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it The week of the summer gameSo I thought of a complex web on Neffuages, meetings, Cryptic schedules, and I could have a stink of plastic, with the air video game conventions of all sizes. Mmm, smell like pixels.
This is my third SGF and I look forward to it, as usual. I appreciate focusing on the movement of independent projects, various creators and small publishers, especially in games, Latin Games in Dev, and the Latin American games showed. I believe the innovation of industrial rulers from non-standing, experimental spaces, and SGF often gives kinds of experiences that radiate.
I appreciate SGF more after spending seven years wandering at cavernous halls in Los Angeles Convention Center. The E3 attracts its own right and I feel the privilege of attending it several times, but it is also an imperfect type of performance. E3 reluctant UNTO Independent Creators and wrapped in corporate swag, and at the time Sony decided to stop at the 2019, it seemed like a loving video game industry. The best parts of the E3 in its last few years are the unexpected events hosted by Devolver Digital, which occur in a nearby Parkreas toys full of Alrissa Games. It feels so much like SGF, actually.
I wrote about this event In 2018, a story asks if the video game industry requires E3. Maybe because I’m a witch but mostly because of the pandemic, E3 is closed by 2020 and it does not come out as an in-person show. Recreational Acquisition Software hosts a virtual session of 2021, but no later, and the E3 official was declared dead on December 2023. Meanwhile, the video game market has continued to growdriven by an example side of indie, mobile play and violent Crunch-Layoff Cycles at AAA level.
Now, ESA back to a new video game showcase dOthe interactive conference conference, leading to Las Vegas on April 2026. The largest name of the industry has included MicrosoftSony, Nintendo, Epic Games, Electronic Arts, Disney, Amazon and Two Interactive, and Show for Views of Industry Engine, ” According to Esa’s president Stanley Pierre-Louis. E3 2.0 has arrived, and it seems like AAA has been committed before. For what is worth, summer game game has its own version of a AAA thinking a year Business business live.
Meanwhile, ESA is silent yet If it is directly asked – As some of the most influential companies in the industry have rolled their variety, equity and involvement in the initiative, at a time when female employees suffer from active disasters. and During the Mide Monthless.
All of this is to say, I’m hungry for a summer game game. It’s all kicked A living show On Friday, June 6, and we have a rundown throughout the schedule HERE. We’ll preview hand previews, developer interviews and news directly from SGF at the end of the week and beyond, so stay fastened Kinggan’s Engadget’s.
The news
Playtonic Layffs
Playtonic, the studio in the back Yooka LayleeSet up an unknown number of employees in many departments, including production, art, game design, game design, discentra and UI / UX account. In a message shared with X, studio leaders said, “It’s not a hard time, it’s a time of deep change in how to spend.” Playtonic play selected, Youka-replayleeDue to this year’s exit. Although the playtonic is a small, private company owned (with a minority investment from Tencent), the time with the dismissal of AAA studios, which operates in times CROSS and many quit baked their business plans.
Ea cass Black panther
Electronic Arts reveal its plans to make a player, third person black panther game back to 2023 as part of a wider studio push, but it seems like things change. EA canceled the Black Panther Project and closed the studio that built it, the cliff games. EA motive, the team behind stellar Dead space AGAINStill going A game of Iron Manas far as we know.
Roll7 returns to steam
Any time I can Rollerdrome or Olliolli WorldI will do it. After being released from steam more than a year ago, Rollerdrome and Olliolli World returned to the storefront to fulfill all your flow requirements. Both games come from Roll7, a London-based studio who has grown bought on November 2021 and close On May 2024, removal Rollerdrome and Ollifi Ollifi World from the steam in the process.
Playdate Season 2 Live and it’s good
Have we convinced you to get a playdate yet? Whatever your answer, Playdate Season 2 is Live Now, add two new crank system games powered by each week until July 3. Resident Playdate Experts Cheyenne MacDonald has a review of the first batch, which includes Fulcrum Defender from the subset of the game, You! You! Dino! from DOM2D and Fáyer, and Blippo +A fever dream masquerading as a video game. And while you’re on this headspace, check igor bonifacic’s Enlightened Interview with subset game co-founder Jay Ma.
Ex-Ubisoft bosses facing French sexual harassment
Three former previous Ubisoft executives appeared in French Court on June 2, accused of many sexio-sexy attack studio employees. Sergeët-based cases, Tommy François and Guillaume Patrux often engaged in bad deeds and developed a poisonous culture of Ubisoft, and it followed a Public studio counts to 2020MORE Arrest at 2023.
Switch 2 comes
The Nintendo switch officially exits this week, on June 5. We will review the new console as soon as we can, but in the meantime you can find all orders in pre-orders.
