Tag: Square Enix

Vertical Slice 298: Κομμένος ο βήχας

Published 14/02/2025

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Vertical Slice 298: Κομμένος ο βήχας

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Η ESA κάνει όνειρα, η Paradox κάνει αγορές, το Football Manager 25 μας αφήνει και το State Of Play είχε απ’ όλα εκτός από ταυτότητα.

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M&A
- Paradox Interactive acquires Haemimont Games
ESA και iicon
- Entertainment Software Association Unveils iicon, Game-Changing Thought Leader Summit to Harness the Power of Interactive Entertainment and Shape the Future of Business and Culture
PSN
- Sony apologises for global outage that took PlayStation Network offline for nearly 24 hours
Crytek
- Crytek cuts 15% of workforce, Crysis 4 put on hold
Αποτελέσματα τριμήνου
2025 State Of The Game Industry Report
- GDC 2025 State of the Game Industry: Devs weigh in on layoffs, AI, and more
State Of Play
- State of Play | February 12, 2025 [English]
- State of Play February 2025: all announcements, trailers

Vertical Slice 290: Αρθριτικά, αθροιστικά και immersive sims

Published 13/12/2024

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Vertical Slice 290: Αρθριτικά, αθροιστικά και immersive sims

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Ο Indiana Jones έφτασε, η Traptics ετοιμάζει κάτι νέο, η Capcom ρίχνει δόλωμα και το μεγάλη ομάδα της Square Enix καταλήγει support studio στο Eternal Strands.

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Xenopurge
Transmedia
- Pokémon and Aardman partner up for “exciting” 2027 collaboration | News-in-brief
EA και προσβασιμότητα
- EA expands free library of accessibility patents to make more games inclusive
Suicide Squad
- Rocksteady ends Suicide Squad development less than a year after release
Epic Games και Telefónica
- Epic Games announces deal with Telefónica
Capcom Games Competition
- Capcom announces Capcom Games Competition – student competition utilizing RE ENGINE
Eternal Strands και Square Enix
- Eternal Strands launches January 28, 2025; post-launch content collaboration with Square Enix Creative Studio III announced
Ubisoft και Tencent
- Ubisoft shareholders in talks over possible buyout terms, sources say
  - Ubisoft’s handling of cancelled PlayStation exclusive Wild was ‘a real scandal’, director
Γονείς, εφηβεία, gaming
- Influence of parental mediation and social skills on adolescents’ use of online video games for escapism: A cross‐sectional study
Cyberpunk 2077
- Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City infiltrated by Balatro’s giggling joker in 2.2 update secret
Sony και Kadokawa
- Employees at FromSoftware owner Kadokawa reportedly “thrilled” about possible Sony takeover
30 χρόνια Tales of
- Tales of Series 30th Anniversary Project Special Broadcast

Vertical Slice 278: Vezos Films

Published 20/09/2024

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Vertical Slice 278: Vezos Films

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Κλείνουν οι εκκρεμότητες από αποτελέσματα τριμήνου και στρεφόμαστε σε άγχη των developers, το φαινόμενο (ή ζημιά;) που λέγεται cross-gen και περισσότερη κουβέντα για στροφή σε μικρότερες, πιο προσεγμένες παραγωγές.

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Vertical Slice 263: Τρέχω σαν τον ηλίθιο

Published 17/05/2024

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Vertical Slice 263: Τρέχω σαν τον ηλίθιο

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Η Sony «σπάει» το PlayStation στα δύο, η Square Enix επιτέλους πανικοβάλλεται, όλοι ανακοινώνουν οικονομικά αποτελέσματα και στο τέλος η ζωή είναι για την Capcom.

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Vertical Slice 261: Μαγνήτες παντού

Published 03/05/2024

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Vertical Slice 261: Μαγνήτες παντού

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Ο Mikami λέει τον πόνο του, οι φήμες για το διάδοχο του Switch λένε για μαγνήτες, η Square Enix ακυρώνει παιχνίδια κι όλα αυτά την ώρα που Xbox και Bethesda είναι οι μόνοι με 15 παίκτες στο γήπεδο μα και με αριθμητικό μειονέκτημα.

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Transmedia
- ‘Fallout’ Nabs 65 Million Viewers in First Two Weeks of Availability
Greek Dev
- “Necrophosis – Official Teaser Trailer Launch “
Epic, iPad, emulators και DMA
- Epic plans to revive Fortnite on iPad following EU iPadOS ‘gatekeeper’ ruling – 9to5Mac
Games στο LinkedIn
- LinkedIn launches games on its platform
Τα πλάνα της Hasbro
- Hasbro’s $1 billion bet on internal game development
Θυσίες στην Square Enix
- Square Enix takes $140 million hit on cancelled games
Απολύσεις στην Private Division.
- Take-Two reportedly shuts down Roll7 and Intercept Games, Private Division suffers layoffs
Αποτελέσματα Microsoft
Πλανήτης Bethesda
- Fallout 4 Xbox Series X/S update currently has a bug that blocks Quality mode
- Todd Howard says Bethesda is focused on finding ways to increase its output
Kamuy και Mikami
- Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami explains why he left Tango Gameworks and founded Kamuy
Switch 2 και μαγνήτες
- Report suggests Switch 2 can play all original Switch games

Vertical Slice 249: Κι αν πονάς, Game Pass

Published 09/02/2024

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Vertical Slice 249: Κι αν πονάς, Game Pass

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Απλά κρατάμε την αναπνοή μας μέχρι τα επίσημα νέα για το μέλλον του Xbox.

