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Another big-name development studio has been forced to restructure in an effort to adapt and survive the ongoing economic crisis in the video game industry. Relic Entertainment and SEGA Europe have announced that they’ve made the difficult decision to lay off 121 employees to navigate the economic challenges and ensure continued and investment in their titles, including the recently [...]
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It's game on for a group of employees at Sega of America who have decided to level up their rights by unionizing. The group, comprised of 144 workers based in Sega's Irvine, CA office, has filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The Verge, who spoke with some of the workers ahead of their announcement, [...]
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Japanese video game giant SEGA are moving full steam ahead with their plans to develop a blockchain game despite their earlier qualms about making the jump. In an internal interview on the company’s recruitment website, executives teased their “SuperGame” project, a five-year plan that involves forays into cloud gaming, blockchain technology, and NFTs among other things. According to translations by [...]
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In more video-game-companies-ing-the-crypto-bandwagon news, Sega is apparently considering dipping their toes into the world of blockchain gaming and NFTs but will be taking a more cautious approach compared to other industry giants. The Japanese video game company cites possible backlash as the reason why they’re not diving head first into the fray. A recent Q&A with the company’s management reveals [...]
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Sega has just announced a new line of Yakuza games. The first title in the new series will be Yakuza Online and it will launch on both PC and mobile platforms as a free to play game sometime in 2018. Sega is already surveying Western audiences to see if we'd be interested in the title. The survey also gauges interest [...]
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In the past year alone, Crytek has failed to make payroll, subsequently shut down five of its studios, and handed over Warface's NA/EU publishing rights to My.com, after which it let fifteen of Warface's previous publishing staff go. Now, according to GamesIndustry.biz, the company has sold its Crytek Black Sea studio, which is located in Bulgaria, to SEGA, who [...]
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In a move that I certainly didn't expect to be writing about today, Creative Assembly, SEGA, and Wargaming announced today that they have entered a strategic partnership and a new publishing label, "Wargaming Alliance," has been created. The label has been created in order to "[provide] third-party publishers and developers the tools, resources and platform to enter the highly competitive free-to-play gaming [...]
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