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For those who didn’t know, 15 years ago late-night TV host Conan O’Brien got into gaming. He says he plays with Bill Hader. As such, he took the stage at SXSW on Tuesday with Blizzard Entertainment president Johanna Faries. While Faries didn’t lay out any grand plans for Blizzard in terms of its…

Updated at 1.45pm PT: The trial of three former Ubisoft executives accused of sexual harassment and bullying at the company’s Paris HQ, which was due to begin on Monday, has been postponed until June 2. The adjournment was requested by lawyers for both the civil parties and the defense after key…

In what it called “a strategic change of direction,” Warner Bros Games is scrapping a planned Wonder Woman game and also closing three development studios. The Warner Bros Discovery division confirmed the moves to Deadline in a statement Tuesday. “We have had to make some very difficult…

EXCLUSIVE: The video game industry saw “recovery and improvement” in 2024, with overall investment activity reaching $17.5 billion, according to the latest report from DDM Games. DDM, short for Digital Development Management, is an agency providing representation, consulting and investment…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has come aboard the feature adaptation of Slocap’s popular video game Sifu and tapped T.S. Nowlin to write the script. Insiders add that Chad Stahelski and his 87Eleven Entertainment banner have joined Story Kitchen as producers, and he will now produce with his partners Jason…

Just before his latest Marvel Cinematic Universe installment Captain America: Brave New World arrives in theaters, the trailer for Twisted Metal Season 2 teased Anthony Mackie's return as John Doe this summer. The second season of Michael Jonathan Smith's comedy action series returns to Peacock…

David Haddad is exiting his role as president of games at Warner Bros. Discovery after 12 years at the company but staying on for three months to help kick off the search for his successor. In a note to the division's staff obtained by Deadline, JB Perrette, CEO and president of WBD's Global…

From near-death experiences via boulder chasing, tangling with deadly snakes, stopping fascist organizations in their tracks to communing with aliens, archaeologist Indiana Jones has done it all. In Bethesda's MachineGames studio’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, the adventure continues a year…

Team Asobi’s Astro Bot took the marquee Game of the Year prize at the 11th Game Awards, which were handed out Thursday at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Astro Bot also garnered wins for Best Family Game, Best Director and Best Action Adventure. Other winners included Final Fantasy VII Rebirt…

In a first, Netflix is making the upcoming video game derived from Squid Game available to anyone, whether or not they are a subscriber. Squid Game: Unleashed will be in front of the pay wall for a limited time, the company announced at The Game Awards in Los Angeles. The “party royale” game…

New Regency and Death Row Games are teaming up to bring library film titles to Fortnite, starting with sci-fi action thriller In Time. The 2011 release, directed by Andrew Niccol and starring Cillian Murphy, Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Olivia Wilde, will reach Fortnite via Epic Games'…

AI video transformation and stylization start-up Mago has secured a $1.57M (€1.5M) pre-seed round from Atlantic Labs, a leading European first-round investor headquartered in Berlin. The Paris-based company said the investment will enable it to expand its team and accelerate development, with a…