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Update: Sony has identified individuals responsible for The Last of Us Part 2 leaks, saying they were not affiliated with either Sony or Naughty Dog

The Last of Us Part 2 leaked online

Original story, April 27, 2020: A major leak has spread spoilers for The Last of Us Part 2 far and wide across the inte…

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Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft to require loot box odds disclosure

The Entertainment Software Association has said that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are working on new policies to requi…

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The former head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios believes the AAA model needs a rethink "Instead of spending five years making an 80 hour game, what does three years and a 15 hour game look like?"

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Psychonauts 2 wins Game of the Year at New York Game Awards 2022

The New York Game Awards 2022 crowned Psychonauts 2 as its game of the year.Double Fine's platformer also won an award …

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Five former Ubisoft executives, including Serge Hascoët and Tommy François, have been arrested following a year-long investigation into claims of sexual assault and harassment

Five former Ubisoft executives arrested after sexual harassment investigation

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Five former executives from Ubisoft have b…

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"From Microsoft Flight Simulator to Psychonauts 2 to Age of Empires 4 to Forza Horizon 5 to Halo: Infinite, Xbox has finished 2021 as the year's top games publisher, and made Game Pass look even more irresistible in the process"

Xbox is the games publisher of 2021 | Opinion

There was a candid quote that Xbox's head of studios Matt Booty gave us back in 2019. I was fascinated to find out what…

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Masayuki Uemura, Nintendo engineer behind the NES and SNES consoles, has died

Nintendo engineer Masayuki Uemura dies aged 78

Masayuki Uemura, a former engineer at Nintendo passed away on December 6. Uemura joined the console giant back in 1972,…

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Rockstar has been “working 100-hour weeks” on Red Dead Redemption 2 Studio co-founder Dan Houser details the effort put into the upcoming Wild West epic

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People of the Year: Phil Spencer PlayStation may have dominated the charts, but it was Xbox that got the games industry talking

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A lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing details Activision Blizzard's toxic culture, a "breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women"

Lawsuit filed against Activision Blizzard for harassment and discrimination against women

Content warning: The following article discusses sexual harassment, sexual abuse and suicide.The California Department …

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"The main reason we [were] shooting for a sequel is because the codebase of Among Us 1 is so outdated and not built to support adding so much new content"

Among Us 2 cancelled in favour of expanding the first game

Indie multiplayer hit Among Us will not be getting a sequel.Developer Innersloth announced via a blog post that it has …

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Update: Sony has denied reports it has cut PS5 production numbers

Sony: "We have not changed the production number for PlayStation 5"

Update: Sony has reached out to GamesIndustry.biz with the following statement denying the Bloomberg report:“While we d…

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Respawn's new Vancouver studio will focus entirely on Apex Legends

Respawn marks its ten-year anniversary with a new Vancouver studio

When Apex Legends launched in February of last year, Respawn Entertainment had laid the groundwork for its momentum thr…

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GTA V has outperformed the highest-grossing films, albums and books to become the biggest entertainment product of all time

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Sony to buy Bungie for $3.6 billion

Sony buying Bungie for $3.6 billion

Sony Interactive Entertainment today announced a deal to acquire Bungie for $3.6 billion, the latest in a string of big…

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In June, The Last of Us Part 2 sold more copies than the rest of the Top Ten combined

PlayStation unseats Nintendo in June with The Last of Us Part 2 l UK Charts

PlayStation dominated June thanks to the release of The Last of Us Part 2, according to the latest GfK market data. The…

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Nintendo's latest game comfortably beats Metroid Prime 3's launch week

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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has sold around 8m units

Though EA and publishers like it may be leaning into more games with ongoing content and live services, the company now…

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Xbox buys Bethesda parent Zenimax, including internal studios such as id Software and Arkane - but Bethesda will still publish its own titles

Xbox buys Bethesda parent ZeniMax for $7.5bn

Microsoft has announced the surprise acquisition of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks.The deal co…

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Playtonic removes controversial YouTuber JonTron from Yooka-Laylee

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PS5 hits 10m sales. Spider-Man: Miles Morales delivers 6.5m sales, MLB: The Show surpasses 2m, Ratchet & Clank over 1m

PS5 is the fastest-selling PlayStation as it hits 10m sales milestone

PlayStation 5 is Sony's fastest-selling games console after surpassing 10 million sales worldwide.The new console reach…

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Half-Life and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw returns to Valve

