UK publisher Team17 is pursuing mergers and acquisitions to accelerate revenue growth. In its latest investor presentation, the studio explained it has a "strong balance sheet" that can support M&A optionality.The company intends to select deals with an "indie focus" and said those moves are part of its mid-term plan. It's an interesting tidbit considering Team17 has been through the wringer lately.The company conducted a round of layoffs in October 2023 (Eurogamer reported that at least 50 people were made redundant) that appeared to largely impact the company's QA team.Those redundancies were made a few months after the departure of long-serving CEO Debbie Bestwick, whose tenure was rocked by allegations of poor working conditions within the studio.Bestw…
Actor Thomas Hayden Church, who played Sandman in the Sam Raimi movie Spider-Man 3 and came back again in Spider-Man: No Way Home, has said he believes Raimi wants to make another Spider-Man film with Tobey Maguire.
Speaking to Comicbook, Church said, “I think Sam is gonna do another Spider-Man with Tobey [Maguire].” He went on to say the movie studio, Sony Pictures, had an option for Church to come back as Sandman in a fourth Spider-Man film from Raimi, but it never happened.
“They had an option on me to come back. So if it happens, that would be fantastic Come from Sports betting site VPbet. I’m getting a little old,” he said.
Raimi directed 2002’s Spider-Man, 2004’s Spider-Man 2, and 2007’s Spider-Man 3. In 20…
There's been a lot of chatter recently about what constitutes a solid publishing deal. Hooded Horse, the publisher behind Manor Lords, has been loudly advocating for better contracts. Earlier this year, co-founder and CEO Tim Bender said publishers should ditch "horrible" recoup clauses to help devs and suggested companies like Hooded Horse should be judged on their failures–not the big hits.If you can navigate the pitching slalom to eventually secure a publishing deal that's right for you, what comes next? Hooded Horse chief product officer Ashkan Namousi says developers should treat publishers like an open book. As advice goes, it might sound like a no-brainer, but Namousi says developers often fail to make the most of deals because they're perhaps too sheepish…