Image: Nintendo Life The Reggie Fils-Aimé tourist train keeps flying! Last week, the former president of Nintendo of America spoke with James Batchelor of GamesIndustry.biz after the release of his book, disrupt the gameto talk not only about the book, but also about various industry issues and the future of Nintendo. Near the end of … Read more
Subscribe to Nintendo Life at Youtube In early April 2022, reports of poor working conditions at Nintendo of America surfaced, accusing the company and a third-party recruiting firm of “concerted activities” and “coercive actions” to prevent unionization, and the struggles of part-time workers and contractors. to get time off and a living wage. On May … Read more
Picture: Suda 51 via Twitter Towards the end of 2021, renowned video game creator Goichi “Suda51” Suda announced that his development studio had joined Chinese video game group NetEase. With More heroes 3 Now complete, the Suda 51 team is focused on creating new original IP projects over the next decade. In a recent interview … Read more
Image: Electronic Arts Microsoft’s recent acquisitions of video game companies like Bethesda and Activision Blizzard have sent the entire industry into a frenzy – with companies like Sony pulling out their wallets to acquire developer Halo and Destiny Bungie. Now, in the latest development, a report from news site Puck reveals that EA is actively … Read more
How do you like the consolidation of your industry? We’re not convinced it’s in gamers’ best interests for a handful of conglomerates to own all the major developers and publishers, but that’s the path we’re rapidly going down – and it looks like same EA is on the market. A report from Puck claims the … Read more
Bungie has been one of the most outspoken studios in the industry when it comes to abortion rights in the United States. This, of course, puts an even bigger tag on an internal email sent by Sony CEO Jim Ryan in which he urged employees to “respect differences of opinion” on the matter. Indeed, PlayStation … Read more
The fallout from PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan’s ill-judged email on women’s reproductive rights looks set to continue, as proprietary developer Insomniac Games has compiled a “nearly 60-page” dossier from staff and the sent to PlayStation Studios boss Hermen Hulst, demanding leadership “do better by employees who are directly impacted”. Last week, in an internal memo … Read more
Square Enix has released its financial report for fiscal year 2021, and while the publisher is still reasonably healthy overall, its net sales are down nearly ten percent in fiscal year 2020 — and that would have could have been worse without the continued success of Final Fantasy XIV. The MMORPG is truly the company’s … Read more
A document dated April 18, 2022 suggests that some games from the Bloober Team catalog could arrive PSMore in the future. The documents, which describe a “significant licensing and distribution agreement with Sony Interactive Entertainment”, allude to “select” titles from the Bloober team being made available under a “new distribution system”. It looks a lot … Read more
Image: Square Enix Update #2 [Fri 13th May, 2022 11:45 BST] As part of Square Enix’s earnings briefings today, the company confirmed it had a lawsuit with Yuji Naka, but declined to comment further. The only response given by the prominent Japanese developer was to say that Balan Wonderworld “is a game that we recommend … Read more