It's not even clear what kind of games the newly-carved up id Software can make.
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Major second-hand retailer warns loss of physical PlayStation games will mean higher prices for consumers and ‘fewer opportunities to shop around’
A major UK second hand retailer warns loss of physical PlayStation games will mean higher prices for shoppers.
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Laid-off id Software artist says Microsoft is ‘nuking the team into the dirt’ and is now the size of a ‘support studio’
"This is what insanity and despicable corporate greed looks like," said another artist.
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Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues
The BGS Union says employees were "almost immediately" instructed to dismantle their memorial.
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The games industry reacts to Xbox layoffs: ‘We are clearly at a turning point’
3,200 employees are being put out of work, and people have thoughts.
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Legendary former Tekken boss says people don’t ‘properly evaluate’ Hidetaka Miyazaki’s ‘remarkable’ FromSoft career
Harada says the Souls series "was the result of everything Miyazaki and his team had built up through their previous…
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Even Obsidian couldn’t escape the Xbox cuts, with losses ranging from a 21-year veteran artist to an engineer who’d only been there 2 months
No news was not, in fact, good news.
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French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon declares ‘Players have rights too!’ over the death of physical discs
"Videogames are not mere merchandise—they are cultural assets."
Read MoreBethesda Game Studios and ZeniMax hit hard by Xbox layoffs, says union
ZeniMax Online Studios and id Software have survived the latest bloodbath at Microsoft, but it sounds like they've been cut…
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Arkane temporarily spared in Xbox bloodbath thanks to French law, but its future is up in the air
Putting all my hopes and dreams on an independent Arkane.
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Xbox’s CEO wants its games to cater to ‘more than a billion people each day’, or 24 times more than the peak population of Steam, which is delusional
Alternate title: Does Xbox CEO Asha Sharma know what a billion is?
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Compulsion Games is returning to independent management amid sweeping Xbox reorganization: ‘Our immediate priority is to support our team’
Evading its previously-reported closure, Compulsion will retain its IP rights as it transitions to independent ownership.
Read MoreXbox is laying off 3,200 people and dumping 4 studios in ‘the most significant restructure in Xbox history’
Compulsion, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs are out, and the future doesn't sound very good for Arkane either.
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‘I find it really sad’: Hideo Kojima laments the current state of the videogame industry as companies turn away from physical discs
This is a warning for what is to come for the rest of the media landscape.
Read MoreXbox announces ‘the most significant restructure’ in its history — and it’ll cause 1,600 ‘painful’ job losses today and numerous studio sales
The rumors were true: Xbox announces thousands of job layoffs and some serious studio restructuring
Read MoreHideo Kojima describes Sony’s decision to end physical games as ‘scary’, warns that you ‘won’t own the data’ — ‘There’s a server somewhere, and you only have the right to turn on the tap’
Hideo Kojima has discussed the recent PlayStation physical game announcement.
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Steam Week in Review: Steam just got its first ‘dopamine site’, so you can fatten a fake backlog without spending a cent
All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending July 5.
Read MoreGTA 6 developer Rockstar Games accused of enabling crunch, failing to address gender pay gap, and weaponizing bonuses
GTA 6 studio Rockstar Games has been accused of enabling crunch, failing to address gender-based pay inequity, and weaponizing bonuses.
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‘Fewer than 10’ employees remain at Thick as Thieves studio following another round of layoffs
18 more people have been let go from OtherSide Entertainment, and the future does not look good.
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Former Call of Duty frontman launches new studio with a ‘Stop Killing Games’-style mission statement: If the game bombs, it goes open source
After the disastrous end of Midnight Society, Robert Bowling is back to try again.
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