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Vertical Slice 248: Luben Vezo

Published 02/02/2024

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Vertical Slice 248: Luben Vezo

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Η Microsoft πετυχαίνει ανεπιτυχώς, η διάλυση του Embracer Group συνεχίζεται και ο Hideo Kojima σώζει το State Of Play.

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Palworld
- Palworld Becomes the Biggest 3rd Party Game Pass Launch Ever – Xbox Wire
True Ending
- True Ending 116: WarioWare: Move It! | Review
Αποτελέσματα
Απολύσεις
- Xbox
  - Activision Blizzard
- AirShip Syndicate
  - Report: Airship Syndicate lays off 12 staff
- Embracer Group
  - Nimble Giant Entertainment
    - Nimble Giant Entertainment reportedly reduces staff by 28
  - Black Forest Games
    - Black Forest Games reportedly cuts 50% of employees
  - Eidos Interactive
    - Report: Deus Ex title killed after Embracer Group’s cuts at Eidos
- SEGA
  - Sega of America to lay off 61 employees
- GameSpot
  - GameSpot lays off portion of staff
Tencent
- The world’s biggest gaming company reportedly feels its position is under threat
Ubisoft
- Inside Ubisoft – From Low Morale To Internal Tensions – Insider Gaming
DMA
State Of Play
- Everything revealed in the January 2024 State of Play
- Death Stranding 2 and new Kojima stealth game headline PlayStation’s State of Play
Square Enix
- A Final Fantasy 6 remake would take ‘twice as long’ as FF7, says producer

Vertical Slice 247: Your game is boring

Published 26/01/2024

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Vertical Slice 247: Your game is boring

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Κακός χαμός με το Palworld, καλός χαμός με τις τάσεις του 2024 στη βιομηχανία, συνεχής πόνος με απολύσεις και άλλες χαριτωμένες παρενέργειες γεννημένες στις σχολές διοίκησης κλόουν.

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Rose and Camellia
- Nintendo Switch slapping game reveals “brass knuckle” Joy-con attachments – AUTOMATON WEST
Palworld
- Palworld Early Access Steam sales top eight million in less than six days
True Ending
- True Ending 115: Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora | Review
Crunchyroll Game Vault
Απολύσεις και λοιπά
- Games industry leaders braced ‘for up to two years of pain’
- Riot Games
  - Riot lays off 530 staff, Riot Forge shutting down
- Embracer
  - Embracer’s Gothic and Elex studio Piranha Bytes is reportedly facing closure
- People Can Fly
  - People Can Fly reduces its workforce
MSI Claw
- MSI Announces the Claw: A Handheld PC Game Console with Intel’s Meteor Lake Inside
Αλλαγές στη Focus
- Focus Entertainment’s Q3 revenue dips 43% and it announces a rebrand
Πρόστιμο σε Sony
- Sony fined €13.5m by French antitrust regulator
Square Enix
- A New Year’s Letter from the President | SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS
- Outline of Financial Results Briefing by SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS held on Nov. 7, 2023
The State Of The Gaming Industry
- GDC & Game Developer: The State of the Gaming Industry in 2024
- GDC 2024 State Of The Game Industry: Devs Discuss Layoffs, Generative AI, and More | News | GDC | Game Developers Conference
Game Industry in 2024
- Newzoo: Forecasts and Gaming Trends for 2024
- Newzoo: Global games market expected to grow to $189bn in 2024
Fast Travel
- Dragon’s Dogma 2 director says he doesn’t like fast travel because it can mean a game is boring

Vertical Slice 237: Ποροπομπέιρο

Published 10/11/2023

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Vertical Slice 237: Ποροπομπέιρο

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Η Nintendo γελάει από συνήθεια, η SEGA πλέει σε πελάγη ευτυχίας κι η Blizzcon μαζεύει ό,τι hype βρει.

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The Meating
True Ending
Transmedia
- Development of a Live-Action Film of The Legend of Zelda to Start
- ‘Legend Of Zelda’ Live-Action Pic In Works At Sony With Wes Ball Directing, Nintendo Co-Financing
M&A
- Sony
  - Sony Interactive Entertainment to Acquire iSIZE
Microsoft και Inworld AI
Απολύσεις Ubisoft
- Ubisoft Montreal hit with layoffs amidst larger company reductions
Απολύσεις Embracer Group
Fantastic Pixel Castle
- NetEase Games establishes new studio Fantastic Pixel Castle to develop AAA MMO
Crunchyroll Game Vault
- “THE GAME VAULT IS OPEN! CRUNCHYROLL DELIVERS FREE GAMES TO MEGA AND ULTIMATE FAN MEMBERS”
Αποτελέσματα τριμήνου
BlizzCon
- Diablo IV will get its first expansion and WoW Classic will revisit Cataclysm
- Activision Blizzard “transitioning” away from Overwatch League

Vertical Slice 230: Πιο σαστισμένος κι από τον Phil Spencer

Published 22/09/2023

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Vertical Slice 230: Πιο σαστισμένος κι από τον Phil Spencer

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State Of Play που απλά πήρε παρουσίες, Nintendo Direct πίτα σε ανακοινώσεις, σφαγή στο Embracer Group, κωμωδία με Unity και άπειρες διαρροές περί Xbox, κατευθείαν από την πηγή.

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