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Ubisoft lays off over 100 employees to ‘streamline’ operations

GamesBeat Next’s on-demand library is now live! Start catching up on the 30+ sessions you might have missed.  Watch Now 2023 continues to be the year of major video game layoffs as Ubisoft confirmed today that it has laid off 124 employees, several of them at its Montreal studios. According to Ubisoft, the employees are primarily in business administration and IT teams, and these…
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A recap of Epic Games vs. Google trial day one

GamesBeat Next’s on-demand library is now live! Start catching up on the 30+ sessions you might have missed.  Watch Now The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified. One…
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III campaign review — Good combat, but short on length and spectacle

GamesBeat Next’s on-demand library is now live! Start catching up on the 30+ sessions you might have missed.  Watch Now Call of Duty has outshone and outlasted the competition in video games for two decades because it makes the everyday soldier into a hero and it puts you at the center of spectacular combat missions. With this year’s reboot of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III…
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Epic Games wants devs to bring their back catalogs to its store

GamesBeat Next’s on-demand library is now live! Start catching up on the 30+ sessions you might have missed.  Watch Now Epic Games announced this week that it’s launching two programs for its PC gaming store. The first is its First Run program, its initiative where developers can boost their revenue on games while they’re exclusive to the Epic Games Store. The other is the Now…
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Gaming M&A deal count down 60% YoY per Drake Star report

GamesBeat Next’s on-demand library is now live! Start catching up on the 30+ sessions you might have missed.  Watch Now In Q3 2023, gaming companies announced 33 M&A transactions worth roughly $5 billion according to Drake Star’s latest report. While…
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Bungie becomes the latest studio to lay off employees

GamesBeat Next’s on-demand library is now live! Start catching up on the 30+ sessions you might have missed.  Watch Now One of 2023’s most depressing trends is major games studios laying off employees in an increasingly crowded job market. Now Bungie has become the latest PlayStation studio to do so, though the extent of the layoffs is not yet clear. Well… my heart is…
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