Half-Life 2 and Portal co-writer Erik Wolpaw has reportedly returned to Valve, according an email from Gabe Newell leak…

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Three businessmen with links to CEO Bobby Kotick bought $108 million worth of Activision Blizzard shares four days before Microsoft acquisition

Trio of Activision Blizzard shareholders reportedly under investigation

American businessmen Barry Diller, David Geffen, and Alexander von Furstenberg are reportedly under investigation for i…

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"The Game Pass deal allowed me to fund the rest of the game, make it profitable, and still do everything I wanted to do with a publisher, without having to get a publisher"

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Borderlands 3 has broken multiple series and publisher records, with sell-in of more than five million units

Borderlands 3 is the fastest selling game in 2K's history

The latest Borderlands outing has broken multiple records for both the series and the 2K Games publishing label.Take-Tw…

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Nintendo, Xbox, Capcom, Konami, Ubisoft, Take-Two, Warner Bros and Koch Media will take part in June

Nintendo, Xbox and Ubisoft back digital-only E3 2021

E3 2021 will return this June in digital form, and has been backed by Nintendo, Xbox, Capcom, Konami, Ubisoft, Take-Two…

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Guerrilla's Hermen Hulst is now head of Worldwide Studios at PlayStation as Shuhei Yoshida takes charge of indie dev relations

Guerrilla Games' Hermen Hulst is PlayStation's new head of Worldwide Studios

PlayStation has named Guerrilla Games managing director and co-founder Hermen Hulst as its new head of Worldwide Studio…

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Sony will buy Jade Raymond's Haven Studios, which is currently working on a live service multiplayer game for PS5

PlayStation to buy Jade Raymond's Haven Studios: Sony's first developer in Canada

PlayStation has agreed to fully acquire Haven Studios, the development team led by Assassin's Creed, Star Wars and Goog…

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Man breaks into Valve, steals $40,000 of equipment, games

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God of War reaches ten million lifetime sales

PlayStation 4 exclusive God of War has sold more than ten million units since launching in April last year. Developed b…

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"PS5 is about God of War and Final Fantasy and Horizon and Resident Evil and Spider-Man and Hitman. Big, high-quality, AAA gaming experiences that you play on your own, with a fancy headset and controller"

If Xbox is Netflix, then PS5 is cinema | Console analysis

I was excited to get hands on with PS5 and Xbox Series X, not just because I love games, but because I really wanted to…

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The Last of Us Part II is Sony's fastest-selling PS4 release in the UK

The Last of Us Part 2 smashes sales records | UK Charts

The Last of Us Part 2 has shot to the top of the UK boxed charts in significant fashion.The action horror game is Sony'…

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In a space that's still struggling with a lack of diversity, @SonicFox5000 refuses to let anyone stop them from showing the world that everyone, regardless of gender, sexuality, or ethnicity, belongs in esports and the fighting game community.

People of the Year 2019: SonicFox and Blitzchung

A quick search of our website for the word "political" as uttered in 2019 reveals multiple major industry companies and…

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"We want to take that success and capitalise on it by building the first great studio of the 2020s" Team Adopt Me's @tactful on what the future holds for the most successful studio on Roblox

Adopt Me: The most popular game you've never played

If one were asked to write a list of the most popular games in the world in 2020, the majority would contain a handful …

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"Simply launching a good, competent demo that lets people genuinely sink their teeth into the game for a couple of hours is a rare enough event, then – but the success of FF16's demo is far more deep-rooted than that."

FF16's demo is a masterclass in pre-launch marketing | Opinion

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox It's rare to be able to watch public opini…

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In light of Cyberpunk's console performance "the heavy-handed NDAs and refusal to provide any console code at all amounts to CDPR deliberately trying to cover up a major problem with its game that it was fully aware of"

Cyberpunk 2077 launches with some real dystopia in tow | Opinion

With the possible exception of Rockstar's inevitable sequel to Grand Theft Auto 5 -- whatever form that eventually take…

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Bethesda's Todd Howard to receive Industry Legend Award @gamelab Howard will be interviewed by Geoff Keighley following award presentation at the Barcelona dev conference

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Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red is being investigated by Poland's Office of Competition and Consumer Protection

Polish competition watchdog investigating Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red is being investigated by Poland's Office of Competition and Consumer Protection…

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PlayStation: "In support of the #StopHateForProfit campaign, we have globally suspended our Facebook and Instagram activity."

