Netflix Buys Ready Player Me, an Avatar-Creation Developer, to Let Users Make Their Own Gaming Personas

Netflix will soon let customers make their own customized gaming avatars through the acquisition of Ready Player Me, an avatar-creation platform.

3 months before launch, Marathon art director Joseph Cross departs from Bungie: 'I'm incredibly proud of the visual world we built'

Cross's departure from Bungie comes at the tail end of a fraught development cycle, coinciding with the prolonged fallout of Bungie's troubled acquisition by Sony. But after Marathon's delay, the ...

Netflix acquires gaming avatar maker Ready Player Me

After shifting its gaming strategy to focus more on games played on the TV, Netflix announced it’s acquiring Ready Player Me, ...
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GDC Festival of Gaming Reveals First Round of 2026 Programming

GDC Festival of Gaming has revealed some of the first pieces of programming for the 2026 event, as we have an idea of what to expect ...

Less than a week after dropping a big new trailer at The Game Awards, Exodus studio head James Ohlen has stepped down because he 'felt his work on the game was complete'

Just one week after a new trailer for the upcoming Mass Effect-alike Exodus was unveiled at The Game Awards, a Bloomberg report says James Ohlen, the head of developer Archetype Entertainment, has ...

Course control.

Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios has confirmed the end of new content development for the game, following layoffs ...