Jason Schreier

Finding all your old Twitter follows here is very fun, like it's Final Fantasy 6 and you have to go around getting your friends back together because the old world got destroyed by a sociopath with bad jokes

BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned.

A shocking end for a well-respected studio.

BREAKING: A Delaware judge has ruled that Krafton must *reinstate* Ted Gill, the fired CEO of Subnautica 2 maker Unknown Worlds.

In the ruling, the judge accuses Krafton's CEO of using ChatGPT to come up with a strategy to get out of paying Unknown Worlds a $250 million bonus. Story coming shortly

BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.

Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings

Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’

If you're in line, STAY IN LINE. No matter how long it takes, they are legally obligated to let you log into Final Fantasy XIV

BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News.

Warner Bros. is also canceling the Wonder Woman game.

BREAKING: Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off.

Lots still in flux as many studios remain unsure about what's happening.

Here's the latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Studios in Microsoft’s Xbox Division Brace for Closures

The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.

"We're ending physical disc production, but don't worry — we're ALSO shutting down our digital stores!" blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/a...

An update on PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita

Changes start this year in select markets, followed by global changes in 2027.

Why do video games cost so much to make these days? A recent NYT article pinned bloated budgets on the graphical arms race, but that's only a small part of the equation. The real problem? Rampant mismanagement.

This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make

Graphical fidelity is only part of the reason that game budgets have swelled to hundreds of millions of dollars

Reply to @jasonschreier.bsky.social

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

"Sony sues Tencent for allegedly ripping off 'Horizon' video games"

Well alright but surely it can't be that blata— lmao

NEW: For the last seven weeks, Naughty Dog has enacted mandatory overtime for staff to finish an internal demo of their next game, Intergalactic. The game won't be out until 2027, leaving some staff wondering: If they're crunching now, what will next year be like? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime for ‘Intergalactic’

The Sony-owned gamemakers have been racing to hit a December deadline

I want to re-emphasize one part of this Xbox story: Half of the 3,200 cuts are happening today and half are happening in the next 12 months. In other words, even people who survived today's layoffs will have to spend the coming year wondering if they're going to be next.

The most brutal assassination in Assassin's Creed history

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social

Ubisoft feeling confident over on Twitter… (Musk notoriously reacted to AC Shadows’ reveal and its Black samurai by saying the game was proof that “DEI kills art”)

Skibidi toilet is so dumb, unlike our smart, sophisticated millennial humor (looping audio of Sean Connery saying "you're the man now dog")

NEW: What went wrong with Dragon Age: The Veilguard? Why was the writing so tonally inconsistent? Why did it feel so shallow? Why were there so few choices?

Really, after ten years of turbulence, it was a miracle that anything came out at all. This is the story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Inside the ‘Dragon Age’ Debacle That Gutted EA’s BioWare Studio

The latest game in BioWare’s fantasy role-playing series went through ten years of development turmoil

In recent weeks, video game publishers Take-Two and EA both warned investors about potential "reputational" risks to the use of gen-AI in games. It's a problem that all game companies will soon need to confront: Players hate genAI.

This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Video-Game Companies Have an AI Problem: Players Don’t Want It

Publishers like EA and Take-Two are warning shareholders about the potential “reputational” risks of AI

Might be a rocky start but don't worry, he'll be much better in a few years as Pope Leo XIV: A Realm Reborn

Here we go. Silksong will have a "special announcement" on Thursday at 10:30am ET.

AND coming from me on Thursday, the story behind why Silksong took seven years to make...

Stay tuned! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGe...

Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement

YouTube video by Team Cherry

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

Subnautica 2 launched 20 minutes ago. Safe to say Krafton will be forced to pay out the $250 million bonus it tried very hard (via advice of ChatGPT) to avoid paying

As Xbox announces that it's raising game prices to $80, the three best-reviewed games of the year so far are $50, $30, and $50

2010: Elon Musk is the real-life Tony Stark
2023: Elon Musk is the real-life Mr. Bean

Even now there's misinformation floating around, so let me make this clear: Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs, or 20% of the organization. 1,600 jobs will be eliminated today, and then another 1,600 (including the studio divestments) in the next 12 months.

Full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Microsoft’s Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Five Studios in Major Overhaul

Compulsion and Double Fine studios will become independent; Undead Labs and Ninja Theory will be sold. Xbox will also look to sell or spin out Arkane Studios.