Gaming
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TwitchCon San Diego to Host Largest Women’s Fortnite Tournament Ever With The Milk Cup 2025
Gonna Need Milk and Twitch are teaming up to give 100 female eSports athletes the chance to win their share of a $300,000 prize pool this October
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Warner Bros. Discovery Restructures Games Division to Focus on ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ DC and ‘Mortal Kombat’ IP
The move comes as the David Zaslav-led media giant prepares for a split of its linear networks and studios and streaming businesses in mid-2026
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NBA Launches New Joint Media Venture With Take-Two Interactive
In addition to establishing NBA Take-Two Media, the league and video game publisher extend their multi-year licensing partnership
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SAG-AFTRA Suspends Video Game Strike After 320 Days
The guild’s national board will meet Thursday to approve the tentative agreement reached Tuesday before releasing to members
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Electronic Arts Cancels ‘Black Panther’ Video Game, Closes Cliffhanger Studios Amid More Layoffs
The cuts come after EA laid off over 300 staffers at the end of April
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CAA Taps Brent Weinstein to Oversee Digital Media, Podcast and Games Businesses
The executive will also lead the talent business ventures and speakers divisions and be involved in the agency’s M&A and investment activities
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SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practice Charge Over AI Replica of Darth Vader’s Voice in ‘Fortnite’
The actors’ union says Llama Productions failed to notify them of their intent to use digital recreations of James Earl Jones’ voice
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Fortnite Pro-Am 2025 Boasts 2.34 Million Hours Watched
The Fortnite Championship Series’ first pro-am since 2019 proved to be a massive success, with Peterbot and AussieAntics taking the crown
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Xbox Increases Console, Game Prices Up to 25% Amid Tariffs
New games will now cost $79.99, while console prices have jumped $100
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Electronic Arts Lays Off Over 300 Employees, Cancels Next ‘Titanfall’ Game
A number of cuts were made at EA-owned developer Respawn
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How That Shocking ‘The Last of Us’ Episode 2 Twist Got Spoiled for Gamers
Just two months before “The Last of Us: Part II” was set to release in 2020, Naughty Dog began seeing various scenes from the game surface online
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Trump Tariffs Pose Real Risk to Sony Profit Forecasts, Analyst Warns
Wolfe Research’s Peter Supino downgraded the stock’s Tokyo-listed shares, which fell 10% on Monday
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‘Last of Us’ Creator Confirms Changes From the Video Game, Calls Abby’s Origin a ‘Shortcut’
“If we were to stick to a very similar timeline, viewers would have to wait a very, very long time to get that context,” Neil Druckmann says
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Netflix AI-Gaming Chief Mike Verdu Exits Company
The executive previously headed up the streamer’s video games division until November and joined the company in 2021
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‘Secret Level’ Creator Says Video Game Developers Needed ‘Convincing’ to Sign On: ‘These Guys Are All Competitors’
Tim Miller tells TheWrap that Prime Video’s animated anthology series is “inextricably intertwined” with his Netflix show “Love, Death & Robots”
