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For the second consecutive summer, SAG-AFTRA is on strike — and artificial intelligence provisions are putting a wedge between the union and a new deal. This time, the union called a work stoppage Thursday after more than 18 months of negotiations on a new Interactive Media Agreement, which covers…

Netflix is three years into its games initiative and said it will release about a game a month starting in July – so now – in its Netflix Stories series based on the giant streamer's IP. Netflix Stories was launched in September of 2023 with Love is Blind and has a growing catalog of interactive…

Famous horror film and TV studio Blumhouse, which has released a slew of cult hits such as Paranormal Activity, The Black Phone, M3GAN and Five Nights at Freddy's, is finally ready to stake its claim in the video game space after the studio's announcement of its new games division last year. Friday…

Let the record show that despite embodying one of the most well-known (and well-armed) protagonists in video game history, Final Fantasy VII's stoic ex-SOLDIER Cloud Strife, Cody Christian, does not carry around his own six-foot-long, one-foot-wide Buster Sword to solve his problems. No. Instead, the…

Netflix, which has spent the past three years pushing into video games, has announced 14 new game titles soon to join the slate. Tales of the Shire: A The Lord of the Rings Game will be an exclusive mobile title for Netflix subscribers. Mobile is currently the dominant way to experience games on…

Briana White would be lying if she said that sometimes carrying the weight of playing the iconic flower girl, Aerith Gainsborough, didn't affect her at all. But miraculously, after metaphorically stepping into the character's well-traveled leather boots these last four years from Final Fantasy VII Remake…

In a highly competitive situation, Legendary has closed a deal with Mob Entertainment to develop and produce a live-action film based on its hit horror video game franchise Poppy Playtime, Deadline can confirm. Legendary will develop and produce along with Don Murphy & Susan Montford’s Angry Films, and…

Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software has acquired Gearbox Entertainment, the company behind the Borderlands franchise, for $460 million in an all-stock deal with Embracer, the latest big deal in the video game business. The deal comes as Lionsgate is releasing Eli Roth’s theatrical…

There may soon be another actors strike in Hollywood — this time against the video game industry. SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland weighed in on the possibility while giving updates on the union’s negotiations on its Interactive Media Agreement during a Saturday panel at…

[SPOILER ALERT: This interview includes details about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth] The highly anticipated action-adventure RPG Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has finally been unleashed into the Chocobo wilds.  Rebirth, the second game in the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy that serves as a…

Electronic Arts, which makes such games as Madden NFL and Apex Legends, said today that it plans to lay off five percent of its employees and will discontinue work on several games. The announcement continues the ongoing downsizing in the gaming and tech space, a development that has seen thousands…

EXCLUSIVE: Atari has enlisted executive producers Jay Blumenfield and Tony Marsh to create a game show centered on the famed gaming brand, tentatively titled The Great Atari Celebrity Showdown. The pair comes to the project after exec producing such series as The Chelsea Handler Show (E!), Here Come t…