Active developers Red Dead Redemption and the Mario + Rabbids series have teamed up to found their own studio, Day 4 Night. Led by the game director Davide Soliani AND Cristiano Cantamessathe team will split its staff between Los Angeles and Milan, Italy. Other co-founders include Cristina Nava, Gian Marco ZannaAND Luca Bredaall of whom … Read more
Game Developer has learned that eight developers at 11 Bit Studios were fired in December 2023 and this was not mentioned by Frostpunk 2 Creator. Recently, former studio writer Anna Sokalska explained that “nine months have passed since 11 Bit's layoffs, [and] I'm still looking for a job.” At 11 Bit, she was a narrative … Read more
Hi-Rez Studios has made “some” layoffs, its CEO announced Stewart Chisam. A specific number of reductions was not revealed, but he said Hi-Rez's marketing and publishing teams were affected. Cosmetic Content and System Features Team at Evil Mojo Branches (Paladins), G&A and Titan Forge (Hit) were hit. Chisam said the “difficult, but necessary changes” were … Read more
Days after closing Midwinter Show and canceling “Project T”, Behaviour Interactive acquired Red Hook Games, creators of the Darkest Dungeon series. While it will work with the Dead in the light of day studio, Red Hook will retain creative and operational control of its projects. This news may be disconcerting for some developers, especially those … Read more
After a year of laying off developers, Behaviour Interactive is bringing in some new ones. Dead in the light of day developer/publisher announced today which is acquiring Red Hook Studios, the company behind Darkest Dungeon AND Darkest Dungeon II. It's incredibly rare for a game studio to announce an acquisition like this so soon after … Read more
Embracer has completed the financial portion of its divestment from Saber Interactive and confirmed that 4A Games and Zen Studios were not included in the deal. The Swedish conglomerate sold significant assets of Saber Interactive–including studios like 3D Realms, Slippage, and New World Interactive–to Beacon Interactive earlier this year. Beacon is owned by Saber co-founder … Read more
French game developer Drama Studios has raised $2.5 million in seed funding and plans to invest that money in its debut title, the bodycam shooter Not registered. Most of that funding came from VC firm The Games Fund. That’s a lot of money at a time when game funding has declined, in turn leading to … Read more
Bloomberg is reporting That Visions of Mana Developer Ouka Studios is about to be shut down by parent company NetEase. The Japanese studio opened in 2020 and hired veteran developers from Capcom and Bandai Namco. It was chosen to handle production on Visions of Manaa new chapter in the popular series published by Square Enix. … Read more
Third-party development partner Virtuos has made an acquisition in Third type studiesStaff are said to be unaffected by the change, which is said to help “strengthen Virtuos’ AAA co-development capabilities.” Founded in 2016, Third Kind has co-developed several AAA games over the past few years. Many of these come from Xbox (such as the new … Read more
Video game actors are calling on movie studios to provide more support when asking actors to work on intimate and explicit scenes. In a wide-ranging BBC News reportSeveral actors working in the video game industry have recalled feeling “shaken” and “disturbed” after being cast in scenes involving scenarios such as sexual assault and “full-on” sexual … Read more