Nolan Bushnell, founder of the original 1972 Atari (and, as it turns out, Chuck E. Cheese), has returned to his old stomping grounds. The modern Atari has announced the return of one of its founders within its new Board of Directors, which also includes the addition of Tom Virden, the creator of many high-class leisure […]
It’s been a good couple of weeks for Electronic Arts. The firing, lawsuits, and resulting controversy over at their competitor studio Activision has systematically landed them two lead designers from one of the most profitable game developers in the business, and their new exclusive studio Respawn Entertainment. Director of Corporate Communications Jeff Brown offered this […]
First it was Infinity Ward’s co-founders Vince Zampella and Jason West, then lead designer Todd Alderman and lead software engineer Francesco Gigliotti left, and now John Shiring, Bruce Ferriz and Mackey McCandlish join the pack. Shiring, a programmer announced, via his twitter account, that he is resigning from the Modern Warfare developer after six years […]
Silicon Knights, developer of the popular Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem and the not-so-popular Too Human, has just received a major check from their native Canadian government. The $4 million Canadian dollars ($3.78 USD) was paid in order to help fund the developer’s new, unrevealed, project, which is set for a two to five year development […]