game industry

Electronic Arts completed its $55 billion sale to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners on August 4, ending the company’s run as a Nasdaq-listed business and putting one of gaming’s largest publishers under private ownership. The practical change is immediate...

Double Fine Productions has laid off 23 employees less than a month after regaining independence from Microsoft’s Xbox division, a painful reduction the studio says was necessary to keep operating as a sustainable standalone company. In a July 28 statement on Bluesky, studio head Tim Schafer...

The Game Developers Conference’s latest State of the Game Industry survey has produced an unmistakable headline: more than half of respondents now believe generative AI is doing harm to the games industry. The survey, which collected responses from roughly 2,300 industry professionals, reports...