PlayStation suspends Facebook advertising

PlayStation is the latest major organisation to temporarily stop advertising on Facebook and Instagram.It's part of the…

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Epic's Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite video is an irresponsible piece of corporate propaganda | Opinion

You could easily be forgiven for instinctively marveling or laughing yesterday at the video that accompanied Epic's sud…

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Update: Xbox Game Pass reaches 10m subscribers

Microsoft's gaming revenues flat in Q3 2020

Between the effects of COVID-19, post-holiday lulls, and the continued waning console cycle, it was a quiet Q3 for Micr…

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CMA calls on the public for its views on Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard

The CMA has opened a public call for evidence regarding Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard. This comes a week …

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UPDATE: Deal was worth $7.5 billion, all future Bethesda titles will be available via Game Pass from launch

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Xbox buys Bethesda parent Zenimax, including internal studios such as id Software and Arkane - but Bethesda will still publish its own titles

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SOC calls for Activision Blizzard to cancel all 2021 bonuses for execs due to the "unaddressed problem of sexual harassment" at the firm

SOC Investment Group: Activision Blizzard execs need to be held accountable for toxic working...

In recent years, one organisation has been calling out some of the biggest companies in video games when it comes to ex…

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"It's very hard to launch a $120m game on a subscription service charging $9.99 a month" - Shawn Layden

Shawn Layden: Consolidation is the enemy of diversity

At Gamelab last year, Shawn Layden grabbed headlines for calling out the spiralling costs of game development.Although …

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PlayStation exclusive games received 38% of all the nominations available at this year's BAFTA Game Awards

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A senior PlayStation exec has been fired after being caught by an amateur paedophile sting operation

PlayStation VP fired after being caught by paedophilia sting operation

Content warning: This report features references to paedophilia and sexual conversations.A senior PlayStation executive…

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PlayStation 5 is the biggest console launch in history, as Sony confirms it outperforms PS4

PS5 is biggest console launch in history

The PlayStation 5 has outsold its forebear in the first two weeks, making it not only the biggest PlayStation launch bu…

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The State of California has expanded its lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, now suing on behalf of contractors and claiming the publisher has shredded documents needed for the investigation

Activision Blizzard lawsuit expanded to include contractors, claims publisher shredded documents

The State of California has expanded its lawsuit against Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard, now stating the su…

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As legal proceedings are kickstarted, internal sources point at the lack of accountability since reports of toxic culture emerged at Ubisoft last year

Ubisoft has reportedly made minimal changes following abuse allegations

Ubisoft is not out of the woods yet following the numerous allegations of harassment and sexual misconduct at the compa…

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Sony and Nintendo have agreed to update their subscription guidelines following CMA investigation

Sony and Nintendo to update subscription guidelines

Both Sony and Nintendo have agreed to update guidelines pertaining to their respective online subscription services, fo…

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Maneater co-developer Shipwright Studios is cancelling all contracts with Tripwire Interactive over president's anti-abortion views

Shipwright Studios cuts ties with Tripwire Interactive over president's anti-abortion views

US developer Shipwright Studios has begun cancelling all contracts with Maneater creator Tripwire Interactive after the…

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CD Projekt CEO Adam Kicinski says abandoning Cyberpunk development is “not an option”

CD Projekt has no plans to shelve Cyberpunk 2077

Developer CD Projekt is dedicated to fixing Cyberpunk 2077 so it can continue to sell "for years to come," despite a ro…

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"It's disturbing Wolfenstein can be considered a controversial political statement" @DCDeacon on anti-Nazi stance

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6 years

PUBG Corp donating $2m to charity

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PS5 games take the No.1, No,2 and No.3 spots

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Solidaires Informatique accuses Ubisoft of tolerating sexual harassment "because it is more profitable for the company to keep harassers in place than to protect its employees"

French union files collective lawsuit against Ubisoft

French union Solidaires Informatique today announced that it has filed a collective action lawsuit against Ubisoft alle…

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IGN and Game Informer had their Palestinian charity round-up stories pulled, but we've included their links in our write-up of the story

IGN, Game Informer express, retract support for Palestinian civilians

On Friday, a number of games industry media outlets posted stories informing their readers about how they can donate to…

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PS5 will far outsell Xbox Series X, predicts analyst

There are still a lot of unknowns surrounding this year's PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X launches, but analysts are al…

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"To me, Blizzard is like what Hong Kong is to me right now. Maybe it's getting worse, but do I hate it? No, I don't hate it."

