04 Feb
Microsoft’s board of directors has named Satya Nadella as its new CEO. Nadella is the company’s third CEO in its 39-year history, following Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates. He has been at Microsoft for 22 years, most recently serving as the executive vice president of its Cloud and Enterprise division. “During this time of transformation, […]
04 Feb
Former members of Zynga Dallas, the studio behind CastleVille, are forming a new game studio called Boss Fight Entertainment, Venture Beat reports. Studio founders include former CastleVille lead designer Bill Jackson, former Zynga Dallas studio head David Rippy and former Zynga divisional COO Scott Winsett. The group previously worked at the Texas-based Bonfire Studios before […]
03 Feb
According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office website, Ubisoft has filed to abandon one of its Watch Dogs trademarks. Speaking with Polygon, intellectual property litigation specialist at firm Fenwick and West, Jed Wakefield said that the application for abandonment doesn’t necessarily mean that Ubisoft will stop using the name “Watch Dogs“. He said […]
31 Jan
Speaking with GamesIndustry International, Dontnod Entertainment CEO Oskar Guilbert has dismissed reports claiming that the Remember Me developer is facing bankruptcy. “There is no bankruptcy, Dontnod is not in bankruptcy,” he said, in part. “We are in something called in France ‘judicial reorganisation’ which allows us to re-adapt our production pipeline to the new situation. […]