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Square Enix Lays Off Western Employees, Shifts Toward Multiplatform Releases
Square Enix is the latest video game developer to restructure its business. Earlier today, IGN reported that Square Enix will move away from platform exclusivity and “pursue a multiplatform strategy” going forward. This initiative, which the company is calling “Square Enix Reboots and Awakens�...
Read MoreRUMOR: Kingdom Hearts Animated Film in Development
Kingdom Hearts was first released in Japan on March 28th, 2002, with the North American release on September 17th of the same year for PlayStation 2. The story introduces you to the trio of Sora, Riku, and Kairi, immersing the player in multiple worlds set in beloved Disney films of old. It also est...
Read MoreStellar Blade Demo Had More Peak Players Than Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
The Stellar Blade demo is a hit. According to Push Square (which is a cool name for a video game website), the demo for the South Korean action game has “about 690,000 daily active users” on its best day. Not only is this a great number, but it’s leagues ahead of the latest release from one &...
Read MoreBlack Girl Gamers Threatens Legal Action Over Claims of Discrimination
Another video game consulting firm may be edging Sweet Bay Inc. out of the spotlight. Attention is now shifting to Black Girl Gamers, the group whose response to criticism spurred BBC game commentator Jules Hardy to ask that the video game community have a “final purge” and “full detox” of e...
Read MoreMarvel’s Avengers Price Drops 90% Ahead of Delisting
That Avengers game almost nobody played and even fewer people liked is going out with a whimper instead of the bang you’d expect from Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. At the beginning of the year, Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics announced that their big superhero video game, Marvel’s Avengers, would...
Read MorePhoebe Waller-Bridge to Helm an Amazon Tomb Raider TV Series
Many modern-day filmmakers and creatives can be characterized as franchise destroyers, creative cancer, or utter frauds, such as anyone out of Bad Reboot. However, few individuals are more deserving of these titles than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, destroyer of James Bond and the soon-to-be destroyer of I...
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