Blitzchung on Hong Kong protest: "Even if I had a chance to go back, I would still do it"

Chung 'Blitzchung' Ng Wai stands by his decision to show support for Hong Kong protestors during a Hearthstone tourname…

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CD Projekt Red's share price fell by 29% in the run-up to Cyberpunk 2077's launch -- and continued to decline when the game finally arrived

CD Projekt Red stock falls 29% in run-up to Cyberpunk 2077 launch

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has suffered a sharp decline in share price, despite the release of the highly …

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Update: With Los Angeles having declared a state of emergency, ESA's E3 team is "actively assessing" the coronavirus situation

ESA moves ahead with E3 2020 despite coronavirus concerns

Original story, March 2, 2020:The Electronic Software Association (ESA) plans to move forward with E3 plans despite gro…

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Sony accounted for 46% of all spend on console games, hardware and services

Ampere Analysis: Console market grew to record $60bn in 2021

At a glance:A study by Ampere Analysis has estimated that spending on console games, hardware and services reached $60 …

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Breaking News: EA agrees $1.2 billion acquisition of Codemasters

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Twitch staff call the company out on sexual assault, racism, more

Content warning: The following article discusses sexual assault, verbal and physical abuse, harassment, and suicide.Whe…

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"Not a week goes by without us thinking, 'Imagine if we hadn't launched with loot boxes the way we did'"

Restoring trust in Star Wars Battlefront II

"Not a week goes by without us thinking, 'Imagine if we hadn't launched with loot boxes the way we did.'"It's hard not …

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Spider-Man: Miles Morales is the first PS5 game to top the UK boxed charts this week, knocking Mario down to No.2

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Blizzard's chief legal officer left the company last week

Blizzard chief legal officer departs amid multiple lawsuits

Blizzard Entertainment's chief legal officer has left the company.Claire Hart announced her departure on LinkedIn yeste…

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Xbox Series X|S was Microsoft's biggest console launch to date, selling more units in more countries than any of its predecessors

Xbox Series X|S is biggest console launch in Microsoft's history

Original story November 12, 2020: The Series X and S enjoyed the biggest Xbox launch to date.That's according to Xbox b…

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President Biden signs executive order to find solutions to semicondutor shortage as PS5 and Xbox continue to suffer supply constraints

President Biden orders review of semiconductor shortage amid PS5, Xbox stock problems

President Joe Biden is taking action to find solutions to the ongoing shortage of semiconductor chips -- a manufacturin…

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"That is the end of the Kickstarter list. That's it. This will be the wrap up, this will be the end of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove"

Yacht Club Games bids farewell to Shovel Knight

As a studio, Yacht Club Games is remarkable not just for its success, but also its transparency. Search our archives an…

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Epic launching Steam rival with 88% revenue share for developers Free games, direct access to customers, mod support and more; Tim Sweeney reveals the plan for the Epic Games Store

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Exclusive Interview: Sony's Jim Ryan and Bungie's Pete Parsons on the reasons behind the deal, why it's staying multiplatform and the prospect of more acquisitions to come

PlayStation: Bungie deal is about multiplatform, live-service games

PlayStation's acquisition of Bungie may not result in exclusive PS5 games, but it will allow the platform holder to sig…

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"PlayStation has established this identity as the purveyor of huge, expensive blockbuster games, and PS5 is the console manifestation of that"

If Xbox is Netflix, then PS5 is cinema | Console analysis

I was excited to get hands on with PS5 and Xbox Series X, not just because I love games, but because I really wanted to…

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A report has revealed an alleged culture of mistreatment and gender discrimination at Paradox Interactive

Employee survey at Paradox Interactive alleges gender discrimination and "mistreatment"

A report has revealed an alleged culture of bullying and gender discrimination at developer and publisher Paradox Inter…

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"With PS4, we were coming out of a very lacklustre PS3 platform... Now we are starting with 100 million gamers"

PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan on making PS5 more successful than PS4

Over the past few weeks, PlayStation head Jim Ryan has received more than his usual share of emails.From the moment PS5…

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Update: 70% of Xbox Series X and S consoles are attached to Xbox Game Pass memberships

Xbox Series X|S is biggest console launch in Microsoft's history

Original story November 12, 2020: The Series X and S enjoyed the biggest Xbox launch to date.That's according to Xbox b…

