Author: Karen M. Menke
According to reports, the Activision Blizzard teams behind Warcraft Rumble and Call of Duty Warzone Mobile have been affected by Microsoft’s shocking cutbacks in the gaming industry. Gamexta has confirmed that Xbox CEO Phil Spencer delivered a note to employees yesterday outlining 650 further layoffs at Microsoft’s gaming division. With the 1,900 layoffs earlier in the year, the total number of layoffs since Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for $69 billion last year has reached an alarming 2,550. Activision Blizzard’s development teams for Warcraft Rumble and Call of Duty Warzone Mobile were reportedly impacted, according to Game File, despite Spencer’s insistence…
According to a report by Bloomberg, a leadership dispute at Annapurna Interactive resulted in the resignation of the entire gaming crew. According to the claim, which Gamexta can verify based on discussions with our sources, billionaire Megan Ellison, the founder of Annapurna, and president of Annapurna Interactive Nathan Gary have recently been in talks to split off the gaming division as a separate business. Nevertheless, Gary quit once Ellison finally withdrew from the negotiations. Joining him were around thirty other people, including division co-heads Deborah Mars and Nathan Vella and every last member of the Annapurna Interactive crew. “Everyone who…
Content from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s conclusion, in which Ciri turns into a witch herself, has been restored by a moderator. The Witcher 3 typically ends with credits, however, NexusMods user Merigoldmaribor managed to get the scenes back up and running with functional dialogue, revealing a small amount of extra content. The scene continues to show the pair’s next moves when Ciri moves to escape after receiving her blade from Geralt. “Yen is waiting for you in Ellander,” declares Geralt, referring to the Temeria duchy located east of Vizima. The main city of both the original Witcher game and…
It is insane to consider how much of the gaming culture of the past ten years has been shaped, if only partially, by Fortnite. The game started modestly but quickly grew into an enormous online sandbox where players can play as Aang from Avatar: The Last Airbender and crash a sports car into a Stormtrooper outpost, then emerge and shoot Peter Griffin from Family Guy with a neon assault rifle before gliding away on a Cacodemon from Doom. The extent to which Fortnite has shaped, at least partially, gaming culture over the past ten years is astounding. This is a…
With a sneak peek at the patch notes, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead is revealing more about the highly anticipated 01.001.007 update for the game. When the explosive shooter was released earlier this year, it broke records and became the best-selling PlayStation Studios title ever. However, Arrowhead has had a difficult time lately trying to appease the fans of Helldivers 2, and in recent months in particular, this has led to a “mainly negative” current user review rating on Steam. Helldivers 2’s total Steam user review rating is still “mainly positive,” with a current rating of “mixed.” The perception that Arrowhead…
As Sony shuts down servers just two weeks after launch, fans of Valve’s shooter Deadlock are bringing back lost Concord players who, as of September 6, 2024, will no longer be able to access the hero shooter. Launched August 23, 2024, on the PlayStation 5 and PC, the game received a pitiful amount of players, making Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League—which Warner Bros. Discovery president David Zaslav called a disappointment and cost the company $200 million in revenue—look like a giant. Eleven days later, Sony took the game off sale, and three days later, it started to shut down…
In just ten minutes and four seconds, Cyberpunk 2077: The Board Game from CD Projekt Red and Go On Board has accomplished its crowdfunding target. The campaign was fully financed by 6:10 a.m. Pacific time, after becoming live on the crowdsourcing platform Gamefound at 6 a.m. Less than two hours later, the board game has raised $778,783 and is 777% funded. The overview of Cyberpunk 2077: The Board Game states that it is a cooperative, story-driven tactical action game for one to four players that explores a “what if?” scenario that modifies a significant event from the video game. It…
Sony recently stated that the PlayStation hero shooter Concord will be discontinued on September 6, 2024 and that all players will receive a complete refund. “While many qualities of the experience resonated with gamers, we also understand that other aspects of the game and our original launch did not land the way we would intended,” director Ryan Ellis said in a statement posted on the PlayStation Blog. Therefore, Concord will be pulled offline so that Firewalk Studios, the developer, and Sony can “explore possibilities, including ones that will better reach our players.” Anyone who bought the game through PlayStation Direct…
The 2024 recreation of 2010’s Wii-only Epic Mickey has a certain, well, magical quality. I’m more convinced than ever that this adventure, which has an impressive new coat of paint, will thankfully not be lost to the merciless hands of time, like some that sadly came before it, after playing a demo of Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed at D23. For those who haven’t played the original, the game is a quest through a realm of forgotten Disney characters and attractions called the Wasteland. The thing about Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed that most impressed me was how much it feels and…
Until Dawn was remade for the PlayStation 5 and PC by Ballistic Moon, who also laid off many employees. Eleven Ballistic Moon devs have now either written about being made redundant or designated themselves as “open to work” and looking to start somewhere new immediately. Originally, Eurogamer reported that at least two team members had announced their departure on LinkedIn. Although it’s unknown how many employees were let off or if there were more than 11, Gamexta has contacted Ballistic Moon for an explanation. “Like many others in this wonderful but turbulent industry, I am sadly being made redundant from…