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September 2024 Archive

    1. Football Manager 24's "record-breaking" year reaches 14m+ players | News-in-brief
    2. UEFN developer Future Trash raises $5m in seed funding
    3. EA turns to the fans to keep The Sims relevant
    4. Nexon America lays off "small number" of staff
    5. Will Assassin's Creed Shadows suffer from its delay? | Microcast
    6. Epic suing Google and Samsung over Auto Blocker's barrier to other app stores
    7. Valve dropping individual arbitration for consumer complaints in the US
    8. Pokémon Unite shutting down in Belgium and Netherlands next year
    1. Nintendo's patents were designed to take on Palworld | Opinion
    2. Tencent loans €15m to Remedy
    3. Grand Theft Auto 5 is No.1 again in August | European Monthly Charts
    4. Arvore's road to becoming an Emmy-winning VR developer
    5. Dome Keeper sells 1m units | News-in-brief
    6. Manor Lords reaches over 2.5m units sold | News-in-brief
    7. California law compels digital storefronts to inform players they don't own their games
    8. Sony embraces its PlayStation history | Opinion
    9. EA to sunset The Simpsons: Tapped Out
    1. Ghosts of Tabor passes $20m revenue | News-in-brief
    2. Vampire Survivor developer Poncle opens publishing arm
    3. Time spent gaming in Southeast Asia up 53% after post-pandemic drop
    4. How São Paulo state is helping Brazil's games scene become self-sustainable
    5. Merge Games closing down after 15 years
    6. Ubisoft workers urged to strike in October over return to office
    7. Meta Quest 3S will launch on October 15
    8. Assassin's Creed Shadows delay is a real gamble for Ubisoft | Opinion
    9. Gris sales top 3 million | News-in-brief
    10. Mountaintop Studios makes "difficult decision" to lay off 13
    11. Meet the ex-footballer who built one of Brazil's largest games studios
    1. Former Bandai Namco president Shukuo Ishikawa dies aged 69
    2. Ubisoft revises financial targets after "soft" sales of Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows delay
    3. Behold Studios' second life
    4. Pixel Gun 3D reaches over $210m in revenue | News-in-brief
    5. Oxford University study with PowerWash Simulator finds 72% feel happier while playing games
    6. Why supporting indies is the key to growing the Brazilian games industry
    7. Hood: Outlaws and Legends to shut down | News-in-brief
    1. Advertising Standards Authority bans five UK ads for "misleading impressions"
    2. SAG-AFTRA calls strike against League of Legends, files unfair labour practice against Formosa
    3. Black Myth Wukong top-grossing game for August 2024 | Newzoo Charts
    4. Gamurs Group employees reportedly hit with more layoffs
    5. Pokémon Sleep surpasses $120m in revenue
    6. No Time To Relax dev Porcelain Fortress raises $3m
    7. How Brazil's new legal framework for games will change the industry
    8. Behaviour Interactive acquires Darkest Dungeon dev Red Hook Studios
    9. Frostpunk 2 has sold 350,000 copies | News-in-brief
    10. Don't Nod pauses two projects as Jusant and Banishers sales dissapoint
    11. Unicorn Overlord ships over 1m units globally | News-in-brief
    12. Film production company Stellarblade sues Sony over Stellar Blade
    1. NetEase subsidiary Skybox Labs lays off 25 people
    2. Airship Syndicate cuts another 16 jobs
    3. Nitro Games extends Warframe developer Digital Extremes partnership with new $5.5m deal
    4. X ban in Brazil: "Allowing Musk to disregard court orders sets a dangerous precedent"
    5. Two games addiction lawsuits dismissed
    6. PlatinumGames acquires Wonderful 101 trademark | News-in-brief
    7. The Brazilian games industry in numbers
    8. Brazil, a nation of small studios with a big future
    9. Annapurna Interactive split reportedly caused by staff concerns over company direction
    10. Watch the 2024 GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards UK
    11. The Pokémon vs Palworld legal battle we did (and didn't) expect | GI Microcast
    12. Nerd Street Gamers raises $6m in funding round
    1. GamesIndustry.biz's Brazil Games Week begins on Monday
    2. 75% of games sold in August were downloaded | UK Monthly Charts
    3. Final Fantasy's sales crisis is also an identity crisis | Opinion
    4. Concord director reportedly steps down, Firewalk fears layoffs
    5. Microsoft shutting down Xbox Ambassadors | News-in-brief
    6. Unity 6 launches October 17
    1. Nazara raises $108m to bolster M&A activities
    2. How Mike Morhaime's Dreamhaven helps indies with "the good, bad and ugly" of launching games
    3. The GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work UK Awards 2024 in pictures
    4. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company sue Palworld developer Pocketpair
