fireshine promotes Brian Foote to CEO Brian Foote is the new chief executive officer over at UK publisher Fireshine.  He joined the company in January of last year heading up business development having previously spent almost two years as director of business strategy for Team17. Prior to that, he worked for over seven years at PlayStation in public relations.  “Fireshine Games has achieved rapid growth in its digital busi…

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Sumo Group refocuses on work-for-hire development UK games firm Sumo Group is doubling down on its work-for-hire business.  In a post on LinkedIn , CEO Carl Cavers ( pictured ) wrote that this decision was in the name of “long-term stability” for the company. There’s no word yet as to whether there are going to be layoffs, and if so, how many staff will be affected, but the exec does say that there will be “an impact on studios and people”….

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Fallout: New Vegas writer Gonzalez returns to Obsidian The lead writer of Fallout: New Vegas, John Gonzalez, has returned to Obsidian.  In a post on LinkedIn, the development vet wrote that he was back at the studio, but added that he was not working on Fallout: New Vegas 2. Gonzalez initially worked at Obsidian between 2008 and 2011, having previously spent over two years at Ubisoft over in Shanghai.  Upon leaving the New Vegas maker, he j…

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Silent Hill 2 drove Konami's games revenue up 32% by Q3 Last year’s remake of the Silent Hill 2 helped boost Konami’s video games revenue by 32 per cent for the nine months ending December 2024.  The company’s financials for this period show that this division brought in ¥228.9 billion ($1.4 billion) for the period, while profit shot up by 44.6 per cent to ¥80.8 billion ($521 million). That is over Konami’s forecast of ¥80 billion in…