PARIS — The movers and shakers of the video game industry will gather Thursday in Los Angeles to celebrate the annual Game Awards, the sector's equivalent of the Oscars.But no amount of glitz and glamor can put a sheen on what has been one of the worst years in the industry's history, marked by waves of layoffs and studio closures.
'Palworld,' nicknamed 'Pokemon with guns,' did stellar business.A visitor plays the 'Street Fighter 6' video game developed and published by Capcom during the Paris Games Week fair in Paris, on October 23, 2024. AFP PHOTO'Helldivers 2,' an intergalactic war game paying homage to the film 'Starship Troopers,' also broke through.The biggest sensation came from China with the runaway success of the action game 'Black Myth: Wukong.