If there were any remaining doubts that the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF) was looking to make inroads into global entertainment, they have been effectively removed. New details of the $55 billion private buyout of the video game company Electronic Arts (EA) first announced in September reveal that Saudi Arabia will own 93.4% of EA.
Final Fantasy director Naoki Yoshida or Yoshi-P detailed in a recent interview that it's time for him and his Final Fantasy team to make another Final Fantasy Tactics game. In an interview with The Gamer, Yoshi-P first discussed how the Final Fantasy XVI team was...
Social media analyst MasteroftheTDS accused Lucasfilm Games and The Walt Disney Company of using bots to promote the upcoming Ubisoft game, Star Wars Outlaws. MastersoftheTDS posted to X, "Ubisoft has teased a new story trailer will be dropping tomorrow, April 9th,...
Former PlayStation Narrative Director Kim MacAskill admitted that gaming studios are discriminating in their hiring practices by prioritizing women. Back in March 2022, MacAskill responded to a user on X claiming, "Today I met someone who thinks there is an advantage...
Michael Douse, the Director of Publishing at Larian Studios, commented on the current mass layoffs that are sweeping the video game industry describing them as an "avoidable f*** up." In an interview with Game File, Douse criticized the mass layoffs that are affecting...
Shauna Jones, a Community Manager for Ubisoft, who is currently working on the upcoming Star Wars Outlaws game appears to have an animus against white men based on numerous posts to social media she has made. As noted on her LinkedIn profile, Jones is based out of...
Kim Hyeong Tae, the CEO of Shift Up Corporation, the game developer behind Stellar Blade, rejected Western critics lampooning the game over gender and racial diversity. In an interview with Korean website Ruliweb, Kim was asked about Western media outlets expressing...
DEI Consultancy organization NNESAGA issued a call for former World of Warcraft Team Lead Mark Kern to be blacklisted from the video game industry. NNESAGA's call to blacklist Kern comes after Kern shared screenshots from former Destiny 2 Community Manager and current...
IGN France Editor-in-Chief Erwan Lafleuriel recently implied that Shift Up Corporation's design of their main character Eve in Stellar Blade is harmful to women. He also asserted that gamers have become "too fragile due to being fed the patriarchy." As brought to...
Visions of Mana producer Masaru Oyamada recently conducted an in-depth interview about the upcoming game and touched on how it will reach new Western players. Speaking with Automaton, Oyamada was asked, "Do you have any plans as to how you’d like the Mana series to...
IGN issued an official apology to Stellar Blade developer Shift Up Corporation for IGN France publishing a preview on the game describing the game's protagonist Eve as "a doll sexualized by someone you would think has never seen a woman." IGN France initially...
A new report claims that Compulsion Games' Community Manager Katie Robinson is being "protected" despite declaring she "hates gamers" and previously claimed "white male gamers were a mistake." Robinson, who announced back at the end of September that she became the...
Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch confirmed the company is actively developing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake. Speaking with IGN following the sale of Saber Interactive to Beacon Group by Embracer Group, Karch told the outlet, "It's clear and it's...