TL;DR: A new Lord of the Rings game reportedly backed by a $100 million investment is said to be developed by Crystal Dynamics, not Warhorse Studios. The game aims for a large open-world experience ...

EXCLUSIVE: Baobab Studios, the Emmy-winning animation studio led by Eric Darnell (Madagascar franchise) and Maureen Fan (FarmVille), has acquired exclusive film and television rights to popular Roblox ...

Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced it is laying off 1,000 staff, due to a "downturn in engagement" in its evergreen battle royale. In a message to staff shared publicly this morning, Epic ...

Plus other cuts in mobile games development. According to ResetEra’s J-Soul, who broke the story ahead of Schreier, Dark Outlaw Games was still in the early stages of its first project. It is unclear ...

Savvy Games has acquired Mobile Legends developer Moonton from TikTok owner ByteDance for $6 billion. Rumors that ByteDance was in "advanced talks" to sell Moonton Technology to Savvy Games Group for ...

It’s tremendous to see something that’s just unambiguously good. After the recent discussions of just how hard it is to see a game succeed on Steam, what a pleasure to see the unabashed emotional joy ...

Google Cloud is pushing “Living Games”, powered by autonomous AI agents that interact with players and game worlds in real time. Agentic AI tools could automate playtesting, code generation and other ...

Most video games use tutorials to gently teach you the basics. But some games take a very different approach. In this video we explore 20 video games that actually insult you for failing the tutorial.

Google has detailed the next phase of its 'Living Games' concept: using autonomous AI agents as a core component to support cloud-based game development. Announced at GDC Festival of Gaming, Google ...

Back in 2024, not long after laying off five percent of the company’s workforce, EA CEO Andrew Wilson got on a stage to wax poetic about all the ways generative AI would help take the gaming industry ...