Game News Round-Up

New PS5 shareable links will let recipients join multiplayer sessions without being PSN friends

• Players will be able to create links either directly on their PlayStation 5 console or using the PlayStation App.
• The resulting link can then be shared as a simple URL or a scannable QR code via the social media or messaging platform of their choice.

Unity appoints former EA and Zynga executive as its new CEO

• Matthew Bromberg will take on the role later this month
• Bromberg previously served as group general manager of BioWare, before taking global responsibility for EA’s mobile business during a four-year spell with the company that ended in July 2016.
• He left to serve as chief operating officer of leading mobile game developer and publisher Zynga, where he worked until 2022.

Belka Games reduces staffers by 20% (33 people)

Firesprite lays off Horizon: Call of the Mountain Game director Alex Barnes

• Barnes, who'd been with the company for seven years, directed its 2023 game Horizon: Call of the Mountain.
• <Rumor> Beyond the layoffs, Firesprite's next project was reportedly canceled as part of the reevaluation.
• It's claimed the UK studio was making a new live-service Twisted Metal game that was said to be in early development.

Game workers in Quebec are making a huge unionization push

• Game Workers Unite Montreal has joined forces with Canadian trade union CSN to help workers establish unions at major studios in the region