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Quantic Dream Opens Montreal Studio

Interesting news here. Quantic Dream, the developer and publisher of the best-selling video games Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human, today announces the creation of a new studio in Montreal, Canada.

Darkborn1925d ago

I've always wondered why sony didn't just throw a check at them especially now that they see the competition doing exactly that at anything that has a dev team.

gamer78041925d ago

Cage likes remaining independent, which is why he takes investments but not buyouts. Can’t wait to see what they are working on. They make amazing games.

Garethvk1925d ago

I think there is much to say about a studio not having to toe the party line. It used to be they were hired to make a game for a company and the company knew if you did not want them going on to make things for others; you treated them fairly. If not they would move on as soon as they could. The ones that had good working relations remained or became part of the company.

Silly gameAr1925d ago

Ninja Theory liked remaining independent also, but look at them now. Everything has a price.

gamer78041925d ago

@silly. Tencent has a ton of money, probably all they needed right now

Silly gameAr1925d ago (Edited 1925d ago )

@gamer

Sooooo, if you need money from someone else to keep you afloat, does that make you independent, or make you someone that has to do what they have to do to survive?

QD didn't have to take that money, because they had support, but I guess that money was enough to blow the support they had off, even if they were supported by them for years with no questions asked. But, I don't know the reasons behind why most of these companies do what they do. As long as we get good games out of it, who cares.

gamer78041925d ago (Edited 1925d ago )

@silly well never know all the reasons but cage said he wanted to expand and have multiple projects going on and continue research for their games. It all takes investments to do that, so they could have stayed afloat with Sony but sounds like they wanted to expand and do more things which they’d need the extra money to do while still staying independent.

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Garethvk1925d ago

Good point. With a new game coming you have to think this either may be coming or they missed out big time.

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai13d ago (Edited 13d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio12d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing12d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9212d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit12d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing12d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9212d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."

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Koei Tecmo Announces Record Financial Results After Releasing Many Big Games

Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.

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