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Kaz Hirai Retires in June
Former CEO of Sony, currently the company's chairman – Kazuo (Kaz) Hirai – will retire on June 18. Hirai has spent 35 years in the company and is responsible for many of its successes.
video games
Bart Swiatek
March 28, 2019
Electronic Arts Lays Off 350 Employees
Electronic Arts announced that 350 workers will be laid off - the redundancies will mainly affect the publishing and marketing departments.
video games
March 27, 2019
Google Announces "Future of Gaming", Jade Raymond Becomes Deputy CEO
Google is serious about entering the video game market – the company announced that it will present "the future of gaming" during the upcoming Game Developers Conference 2019.
video games
March 13, 2019
Blizzard Lays Off 209 Employees
According to EDD, 25% of the 800 people recently laid off by Activision Blizzard were Blizzard Entertainment employees.
video games
March 9, 2019
Artifact - Valve Lays Off Two Lead Designers
Artifact's situation is getting progressively worse. As it turns out, the title has lost its two lead gameplay designers, Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias.
video games
Adrian Werner
March 9, 2019
Valve Fires Employees
Valve has laid off 13 full-time employees last month. Some third-party contracts were also cancelled. The reason for the layoffs remains unknown.
video games
Bart Swiatek
March 8, 2019
Layoffs at GOG.com
GOG.com has fired a significant number of employees. The reason for the layoffs is allegedly financial difficulties and the mounting market pressure to reduce the revenues of digital distribution stores.
video games
Adrian Werner
February 26, 2019
Bowser Takes Over Nintendo of America
On April 15, Reggie Fils-Aime will resign as the CEO of Nintendo of America. His duties will be taken over by Doug Bowser, currently the company's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
video games
Bart Swiatek
February 22, 2019
Activision Plans Massive Layoffs?
More alarming news concerning Activision. Bloomberg news agency reports that next week the company is to cut as much as hundreds of jobs.
video games
Konrad Serafinski
February 9, 2019
Cyberpunk 2077 key dev leaves CDPR, joins Blizzard
Sebastian Stepien, co-writer and story designer for the Witcher series and the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077, left CD Projekt RED. His new employer is Blizzard, where the developer took over as Creative Director.
video games
Milosz Szubert
January 23, 2019
Activision welcomes the new CFO with a cosy sum of $15 million
Activision paid the equivalent of $15 million to Dennis Durkin in exchange for signing an agreement to take up the position of Chief Financial Officer.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
January 15, 2019
New patches to AC Odyssey and Fallout 76 and other news from the world
A new patch has been released for Fallout 76, the 1.1.2 update is available in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Final Fantasy X/X2 HD and Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age have been announced on Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. Mike Morhaime quits Blizz for good.
video games
Milosz Szubert
January 11, 2019
Activision fires Chief Financial Officer. Company's shares fall
Activision Blizzard announced in a statement issued to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it will dismiss its financial director, Spencer Neumann. The dismissal is not related to the company's financial performance.
video games
Bart Swiatek
January 3, 2019
Creator of Cod WWII and Dead Space Leaves Activision
Glen Schofield, one of the co-founders of Sledgehammer Games, announced that he will leave Activision at the end of the year to „try something new.”.
video games
Milosz Szubert
December 11, 2018
Dragon Age senior creative director Mike Laidlaw leaves BioWare
Mike Laidlaw, senior creative director for Dragon Age: Inquisition, has announced that he is leaving BioWare after 14 years.
video games
October 13, 2017
Cyberpunk 2077 loses key developers
Is Cyberpunk 2077 in trouble? Although that conclusion may be a bit too hasty, it is noteworthy that several key developers left CD Projekt RED last month.
video games
October 4, 2017
Layoffs at Dear Esther dev - The Chinese Room is down to three people
The developer of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture decided to lay off most of its team. The studio, which is now down to three people, is taking a creative break.
video games
September 25, 2017
Lords of the Fallen Producer Tomek GOP Now Working for Hatred Creators
Tomek Gop, who had been co-developing Lords of the Fallen 2 for CI Games, has been pushed away from that project and is now working on Ancestors for Hatred creators, Destructive Creations.
video games
July 3, 2017
Cyberpunk 2077 team joined by Quantum Break lead designer and an ex-Rockstar North gameplay producer
Quantum Break lead designer and gameplay producer from Rockstar North have joined the Cyberpunk 2077 team. Looks like The Witcher 3 devs are serious about making their next game even more awesome.
video games
September 29, 2016
Lords of the Fallen Project Lead Tomasz Gop is back to work on the sequel
CI Games evidently changed their heart about dismissing Tomasz Gop from their team. The Project Lead of Lords of the Fallen is now back in the studio in order to work on the sequel.
video games
March 11, 2016