Welcome to Recap, our twice-weekly feature on Aftermath where we round up what’s been going on around video games, the internet and beyond.
GDC released its annual 'State of the Game Industry' survey results, and they're about as grim as you'd expect, with ONE THIRD of American respondents saying they'd been laid off in the last two years.
Beth ElderkinShareshare
In news harking back to the Nintendo of the 90s, we learned this week that the Switch 1 & 2 versions of Dispatch will be censored. Other editions on other platforms have the option to hide stuff like full-frontal nudity, but the Switch ones will have no such toggle.
Victoria Phillips Kennedy
Comcept, the studio founded by Mega Man's Keiji Inafune back in 2010 (and probably best known for Mighty No. 9), closed its doors for good this week.
Sal Romano
The head of Amazon Game Studios has left, right at the same time the wider company lays off 16,000 people.
Diego Argüello
Valve is facing a £656 million lawsuit in the UK (USD$900 million), accused of "abusing its market dominance by imposing restrictive terms on game publishers and locking players into using Steam". The suit was filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London, and is particularly taking aim at Valve's 30% cut of all Steam sales.
