Back in July, the Powers That Be at Rock Paper Shotgun’s parent company Ziff Davis laid off all 36 members of Humble Games, in response to “challenging economic times for indie game publishing”. Now, Humble Games’s former general manager Alan Patmore and global publishing VP Mark Nash have founded Good Games Group, a new indie publisher who will work with many of the same development partners from their Humble days. They’re also partnering with Ziff Davis again, providing support for Humble’s previously released games.
700 Ubisoft staff in France hold strikes in response to worldwide return to office mandate from Assassin’s Creed publisher
Back in September, open world publisher Ubisoft put out a 3-days-weekly return to office mandate for their entire staff worldwide – a decision that French Video Game Workers Union (STJV) said was “made without any tangible justification or any consultation with the workers’ representatives”. In response, the STJV called on staff in France to hold … Read more