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Toadman Interactive closes offices in Sweden and Norway Swedish developer Toadman Interactive has shut down its offices in Stockholm, Visby and Oslo.  In a post on LinkedIn , the company wrote that some staff at its Berlin studio are also at risk.  “Like many other game companies, we have gone through a tough period over the last 12 months, and, unfortunately, that means that we are shutting down our offices in Stockholm, Visby, and Oslo, as…

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Until Dawn remake studio Ballistic Moon makes layoffs Developer Ballistic Moon has made a number of layoffs ahead of the release of the remake of Until Dawn.  In a post on LinkedIn , the company confirmed speculation that it was making job cuts, saying that it has had to lay staff off due to issues in the industry. This follows some of the staff affected taking to LinkedIn to say that they had lost their jobs.  “As the games industry conti…

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CHARTS: COD Black Ops 6 pre-orders take No.2 on Steam Pre-orders for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 were the second highest grossing game on Steam last week.  The latest entry in the shooter franchise rose up six places week-on-week on the back of a beta rolling out on August 30th. Black Ops 6 is set to launch on October 25th.  Black Myth: Wukong was once again the biggest seller on Steam for the second week since its release, whil…

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CD Projekt sales up 31% year-on-year Polish games firm CD Projekt has reported a 30.7 per cent increase in net sales year-on-year.  The firm brought in PLN424.8 million ($109 million) for the three months ending June 30th, while the company’s profit shot up 88.7 per cent to PLN 170 million ($43 million). This is no doubt due to sales of Cyberpunk 2077 and its Phantom Liberty expansion – the latter was not out in the same…

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Capcom vet Hideaki Itsuno has left the company After over 30 years, Hideaki Itsuno has left Capcom.  The development vet took to Twitter to announce his departure, saying that he left the Japanese games giant at the end of August. Itsuno said that he would be starting work on a new project in “a new environment” though he hasn’t shared any additional information about where this is.  Itsuno has worked on many of Capcom’s biggest IP…

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Report: Tencent and NetEase reconsidering Japanese bets It appears that Chinese games firms Tencent and NetEase are thinking twice about the money they have been investing in Japanese companies.  Bloomberg reports that the duo is unhappy with the return on investment they have had in the country. In part, there appears to be a mismatch of ambitions; the Chinese games firms went to Japan hoping for flagship blockbuster titles but the developers it…