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Former Apple executive Trip Hawkins, who founded the company behind the best-selling sports videogame franchise FIFA, is joining a Web3 startup, looking to take on top blockchain games like Axie Infinity.The founder of Electronic Arts will join as co-founder and strategy chief of Games for a Living (GFAL), Hawkins told Reuters in an interview.GFAL publishes titles compatible with blockchain technology across consoles, personal computers and smartphones — commonly called Web3.Interest for Web3…

Image: Pegasus BooksAuthor Laline Paull scored a hit with her 2015 debut The Bees, dubbed “The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games,” but with bees as its characters. Her latest, Pod, dives into a different aspect of the natural world—the ocean—by introducing an adventurous dolphin who follows an unconventional path. io9 has an excerpt to share today from this intriguing new novel.Here’s a description of Pod’s story, followed by its cover, prologue, and first three chapters.Ea has always felt like an outsider. As a…

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Apex Legends Mobile is shutting down, less than a year after it was released. In a tweet, developer Respawn Entertainment confirmed its decision to sunset the futuristic battle royale game on Android and iOS, across all regions on May 2 — merely a few weeks before its one-year anniversary. The game will be rendered unplayable at 4:30am IST on that day, with the developer disabling all in-app purchases and removing the title from the store today. All existing purchases will be available to use in the 90-day window leading…

Snapchat logo displayed on a phone screen is seen with a laptop in the background in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on August 10, 2022.Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in after hours trading.Snap – Shares of social media company Snap sank 14% after the company reported quarterly revenue that was lower than Wall Street expected. Adjusted earnings per share were $0.14 on revenue of $1.30 billion. Analysts expected $0.11 in adjusted earnings on $1.31 billion in…

Image: Jason Davis (Getty Images)Spotify informed its employees on Monday that it will be cutting jobs this week, making it the latest in a wave of mass layoffs following hiring surges during the height of the covid-19 pandemic. CEO and Spotify co-founder, Daniel Ek, announced the change in a memo to staff, saying the company was forced to cut costs due to necessary “organizational changes,” adding the decision is “in an effort to drive more efficiency, control costs, and speed up decision-making.”The company said in an…

Image: David Ramos (Getty Images)Microsoftreportedly plans to cut thousands of positions with many expected to begin this week amidst hiring freezes and previous layoffs in the company. The layoffs will allegedly include Microsoft’s engineering and human resources departments and will be the latest in a series of layoffs in the technology industry.The company currently employs more than 220,000 people, but Sky News reported that Microsoft allegedly plans to cut about five percent of its staff, which it is said to…

Need for Speed Unbound — now out on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S/X — sets itself apart from the competition by adopting a unique street art-inspired style, while continuing to offer the high-octane action that the NFS franchise is renowned for. We get police chases with real jeopardy, a racer AI that is happy to take you out, and a high-risk high-reward system that prevents the action from ever getting dull. There is also a classic underdog story on our hands in its ‘Story' mode. All these things come together to…

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc lowered its annual sales forecast on Monday, as the videogame publisher took a hit from this year's surge in the dollar and a broader industry slump, sending its shares down 17% in extended trading. The move follows a similar cut by rival Electronic Arts and shows how the sector is struggling with a demand drop caused by the lack of major new titles, lifting of COVID-19 curbs and lower spending from inflation-hit consumers. Take-Two said it now expects full-year adjusted sales to be…

Electronic Arts will launch an Iron Man game and at least two other action-adventure titles revolving around characters from the Marvel universe, under a deal announced by the video game publisher on Monday.The Iron Man game — confirmed in September — will feature an original narrative based on the history of fictional billionaire Tony Stark, portrayed by Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr. in the popular superhero movie franchise.Montreal-based EA Motive Studio is working on the Iron Man game, which will be a…