Category - Industry News

Bethesda Softworks Opens Australia Office

October 2, 2013 (Rockville, MD) – Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax® Media company, today announced it has established a new publishing office in Sydney, Australia. ZeniMax Australia Pty Ltd will directly oversee sales, marketing, and distribution...

Red 5 Studios Lays Off and Restructures

Laguna Hills, Calif. – September 16, 2013 – Red 5 Studios™ announced today that the studio is being reorganized prior to the launch of Firefall. “As Firefall matures, we must transition our priorities and our development strategy to focus on...

Konami Opens LA Games Studio

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – September 6th, 2013 – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., today announced the opening of a new Los Angeles development studio. The studio will be instrumental in developing a variety of games, including installments of the...

Xbox One Release Date Announced

Microsoft has announced that its next generation gaming console, the Xbox One, will be released on November 22nd, 2013 in 13 different markets. The Xbox One will cost $499.99 and is available for pre-order at the Microsoft store and other...

Raven’s Cry Changes Hands to Reality...

Karlsruhe, Germany August 27th 2013 – TopWare Interactive announced at this year’s gamescom in Cologne that the gritty Pirate Action Adventure “Raven’s Cry” has been handed to Polish developer Reality Pump Studios. Well known for...

Precinct Game Canceled

In a very sad bit of news today, the folks behind the spiritual successor to the Police Quest series, PRECINCT, have announced that the project is canceled due to lack of crowd-funding momentum. On a personal note, I was really looking-forward...

John Carmack Joins Oculus Rift as CTO

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA (August 7, 2013) – Oculus VR, Inc., developer of the highly anticipated Oculus Rift, today announced that legendary programmer John Carmack has joined the Oculus team as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and will lead...

EA Loses Madden Lawsuit to Developer

July 23, 2013 — After three days of deliberations, a jury in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California today ruled in favor of Robin Antonick, the original designer and developer of Electronic Arts’ (NASDAQ: EA) best...