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Company enters production phase on augmented reality headsets for US soldiers

The closure of Stadia Games and Entertainment, Google's internal development team dedicated to creating exclusive content for the streaming service, was both a surprise and a disappointment. The studio, led by Assassin's Creed and Watch Dogs producer Jade Raymond, was announced alongside the service itself, with the promise it would work on developing games that are only possible when delivered via the cloud. But the closure itself calls into question the promise of game streaming in general. Given how the technology has transformed music, film and TV, it's still possible -- perhaps likely ...

An era of exceptional upheaval has people in every corner of the industry on edge heading into GDC 2011

Ordinarily this wouldn't even be news, much less news that I felt the need to revisit and pick apart in a weekly column. Online gaming has a certain percentage of awful people, and publishers will, on occasion, give them the boot. But this story is interesting for a few reasons. First, the target of the racist abuse was former pro footballer Ian Wright, one of the stars of yesteryear who has been featured in FIFA's Ultimate Team. Second, the abuse in question didn't take place in a game of FIFA. It was actually hosted on Instagram, where an 18-year-old sent Wright 20 angry messages after losi...

Zenimax. Gearbox. Codemasters. Aspyr Media. New World Interactive. 4A Games. Daybreak. Next Level Games. High Voltage Software. And now Glu Mobile. Those are just some of the more notable mergers and acquisitions that have taken place in the past few months as the industry re-shapes itself. Some of this is no doubt driven by the pandemic. Companies who have enjoyed banner years are putting their increased earnings to use. At the same time, acquisition targets who may have also thrived (on their own scale) are seeing a chance to sell high and avoid what is still an uncertain future as the pan...