    5. Playtika acquires SuperPlay for $700 million
    1. Square Enix says sales of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 "did not meet expectations"
    2. Minecraft to end PSVR support from March next year | News-in-brief
    3. Midwinter shut down following Project T cancellation
    4. Winners of the UK Best Places To Work Awards 2024 revealed
    5. Metacore shuts down development on Everdale and returns it to creator Supercell
    6. Kabam to sunset Disney Mirrorverse | News-in-brief
    7. Gamebeast raises $3.7 million in pre-seed funding
    8. Blurring lines: How AAA and indies can benefit each other | Opinion
    9. Star Wars Jedi series reaches over 40m players | News-in-brief
    10. EA to "disrupt the sequel model" by dropping sequential release for the Sims
    1. The Pokémon Company wins $15m copyright lawsuit against Chinese Pokémon clone
    2. EA expects to "outpace market growth" through to 2027
    3. Australia introduces new "mandatory classifications" for games with "gambling-like" content
    4. Ubisoft targets staff to be in the office at least three days a week
    5. Former Capcom, Ubisoft, WayForward, and Riot devs form Pahdo Labs
    6. Making The Plucky Squire (before someone else did)
    7. TouchArcade to shut down
    8. The Minecraft studio and Minecraft YouTuber looking to transform sandbox gaming
    9. Epic launching unified Fab marketplace in mid-October
    10. Lighthouse Games moves to new office in Leamington Spa
    11. Team17 revenue rose 11% during H1 2024
    12. The PS5 Pro and Ubisoft's woes | Microcast
    1. IBM wins $44.9m in infringement lawsuit against Zynga
    2. VR studio nDreams is set to lay off up to 17.5% of its staff
    3. Intel reportedly lost PlayStation 6 chip deal to AMD
    4. Cheap money and bad bets: How the games industry turned pandemic success into disaster
    5. Fake vintage consoles and games worth almost €50 million seized in Italy
    6. Flappy Bird returns after a decade as fan group acquires trademark
    7. Saber Interactive secures investors to help clear debt to Embracer
    1. Control 2, Wanderstop and Mixtape among projects unaffected by Annapurna collapse
    2. What's ailing Ubisoft? | Opinion
    3. First Ontario game dev labour union formed at Joydrop, majority of staff who voted reportedly laid off
    4. Absurd Ventures launches new studio with Ascendant Studios staff
    5. Embracer confirms it's keeping Metro dev 4A Games and Zen Studios following Saber sale
    6. Suda51: "Everyone cares too much about Metacritic scores"
    1. Annapurna Interactive team quits after spin-off talks fail
    2. Latino Representation in Gaming Coalition wants more transparency and representation in games
    3. Campfire raises $3.95m for generative AI engine, Sprites
    4. Drama Studios announces new $2.5m seed series investment round
    5. Unity cancels Runtime Fee
    6. How well will the PS5 Pro sell?
    7. Valve introduces improved parental controls with Steam Families
    8. Microsoft cuts another 650 staff from games division
    9. Epic, EA, Roblox, and more face EU complaint over tricking players into spending
    10. A second chance for Shinji Mikami and Suda51's lesser-known collaboration
    11. Borderlands movie only made $31m at global box office
    1. Nexon establishes Dave the Diver developer Mintrocket as a new wholly owned subsidiary corporation
    2. Niko's 2024 India Gamer Market Report shows 65.4% of gamers engage with esports
    3. Cypher Games raises $10m in latest fundraising round
    4. Magify raises €1m in funding
    5. Krafton invests $89 million in short form K-drama firm Spoon Labs
    6. The problem with PS5 Pro isn't the price tag | Opinion
    7. GameStop Q2 sales down 45% as more stores due to close down
    8. Midnight Society affected by layoffs
    1. Warhammer 40K: Space Marines 2 hits 2 million players in 24 hours | News-in-brief
    2. 52 Entertainment acquires "casual games" studio, Blackout
    3. FDA clears DeepWell SDK to be used in games for stress reduction
