This Week in Business is our weekly recap column, a collection of stats and quotes from recent stories presented with a dash of opinion (sometimes more than a dash) and intended to shed light on various trends. Check every Friday for a new entry.This week we ran an interview with Wizards of the Coast's Dan Ayoub about parent company Hasbro's ambitions...

GamesIndustry.biz has hired Hannah Potter as senior account manager, expanding its commercial capabilities.She has previously worked as account manager at GamesIndustry.biz parent Gamer Network, contributing to the success of events such as EGX and MCM Comic Con. She joins after several years in the role of senior account manager at MRL Consulting...

Nintendo has issued a DMCA takedown notice against 8,535 GitHub repositories that contain code from the Yuzu emulator for Switch.The notice was filed on developer platform GitHub, which Nintendo claimed housed repositories that "offer and provide access to the Yuzu emulator or code based on [it]" which "illegally circumvents Nintendo's technological...

Google has filed its objections against Epic Games' recent call for the courts to enforce a variety of changes to policies regarding the Google Play store and its associated payment system.Last month, Epic filed an injunction that would, among other things, allow third-party app stores to be distributed via Google Play for six years and enable users...

2024 hasn't exactly gotten off to the best start for the game industry: mass layoffs loom over large publishers like Epic and Riot Games, and it's becoming harder and all the more expensive to develop and deliver breakthrough games. While the growth outlook for mobile is much more optimistic than it has been in years – with Data.ai projecting up to...