In this week’s news section there’s lots of “who sold what and how many” announcements, as Activision, Bethesda and Microsoft all release their day 1 sales figures for their latest blockbusters. The curse of the Season Pass rears it’s head once again in Star Wars Battlefront, much to the Sparks’ lament.
Darren and Antony break down the news coming from the latest Nintendo Direct: Twilight Princess HD, Cloud coming to Super Smash Bros, Amiibo a plenty and a whole lot of 3DS games… Excitement is within, crying to get out – but did the Direct do enough, or is it unrealistic to expect great things before the NX arrives?
J.J. Abrams is dipping his toe into the games industry as he announces a collaboration between Bad Robot Studios and Chair Entertainment, the studio behind the Infinity Blade series of mobile games. The game, Spyjinx will utilise Unreal Engine 4 and is coming to both mobile and PC in 2016.
Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.
Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
Nintendo of America is once again facing labor complaints from one or more of its workers. Game File reports that new charges accuse the Switch 2 manufacturer of violating sections of the National Labor Relations Act dealing with worker organizing and related union activities. These come just a few years after the company settled a previous labor charge with a former tester for $26,000.
Today, Nintendo announced with a press release that it has entered into an agreement with Bandai Namco Studios to acquire Bandai Namco Studios Singapore.
Ya scary , seems more like a talent acquisition more then anything , nothing IP related
Great news! It's good to hear that they want to maintain the quality of the games on the Switch 2.
