… Studios were encouraged to consider self-publishing as an alternative to external funding or partnerships, as it avoids higher publisher sales percentages and preserves creative control. However, self-publishing does not offer publisher services such as marketing, testing, or QA. …
… It's one of the biggest entertainment companies in Japan in terms of success and the IPs they control. …
… Having originally loaded their games into the tail end of 2026 in order to avoid GTA's previous May release date , the shift of GTA 6's launch to November 19 sent the fish scattering again . …
… There is also a shift in power dynamics. …
… The logic of it – controlling budgets by cutting the cost of labour – is nothing new. …
… So we actually proposed a pretty radical plan to leadership of both Activision and Xbox, and that was we would love to buy back independence and take back creative control, organisational control, financial control of our team, and spin off as a completely separate company so that we can focus on t… …
… That has significant implications for an industry built on controlling valuable creative IP. …
… We will be slightly shifting over more to taking care of new players. …
… The value proposition of writing a script versus doing manual work has shifted dramatically: something that might have taken half a day can now be done in minutes." Indie veteran Cliff Harris of Positech has similarly been enamoured by AI. …
… We need to decide whether AI serves creativity, or whether creativity becomes subordinate to efficiency." "The industry needs to come together, in a way it never has before, and have difficult, meaningful, open discussions on the matter." Hendrik Lesser Founder and CEO, Remote Control Productions "… …
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