#gamesindustry — Public Fediverse posts

america sucks btw

https://youtube.com/watch?v=npmohif-jj0

#gamesindustry

Electronic Arts bought bought by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund along with Affinity Partners, a private equity company run by Donald Trump’s son-in-law. :pepe_fine:

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/05/video-game-maker-ea-bought-by-saudi-led-group

#EA #ElectronicArts #Gaming #GamingNews #VideoGames #GamesIndustry #SaudiArabia #AffinityPartners #EASports #TheGuardian #TechNews

Also applicable in the #gamesindustry: "How to #unionize your tech workplace"

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4192438/how-to-unionize-your-tech-workplace.html

Solidarity with our #union comrades in Spain, Canada and the US who are fighting against the mass #layoffs which are destroying the #gamesindustry.
✊🏼✊🏻✊🏿

If you have the means, they need any support they can get.

https://kolektiva.social/@CGTCatalunya/116917189513613165
https://bsky.app/profile/videogameworkers.bsky.social/post/3mqcjworgic2t
https://union.place/@gwumtl/116921242317013649

Microsoft is laying off around 4,800 employees today as it starts its new financial year. 1,600 of those are in the Xbox division, which will see an additional 1,600 cuts — not counted in today's number — through FY 2027. Here's more from CNBC.

https://flip.it/CSE_.m

#Technology #GamesIndustry #Xbox

France's @STJV calls for a strike in the French #gamesindustry over the ongoing layoffs, as they are currently affecting #gamedevs at Quantic Dream, as well as other studios

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@STJV/116793310641670311

Ubisoft has closed its Winnipeg and Belgrade studios, laying off a total of around 165 people. Here's more from Insider Gaming.

https://flip.it/wl0Kro

#VideoGames #GamesIndustry #Ubisoft

Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse time in the games industry'

https://piefed.world/c/games/p/1144402/fallout-lead-tim-cain-argues-games-industry-crisis-hasn-t-reached-the-level-of-the-1983

Happening at #AMaze2026 at 11:30

Our talk about bosses fighting #unionization in the #gamesindustry with members of @STJV @gameworkers.co.uk and @csvi_cgt

Join us!

https://amazeberlin2026.sched.com/event/2LvHW/the-empires-strike-back-union-busting-and-corporate-backlash-to-worker-organizing-and-why-international-collaboration-of-union-efforts-is-key-to-fight-back

In #Berlin and attending #AMaze2026?

Come to our panel discussion with awesome comrades from France's @STJV , the UK's @gameworkers.co.uk and Spain's @csvi_cgt

We are going to talk about what the #gamesindustry is going through these days from a worker's perspective.

https://amazeberlin2026.sched.com/event/2LvHW/the-empires-strike-back-union-busting-and-corporate-backlash-to-worker-organizing-and-why-international-collaboration-of-union-efforts-is-key-to-fight-back

"We tried something different": Looking back on SiN Episodes: Emergence, the Valve-backed shooter that tried and failed to kick off an age of episodic gaming

https://piefed.world/c/pcgaming/p/1100059/we-tried-something-different-looking-back-on-sin-episodes-emergence-the-valve-backed-sho

#Sony reports record profits after mass #layoffs
Business as usual in the #gamesindustry

https://thisweekinvideogames.com/news/playstation-reports-record-profits-for-fy2025-despite-second-bungie-impairment-loss/

PC gamers buy way more games that cost less than $30 at launch compared to PlayStation and Xbox players, analysts say, and it's "reshaping the PC market"

Schedule 1, Peak, and REPO lead a big year for small games

Is the video game industry about to crash? Luke Plunkett of @Aftermath says that's the wrong way to think about things.

https://flip.it/.FZDVy

#VideoGames #Gaming #GamesIndustry #GameDev

"Keeping teams together doesn't seem to matter to people, but for us it did": Star Wars Zero Company's director on what the industry can learn from XCOM 2

In an industry that is facing wave after wave of layoffs, Greg Foertsch details how keeping the XCOM team together made for a better sequel.

Wer sind wir? Wir sind die Game Workers, eine Gruppe.vom #GameDev.s und Arbeitenden aus der Deutschen #GamesIndustry.

Was wollen wir? Wir wollen gute Spiele machen - ohne Mismanagement, ohne Crunch, ohne Belästigung am Arbeitsplatz, mit fair bezahlten und stabilen Jobs.

Und wir haben jetzt eine Website, damit man uns finden und beitreten kann.
Join us!

https://game-workers.de/

Who are we? We are #gamedev.s and other workers in the German #gamesindustry!

What do we want? A #gamesindustry without mismanagement, crunch, underpayment and harassment.

And now we have a website, so you can join us! ✊️

https://game-workers.de/

Yet the #gamesindustry is not dying, it is being killed. By a managerial class that treats #gamedev.s not as creatives or even assets, but merely as a financial liability. Their actions undermine not only the future of their own business, but of games as a viable career path.

It is high time to #unionize and fight back, because otherwise in a few years only AI slop filled to the brim with microtransactions will be the only "games" left.

Only a few days ago Brenda and George Romero called the current state of the #gamesindustry to be even "crashier" than during the collapse of Atari in the 80s.

With yet more layoffs, at Epic, Pixelberry and Eidos among others, it is hard to disagree with them.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/we-were-there-in-the-80s-for-the-crash-and-this-is-definitely-crashier-john-and-brenda-romero-reflect-on-the-industry-crisis

Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say

https://piefed.world/c/games/p/999043/fewer-people-playing-fortnite-is-just-one-of-epic-s-many-problems-analysts-say

There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev

Steam's new "golden age" is special because so many genres are popping off at once, indie expert says: "It's almost like the player base was drinking and their inhibitions lowered"

Friendslop is just the tip of the iceberg, and also a chunk of the iceberg

It's brutal out there: Deus Ex and Unreal composer says he's submitted 50 resumes and gotten one interview in the last year

AI’s impact on audio production has, of course, become a hot topic in the game music world.

Looks like someone left in a hurry...

We’re thrilled to show off some of the incredible props from our latest community challenge already integrated into our game's environments!

Some models are already free to download here:
https://polyhaven.com/all/collection:%20project_lighthouse

Want to see your own work featured in-game? Enter the Challenge here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sKLwMzcis0

#cc0 #free #pbr #b3d #Ue5 #indiedev #games #gamesindustry #environmentart

Epic Games has laid off over 1,000 employees, with CEO Tim Sweeney telling staff a "downturn in Fortnite engagement" led the company to "spend significantly more" than it makes. Here's the full story from @GIbiz.

https://flip.it/JUCCa3

#VideoGames #GamesIndustry #Technology #Epic

Do you ever think there are too many PC games? So did Ultima's Robert Garriott—in 1989

“The consumer doesn’t really know what to buy for their computer,” Garriott said in 1989, while also pointing to the popularity of Nintendo’s newfangled game console.

"We have no desire to be a media empire," says Palworld publishing head, but Pocketpair would be stupid to let the survival game die out

https://piefed.world/c/games/p/975910/we-have-no-desire-to-be-a-media-empire-says-palworld-publishing-head-but-pocketpair-woul