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In 2011, indie development studio D-Pad released a trailer for their upcoming title, Owlboy. The video promised a release date that same year for the indie pixel-art game. It would be another five years before Owlboy launched on digital storefronts. Oh, we made so many mistakes,” programmer Jo-Remi Madsen laughs. …
Read More »Patrick Bach is leaving DICE after 14 years
The general manager of EA-owned developer DICE, Patrick Bach, is to quit the studio after nearly a decade and a half. PlayStation LifeStyle has confirmed the change, although does not yet know if Bach is heading to another developer. It’s understood that the noises are he’s leaving to spend more …
Read More »SimBin Studios re-forms two years after bankruptcy
Racing game specialist SimBin Studios is back in business just over two years after filing for bankruptcy, and looking to get back on the track. SimBin studios are well known in the racing world, producing franchises like GTR and Race. They’ll now be calling the North West of England home …
Read More »Layoffs at Sony San Diego studio
PlayStation has laid off an unconfirmed number of employees from its San Diego development studios. GamesIndustryconfirmed the layoffs, which closely follow around of job cuts made at the platform holder’s London Studio. The London team was just winding down after its first major VR project. The San Diego studio was …
Read More »Sony London Studio suffers layoffs
An unknown number of jobs have been cut from Sony’s London Studio as work begins to wrap up on the team’s first virtual reality project. Having developed many of the game prototypes for PlayStation VR – or Project Morpheus as it was originally known – the studio has been working …
Read More »EA unifies development under EA Worldwide Studios banner
The collective development resources of EA have been unified under a new banner – EA Worldwide Studios. Essentially the divide between EA’s mobile and console operations is being abolished, while Maxis is also being merged into the whole. The move sees a new boss put in place at BioWare – …
Read More »Rod Fergusson reveals why Epic dropped a female co-op character from Gears of War
‘It’s not a free choice,’ says The Coalition studio director, citing technical hurdles such as the amount of dialogue required
Read More »CD Projekt Red: Cyberpunk 2077 dev team bigger than that for Witcher 3
Studio previously announced that it would ‘drastically’ overhaul its development tools for sci-fi title ‘far, far bigger’ than fantasy RPG
Read More »40 jobs lost in Wooga restructure
Germany-based games firm Wooga has been struck by a series of layoffs that see 40 staff dismissed from the company. The layoffs were part of an internal restructure,GamesIndustryreports, chipping away at the mobile firm’s previous headcount of 300 people. Following these job cuts, Wooga will now be formed from three …
Read More »Mobile publisher BulkyPix enters liquidation
BulkyPix, the mobile publisher behind Pix’n Love Rush, Bardbarian andPenumbear, has begun liquidation. The company, which was founded seven years ago by former Vivendi staffers, declared bankruptcy at the end of March, saying it would seek out a potential buyer to save it – a search that was ultimately fruitless. …
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