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MARCH 4, 2024

You can read all our South Africa Games Week articles on this page. Africa Games Week held its sixth edition last December, welcoming over 1,980 attendees to Cape Town. Over 360 companies were represented, and 93 speakers contributed to the conference track. Read more

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Following last week's allegations from Smash World Tour, Panda Global announced it would undergo an internal restructuring.

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MAY 30, 2024

The page linking to the interview published last week has been updated with a statement issued by Sony, which specified that a review had taken place and a decision was made to remove it. "We

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

However, this is because November 2023 was a 'five week' month compared with the four weeks of November 2022. If we just look at the same four week period, sales were actually down slightly by 2%. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the big driver of sales. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Super Mario Bros Wonder topped the UK boxed charts this week, pushing last week's No.1 GfK's report showed that while Super Mario Wonder dropped 55% in sales, Spider-Man 2 saw a 69% decrease week-on-week. 1 Spider-Man 2 to second place. Read more

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JULY 3, 2023

1s since it released eight weeks ago. It briefly had to accept second place during the weeks that Diablo 4 and Final Fantasy 16 were released. Final Fantasy 16 was last week's No.1, 1, but drops to second place this week after a 78% fall in sales. The open world adventure game has now secured six No.1s Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 13, 2024

The studio informed staff last week and posted a statement from CEO David Yin on social media this morning. Australia-based developer Mighty Kingdom has laid off 28% of its workforce, affecting at least 14 people.

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APRIL 2, 2024

In an investor call following last week's $460m sale of Borderlands developer Gearbox , Wingefors told investors: "Now we are ending the restructuring program [at the] end of March and we're now looking into the future."

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Baldur's Gate 3 was the biggest winner at last week's Golden Joystick Awards, picking up six prizes while developer Larian was named Studio of the Year.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Star Citizen's game director, Todd Papy, also left the company last week according to his LinkedIn profile. As reported by Game Developer , former employees have shared that they have been made redundant on LinkedIn, including level designer Dane Kubicka , Austin QA lead Vincent Sinatra and Austin senior QA analyst Andrew Rexroth.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 23, 2023

PlayStation support studio Visual Arts has been hit with another round of layoffs, with several former employees sharing on social media last week that they have been let go. Unfortunately, following a wave of layoffs, last week was my last at PlayStation," former senior level designer at Visual Arts Daniel Bellemare wrote on LinkedIn.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 19, 2023

September 2022 was a five-week month, and as a result the numbers appear down 16% over September 2023. But this year was a four-week month. And so if we compare week 36 to week 39 (the like-for-like sales weeks), overall game sales are down just over 1%. The main reason for the drop was this year's EA Sports FC 24.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Balatro is a poker-themed roguelike deck building game published by UK publisher PlayStack, who told GamesIndustry.biz sales passed the $1 million mark after eight hours when it released last week. Read more

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APRIL 23, 2024

70,000 units had been sold as of February 2024 , and Panic revealed a few more stats about its cranky yellow console last week , to celebrate its anniversary. It's now been two years since the hotly anticipated launch of Panic's handheld, the Playdate.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. The Entertainment Software Association made it official this week. Check every Friday for a new entry. Read more

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MAY 28, 2024

Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke touched upon crunch at Digital Dragons last week, saying that while Larian's team didn't "overly crunch" during development, you "always have a little bit" of overtime when trying to finish a project of that scope.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

TB of content from Insomniac Games following a breach last week. It put the data on auction for 50 bitcoins (roughly $2 million) with a week's deadline before releasing 1.67 A ransomware group has published 1.67 As Cyber Daily reports, the Rhysida ransomware group stole data from the PlayStation studio on December 12.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Melbourne International Games Week 2023 felt like a triumphant return to form for physical events in Australia, marking a record year for the week-long celebration of all things gaming.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. As you may have heard, Microsoft finalized its acquisition of Activision Blizzard last week.

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MAY 24, 2024

Last bit of “news” from us before the weekend, which is that there are just four weeks left until the 2024 MCV/DEVELOP Awards. Slightly less, in fact, because in precisely four weeks the winners will have woken up with sore heads.

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APRIL 18, 2024

Last week, Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 won five BAFTAs , including Best Game and Player's Choice. That's on top of GOTY accolades at the Golden Joystick Awards , The Game Awards , the DICE Awards , and the Game Developers Choice Awards.

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GamesIndustry.biz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The company was running a campaign for Assassin's Creed Nexus VR, which released last week. Ubisoft has pulled its advertising from X, Axios reported. The publisher told the outlet it has since "paused advertising" on the social media platform. GamesIndustry.biz has reached out to Ubisoft for further clarification. Read more

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Hogwarts Legacy has returned to the top of the UK boxed charts, following a 228% spike in sales week-on-week. 7 following early access on Friday last week. 7 following early access on Friday last week. As reported by GfK, a retailer promotion has seen sales increase across all formats for the Warner Bros.

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MAY 8, 2024

Wilson announced the news on social media last week. Mike Wilson, founder and co-CEO of DeepWell, has left the company. He revealed that his exit from the mental-health-focused studio took place in late 2023. "I

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MAY 1, 2024

The last dev snapshot for 4.3 before feature freeze is a big one after 6 weeks of work!

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This Week in Business is our weekly recap column , a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry. Read more

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APRIL 9, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Last week, The Elder Scrolls Online turned ten years old. The game's creative director Matt Firor has been there from day one. Even longer than that, actually. Read more

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Her new role will be effective on February 5, as she succeeds Mike Ybarra, who left last week. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Blizzard Entertainment has appointed Johanna Faries as its new president. Read more

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APRIL 3, 2024

Gearbox Entertainment has announced an unspecified number of redundancies following its sale from Embracer last week. As reported by Eurogamer , the studio said the layoffs weren't linked to the development of future titles, such as Borderlands 4.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 4, 2024

Nintendo took legal action against the developer last week , filing a suit with the US District Court of Rhode Island on February 26. As reported by Eurogamer , the developer confirmed in a waiver of service of summons that it has retained the services of a lawyer. Read more

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APRIL 8, 2024

After eight weeks, the game's sales are now trending ahead of where Spider-Man 2 (Sony's last big release) was after the same length of time. GSD data, which tracks all physical sales and digital sales from most major publishers, reveals that for a second consecutive month, Sony's Helldivers 2 was the best-selling video game.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Last week, a government official was removed from one of China's regulatory agencies following a dip in gaming stocks in response to new game proposals.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Games journalist Shannon Liao shared in her weekly industry newsletter on Substack on Friday that Xbox allegedly held an internal company townhall last Tuesday, during which Spencer clarified that Xboxes would continue to be part of the company's strategy alongside other devices.

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MAY 1, 2023

It started with a big one in January last year – Destiny developer Bungie. And just last week it revealed it would be picking up Firewalk Studios. It followed that with Haven Studios in March. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Starfield has topped the UK physical charts this week. 7 last week. GfK's report showed that the space-action RPG sold more physical copies on Xbox than it did on PC. Starfield's premium upgrade (a box with a code that provided early access to the digital version) has fallen to No.34 34 after debuting at No.7

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 26, 2024

Released Scheduled for release last week, Blender 4.1 was unfortunately delayed a bit to fix some last minute issues. GameFromScratch.com Blender 4.1 Thankfully the wait is over and Blender 4.1 The wait was worth it though as Blender 4.1 adds several new features including: Key Links Blender Homepage Blender 4.1

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox CD Projekt Red game director Gabe Amantangelo began his DICE 2024 keynote last week with an anecdote.

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