Industry Consolidation themes
2026-05-09 2 stories
2026-05-08 6 stories
- Marathon and Destiny developer Bungie underperformed last year, causing a $765 million impairment loss for PlayStation 8 sources
- EVE Online Dev Rebranded to Escape Chinese Communist Party 2 sources
- Cosplaying Gamers Will Raid EA HQ To Protest Saudi Arabia's $55 Billion Buyout 2 sources
- Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure
- Microsoft might be all-in on OpenAI now, but back in 2018 thought it was just 'motivated by a need to show how Al can crush humans'
- GameStop wants eBay, Nintendo confirms Switch 2 price hike, and union boss says EA buyout is a national security risk - Patch Notes #51
2026-05-07 2 stories
2026-05-06 8 stories
- EVE Online studio CCP Games turns independent and rebrands as Fenris Creations 3 sources
- The Microsoft/OpenAI breakup: What does it actually mean for Copilot and other AI apps on your Windows 11 PC?
- Supercell acquires Metacore to add Merge Mansion to its "live games portfolio"
- On the podcast: Supercell buys Metacore amid brutal layoffs, Second Dinner cuts, inside Scopely x Niantic, April’s top games, data, jobs, more
- GameStop is selling $5,000 Pokémon packs after baffling $56 billion eBay bid
- GameStop CEO Selling GameStop Stuff On Ebay To Fund Buyout Of Ebay
- Disney CEO On Why Gaming Could Be The Company's Next Big Growth-Driver
- CWA Canada president says Saudi buyout of EA should trigger 'virtually every alarm bell'
2026-05-05 3 stories
2026-05-04 1 story
2026-05-03 4 stories
- GameStop Announces Shocking Buyout Offer For eBay, Priced At $55.5 Billion 2 sources
- Spacestation CEO Explains Why They Didn’t Enter the Call of Duty League
- Jobs digest: big moves at Jam City, Scopely, Niantic, Netflix, Activision, Supercell and more
- Former Elder Scrolls Online boss describes Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin closing as a turning point at Xbox: 'I know where this is going'
2026-05-02 1 story
2026-05-01 1 story
2026-04-30 4 stories
- NACON Connect Being Held Next Week 3 sources
- Scopely and Niantic on getting that seismic $3.5bn megadeal over the line
- On the podcast: Xbox’s weird ‘North Star’, Sybo and Subway Surfers, App Store emulators, Peridot, more
- Former ESO boss Matt Firor talks about the death of unrealised MMO Project Blackbird: 'Microsoft is Microsoft'
2026-04-29 5 stories
- GreedFall: The Dying World studio Spiders is reportedly closing its doors after parent company Nacon failed to find a buyer 7 sources
- Digital Bros buys the rights to Wuchang: Fallen Feathers for €4 million 4 sources
- Former ESO Lead Speaks Out On Xbox's Decision To Cancel New ZeniMax MMO 2 sources
- Despite recent reports Galax reassures customers that it has not pulled an EVGA and exited the graphics card market
- Apple is reportedly set to speed past Dell and become the third-largest laptop vendor, thanks in part to the affordable MacBook Neo
2026-04-28 2 stories
2026-04-27 3 stories
- Rumours suggest Nvidia's next-next gen Fenyman AI GPUs will use Intel Foundry tech for some of the components
- People Can Fly acquires Cooldown Games to establish dedicated publishing vertical
- "The work we’re doing together remains ambitious": OpenAI ends Microsoft exclusivity in a tone that doesn’t match last week’s leaked memo
2026-04-26 1 story
2026-04-24 3 stories
- Fresh off the news that Xbox is cutting Game Pass pricing, reports emerge of a new "Starter Edition" tier that bundles in a Discord sub 7 sources
- Atari acquires emulation studio Implicit Conversions 4 sources
- It's Been Years Since Xbox Acquired A Studio, But It Sounds Like They're Considering It Again
2026-04-23 4 stories
- Mortal Kombat, Batman, And Harry Potter Games Are One Step Closer To Being Owned By Paramount
- Microsoft partnership has "limited our ability": Leaked memo reveals OpenAI's open hostility towards one of its biggest investors
- Microsoft explored buying Cursor before SpaceX lined up a $60 billion deal
- German game industry employment drops 3%, marking second year of decline