Warner Bros. Games are sending up the Batsignal. As I mentioned yesterday while talking about the Hogwarts Legacy sequel, Warner Bros. is having a tough time in its video games department (not just there, but also there), with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League bombing hard and losing them $20...
Read MoreGamers have been sending the video game industry and their media satellites a clear message recently, and their response is morphing into something even more insidious. Recent games designed with the “modern audience” in mind have been bombing, with Concord, Dustborn, Star Wars Outlaws, and Sui...
Read MoreWe’ve watched Black Myth: Wukong, the new Soulslike game from Chinese developer Game Science, become a legitimate sensation over the past week, with 2,415,714 concurrent players at its all-time peak on Steam and a 95.58% positive audience score as of this writing. It’s also on track to be the fa...
Read MoreWarner Bros. is considering changing up its approach to video games following another bad earnings call. The company is still feeling the effects of the disastrous Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, the follow-up to Rocksteady’s Arkham games that, according to the previous earnings call in M...
Read MoreThe slew of layoffs throughout the video game industry has reached Bungie, the former developer of Halo. The studio is letting go of 220 employees, which is about 17% of its workforce, while 155 others are moving to Sony Interactive Entertainment, which owns Bungie. (Bungie used to be owned by Micro...
Read MoreHow big a failure was Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League? According to a recent Warner Bros. earnings call (via Video Games Chronicle), it was big enough to sink their entire financial quarter. During the call, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav blamed the “decrease in revenue” on the d...
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