Sandy Petersen, a veteran of id Software, strongly dislikes gamers who pirate games. Recently, he wrote a post on X, where he criticized these individuals and stated that without pirates, id Software would have faced a very different fate.

Last May, Patrick O’Luanaigh left the VR studio nDreams he founded, after 19 years as CEO. Now he has decided to return to game development.

Recently, Comcast Corporation announced plans to spin off its media holding NBCUniversal into a separate publicly traded company. Amidst this, rumors have surfaced that after the business split, NBCUniversal may begin to explore new strategic directions — including entering the video game market.

This was shared on the social network X by Cyberpunk 2077’s quest director, Paweł Sasko.

The Japanese company DeNA, one of the developers of the hit mobile game Pokémon TCG Pocket, recently secured governmental support. It received 1.5 billion yen ($9.25 million) in subsidies under the IP360 program.

Robert Henrysson will no longer lead Supermassive Games studio. He has decided to leave the team after two and a half years of work at the company.

The Polysights platform has received significant investments in a pre-seed funding round, totaling $1.5 million.

It has become known about yet another studio that may cease to exist as a result of the upcoming restructuring of XBOX. As reported by GamesBeat, this is Undead Labs — the team behind the State of Decay series.

TinyBuild, the publisher of Hello Neighbor, Potion Craft, The King is Watching, and many other games, has gained a new shareholder. That shareholder is the venture capital firm Griffin Gaming Partners.

We continue our weekly series of YouTube interviews. The guest of the new episode is Anastasia Smirnova, a narrative designer with many years of experience. She has worked on games such as Mystery Manor, Paradise Island 2, Familyscapes, and Wildscapes: New Acres.

Every week, we release interviews on YouTube with gaming experts discussing various aspects of their work. We will also now post separate text-based blitz interviews with our speakers, but these will be “locked.” For instance, today we released a one-hour conversation on YouTube with Anastasia Smirnova on the topic “How to Create a Good Narrative for a Casual Game?” The accompanying content for this video is this article where we’ve already discussed the challenges facing…

The steampunk PvP action game featuring walking fortresses, SAND: Raiders of Sophie, has made a confident launch. It took precisely a week to reach the milestone of 200,000 copies sold.

This is reported by TASS, citing the head of the Agency for Creative Industries (ACI), Gulnara Agamova.

It’s possible that Microsoft hasn’t been signing contracts with third-party developers who wish to add games to the Game Pass subscription for some time. At least, that’s what claims Fernando Rizo, former sales director at Raw Fury and now a partner at Caboodle Games.

How many times console owners have pre-ordered the game, the corporation did not specify.

A total of fines were issued to 11 companies, including Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Riot Games, and Ubisoft.

Member of the European Parliament from Malta, Peter Agius, stated at recent hearings that a ban on online gambling advertising in the EU could foster the development of the black market. According to him, such measures would only weaken consumer protection rather than strengthen it.

A year and a half ago, the Russian-speaking team Studio Rassvet announced their debut game — “No Change”, about a vendor in a night kiosk engaging in philosophical conversations with customers on New Year’s Eve. Since then, the project has found its way onto several hundred wishlists on Steam.

Employees of Quantic Dream and Ubisoft Barcelona went on strike, Sony announced plans to continue working on live-service games, and The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth hit a new record peak in Steam’s concurrent users. Here’s a recap of the main events in the gaming industry over the past weekend.