Game News Round-Up

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced a 12-year agreement to host the Olympic Esports Games in Saudi Arabia

• The inaugural Olympic ESports games will take place next year

Ubisoft says it’s ‘actively working’ on Driver franchise projects

• Live-action series has been shelved
• Unclear at this time if the "franchise projects" are more games or extended media.

Details of unannounced Disney projects, including games, leak online after another Slack hack

• 1.1TB of internal documents and messages were taken from Disney's Slack.
• Whilst Disney has yet to comment formally on the alleged hack, details from various internal files – including upcoming collaborations with Epic Games' Fortnite, and the Aliens: Fireteam Elite sequel have started to pop up on social media.

Dying Light 2 dev Techland is making "most roles" office-based or hybrid, including staff who live abroad

• CD-Action sources claim the studio's current offices are not large enough to accommodate much more than ten percent of its 500 headcount. It's thought around half of those developers had, up until this point, work remotely.
• "Employees who live near our offices will be asked to work from the office three days a week. For those working remotely from abroad, we're asking them to come to the office regularly to foster stronger connections.
• According to Polish site CD-Action, "regularly" equates to eight working days every two months.

The First Descendant clocks up 10m players in just one week

Nintendo has been accused of miscrediting external translators, according to employees working for service providers Localsoft and Keywords