Electronic Arts recently announced it would be shutting down Dragon Age and Mass Effect developer BioWare. Bloomberg having spoken with people familiar with the reason why says this was due to the amount of debt the publisher is dealing with…
Xbox chief operating officer Helen Chiang has stepped down after taking on the role in July, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. Chiang had worked at Microsoft for 21 years. Before serving as Xbox COO, she was the…
Doom co-creator John Romero had been developing a new first-person shooter at his Romero Games studio, however, funding for the game had been pulled in summer 2025 by Xbox and the studio was forced to layoff employees. Romero has told VideoGamesChronicle…
Putting it bluntly, they say they can’t continue working on the open-world RPG without the funding. Raw Power Games says that Early Access for Chronicles: Medieval is “within reach”. They say that there’s a lot they have been excited to…
Bethesda and Xbox development studio id Software, maker of the Doom franchise, has deepened its partnership with fellow Bethesda and Xbox studio MachineGames, makers of the most recent Wolfenstein games as well as 2024's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
EA didn't deserve BioWare if that's the case The closure of RPG royalty BioWare came as a shock to just about everyone when it was announced last week, but one of the founders of the studio says the writing was…
A new report directly links the previously rumored Star Wars Battlefront 3 to EA's closure of BioWare, with the publisher evidently prioritizing the sci-fi game with the bigger license and projected audience when assessing its finances. The hammer really dropped, the…
Rather than relying exclusively on layoffs to reshape its workforce, Microsoft is pursuing voluntary departures alongside internal mobility and employee development. This approach offers a potential model for employers navigating technological disruption while giving employees greater control over their career…
Matthew is a Freelance writer from Ohio who has been writing about games for many years. An avid fighting game fan, Matthew has been branching out into new genres, enjoying long campaigns of Baldur’s Gate 3 with friends and jumping into…
FromSoftware has shut down the game servers for Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III on every platform after finding a problem with them, and has not said when they will return. The studio's player support account announced the shutdown…
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