Sony has announced it acquired Spider-Man development studio Insomniac Games. The studio worked on the latest PlayStation 4 exclusive Spider-Man game. According to a recent announcement, the studio will be joining PlayStation's Worldwide Studios. Th...
Development studio Psyonix has announced it will be ditching loot boxes in Rocket league to replace them with microtransactions. The studio was acquired by Epic Games earlier this year. All paid randomized loot boxes will be removed from Rocket Leag...
Rockstar Games has acquired Indian game development studio Dhruva Interactive from Starbreeze. The studio is located in the same city as Rockstar India. According to a recent announcement, Dhruva Interactive will now operate as part Rockstar India, ...
MMORPG game Blade & Soul will disable anti-cheat software Xigncode3 with its latest update. It is still unknown what security measures will replace the software. According to recent patch notes, the new Scarlet Tears update will be completely di...
Sega Europe has acquired Two Point Hospital developer Two Point Studios, the company announced last Friday. In the game players build up a hospital from nothing to a masterpiece as they design the most beautiful, or functional, healthcare operation ...
Video game publisher Starbreeze currently does not have sufficient funding to continue operating for the coming 12 months, the company noted in its latest quarterly results. If the company doesn't secure funding it will likely cease operation. The S...
Rocket League development studio Psyonix has been acquired by Epic Games, the studio confirmed earlier this week. The game will still be available via Steam and will also release on Epic Games Store. According to a recent announcement, the studio wi...
Development studio Psyonix has announced it disabled loot boxes in its arena soccer racing game Rocket League for players in the Netherlands and Belgium due to government regulations. Players within the Netherlands and Belgium are now no longer able...
The Epic Games Store client copies Steam data after it is installed. The data copied contains names of friends, which games were played and how long those were played. Epic Games confirmed the collecting of this data. According to a recent Reddit po...
Paradox Interactive has announced it has opened a new studio in Berkeley, California. The studio is named Paradox Tectonic and is the newest member of the Stockholm-based publisher. Paradox Tectonic is said to lead development of a brand-new game an...
THQ Nordic has acquired Warhorse Studios via its subsidiary Koch Media. The acquisition also includes all intellectual property rights for Kingdom Come: Deliverance. According to a press release, the development studio was acquired for 33.2 million ...
Paid PUBG loot boxes have been disabled for players in the Netherlands and Belgium this week. Reselling valuable loot box content is considered illegal under its gambling laws. According to PUBG. Corp, a "recent legal interpretation" regarding loot ...
THQ Nordic has announced that it has acquired the rights to the Outcast franchise from its original creators. The publisher didn't comment on what it intends to do with the rights. Two years ago, publisher Bigben Interactive worked with the game's c...
Development studio Bungie has announced that it has parted ways with its publishing partner Activision. The studio will retain the rights of its Destiny franchise. According to a recent press release, the studio has decided to cease its partnership ...
Developer and publisher Paradox Interactive has acquired all rights and assets for the Prison Architect intellectual property. The company announced the acquisition earlier today. According to a recent press release, the acquisition will allow Parad...
Vivendi has revealed plans to divest fully from Ubisoft by March 5, 2019, in their latest press release. The company amassed 26 percent of Ubisoft stock before deciding to sell. This follows the multiple year struggle by the Guillemot brothers to ma...
THQ Nordic has acquired the rights to the Timesplitters and Second Sight franchises, the publisher confirmed earlier this week. The Timesplitters franchise has seen three entries that were released between 2000 and 2005. These titles are often compa...
Valve has announced it has disabled Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 item trading and marketplace transfers for Dutch gamers. A warning from the Dutch Games of Chance Administration lead to the decision. According to a recent announc...
Valve has confirmed that Apple has removed its Steam Link iOS application from its App Store. The company removed Valve's application because it deems it to conflict with its guidelines. According to a recent announcement, Apple has removed the appl...
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 may be removed from Steam and GOG store fronts, several websites are reporting. The game may be removed due to licensing issues. The game is currently still being published on Steam by Atari. The company is currently in a lega...
Rockstar Games has released a patch for Grand Theft Auto IV that removes songs the studio no longer has valid licenses for. Some of the removed songs have been replaced with others. The new patch for Grand Theft Auto IV makes it almost impossible to...
ArenaNet has announced it has banned 1,516 Guild Wars 2 players for suspected cheating. The development studio used anti-cheat spyware to check which processes were running on the player's machine. According to a recent announcement, the development...
Former Grand Theft Auto producer and game developer Leslie Benzies has suffered a setback in his royalty lawsuit against Take-Two Interactive. Benzies left the company's Rockstar Games studio in 2015. Benzies filed the lawsuit in 2016 when he claime...
Red Dead Redemption publisher Take-Two Interactive is seeking ownership of the domain name RedDeadOnline.com. That can be deduced from a letter released by the domain owner. According to the letter, the registered domain name violates Take-Two's rig...
Video game developer Rockstar Games has removed over 70,000 comments from its own official Newswire website in a 2-year period, a small group of Grand Theft Auto modders has claimed. The group collected all comments in a database. The modding group,...
The development team behind the upcoming Grand Theft Auto V total conversion mod "Liberty City in GTAV" has been forced to stop development. The news comes hours after modding tool OpenIV was also forced offline. The total conversion modification wa...
The Grand Theft Auto V Steam store page is being flooded with negative reviews as fans of the franchise are learning about actions taken against the development team behind the Grand Theft Auto V modding tool OpenIV. We received word earlier today t...
The publisher of the open world action-adventure game franchise Grand Theft Auto, Take-Two Interactive, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the developers of the popular modding tool OpenIV. The modding tool is used by thousands of modders around ...
The developer behind the popular software protection software VMProtect may be sueing Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH, the Austrian company behind the anti-piracy software Denuvo. According to a recent post on the Russian forum rsdn, the anti-piracy ...
Major video game publishers are targeting the open source memory scanner, hex editor and debugger Cheat Engine with copyright infringement notices. The notices sent by the Entertainment Software Association claim the tool infringes on their members' ...
