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New Concord Details Reveal a Higher Budget and Troubled Development
Concord’s crash and burn is more devastating for Sony than initial reports suggested. If you haven’t been paying attention to this – I won’t say “If you haven’t played Concord” because about three people have played Concord – this game was supposed to be Sony’s darling release th...
Read MoreDevelop at Ubisoft Program is Only for Women and “Non-Binary” Applicants
As Ubisoft crumbles, it’s keeping its priorities set on DEI. The video game studio behind Star Wars Outlaws, which is currently embarrassing everyone involved with it on multiple fronts, just wrapped this year’s Develop at Ubisoft, a mentorship program in which Ubisoft veterans teach college stu...
Read MoreCompetitors Concord and Dustborn Help Explain Black Myth: Wukong’s Success
We’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 MoreBlack Myth Wukong Review Guidelines Ban “Feminist Propaganda”
The makers of Black Myth: Wukong are not playing around with games journalists. The Soulslike action RPG from Chinese studio Game Science (their first game, which is hard to believe when you see how good it looks) will be released tomorrow, August 20, on PlayStation 5 and PC – and Xbox Series X|S...
Read MoreMicrosoft Eliminates DEI Team
A sea change appears to be coming in the tech industry. In April, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a memo that the company’s employees were to leave their politics out of the workplace. Now comes news – first reported by Business Insider – that Microsoft is going even further. Starting July 1, 2...
Read MoreStellar Blade Developer Shift Up Goes Public, Institutes ESG Reports
Shift Up’s tenure as a video game studio that catered to its fans may be over. The South Korean company that made this year’s hit game Stellar Blade has just become a publicly traded company, and so far, it’s quite successful, getting $320 million in its initial public offering, according to B...
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