    4. PS5 Pro launches November 7 for $699.99
    5. New studio Mother Games raises $5m in pre-seed round
    6. Headup's future as an independent company
    7. Here are the finalists for the 2024 GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards UK
    8. iPhone 16 "puts a powerful gaming device in users' pockets," Apple claims
    9. Lost Boys Interactive to lay off 139 staff
    1. Ubisoft's share price tumbles again as minority investor calls for the company to go private
    2. Netflix Games surpasses 210m lifetime downloads
    3. Why there will never be another Destiny
    4. Why Sony shouldn't give up after Concord | Microcast
    5. Merge Games closes Chelford office and announces layoffs
    6. Powerful Baseball Pro remains No.1 for second consecutive month | Japan Monthly Charts
    7. How Indie Game Incubator seeks to take Japanese indies global
    8. Former Capcom devs Hideaki Utsumi and Saori Utsumi form new studio | News-in-brief
    9. Roblox to allow devs to sell premium titles with up to 70% revenue share
    1. Spiders leadership announces audit of working conditions at the studio
    2. What does the Digital Markets Act mean for mobile game developers?
    3. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund to transfer its gaming stock to Savvy Games Group
    4. Dutch Game Garden shutting down next year
    5. Concord raises questions over Sony's live-service competence | Opinion
    6. Raccoon Logic: "Let people own the game they bought"
    7. Developers behind 80 games sign deals with SAG-AFTRA
    8. Street Fighter 6 reaches 4 million units sold | News-in-brief
    1. Making Revenge of the Savage Planet an unexpected (and expected) sequel
    2. More than 75 UK game developers set for GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit
    3. Does the rise of 'expandalone' games mean the end for big DLC?
    4. Microsoft reportedly apologises to Jyamma following issues with Enotria Xbox certification
    5. SAG-AFTRA secures first AI protection deal for actors with Lightspeed LA
    6. Timbre Games reopens as independent studio
    1. In-game audio ad firm Odeeo secures $5m investment
    2. Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science adds PS2 to Future Technology Heritage registry | News-in-brief
    3. Microsoft slams Apple fee, says it can't monetise its cloud gaming services as a result
    4. Riot adjusts regional pricing of virtual currency across its live games
    5. Find out how to maintain progress against an EDI backlash at our HR Summit
    6. How many players does a game like Concord need to survive?
    7. AimJunkies denied new trial against Bungie
    8. Ubisoft share price falls to 10-year low after Star Wars Outlaws launch
    1. Sony pulls Concord from sale with immediate effect
    2. "Sega isn't limiting us": Rovio's first year after the €706m acquisition
    3. Square Enix to shut down Final Fantasy Brave Exvius | News-in-brief
    4. Former devs from Until Dawn remake studio Ballistic Moon say they've been laid off
    5. Did Sony send Concord out to die? | Microcast
    6. Zynga exits web3 project Sugartown
    7. Risk of Rain dev Hopoo Games on hiatus as co-founders join Valve
    8. Tilting Point to lay off around 90 employees
    1. Helldivers 2 support studio Toadman Interactive to shut offices in Sweden and Norway
    2. Capcom's Resident Evil mobile games now require an internet connection
    3. Co-creator of Wizardry, Andrew C. Greenberg, has died aged 67
    4. Nintendo revises content creator guidelines to make it easier to object to "inappropriate" content
    5. Rocksteady reportedly lays off staff following Suicide Squad woes
    6. Why major UK film PR agency DDA is moving into games
    7. 60% of Brits don't consider careers in the creative sector as 'real jobs'
    8. New leadership for Nintendo of Europe following continental reorganisation
    9. Thomas Koegler appointed CEO of Asmodee
    10. Hideaki Itsuno leaves Capcom