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Paris Court of Appeals backs Quantic Dream in legal battle over misconduct allegations Detroit: Become Human and The company said allegations that it created a toxic workplace have been dismissed by the Paris Court of Appeal, completing four previous rulings which had already invalidated the 2018 investigations against the French company.  The legal case centered on a number of reports published by French media outlets that levied serious misconduct allegations against Qu...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] Baltimore, MD -- April 9th, 2021 -- Independent games publisher Versus Evil in partnership with multi award winning development studio Mad About Pandas today announced that the atmospheric first-person mystery game, Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game, is arriving on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on April 15th. The game was launched on Appl...

San Francisco, CA, April 12th, 2021: Indie game developer and publisher 7 Raven Studios is proud to announce April 23rd as the official console rele

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] Vienna, Austria –April 12, 2020– Independent game developer Nader Tawil announces the release of Bungee Turtle on iOS and Android.     Join Bantu and Banta on their epic journey to collect as many coins as you can and unlock all the turtles.    Eat all veggies and fruits to set new high scores but be careful of spikes, falling roc...

Announcing its move to the mobile gaming market last week, Reign Gaming by Novatech Ltd. have launched their first ever line-up of gaming laptops, fe

Three Ways the NBA Top Shot Economy Could Collapse by Ethan Levy on 04/12/21 02:45:00 pm     The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.   While scouting the market for new games for the N3TWORK Scale Platform, were always tracking the lat...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] - 12.4.2021 - Oulu, Finland - Game publisher VRKiwi announced that the upcoming VR game Crystal Raiders will go into open beta from Friday 23th of April to Sunday 2nd of May (Pacific Time). Crystal Raiders is a co-op action-adventure game by Nieko developers, where the players explore an ancient castle, filled with crystal guardians, trap...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Hi-Rez Studios announced an industry-leading remote work policy today, allowing creative game industry professionals to work wherever they feel most productive.   The new Creativity Unchained program allows and encourages over 80 percent of Hi-Rez Studios employees to work remotely in a collaborative, creative environment. Employee...

Analysis: Apple vs. Epic - the key monopoly takeaways by Simon Carless on 04/12/21 03:00:00 pm     The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.   [The GameDiscoverCo game discovery newsletter is written by ‘how people find your game’ ...

The Epic Games Store is haemorrhaging cash to deliver exclusives and free games ); } Epics bid to disrupt the digital distribution status quo with the Epic Games Store (EGS) is costing the company hundreds of million of dollars each year.  Court documents submitted by Apple ahead of its high-profile showdown with Epic indicate the Fortnite creator lost around $181 million on the EGS in 2019, and was projected to lose another $273 million on the storefront in 2020. The filing...