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"Game Pass allowed the breadth of video games to be a constant in my life in 2020, to a degree that the limits of my bank balance wouldn't have allowed if those purchases had to be made individually"

Games of the Year 2020 | Xbox Game Pass

At some point over the last decade, subscription services completely changed the way I discover and listen to music. I …

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EA fined €10m over loot boxes as Dutch court sides with gambling authority

A Netherlands District Court this week ruled against Electronic Arts in a case over FIFA loot boxes, allowing the Nethe…

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Report: 95% of studios are working on or aim to release a live service game

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox A new report from Griffin Gaming Partners …

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Xbox Game Pass has 5x more subs, despite launching three years later

PlayStation Now reaches 2.2m subscribers

PlayStation Now has more than 2.2 million subscribers, around six years after it first launched in North America.Sony c…

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Average Nintendo Japan employee earns $80,000 working less than eight hours a day

Average Nintendo Japan employee earns $80,000, works less than 8 hours per day

Nintendo has revealed some interesting stats about its work culture, including average working hours and salary.A recru…

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"If Xbox leadership doesn't think consistently delivering high-quality software on the platform is its top priority, then that leadership has lost focus and needs to change, either by rethinking its strategy or by making way for new leadership"

Is Xbox's future brighter without Activision? | Opinion

Over the past year or so, a note of discord has crept into the generally enthusiastic response to Microsoft's current c…

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Opinion | Square Enix' latest has massively shifted word-of-mouth with the arrival of an excellent demo – but the choices that allowed Final Fantasy 16's demo to shine lie in the game's fundamental design

FF16's demo is a masterclass in pre-launch marketing | Opinion

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Shuhei Yoshida will be awarded a BAFTA Fellowship at the BAFTA Game Awards on March 30

Shuhei Yoshida to receive BAFTA Fellowship

Shuhei Yoshida will be awarded a BAFTA Fellowship at the BAFTA Game Awards on March 30. The Fellowship recognises Yoshi…

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IO Interactive reports record-breaking revenues for the last year, driven by success of Hitman 3

IO Interactive reports record-breaking year driven by Hitman 3

Hitman developer IO Interactive has released its annual report for 2020/21, reporting record-breaking profits during th…

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2 years

"'Kill yourself asap disgusting Corporate Slave.' That's an actual email sent in the last week after I wrote an article describing Microsoft as the publisher of the year."

Is there anything we can do about the fanboys? | Opinion

I made a mistake back in September.Sony had just announced it had acquired Firesprite Games, which was a significant ac…

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5 years

Activision Blizzard warns investors that plans to cut 8% of its workforce might "negatively" impact its business

Activision Blizzard: 800 job cuts could “negatively impact” our business

Activision Blizzard has warned investors that plans to cut hundreds of jobs across its global business may damage the c…

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Devolver valued at close to $1bn as it floats on London Stock Exchange, Sony Interactive Entertainment makes 5% investment in indie publisher

Devolver Digital valued at $950m as it floats on London Stock Exchange

Devolver Digital has begun trading on AIM, a sub-market London Stock Exchange, in a floatation that values the indie pu…

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Scavengers Studio creative director accused of belittling, screaming at, groping employees

At The Game Awards 2020, Darwin Project developer Scavengers Studio revealed a beautiful, compelling, and very differen…

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Bethesda's Pete Hines has been promoted to head of global publishing, GI can confirm

Pete Hines promoted to Bethesda's head of global publishing

Pete Hines, former senior VP of global marketing and communications at Bethesda Softworks, has been promoted to head of…

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PlayStation buys Firesprite, the 250-person development team that was set-up by members of Sony's old Liverpool studio. We speak to @hermenhulst and studio head Graeme Ankers

Why PlayStation is buying Firesprite, one of the UK's fastest growing studios

PlayStation is making its third acquisition of the summer by purchasing UK-based Firesprite. The Liverpool-based game d…

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3 years

Microsoft's Sarah Bond tells us more about how the Xbox firm is making its development tools and services more accessible to studios of all sizes

Xbox: Democratising game development is important for society

I've always seen Microsoft's gaming business as two separate entities.There's the consumer entity: Xbox, PC, Halo, Age …

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EA will move Need for Speed development back to Criterion

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Exclusive: ZA/UM confirms misconduct, verbal abuse and gender discrimination from dismissed employees leading to a toxic workplace at the Disco Elysium studio Our report: