Top Dog
SuperData: Oculus Quest 2 shifted 1 million units in Q4
"The Quest 2 benefitted from a lower price than its predecessor"
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Alex Forbes-Calvin
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PCGamesInsider Contributing Editor
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About Alex Forbes-Calvin is a freelance writer and photographer, mostly operating within the games industry. Over his career, he has written for the likes of MCV, Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, The Observer, VGC and Esquire. That's on top of writing books for Dark Horse on RuneScape, Assassin's Creed, Dead Island 2 and more.
Articles by Alex Forbes-Calvin
On The Up
Haruki Satomi becomes Sega Sammy group CEO
Replaces his father in the top job
Making Bank
Australian games studios generated $140.4 million in revenue in 2020
That's a 29 per cent increase year-on-year
Inclusivity
Activision Blizzard claims it is "committed to inclusive hiring" after describing practice as "unworkable"
Publisher was reportedly trying to get out of putting diverse hiring proposal to shareholders
Investment
Tencent backs Life is Strange maker Dontnod
French firm issuing $60.6 million in new shares to fund self-publishing dreams
Treasure Hunting
Tomb Raider becomes the latest games IP to come to Netflix as anime
Will follow the rebooted trilogy
Here's The Facts
Jagex insists Plutos Sama's lawsuit claiming company ownership is "meritless"
Follows the RuneScape maker being bought by private equity giant The Carlyle Group
Money Money Money
Video games raised $23.3 million on Kickstarter in 2020
That's a 35 per cent increase year-on-year
Change Up
Konami is restructuring its development teams, isn't dropping out of video games
Japanese giant dissolves its three production divisions
Another Owner
RuneScape dev Jagex has been acquired by The Carlyle Group
Reported to be more than the $530 million valuation
An Imposter!
Innersloth explains why Among Us updates are taking a while
The game's surprise success took the studio by surprise
Going Public
Krafton could be valued at $27.2bn for IPO
This would make it one of the most valuable games companies in the world
Over The Moon
Moonrise is the new early stage fund from Glitch CEO Karr
Organisation to provide support for projects with unique gameplay
Hacked Off
The Capcom data breach looks worse than previously thought
Personal data of 16,406 leaked in the hack
Political Views
ESA halts political contributions in wake of US Capital chaos
Trade body says it is reflecting on what to do moving forward
Ressurected
Disney revives the LucasFilm Games brand
Eight years after LucasArts was closed
Money Money Money
Lockdown causes UK video games revenue to hit $5.7bn in 2020
Market saw a 14.5 per cent increase year-on-year, digital rose by 16.5 per cent
That's Awesome
Awesome Games Done Quick raises $2.76m for Prevent Cancer Foundation
Charity event has raised $31.4 million to date
A Lot Of Loot
EA vet Moore says FIFA Ultimate Team isn't gambling, but understands scrutiny
Former exec says that his personal view is loot boxes are a "long way" from gambling
It's A No From Me
Nintendo "laughed their asses off" when Microsoft inquired about acquisition
Xbox firm also tried to buy EA, Square and Midway
Cyberspace
Japanese games firm Koei Tecmo hit by cyber attack
Forums of UK subsidiary breached, user information potentially stolen
Splash The Cash
Nordisk Games acquires 40% of MercurySteam
This is the firm's first investment outside of the Nordic region
Positive Influence?
Game influencers could get hit by weird additions to US coronavirus relief bill
Amendments to the legislation could give companies an edge in handling how their IP is used
Money Money Money
Discord valuation has doubled to $7 billion
Firm raising $140 million in new funding round
Scholarship
Ubisoft reveals scholarship for UK Black students to study computer science
"We wanted to go one step further and tackle an area where we can truly make a meaningful difference to diversify the UK games industry"
Acquisition
Keywords snaps up PR agency Indigo Pearl and audio firm Jinglebell
"We are delighted to have further grown the Keywords family by adding such talented teams in Milan and London"
Big Money
Leyou shareholders agree to $1.3bn Tencent takeover
Firm going private on December 23rd
Competitive Offer
EA outbids Take-Two for Codemasters
Racing firm has accepted the bid, Grand Theft Auto giant "considering its position"
Welcome Aboard
Sega veteran Clark moves from Tencent to Curve Digital
Takes on the CEO position after just a year at the Chinese giant
Around The World
Google releases Stadia in eight European countries, including Poland and Portugal
"All new Stadia users can also get one free month of Stadia Pro"
Farewell
Casey Hudson and Mark Darrah depart BioWare
The duo are the latest high profile departures from the EA studio
Money Money Money
Cross-platform modding service Mod.io raises $4m
Firm plans to use this to improve its platform
Getting Competitive
Microsoft acquires esports events firm Smash.gg
No figure put on the deal yet
No Slacking
Salesforce picks up Slack for $27.7 billion
Part of an on-going bid to compete with Microsoft
Going Virtual
Omdia: Consumers will spend $3.2bn on VR this year
This figure set to triple by 2025
New Acquisition
Enad Global 7 acquires Mechwarrior creator Piranha
Firm says this will "significantly strengthen" its "development capacity in Canada"
Financials
CD Projekt Red generates $27.8 million in sales revenue for Q3
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game was a contributing factor
Farewell
Bossa Studios makes round of redundancies
Developers, particularly QA team, hit hard by crunch this year, too
Banned
Mojang is letting moderators dish out bans in Minecraft
Firm wants to "provide a positive and enjoyable environment" in its games
Splash The Cash
Embracer acquires A Thinking Ape and 11 other games studios
Company now operates 58 developers
New Acquisition
Epic acquires facial animation firm Hyprsense
"Joining Epic gives us the opportunity to deliver new solutions and experiences on a massive scale"
Money Money Money
Unity experiences 53% revenue increase in first quarter since IPO
“We are very pleased to start our public company journey with such a strong quarter"
Stadia
Google will give away Stadia Premiere Editions to YouTube Premium subscribers
Only if users were signed up as of November 6th
Loot Boxes
EA is facing another loot box class-action lawsuit
Publishing giant says it is "baseless"
Expansion
Development services firm Amber opens a new studio in Montréal
Outpost focused on QA, localisation and engineering initially
Money Money Money
Venture capital firm Griffin Gaming Partners raises $235m
Outfit has invested in the likes of Discord so far
Big Money
Codemasters agrees to sell to Take-Two
Racing firm goes to the GTA parent company for close to $1bn
Possible Acquisition
Take-Two possibly buying UK publisher Codemasters
GTA giant has until the start of December to say if it actually wants to snap up the British racing specialist
One Of Us
Among Us will get accounts as early as next month
Move from developer Innersloth will help fight cheating and toxicity
Welcome Aboard
Keywords brings in Fumiko Okura to head up Tokyo studio
She joins with more than 15 years of experience in the business