A few weeks ago, a Ubisoft support page confirmed that PS1, PS2, and PS3 games would not be backwards compatible for PS5. In response to public outcry, the language supporting these claims was swiftly removed from the Ubisoft website. In a recent interview with The Washington Post, however, Sony CEO and President Jim Ryan stated that “99 percent” […]
Sony's CEO Says "99 Percent" Of PS4 Games Can Be Played On PS5
A few weeks ago, a Ubisoft support page confirmed that PS1, PS2, and PS3 games would not be backwards compatible for PS5. In response to public outcry, the language supporting these claims was swiftly removed from the Ubisoft website. In a recent interview with The Washington Post, however, Sony CEO and President Jim Ryan stated that “99 percent” […]
Take-Two CEO Defends NBA 2K21's Price Increase
NBA 2K21’s upcoming PS5 and Xbox Series X edition will cost $70 USD, which is $10 above the normal price of current-generation games. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has now defended the price increase to Protocol, pointing to the ballooning costs of game development. He remarked that he doesn’t expect consumers to care about rising development […]
Ubisoft CEO Apologizes For Company's Culture, Offensive Game Content In Video Statement
Following allegations of sexual assault, harassment, and mistreatment at Ubisoft that began several months ago, the company’s CEO Yves Guillemot has provided a video statement addressing these issues. This comes just before its second Ubisoft Forward presentation. “This summer, we learned that certain employees did not uphold our company’s values and that our systems failed […]
Epic Games CEO Promotes PUBG Mobile In Jab At Apple Over Fortnite Ban
Epic Games continues a legal battle with Apple over Fortnite’s removal from the App Store, and CEO Tim Sweeney is having a little fun while the process plays out. The developer did the unthinkable: promoting a rival game, and all to demonstrate the value of Unreal Engine for Apple users. On August 28, Apple seemed […]
How Nvidia CEO motivates himself with funny paranoia
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang likes to joke around. He once said Nvidia was 30 days from going out of business — to inspire his engineers. Many years ago, that was true. He still says it. But considering Nvidia is now the most valuable chip company in the U.S., with a market capitalization of $310.8 billion, […]
Nvidia CEO: We are expecting a really large second half for gaming
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in an analyst call that the graphics and AI chip company is “expecting a really large second half for gaming.” He was referring to the second half of the year. Huang said that the pandemic has accelerated interest in gaming, making it the No. 1 form of entertainment around the […]
New Envy CEO on Harnessing Entertainment Experience to Build a Bigger Fandom
With more esports organizations on the hunt to find C-level executives with digital marketing experience, Team Envy hit the mark with its new CEO Adam Rymer. Rymer will oversee an organization that has millions of dollars invested in esports fielding five teams including the Dallas Fuel and Dallas Empire which play in Blizzard’s Overwatch and […]
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz is stepping down
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz confirmed he has raised a new round of funding, and he also said that he will step down as the augmented reality company’s top executive. In a statement, Abovitz confirmed rumors that the company had raised a last-minute round of funding, but he didn’t say where it came from and […]
IonQ CEO Peter Chapman on how quantum computing will change the future of AI
Businesses eager to embrace cutting-edge technology are exploring quantum computing, which depends on qubits to perform computations that would be much more difficult, or simply not feasible, on classical computers. The ultimate goals are quantum advantage, the inflection point when quantum computers begin to solve useful problems, and quantum supremacy, when a quantum computer can […]