#business

No More Heroes developers Grasshopper bought by NetEase

Planning three big games over the next 10 years

CD Projekt have bought the studio behind The Flame In The Flood

They're making a mystery game set in a CD Projekt world

Steam is banning games with NFTs and cryptocurrency

Ethereum's no good here

Former State Of Decay founder launches new studio Possibility Space

Jeff Strain has high hopes for a fully distributed studio

Ryu Ga Gotoku have a new studio lead and plans for Yakuza: LAD sequel

A new party leader for the next adventure

Eidos Montreal are switching to a four-day workweek

For a big studio, it's a huge step to improve working conditions

Capcom want PC to be their main platform and make up 50% of sales

Everyone wants a piece of the PC now

Apple won't let Fortnite back on the App Store until they run out of appeals

The appeals phase has certainly begun

Epic Games appealing the Apple app store battle ruling

The lawfight continues...!

Tripwire CEO steps down after supporting Texas anti-abortion law

One studio they work with publicly cut ties over his comments

Paradox CEO quits over "differing views on the company's strategy"

The new CEO is the old CEO, Fredrik Wester

Sega veteran Yakuza series director in talks to leave for NetEase

Toshihiro Nagoshi may start a new team and new series

Sheath your keyboards, Netflix are focusing on mobile games first

Their first push into game development will be on small screens

Tencent have bought another game developer, so let's see how big their collection is now

They've snapped up Sumo Digital for just under £1 billion

Atari are shifting focus to "premium games" on PC and consoles

Are we going to take bets on Pong Royale?

Homeworld 3 bins investment scheme

The game's still coming, it's just not accepting Fig investors

Embracer Group looking to buy even more companies

The consolidation of the games industry continues

Warner Bros. Games reportedly being split up after AT&T merger

"Some of the gaming arm will stay with AT&T and some will go with the new company"

Walmart's unannounced cloud gaming service leaked in Epic vs Apple trial

Named Project Storm, it was initially planned to go into beta in 2019

Epic Games spent nearly $12 million giving away free games in their first nine months

They paid $1.5 million for Subnautica alone

Microsoft Store to match Epic Games Store's 88% cut for game developers - should Steam follow suit?

A recent GDC survey overwhelmingly agrees Steam takes too much

GDC survey finds 35% of developers say their productivity is better from home

Continuing to kick the myth about remote work

Focus Home Interactive buying Space Hulk: Deathwing devs Streum On

Plus, here's a new Necromunda trailer

Square Enix deny they're considering selling

Following rumours that potential buyers were interested

Epic spent $444 million to secure exclusive games for their store in 2020

They'll almost certainly be spending even more this year