Crytek UK May Be in Trouble
Crytek UK doesn’t seem to be in too good a shape. Reports are surfacing of paychecks being issued late to employees at the company. More than 30 staff members have left. Rumors about financial difficulties are spreading q...
GOG Offering Up To 20% Off Witcher 3 Pre-Orders
CD Projekt is being very generous to those who pre-order the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt through gaming consumer site GOG, even if the game is delayed to 2015. Included in what is called the game’s “best pre-order offer,&#...
Nintendo Lays Off 130 Employees
Nintendo has announced layoffs of approximately 130 employees and the closure of their Großostheim, Germany, office. The office will be overseen from here on out by Nintendo’s Frankfurt, Germany, location, but some employ...
SpawnFirst is now on YouTube!
Head on over to the SpawnFirst Youtube page and check us out! As we grow our video content we hope you are along for the ride!
Harmonix Lays Off 37 Employees, CEO Steps Down
After all of the good vibes coming out of Harmonix in recent weeks, today the company had some bad news. It was discovered earlier that Harmonix is in the process of laying off 37 members of its staff. In addition to this, the ...
Creative Director of Far Cry 4 Comments on Box Art Controversy
Far Cry 4 has been announced for a November 18th release date for later this year and since then the box art has seemed to gain the most uproar. The title has been under a lot of scrutiny as the art work depicts a light skin to...
Oculus Rift is Heading to Chuck E. Cheese’s
The Oculus Rift is finally hitting the big time. Well, sort of. The Virtual Reality headset will be soon be implemented into a new game at Chuck E. Cheese locations within the next month. The game will be called Chuck E. Cheese...
YouTube Rumored to be Purchasing Twitch for $1 Billion
Google/YouTube are gearing up to make a purchase of an internet lifetime. The video game streaming site, Twitch, is rumored to be sold to YouTube for $1 billion. This purchase will be the most significant buy yet for YouTube. N...
Minecraft Played with Eyebrows
When you think of video games, you think of controllers and excellent button mashing skills, well at least I do. So when I stumbled upon the story of 19-year-old Alexander Kostov I was more than intrigued. Kostov suffers from s...
R.I. Governor Candidates Debate Repayment of 38 Studios
The saga of 38 Studios continues as Rhode Island governor candidates are now debating on what to do with the money that is still owed to the former game developer. The studio, which was founded by former MLB pitcher Curt Schill...
EA Shutting Down Online Support for 50 Games
In April, GameSpy made an announcement that they were shutting down all hosted services for all games, on all platforms, on May 31, 2014. Since the announcement, Electronic Arts stated it was trying to find a solution to keep a...
GPUs Improve Cancer Patient Care
Medical physicists at UT Southwestern Medical Centers are using video game processors to improve cancer patient care. Thanks to the growing video game market, processors are becoming much more powerful and it’s caught the...
Dota 2 International Prize Pool Trumps Last Year’s $2.8 Million
eSports have already grown to accommodate millions of online viewers through live streaming as the nerve shattering tournaments of titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops II and StarCraft II are broadcasted to a global audience. An...
Dark Souls Developer From Software Bought Out by Kadokawa
Japanese publisher Kadokawa bought out Dark Souls developer From Software. Reported by Siliconera, it clarifies that 80% of the studio’s stock will be acquired by Kadokawa for a currently undisclosed sum. The deal will be...
Watch Dogs Versus Real Life Chicago
The image above is a comparison photo between Watch Dogs and real life Chicago. The game which is – duh – set in Chicago, focuses on hacking and hyper connectivity, a facet of life we humans are experiencing everyda...
