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Square Enix Revolutionizes Its Approach to Games. Japanese Are Done With 'Quantity,' Now Aiming for 'Quality' and 'Multiplatform'

Square Enix Revolutionizes Its Approach to Games. Japanese Are Done With 'Quantity,' Now Aiming for 'Quality' and 'Multiplatform'

Square Enix revealed a new publishing strategy for the coming years. The Japanese company wants to release its big-budget games on multiple platforms.

video games

Zuzanna Domeradzka

May 14, 2024

Square Enix Revolutionizes Its Approach to Games. Japanese Are Done With 'Quantity,' Now Aiming for 'Quality' and 'Multiplatform'
Frontier Joins the Layoff Wave; Explains With Poor Sales of F1 Manager

Frontier Joins the Layoff Wave; Explains With Poor Sales of F1 Manager

The poor performance of the F1 Manager series is one of the main reasons for restructuring at British studio Frontier Developments, as a result of which an unspecified number of people are about to lose their jobs.

video games

Marcin Przała

October 17, 2023

Frontier Joins the Layoff Wave; Explains With Poor Sales of F1 Manager
EA Games is No More; Electronic Arts Undergoes Reorganization

EA Games is No More; Electronic Arts Undergoes Reorganization

Electronic Arts has announced that two different organizations will be created as a result of internal restructuring within the company: EA Sports and EA Entertainment.

video games

Kamil Kleszyk

June 21, 2023

EA Games is No More; Electronic Arts Undergoes Reorganization
Dead Island 2 In for an Earthquake; Big Changes Coming

Dead Island 2 In for an Earthquake; Big Changes Coming

Plaion intends to merge its Deep Silver, Prime Matter and Ravenscourt divisions and start publishing games under its own banner.

video games

Adrian Werner

May 7, 2023

Dead Island 2 In for an Earthquake; Big Changes Coming
EA Wants to Change; Ambitious Studios With More Autonomy

EA Wants to Change; Ambitious Studios With More Autonomy

Electronic Arts has changed the way it manages many of its teams. Developers have gained more autonomy, including in terms of what projects they undertake.

video games

Adrian Werner

September 20, 2022

EA Wants to Change; Ambitious Studios With More Autonomy
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - That's Quantic Dream's New Direction

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - That's Quantic Dream's New Direction

In 2018, the studio's management was sued for failing to uphold the rights of its employees. Today, it brags about its advocacy for women and those in the LGBTQIA+ community.

video games

Sonia Selerska

April 28, 2022

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - That's Quantic Dream's New Direction
Homeworld Devs Switch to 4-day Work Week

Homeworld Devs Switch to 4-day Work Week

The studio responsible for Homeworld 3, Blackbird Interactive, has followed in the footsteps of Eidos Montreal and switched to a 4-day workweek.

video games

Adrian Werner

February 11, 2022

Homeworld Devs Switch to 4-day Work Week
4-day Work Week Without a Pay Cut is Eidos Montreal's New Model

4-day Work Week Without a Pay Cut is Eidos Montreal's New Model

Eidos Montreal and Eidos-Sherbrooke studios are changing their work model. From now on, developers will only work four days a week.

video games

Adrian Werner

October 8, 2021

4-day Work Week Without a Pay Cut is Eidos Montreal's New Model
Cyberpunk 2077 was a Valuable Lesson; Adam Kicinski on Work Organization at CD Projekt

Cyberpunk 2077 was a Valuable Lesson; Adam Kicinski on Work Organization at CD Projekt

In an interview with Bloomberg agency, the CD Projekt CEO Adam Kicinski announced significant changes in the company. Their reason is mainly the failure, which turned out to be Cyberpunk 2077 on the day of its launch.

video games

Miriam Moszczynska

September 30, 2021

Cyberpunk 2077 was a Valuable Lesson; Adam Kicinski on Work Organization at CD Projekt
Konami Will Remain in Gamedev, Clarifying a Confusing Announcement

Konami Will Remain in Gamedev, Clarifying a Confusing Announcement

Konami's brief announcement about restructuring sparked a storm on the Internet. The Japanese company will continue to develop video games, and info of studios getting shut down was quickly denied.

video games

Paul Musiolik

January 26, 2021

Konami Will Remain in Gamedev, Clarifying a Confusing Announcement

Ubisoft Will do its Best to Deliver More Unique Games in the Future

Ubisoft plans to restructure and expand the team responsible for content and art direction of its games. The move is aimed at diversification of studio's portfolio and is a response to the company's poor commercial results from last year.

video games

Konrad Serafinski

January 18, 2020

Ubisoft Will do its Best to Deliver More Unique Games in the Future

Starbreeze Gets Back on its Feet; PayDay's Future Looks Better

Starbreeze, developer of the PayDay series, has confirmed that it got back on its feet being close to bankruptcy at the end of last year. The future of the present and future game from the PayDay franchise is therefore secured, at least for the time being.

video games

Michael Kulakowski

December 6, 2019

Starbreeze Gets Back on its Feet; PayDay's Future Looks Better
Layoffs in Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

Layoffs in Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

Dozens of employees in the European branch of SIE were laid off on the day of the official announcement of PlayStation 5. The decision for the restructuring is explained by the need to unify individual branches of the company.

other

October 10, 2019

Layoffs in Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe

Intel Lays Off Common Employees, Hires a Pro From Nvidia

One of the biggest producers of hardware components – Intel – plans to lay off several hundred people from two of its offices. What's more, Tom Petersen, one of Nvidia's top workers is going to join the company.

hardware & software

April 1, 2019

Intel Lays Off Common Employees, Hires a Pro From Nvidia

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

Electronic Arts Lays Off 350 Employees

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

Blizzard Lays Off 209 Employees

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

Layoffs at GOG.com

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

Activision Plans Massive Layoffs?

Warface Devs Set Up a New Studio

The Crytek branch responsible for the shooter Warface has just become independent. A group of developers has founded a new studio, where they will continue their work.

video games

Adrian Werner

February 7, 2019

Warface Devs Set Up a New Studio

IO Interactive sets up new branch in Sweden

The developer of the Hitman franchise has decided to expand their manpower by creating a new team.

video games

Jacob Blazewicz

January 17, 2019

IO Interactive sets up new branch in Sweden