General Gaming News

[:eek:]

Intel 8080 bottleneck made classic 47-year-old Space Invaders arcade game run faster as enemies died — expert coder asserts 'hardware accident' to blame

There wasn't a cunning piece of coding behind this thrilling game pacing feature.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Mani-Man]

I despise these "Ex" CEOs or Execs even more after they are gone from their jobs, because it shows that they always saw the problems the industry ran towards, but were too cowardly to fight it.
Now opening their mouths to speak out against various things they allowed to happen, makes them even more unlikeable.

 

[Venom 1988]

I despise these "Ex" CEOs or Execs even more after they are gone from their jobs, because it shows that they always saw the problems the industry ran towards, but were too cowardly to fight it.
Now opening their mouths to speak out against various things they allowed to happen, makes them even more unlikeable.

Didn't Shawn Layden leave because he kept butting heads with Jim Ryan about the direction Playstation was heading in?

 

[Gee]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/amazon-makes-significant-cuts-in-video-game-division?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTY2Nzc5MywiZXhwIjoxNzYyMjcyNTkzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNFVOSThHUTdMSEIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.gpW2CyZmAypCDjxGr-gBHrW6EnUxZkFspCrjiLV-dwc&leadSource=reddit_wall

14k jobs affected. Absolutely brutal...

Amazon.com Inc. is gutting its video-game division as part of a sweeping layoff that will eliminate more than 14,000 corporate jobs.

The company didn’t say how many video-game jobs will be cut, but noted in a memo Tuesday that “significant role reductions” would fall on its offices in Irvine and San Diego, as well as its central publishing division. The company will reduce the amount of work it does on big-budget titles, particularly surrounding massively multiplayer online games or MMOs.

Steve Boom, vice president of Audio, Twitch, and Games, said in the memo reviewed by Bloomberg that the company is “leaning into the things that Amazon does best.”

In recent months, the company has doubled down on Luna, the cloud gaming service. The company’s Montreal studio will continue development of the strategy game March of Giants. Amazon will also continue to release “casual and AI-focused games” for the cloud service, according to the memo. The San Francisco-based external studio Crystal Dynamics is still working on a new Tomb, Raider game and UK-based Maverick Games continues to work on a racing title.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/amazon-makes-significant-cuts-in-video-game-division?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTY2Nzc5MywiZXhwIjoxNzYyMjcyNTkzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNFVOSThHUTdMSEIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.gpW2CyZmAypCDjxGr-gBHrW6EnUxZkFspCrjiLV-dwc&leadSource=reddit_wall

14k jobs affected. Absolutely brutal...

The industry is ruining the lives of so many talented people.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

Amazon have reportedly cancelled their Lord Of The Rings MMO, again

Another attempt to turn Tolkien into a massively multiplayer game may have met a premature end, amid layoffs at the studio behind New World.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

 

[Venom 1988]

 

[psylockolussus]

Lets just hope we don't need to wait more than a decade for GTA VII!

 

[DarthSkywalker]

This ****ing sucks... but I'm also still buying VI.

 

[blueharvest]

Nintendo wins lawsuit against streamer who played pirated games then taunted them - Dexerto

Nintendo has won a lawsuit against a streamer who repeatedly broadcast pirated Switch games and mocked the company.

www.dexerto.com

 

[Mani-Man]

Nintendo wins lawsuit against streamer who played pirated games then taunted them - Dexerto

Nintendo has won a lawsuit against a streamer who repeatedly broadcast pirated Switch games and mocked the company.

www.dexerto.com

What did he think would happen? Especially knowing how hard Nintendo goes after pirating, after modding etc?
Like, you taunt the company that would throw people in jail for having a Mario skin in a fan project if they could.
Why would you Pirate their games, stream it and taunt them?

 

[Teelie]

Yeah, I mean Nintendo does not **** around with pirates.

 

[:eek:]

Lets just hope we don't need to wait more than a decade for GTA VII!

Likely depends on if they're doing another RDR game, or something else, before GTA VII

 

[:eek:]

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/atari-2600-pac-man-edition-released-at-usd169-bright-yellow-console-comes-with-pac-man-double-feature-2-in-1-game-cartridge

 

[blueharvest]