Sam Lake
Creative director at Remedy Entertainment and architect of the Remedy Connected Universe.
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Creative director at Remedy Entertainment and architect of the Remedy Connected Universe.
A Final Fantasy VII director says fans watch RPGs instead of buying them, but Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3 show streaming and sales rising together.
Bloomberg reports the Psychonauts and Hellblade studios are negotiating to spin off as independent companies to avoid closure, days after Xbox moved to shut Compulsion Games.
Gordon, at the Call of Duty studio since 2005 and its head since 2016, is stepping down to focus on his next chapter, with Kevin Hendrickson and Yale Miller taking over as co-heads.
The Peabody-winning studio's planned closure is part of broader Xbox cuts expected next month, with reports suggesting a second studio could follow.
Chief strategy officer Matthew Ball told a Summer Game Fest audience that the October 2025 increase to $29.99 a month drove the losses, which preceded the company's April price cut.
Playground Games said at Summer Game Fest that around 100 actors recorded the role-playing game's "Living Population" with no AI text-to-speech, as the reboot firmed its release for February 23, 2027.