dannyodwyer · TEXXR

Oh my god this is horrific news. Rest in peace Vince. I always looked forward to catching up with him. My thoughts with his friends and family. Utterly shocked. — www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/ v...

2025-12-23 View on X

NBC Los Angeles

Vince Zampella, head of EA-owned Respawn Entertainment, ex-CEO of Infinity Ward, and co-creator of Call of Duty, died on December 21 at 55 in a single-car crash

A tragic holiday season for the family of a beloved game industry figure. Andrew Weil / WCNC-TV : Report: ‘Call of Duty’ co-creator Vince Zampella killed in car crash Kevin Dolak /...

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I'm glad I grew up with the cool internet. It's sad seeing these sites shut down, but mostly I just mourn how cool websites used to be. RIP to another king.

2024-08-04 View on X

Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

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I'm glad I grew up with the cool internet. It's sad seeing these sites shut down, but mostly I just mourn how cool websites used to be. RIP to another king.

2024-08-03 View on X

Polygon

ROMHacking.net, a community of people sharing hacks and fixes for old games, winds down, closes all ROM hack submissions, and moves its data to Internet Archive

no archive, no handoff, nothing. 20 years of community contributions just *gone*. Gideon Zhi / @gideonzhi : By now you've probably seen that https://romhacking.net/ is effectively ...

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What manner of lunatic named these companies?

2024-04-22 View on X

Bloomberg

Swedish game developer Embracer Group plans to split into three publicly traded companies, focused on tabletop, indie, and AAA games; EMBRAC-B.ST jumps 5%+

- Embracer shareholders to get stock in new firms as dividend — Includes €900 million refinancing and new ownership structure

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Somebody finally got out. They are by no means the only studio that Embracer has tried / is trying to sell off but it's a major one. 3500 people though, that has to be a concern. The saga continues. All eyes on Gearbox.

2024-03-01 View on X

Bloomberg

Source: Embracer plans to sell its subsidiary Saber Interactive to private investors in a $500M deal, making Saber a privately-owned company with ~3,500 staff

Saber will continue developing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic — Swedish gaming company Embracer Group AB will sell …

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Talk about a canary in the coalmine for other studios who are thinking of raising funds through NFTs. I can understand why they'd give it a go - making games is expensive. But the reaction from fans has been loud and clear. Keep this shit out of our games. https://twitter.com/...

2021-12-18 View on X

Kotaku

GSC Game World decides to “cancel anything NFT-related” in its game Stalker 2 after fans criticize its plans for in-game NFTs in partnership with DMarket

It hasn't been a great week for the GSC Game World team — STALKER 2 developers GSC Game World announced yesterday that they'd be adding NFTs to the game.

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i mean, everyone who works in online media buys from the engineers to the salespeople knows that self-reported traffic is all bullshit. Always has been. this is just business as usual. https://twitter.com/...

2019-09-25 View on X

The Wrap

Comscore settles with SEC on charges the firm and its ex-CEO made false statements, engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue by ~$50M from 2014-2016

Media analytics firm is accused of overstating revenue by $50 million, making false statements about performance

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