Jason Schreier

Next ‘BioShock’ Game Changes Leaders After Development Turmoil The fourth game in the ‘BioShock’ series has been in development for more than a decade

"Right now, we have a good game, but we are committed to delivering a great one," a 2K spokesperson told Bloomberg.

A remake of BioShock 1 was also in development but was shelved earlier this year, sources tell Bloomberg. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Next ‘BioShock’ Game Changes Leaders After Development Turmoil The fourth game in the ‘BioShock’ series has been in development for more than a decade

NEW: The next BioShock recently failed a publisher review, leading to a leadership shakeup and a narrative overhaul as employees worry that layoffs may follow, sources tell Bloomberg.

BioShock 4, announced in 2019, has been in development for more than a decade. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Well if your rent has gone up 80% in ten years, then a video game price hike is much harder to swallow, even if it should be rising bc of inflation

It's pretty simple. The big deal is that wages haven't kept pace with inflation either

If the market actually demanded those things, more AAA games would be hits

Executive pay, while outrageous, is almost entirely tied to company stock and has no relation to development costs.

as the piece says!

The Industry’s Rush to $80 Video Games Has Stalled — For Now Publishers trying to sell video games at a newly elevated price point have not found success just yet. Will they ever?

The video game industry's rush to $80 games has stalled — for now. But what does the future look like?

Seems to me like the solution to a more sustainable video game industry is cutting costs, not raising prices. This week's column:
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The Silksong release date will never actually be announced. One day we'll all just log in and realize it's been out for weeks

He is addressing investors. They would be thrilled if EA sold games at $80. If they were raising prices, he would be shouting it from the rooftops.

EA CEO Andrew Wilson said on today's Q1 earnings call that the company has no plans to adjust the pricing of its games, perhaps quashing rumors that Battlefield 6 will be $80

Horizon Franchise Has Sold Over 38 Million Coppies Sales - Sony As per the law suit today it was revealed that franshcise has passed over 38 Million Copies sold:

One of the strangest (and most frustrating) quirks of the video game industry is that sales data is so opaque, you sometimes only get it when companies sue each other www.resetera.com/threads/hori...

what? You hate waffles?

"Sony sues Tencent for allegedly ripping off 'Horizon' video games"

Well alright but surely it can't be that blata— lmao

One of the biggest problems in the video game media space is a lack of opportunities for new writers, which Panebianco is hoping to help fix. His site's first hire, Maddie Agne, graduated college in 2023

As Video-Game Media Struggles, Star YouTuber Launches New Outlet Websites like Polygon and Kotaku are facing huge challenges, opening opportunities for newcomers

Ralph "SkillUp" Panebianco has built a successful YouTube career with more than one million subscribers. So naturally, his next move is... to start a video game website?

I spoke to Panebianco about his new venture ("no ads, no AI") and why he's doing it: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

What does this have to do with Doom?

To be clear when I say "may work out" I am talking entirely from a business pov, not from a player value pov (which is much more subjective)

idk. Call of Duty and Elder Scrolls 6 could get away with $80

Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game As Xbox announces a price hike, the year’s best-reviewed games are all budget titles

As I wrote in May, jumping to $80 may work out for top-tier franchises like Mario Kart and Grand Theft Auto... the rest not so much www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Two months after Xbox said upcoming RPG The Outer Worlds 2 would cost $80, it is reversing course. The shift to $80 video games is not going as smoothly as publishers hoped

Yeah, works great

For the last week or so I've been obsessed with Nurikabe World, a serene game that's sort of like a cross between Minesweeper and Sudoku. It's got that trance-like, "just one more game" pull store.steampowered.com/app/2964540/...

Can't wait to see what you do at Breitbart

Nintendo’s Switch 2 Gets a Killer Ape App Donkey Kong Bananza is the first exceptional Switch 2 exclusive for fans of single-player gaming

Six weeks after launch, the Switch 2 gets its (single-player) killer app: Donkey Kong Bananza, a game in which you smash rocks, hunt for bananas, and marvel at the incredible attention to detail. The Super Mario Odyssey team has done it again.

This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Ubisoft chief confronted in-person with questions about “woke” content and “stop killing games” An extraordinary exchange at a Ubisoft shareholder meeting that also touched on AA games and the next Ghost Recon. PLUS: The company's aging workforce, its protections for harassed employees, and more

NEW: A jam-packed Game File with lots of new reporting about Ubisoft
- How their CEO reacted to a face-to-face grilling about "woke" content and "Stop Killing Games"
- A surprise mention of a new Ghost Recon
- The number of young workers at Ubisoft plummets

More: www.gamefile.news/p/ubisoft-ce...

This Week in Videogames - TWIV Covering the important things happening in the world of videogames. News, reviews, and insights without ads or filler content.

Hello. About a year and a half ago, some guy called Ralph asked me if I wanted to make a new videogame website.

We're launching it today. Maybe you can even visit it if people stop hammering the server for a second.

Two months after Valnet purchased Polygon, the gaming site is running advertisements designed to look like articles

You can switch A/B in the settings which is very helpful

Just starting Donkey Kong Bananza. Very obvious that this was made by the Super Mario Odyssey team. Lots of similar design and visual flourishes. I love how the music fades out and reverberates when you're in a cave or underground, then swells again when you get to the surface