Tag: Business
Pixar Lays Off 14% of Workforce
The Hollywood Reporter exclusively reveals that Pixar will lay off 14% of its workforce, or roughly 175 employees. Before this reduction, 1,300 people worked for Pixar. Higher-ups will not be impacted. These cuts are part of Disney CEO Bob Iger’s ongoing cost-cutting measures. These cuts were firs...
Read MoreBox Office Breakdown for Weekend of 5/19/24
What’s up, Geeks + Gamers? It’s ODIN! IF Wins with Light Open as Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Holds Strong As the summer box office continues to roll, so do its unpredictability and volatility. This past weekend, the new Ryan Reynolds-starring and John Krasinsky-directed film about imagin...
Read MoreNext Call of Duty Game Coming Straight to Game Pass
Xbox’s desperation is showing. Last week, Microsoft’s senior public relations manager, Brian Hilderbrand, said the reason Xbox was closing some Bethesda studios and merging others was because Game Pass – the Xbox subscription service – was losing money on video game sales by allowing gamers ...
Read MoreEmail Reveals Activision’s DEI Mania
Someone at Activision wants the whole world to know how excruciating it must be to work there. The video game publisher of Call of Duty, some Crash Bandicoot games, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 send out emails to their employees, keeping them abreast of all their woke initiatives, policies, an...
Read MoreThe Truth About The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Box Office
What’s up, Geeks + Gamers? It’s ODIN! Many in the box office media have been pointing to the larger than expected opening for the latest movie in the Planet of the Apes franchise, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Making over $130 million globally and over $58 million domestically, there is no ...
Read MoreEA Considering In-Game Ads
It was probably inevitable, but that doesn’t mean gamers are going to like it. In a recent quarterly earnings call, Andrew Wilson, the Chairman and CEO of video game company Electronic Arts, answered a question from an internet analyst from Goldman Sachs, who asked about advertising as a source of...
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