Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Game News Round-Up
Daily curated games-industry news digest for 11 December 2024.
General2 stories
Fortnite commits to Rock Band-like Festival musical mode support through "2025 and beyond"
- After Rocket Racing mode placed on back burner
- Festival celebrates its first anniversary this weekend with access to play all of the mode's 285 tracks for a limited time
Free Games / Subscription1 story
December’s first PlayStation Plus Classics games have been released
- Sly 2: Band of Thieves, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Business3 stories
People Can Fly is ‘suspending or laying off’ 120 employees
- People Can Fly announces job cuts and plans to scale back its self-publishing strategy
- Project Victoria has been suspended, Project Bifrost's team has been downscaled and some PCF's support teams have been restructured.
Build A Rocket Boy acquires PlayFusion
- PlayFusion CEO and CTO Mark Gerhard appointed co-CEO at Build A Rocket Boy
FTC starts issuing refunds to Epic Games users following settlement
- Over $72 million will be sent in refunds, with the average payment being around $114