Looks like Irrational Games founder, Ken Levine, is leaving the BioShock universe in the hands of 2K Games and closing down his Irrational Games development house. Instead, he will be...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Activision Blizzard Separates from Vivendi in $8.2B...
It looks like Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has led a buyout of the company from its previous controlling shareholder, Vivendi. Activision Blizzard purchased 439 million shares from...
InnoGames Shuts Down Kartuga and Studio Before Game...
Hamburg, July 16th, 2013. Today, online games publisher InnoGames and Development Studio Ticking Bomb Games announced the discontinuation of the pirate-MMO Kartuga. Simultaneously the...
Activision Blizzard and Tencent Join The ESA
Washington, DC – July 8, 2013 – The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today that Activision Blizzard, Inc. and Tencent have joined the trade association. They increase...
gamigo Acquires Airwin Entertainment
July 2nd, 2013 — gamigo AG acquires 100% of the Austrian company Airwin Entertainment GmbH from A1 Telekom Austria AG. The company hereby expands its Online games portfolio to mobile...
EA’s Sean Decker Joins CCP Games
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND – July 2, 2013 – CCP Games, the world’s leading independent developer of massively multiplayer games, today announced it has hired Sean Decker as its new senior vice...