Game News Round-Up

House of the Dead film in the works from Resident Evil, Monster Hunter director

• House of the Dead was previously "adapted" by Uwe Boll
• Pawl WS Anderson will write and direct

Final Fantasy 14 Crossroads release date announced

• Crossroads is the first major update to the MMO since the release of Dawntrail
• Tuesday, 12th November

More than 10m Fortnite players watch Snoop Dogg, Ice Spice headline concert

• More than 10 million players in-game and millions more watching via YouTube and TikTok
• The event was a livestreamed concert held for real in New York's Times Square, where Ice Spice and Snoop Dogg performed in front of a large crowd

Square Enix fans can expect its games to "release simultaneously on each platform more and more"

• Yoshida also teased that he would like a re-release of Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy Tactics.

Alan Wake 2 has now recouped "most" of the money it cost to make

• Yet to still start earning royalties

IWGB Game Workers launches first manifesto

• Union for UK-based video game developers calls for equality, inclusion, and fair pay
• Key Initiatives:
• Union recognition: Have all members recognised by their employer
• Working hours and overtime: End reliance on overtime, ensure that "no overtime" rules cannot be enforced, voluntary overtime is fairly compensated, introduce a four-day work week, guarantee mental health days as part of sick leave
• Compensation: Mandate annual pay increases, improve baseline pay for all industry workers, equitable shares of studio profits, end the gender pay gap, equal parental leave, receive residuals and royalties, improve pension schemes
• Accountability and transparency: Hold C-suite executives accountable in event of mergers, acquisitions, studio closures, and redundancies, mandate salary transparency, demand "open book" accounting for studio finances
• Job security: Better contractual protections, ensure clearly laid out redundancy processes, improve redundancy packages, campaign for AI regulations, end abuse of fixed-term contracts
• Equity and inclusion: Ensure universal accessible working options, improve disability, neurodiversity, LGBTQ+, and mental health support, ensure policies for handling sexual misconduct, harassment, and bullying are followed, endorse inclusive language guidelines, compulsory training in DEI best practices
• Training and education: Enhance learning and development schemes, mandate sexual misconduct and antitrust training for C-suite executives and management
• Contractual terms: Remove unreasonable non-compete and non-disparagement clauses, guarantee credits, guarantee ownership of personal side projects

Roblox Q3 Results

• Revenue: $919 million, up 29% year-over-year
• Bookings: $1.1 billion, up 34% year-over-year
• Net losses: $240 million, compared to $278 million during the same quarter last year

Phasmophobia has sold 20m copies