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‘I think we’re gonna win this’: Stop Killing Games on game preservation in the US and EU

Last week, YouTuber Ross Scott shared an update on the Stop Killing Games movement and its upcoming visit to the European Union Commission, which will see the campaign officially provide the over one million signatures of a citizens initiative as well as provide representatives an opportunity to talk with the Commission about the shutdown of […]
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Ubisoft shutters one of its Canadian studios just weeks after it officially formed a union

If you were among those hoping for the tidal shift of the games industry to move in favor of workers, this news is not exactly something that will fill you with confidence in that hope. Ubisoft Halifax, the studio that developed titles like Assassin’s Creed Rebellion and Rainbow Six Mobile, officially formed a union in […]
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MMO Business Roundup: Saudi Arabia’s EA, UK’s games shadow council, and escaping from Tarkov

Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! The UK Games Industry Shadow Council: No, this isn’t a secret society that’s extremely bad about being secret; it’s a self-formed group within the UK games industry sector that has been formed to elevate “voices who would like to identify good and poor […]
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AI adoption and defense bubbles forth from Arrowhead, Ubisoft, and Microsoft’s leadership

The war of attrition that is seeing c-suite and games industry leaders continue to pour AI into games and tech in spite of repeated pushback by developers and gamers continues. Today we’ve got a trio of stories from three different companies that are in different stages of AI brainworm infection because this stuff needs to […]
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Roblox’s CEO calls moderation problems ‘an opportunity’ and platform gambling a ‘brilliant idea’ in unhinged interview

David Baszucki, the CEO of Roblox, has been known to say some pretty outlandish things, but his recent interview with the New York Times might have ended up being a carpet bombing of poorly considered answers, as he tried to spin problems into “opportunities” and speak positively about tech additions that are anything but positive. […]
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Following a goofy delay, Ubisoft’s financials arrive with a progress report on the Tencent partnership

If you happened to be holding any stock in Ubisoft, this past week might have frayed some of your nerves, as the gaming company announced that its fiscal report for the first half of the year was being delayed and that share trading would be temporarily halted. As one might expect, this ended up causing […]
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Former Halo MMO project dev believes it was killed to pad a former executive’s bonus

Back in 2021 we first reported on the fate of an in-development Halo MMO project as told by former developer Sandy Petersen, who recounted how the title and its developer Ensemble Studios were effectively taken apart by corporate politicking by Microsoft and then-Xbox head Don Mattrick. Well now, Petersen is back to talk about this […]
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Krafton heralds record-breaking profits and an ‘AI first’ focus in latest quarterly earnings report

PUBG and Subnautica publisher Krafton has said the two things that investor boards apparently love to hear in their earnings reports: profits are up, up, up, and it’s going to go all-in on AI. That’s essentially what’s being touted by the company in its third quarter earnings report for 2025, which has brought in record-breaking […]
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The courts have cast doubt on Epic Games and Google’s agreement to settle their long-running legal dispute

It’s been a five year-long kaiju fight between Epic Games, Apple, and Google, as Epic took both corporations to court back in 2020 over what were considered monopolist policies related to third-party payment processing. And while most of the focus was zeroed in on the Epic vs. Apple fight, there was also a ruling in […]
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Square Enix lays off hundreds of workers, telling investors it’ll divert 70% of QA work to AI

Why let skilled quality assurance workers make sure game code is functional when an investment in AI can botch the work? That would appear to be the push by Square Enix, as it has told investors in a “medium-term business plan” presentation that it’s aiming to have QA work done by AI in the future, […]
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