Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has plenty of reasons for optimism. It's more than just the fact that Grand Theft Auto 6 — expected to be one of the biggest entertainment blockbusters of all time — is still on track to launch next fall. Looking at Take-Two's more immediate situation, the publisher's latest financial results showed … Read more
At a Gamescom Asia panel, former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden spoke about the current state of the games industry and how the demise of AA Studios had contributed to a “collapse of creativity” in modern games. Layden explained how rising development costs have led studios to place more emphasis on post-launch monetization plans and following … Read more
With the iPhone 16 line of phones, the base 16 and 16 Pro can play AAA games. How do they compare to each other? How have AAA games on iPhone improved over the past year?
Paramount Game Studios and Saber Interactive have officially confirmed that a “AAA” game set in the Avatar: The Last Airbender universe is in development. Currently in production, the game is produced in collaboration with Avatar Studios, a division launched by original series creators Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko in 2021 so that the intellectual property … Read more
As an industry, we are currently caught in a perfect storm of rapidly evolving technology and the spiraling demands of modern AAA games, with a huge number of developers working for years to achieve the level of scale and fidelity that audiences expect. These large enterprises are now routinely measured in the hundreds of millions … Read more
Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 on September 9, promising an upgraded five-core GPU that could support hardware-accelerated ray tracing and play AAA games previously only available on the iPhone 15 Pro. Here's what we know so far about the next iPhone's gaming capabilities. While Apple’s iPhone 16 announcement focused on generative AI, it also showed … Read more
As developer conference Devcom kicks off today in Cologne, organizers have shared the results of this year's survey, with nearly 90% of respondents saying they believe AAA games can succeed without additional purchases. In a survey of 100 speakers, out of 300 industry experts taking the stage over the next two days, 89% said that … Read more