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Battlefield 6 developers face layoffs despite making one of the best-selling games of 2025
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Battlefield 6 developers face layoffs despite making one of the best-selling games of 2025

Battlefield 6 was "the biggest launch in franchise history", EA told us back in October – indeed, it was the best-selling game in the US in 2025... so now it's time to lay off an unspecified number of those who made it, with cuts reportedly taking place across Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, though none of these studios face outright closure. Read more

Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami has a new studio, Unbound, who are making original games for PC and console
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Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami has a new studio, Unbound, who are making original games for PC and console

Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami has founded a new studio, Unbound, after leaving The Evil Within creators Tango Gameworks in 2023. The studio has been lurking in the open for a while - it started business back in May 2023 - and exists to create "high-end", "original AAA" games, or at least, "AA" games that are trying very hard to look all big and blockblustery. Read more

Crusader Kings 3 is getting a Roblox adaptation
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Crusader Kings 3 is getting a Roblox adaptation

All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born. Paradox Interactive are partnering with My Little Pony developers Magic Spark to make a Roblox game inspired by the legendarily mucky and backstabby strategy sim Crusader Kings 3. Out in early access this year, the currently untitled spin-off "captures the spirit of medieval intrigue in a fun, social environment", according to a press release. Read more

"If we love this work, we have to protect it" - Hyper Light studio Heart Machine is now a "wall-to-wall" union
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"If we love this work, we have to protect it" - Hyper Light studio Heart Machine is now a "wall-to-wall" union

Developers at Hyper Light Drifter, Solar Ash and Possessor(s) studio Heart Machine are unionising. They've signed up with a local branch of the Communications Workers of America, in a "wall-to-wall unit [that] represents all frontline employees". This comes in the wake of layoffs, and takes inspiration from larger unionisation drives at megacorps like Microsoft. Read more