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Starbound developer Chucklefish responds to unpaid labour allegations News Sep 3rd, 2019

Starbound developer Chucklefish responds to unpaid labour allegations

"Community contributors were under no obligation to create content, work to deadlines or put in any particular number of hours. Everyone was credited or remunerated as per their agreement"

'Surprise and delight'? No, 2K's Hangar 13 studio wants to "surprise and disrupt" Industry Icon Aug 9th, 2019

'Surprise and delight'? No, 2K's Hangar 13 studio wants to "surprise and disrupt"

How one studio with just a rather average game to its name has quadrupled in size since 2016

Sumo Digital is teaming up with 2K for new projects News Jul 22nd, 2019

Sumo Digital is teaming up with 2K for new projects

Development will take place in Sheffield and at Red Kite Games studio

Destiny 2 content delayed as Bungie looks to maintain developer work-life balance News Jun 25th, 2019

Destiny 2 content delayed as Bungie looks to maintain developer work-life balance

Creative director Luke Smith says forthcoming patch could be ready sooner than anticipated if it had people work absurd hours to get it done

Blizzard is preparing for a no-show at Gamescom this year News May 3rd, 2019

Blizzard is preparing for a no-show at Gamescom this year

With no new releases this year, Blizzard is taking a step back to focus on development.

America's Federal Trade Commission has received 129 complaints about Star Citizen News May 2nd, 2019

America's Federal Trade Commission has received 129 complaints about Star Citizen

New report paints game's development as "incompetence and mismanagement on a galactic scale"

CD Projekt wants to hire 250 people across its RED studio and GOG.com store Job News Mar 28th, 2019

CD Projekt wants to hire 250 people across its RED studio and GOG.com store

CEO Adam Kiciński says this is mainly for the firm's next game on the development side, says it'll be talking about GOG improvements soon

GDC 2019 - Counter-Strike's creator says not standing up to players over game changes has led to lack of series innovation News Mar 20th, 2019

GDC 2019 - Counter-Strike's creator says not standing up to players over game changes has led to lack of series innovation

"We were afraid of doing anything different. We were afraid of annoying the player base"

BioWare vet Flynn is leading development on Improbable's first internal projects, SpatialOS firm has created a studio in London Job News Mar 8th, 2019

BioWare vet Flynn is leading development on Improbable's first internal projects, SpatialOS firm has created a studio in London

Games being built on Epic's Unreal Engine 4, but aside from that details are scarce

ESA wants to stay out of developer union discussions News Feb 21st, 2019

ESA wants to stay out of developer union discussions

US video game trade body defers responsibility on the issue to member publishers

Activision Blizzard to cut headcount by around eight per cent following "record revenue" News Feb 13th, 2019

Activision Blizzard to cut headcount by around eight per cent following "record revenue"

Firm says development workforce to increase by 20 per cent

Bungie shows us what Destiny after Activision looks like News Jan 18th, 2019

Bungie shows us what Destiny after Activision looks like

"We're thinking about what it means to be truly independent, what it means to self-publish, and crucially, what Destiny's future can now look like for our players"

'Gig economy' workers union IWGB launches branch for video games employees News Dec 14th, 2018

'Gig economy' workers union IWGB launches branch for video games employees

"As part of the IWGB, we will have the tools to fix this broken sector and create an ethical industry where it's not only big game companies that thrive, but workers as well.”

Report: Blizzard cutting development costs in wake of Overwatch success News Nov 22nd, 2018

Report: Blizzard cutting development costs in wake of Overwatch success

Employees said to be worried about the influence the Activision portion of the business is having on the Blizzard side of things

Skybound restarts work on Telltale's The Walking Dead News Nov 20th, 2018

Skybound restarts work on Telltale's The Walking Dead

Former developers to return to complete the project

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