🍪 Shipping the Game Doesn’t Mean the Team Is Safe
Bit Reactor is bringing back some furloughed developers. Gravity Well has lost more than 40 staff after its funding disappeared. Two different situations expose…
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Deals, layoffs, earnings, and the money moves shaping the industry.
🍪 Grasshopper Leaves NetEase With Exit Skills, After a Wave of Studio Cuts
Hello there, punk-game pilgrims, publisher-watchers, and acquisition-cycle survivors… Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. becomes independent from NetEase Games today, October 1, 2026, after roughly five years…
🍪 Atari Is Rebuilding. Its Shareholders Deserve Answers.
Hello there, cartridge keepers, retro revivalists, and fine-print adventurers… Atari has assembled a bigger gaming business. Its financing is also giving the company behind…
🍪 King Said No. Five Unions Lined Up. It Signed Before the Strike.
Hello there, candy crushers, contract watchers, and strike-clock campers… King signed a collective bargaining agreement with Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer on September 24, just…
🍪 Xbox Keeps Pressing Reset. Players Still Need a Reason to Stay.
Hello there, Spartan loyalists, Game Pass jugglers, and cloud-hour counters… Xbox is rearranging the people who make its games while preparing to change how…
🍪 Microsoft’s Ad Patent Tests the Mobile Bargain on Console Games
Hello there, checkpoint campers, cutscene protectors, and one-more-round negotiators… Your next quiet moment in a game could look very different to the company selling…
🍪 EA Wants to Sell Advertisers Your Next Match
Hello there, touchline tacticians, kickflip escape artists, and sponsored-replay skippers… Electronic Arts (EA) wants advertisers to buy their way into several of its games…
🍪 Mexico’s 8% Gaming Tax Still Exists. Developers Want It Repealed
Hello there, border-hopping players, global game makers, and wallet defenders… If you make or sell games outside Mexico, its 8% gaming tax can still…
🍪 Final Fantasy VII Revelation’s $110 Finale Is Already Selling Two More Stories
Hello there, materia accountants, Highwind pilots, and premium-edition archaeologists… Square Enix used today’s State of Play to confirm that Final Fantasy VII Revelation launches…
🍪 2XKO’s Creative Gamble Came With a Layoff Clause
Hello there, cookie munchers, tag fighters, creative gamblers, and everyone who has discovered that corporate risk becomes extremely personal the moment payroll enters the…