More details from Jason Schreier: EA fired 300-400 people across the whole company, over 100 of them were from Respawn Entertainment.

The biggest project they cancelled is the extraction shooter based on Titanfall/Apex universe. Since several new extraction games failed to gain traction or engagement, EA is probably doing the right thing.

It's not the first wave of layoffs in EA this year (the biggest one was at Bioware). But they hope it will be the last one.

It's curious that EA is under pressure from all fronts: InZOI is way more popular than The Sims, several new football games are stealing attention from EA FC 25, Dragon Age got no sales (compared to AC Shadows, Kingdom Come II, Oblivion, and Expedition 33), and even Battlefield is facing pressure from Delta Force.

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It's Wednesday, my dudes!

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Well, here's the analytics for REAL GAME DEVELOPERS: the fastest growing Roblox games!

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There are tons of purchased assets in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, but no one offended and criticize the visuals of the game. It clearly shows own style and coherent artistic vision.

Just sayin!

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I'm not surprised 😑

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Okay, it wasn't the final one 😞

Codemasters, the legendary studio behind Colin McRae, Dirt, and WRC, is now left in a very dangerous situation. But the case of WRC is even more interesting!

The British department (Codemasters Cheshire) is based on Evolution Studios, who previously created MotorStorm and WRC. Due to internal conflicts in PlayStation, they closed Evolution, then they turned into the Codemasters department, and then into another Criterion Games.

EA purchased it in 2022 for $1.2B and called it a new big chapter. Not as big as it seemed.

Blitzkrieg RTS, made with Enigma Engine and released 22 years ago, is now open-source! It's not FOSS and only serves non-commercial purposes.

https://github.com/nival/Blitzkrieg
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Benny Harvey RIP
Gone but not forgotten!

Epic Games announced that Apple lost again, this time in the United States.

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You're old!

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The only moment from Borderlands 4 trailer worth watching!

Marathon is not doing great: the close alpha test is almost as popular as Concord. People are invited in waves, there was a peak of ~7000 people, but then it quickly dropped to 1000, and at night time it dips as low as 58 players.

Seeing this, the speculated closure of Titanfall Extraction becomes more obvious — people are not into the concept and the success of Tarkov is rather an exemption.

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Microsoft is raising XBox prices (up to $80-100), and games prices will follow soon (they will cost $80 instead of $70).

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