Paradox Interactive, the publisher of The Lamplighters League, has already downgraded the game as a financial loss. The statement was made by the company’s CEO Fredrik Wester.
Early this month, Team17, a British video game developer and publisher headquartered in Wakefield, England, announced a restructuring drive.
Disney executives want to get ahead in the video game industry. They want to leapfrog through the growth process by acquiring Electronic Arts or a company on that scale.
It appears that Virtuos Studios has now shut down Calypte. The news became evident through LinkedIn posts of former employees including senior game designer Mark Vernon and creative director Sean Ainsworth.
According to an IGN report, more than 100 Avalanche Studios developers have joined Unionen, the Swedish trade union. The increasing call for video game workers to unionize intensified this year following the brazen layoffs in the industry.
After CD Projekt Red announced the third round of layoffs, the staff of the company formed a union as a means of “improving their workplace/industry standards in a way that has legal power and amplifies their voice”.
In 2018, Telltale Games shut their doors and laid off almost all their staff without prior warning. Huang was one of the staff let go by the studio at that time. When a new owner took over the company and reopened in 2019, Huang was rehired
According to an IGN report, the former HR manager at Bungie is suing the studio for wrongful dismissal following her handling of a potential racial discrimination issue.
The ex-BioWare employees are not allowed to include any of their recent work on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf in their portfolio which they said may affect their chances of getting new roles in other studios.
Nintendo announced through a post on its support page that it will shut down online services for Nintendo 3DS (including software exclusive to the New Nintendo 3DS) and Wii U software.