Kingdoms of Amalur IP Fails to Sell at Auction
Studio 38, the team behind Kingdoms of Amalur, are still part of an ongoing court case against the state of Rhode Island due to their unpaid debt of $75 million. The selling of their flagship IP Kingdoms of Amalur was meant to help payback this debt, but the property has…
Terminal Reality Closes Down
The Texas-based studio Terminal Reality have reportedly closed down. They first opened their doors back in 1995, with their first game titled 'Terminal Velocity' coming out on DOS and Windows. Since then, the studio has gone on to develop Bloodrayne, Ghostbuster: The Video Game, and The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct.…
World of Warcraft Lead System Designer Leaves Blizzard
Greg Street, Lead System Designer at Blizzard for the past six years, has departed the company. According to an article by Polygon, he is leaving to work on an unknown project that we will likely hear about in the near future. This news was confirmed by a post on his…
Fallout: New Vegas Lead Writer Departs Obsidian To Join Guerrilla Games
Guerrilla Games are hot off the release of Killzone: Shadow Fall and rumors are already flying that they are working on a new RPG. Whether this will be set in the Killzone universe no one knows, but according to a post on NeoGaf via VG24/7, they have recently hired a man…
EA Will Hold Star Wars License for the Next 10 Years
It may have been the most cruel of teasers, but many fans were bowled over by the announcement of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 at this years E3. It was even better news that the game was being developed by EA owned studio DICE. This left many people happy with EA's…
Sony Will Be Attempting to Trim $100m from Entertainment Division Budget
Sony is looking into trimming the budget of their entertainment division. The company has enlisted the services of consultancy firm Bain and Co to help cut the fat, according to MCVUK. The $100mil, about £62mil, cut will include job losses in both Sony's film and game production sectors. This is to…
Blockbuster To Close 72 Shops Across The UK
Blockbuster has been in trouble for a long while, even before recently entering administration for the second time last month. Things are getting progressively worst as the BBC has reported that the chain would be closing 72 stores across the UK. The companies administrator. Moorfields Corporate Recovery, has stated that…
Analyst Claims Microsoft Is Losing Billions On Xbox Per Annum, May Lead To The Selling Of The Xbox Platform
Nomura analyst Rich Sherlund claims that Microsoft has been losing $2 billion annually in the games industry, according to GamesIndustry.biz. Sherlund sent a note to investors November 6 detailing how to fix current issues within the company, including filling the shoes of former CEO Steve Ballmer. One such issue was the…
Amy Hennig And Kiki Wolfkill Enter Fortune Top Ten List Of Most Powerful Women In The Games Industry
Fortune Magazine has published its annual list of the top ten most powerful women in gaming. This year it adds two of the industries largest names, Amy Hennig and Kiki Wolfkill. Kiki Wolfkill is best known for her role as Executive Producer in Halo 4, as well as working as…
People Can Fly Have Changed Their Name
The developers behind Bulletstorm and Gears of War: Judgement have changed their name. The company formerly know as 'People Can Fly' have know become Epic Games Poland. Epic Games Poland gave a statement to PixelEnemy, saying: "We’ve changed the studio’s name from People Can Fly to Epic Games Poland. We’re a…
EA And Tiger Woods Part Ways
EA and Tiger Woods have decided to end their partnership after 15 years. Announced via the Electronic Arts official Blog, the split was apparently mutual and EA wished Tiger Woods luck in the future. The PGA Tour game series will continue without Woods name or endorsement, as well as expanding…
TIGA Rejects UKIE Proposed Merger
TIGA has rejected UKIE's merger after UKIE CEO Andy Payne proposed it last week at the trade groups annual general meeting. A spokesperson told Development that TIGA will be rejecting the offer when Payne was "extending a hand" to unite the two for the sake of the UK games industry.…
Game Industry Trade Group UKIE Calls For Merger With TIGA
Develop has reported that at the Annual General Meeting on the 26 September for UK games industry trade body UKIE, chairman Andy Payne proposed a merger with similar group TIGA. Both of these groups are responsible for keeping up the fight for tax breaks for the UK games industry. At…
GTA V Hits $1 Billion In Retail Sales
People predicted Grand Theft Auto V would sell well, and it has. With an amazing $800,000,000 worth of sales on the games first day, Take-Two have announced that they have reached the $1 billion milestone in just three days. This smashes the previous prediction that this would happen after the first…
Robert Kotick Primary Source Of Activision Blizzard Independence From Vivendi
You may remember not so long ago we reported that Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, was the second highest paid executive in America. Well it seems that the near $70 mil he earned has gone, personally giving $100 mil to the the recent independence of Activision Blizzard. Kotick went…
Fuseboxx Celebrates 100 Million Installs and Announces the Release of Fuseboxx 3.0
Mobile app technology giant, Fuse Powered Inc., has announced the 100 millionth install on Fuseboxx, its mobile app publishing platform for iOS and Android. Fusebox provides both publishers and developers of mobile apps with a series of "real-time reporting, actionable analytics and dynamic tools to improve user acquisition, retention and monetization".…
Ouya Matching Funds For Crowd-Funded Exclusives
The guys over at Ouya are trying their best to give gamers more of a push to lay down £99.99 for their android based console. With many of the complaints being that the console has no games, Ouya is attempting to rectify this by tempting devs on crowd-funding sites. "The…
Giant Bomb Co-Founder Ryan Davies Passes Away
Former Gamespot editor and Giantbomb co-founder Ryan Davies has unfortunately died at the age of 34, 1979-2013. Giant Bomb have sadly reported the news earlier today. The cause of death was not given. Mathew Rorie stated "Ryan was a good friend to all of us". He went on to say…
Activision’s Bobby Kotick Second Highest Paid Executive In America
Games are a big business, no surprise there, and Activision Blizzard own a fairly large part of the pie. Owning the best selling games franchise of all time (COD) and the most successful MMO of all time (WOW) they rake in mega-bucks all year round. It shouldn't shock anyone to…
Ukie Outlines Urgent Case for EC to Introduce UK Tax Credit
Ukie have used their response to the EC investigation to outline why there is a clear and evident market failure relating to the production of culturally British or European games being made by British studios, which the UK Government’s proposed games production tax credit scheme would address. Here is the…
Shadow of the Eternals Dev Faces Child Pornography Charges
Precursor Games devs have had to distance themselves from co-founder Kenneth McCulloch in light of recent charges made against him by Niagara Regional Police.  The Shadow of the Eternal developers have publicly disowned the face of "one count each of possession of child pornography, making child pornography available and accessing child pornography".…