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Galvanic Games Shuts Down Due to Low Sales
Galvanic Games, the developer behind Wizard With a Gun, is closing its doors. Despite a promising start, the game’s sales were not enough to sustain the studio. Founder Patrick Morgan announced the closure, stating that they had run out of time to secure funding for new projects. Financial Challenges A…
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GameStop Confirms Another 100 Store Closures!
It’s hardly been a secret that for the last couple of years GameStop has been pretty much treading water in it hopes to remain viable (and alive) as a high-street retailer. With the store brand being predominantly known in America, earlier this year we already saw an announcement that around…
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GameStop to Permanently Close 300 Stores
It’s hardly any secret that the gaming retailer GameStop has had more than a few difficulties over the last few years. It seems, however, that the Coronavirus outbreak might be taking things to the breaking point. Not only did they have some very negative press earlier this month when the…
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Discord To Shut Down Its Nitro Gaming Platform Next Month
It’s not even (technically speaking) a year old yet, but Discord (the popular communications app) has a game streaming service available to its premium members. There has, however, been something of a problem. Put simply, no one is (or perhaps more accurately – was) using it. Perhaps thats something to…
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League of Legends Staff Said to be Preparing Mass Walkout
League of Legends Staff I must admit that I have not played a lot of League of Legends, but I have played enough to know I’m not very good at the game. This is a fact that was made abundantly clear within about 3 minutes of my first ever game…
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Razer Game Store to Shut Down After Less Than a Year
Razer Game Store To Close You may be very well aware of the Razer brand. If you’re not, let me give you a quick recap. They are a popular manufacturer of a number of PC and gaming peripherals. They have even tested the waters recent with phone releases specifically with…
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Former Telltale Workers Create New Games Studio
Telltale Games One of the biggest gaming casualties of 2018, other than Fallout 76, was the shutdown of Telltale Games. In fairness, while I had predicted that there might have been some trouble at the company, nobody suspected that it was anywhere near bad enough that would’ve eventually resulted in…
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GamesTM and GamesMaster Magazines To Shut Down
GamesTM and GamesMaster Magazines To Shut Down A major part of my childhood in the 90’s was occasionally being treated to a gaming magazine. Without the internet, it was difficult to know what was coming up for release and playing a demo was completely impossible without one of the demo…
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Telltale Games’ Skeleton Staff Now Also Laid Off
Telltale Games’ Skeleton Staff Now Also Laid Off Since announcing two-weeks ago that the studio was closing (with initial heavy staff layoffs) the future of the studio since has been very much confusing. While it appears that for all account they were closing. There had been more than a few…
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Geocities Finally Set To Shut Down In March 2019
Geocities Finally Set To Shut Down In March 2019 I daresay that there are many of you reading this who may never have heard of Geocities. That’s no criticism either as for a long time now the website has been largely forgotten or only remembered with perhaps a slight cringe…
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Gaming Industry Closures Have Led To 1000 Lost Jobs
Gaming Industry Closures Have Led To 1000 Lost Jobs This time last week we were hit by the bombshell news that TellTale Games had effective gone into shut down mode. Over 90% of the staff were laid off leading a skeleton crew of about 25 people left to finish off…
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WildStar Offers Refunds Before It Shuts Down
WildStar Offers Refunds Before It Shuts Down We have known that Carbine Studios, the team behind the MMORPG WildStar was closing down. It was, however, a little unclear as to what the future of their game would be. Would someone pick it up or would it be shut down for…
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Capcom Shuts Down The Dead Rising Studio
Capcom Shuts Down The Dead Rising Studio Dead Rising was certainly something of a unique game when it launched. Players were locked inside a shopping mall with a bunch of zombies. With a very specific in-game timer, you had the option to do as much or as little as they…
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Grainger Games Closes All 67 Stores In The UK
Grainger Games Shuts all 67 stores with immediate effect You may not have heard of Grainger Games, but that’s not necessarily your fault. Ultimately it comes down to where you live. In the UK, however, they represented one of the largest independent games stores. Similar to other high street gaming stores,…
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Redundencies And Closures Feared Within Days At Maplin
Job Losses and Closures Feared at Maplin Around 3 weeks ago we reported how Maplin may have been in significant financial difficulties and that a buyer for the high-street retailer was desperately being sought. A little over a week later our fears were confirmed after Maplin officially entered administration. Despite…
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