Latest about Gaming Industry
Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics lays off 17 employees 'to better align our current business needs and the studio's future success'
news Crystal Dynamics is currently working on a new Tomb Raider game and is also co-developing a Perfect Dark reboot.
As layoffs and studio closures continue to deathroll the western AAA industry, analyst points out 5 of 8 major Japanese companies hit all-time share prices this year
News Grim in the West, great in the East.
Game Informer is back from the dead: 'The whole team has returned'
news The US magazine was reopened by Gunzilla, a game developer and blockchain operation co-founded by film director Neill Blomkamp.
How a Microsoft exec managed to pitch Microsoft Word through the genius tactic of being able to actually use it in a 'type-off' demanded by clients: 'I was the only one who'd actually been a secretary'
News "And the Microsoft guy… I can see the look on his face when they ask for that."
Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a 'Game of the Year' sticker on the box
News "Okay, so you've done the game. Now what happens?"
Gabe Newell's cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he 'delighted in people on the team just being really good at what they did'
News It's kind of a team fortress, too.
One of Valve's original executives shares a very simple secret to its success: 'You can't use up your credibility' by trying to make bad games work
News "If you're in this industry, people have to trust you."
Gabe Newell had his eyes on a social network in the '90s that 'was not in a games context at all'—meaning Valve-owned social media could've been a very real thing
News "It probably wouldn't have looked anything like Facebook."
