This isnt even the Classic Indies or design sections yet. I'll do that tomorrow.
VG: Business
Phil Spencer thinks there should be an XBox Handheld.
Stardew Valley version 1.6 is taking a long time for consoles. The creator hasn't touched his other game Haunted Chocolatier in a while.
Hideaki Itsuno leaves Capcom to make his own game.
Games Done Quick is under new ownership.
Lemon Sky Studio looks more like the set of a sitcom than an actual design studio
More games can be called Albion because Microsoft can't patent a real place.
Warframe CEO says most live service games companies pull out too soon.
ESport Olympics to take place in Saudi Arabia
Sony expands global game initiative
Can Hytale the engine run Hytale the game?
Most game designers think micro transactions are for the lesser games
Indie team shows off their cancelled game
The actor strike on videogames could be bigger than the one in Hollywood
Riot Games was making a Super Smash style game but let it go
Valve basically rules PC gaming and is only 360 people
Japanese studios are doing better than others
Infinite Realities buys creators of Roblox
Metal Gear Rising Revengence released on GoG but not to Japan
Makers of Gothic are shutdown by publishing company
The CEO of Rockstar says GTA6 will be for a more modern society
Adobe tried to make videogames on their own. The first game was never released.
How Pokemon Go will change for Brazil in 2024
Eve Online is now open source to keep it going after the creators have shuttered their company
The creators of Among Us help other Indie Devs keep afloat
Ubisoft still trying to do NFTs
Jesse Schell hasn't fired a game maker in 22 years. An interview
Cloud saves on Gog over 200 MB will be deleted soon
Indie studios are taking over a lot
American McGee talks about losing the Alice series on Twitter
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/4jzVM
Nintendo warned pirate site to quit before suing.
Interview with the head of videogames at Netflix
Indie platformer dev accidentally sends Valve hamster-themed system requirements, including a graphics card powered by 2000 hamster brains: "I hope it works”
XDefiant had 11 Million players
Jason Schreier confirms Final Fantasy Tactics remake is still being done, with a reddit comment.
Creators of Bloodborne want to make a PC port, but aren't allowed to even mention this desire publicly.
Unity fired it's greedy CEO, and is trying to undo his damage. Said CEO used to run Activision.
Life by You is canceled
The videogame business is dying and these are the numbers showing it. This is a loong article on X showing it.
The creator of Final Fantasy is working with Square Enix again after 20 years.
Major Nelson joins Unity
Ubisoft adds another company to making Prince of Persia
VG: Bus: Toys for Bob Crash Bandicoot
Toys for Bob was managed to die by Activision
A crash bandicoot sequel was cancelled when the game company was closed
VG: Bus: X vs Consoles
X Integration has been dropped by all console manufacturers
Another article about it
VG: Bus: Helldivers 2
Sony tried to push everyone playing Helldivers 2 onto PSN accounts, even on PC. It failed.
They went on a positive review spree for steam and bragged about it working
VG: Bus: Capcom
Capcom has internal SJW quota
Fans not happy
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/EdJpd
VG:Bus: Hi Fi Rush and Prey
Hi Fi Rush was a success, but the company didn't make enough for Microsoft to keep it around. So, the publisher for PUBG has helped them out
Being successful is not a way to stay in business for creators of prey and hi Fi Rush
Developers praise Dishonored which was made by the same folks as Prey
From software is Praised for not dying during a time of last offs and closing successfull companies
VG: Bus: Man Lords opinions
Manor Lords creator defends single player games
Manor Lords creators say producers contracracts are badly made
VG: Bus: Game Informer Caput
GameStop has closed the entirety of the magazine.
The website now goes to GameStop's statement on AI
The Twitter account said goodbye, so GameStop closed it completely
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Cciy2
A tour of the offices before they closed. A very large game collection.
VG: Bus: Humble Bundle Indie Publisher
Humble Games fires entire Indie Dev staff
Newly released game Bo was published by them and is trying to figure out where to go from here.
VG: Bus: Pal world
Pal world CEO says they did not use AI to make their creatures
Makers of Pal world and Sony team up to make new company