GameDev Breakdown

EA has scooped up Codemasters at great cost. Germany is investigating Facebook over potentially anticompetitive practices in handling the Quest 2. Players are seeking--and receiving--refunds for Cyberpunk 2077, and it only gets weirder from here. Episode news stories https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-12-14-ea-agrees-USD1-2-billion-acquisition-of-codemasters EA will purchase Codemasters to the tune of over $1.2 billion. The companies say this will allow them to "dominate the racing category." Codemasters makes fantastic racing games, but there's plenty of competition left in town. Here's hoping EA acts in their best interests. https://www.vrfocus.com/2020/12/facebook-oculus-account-linking-being-investigated-by-german-regulators/ Facebook's mandatory account linking on Quest 2 is under investigation in Germany. You may remember Germany briefly halted device sales over the summer, and even that wasn't the beginning of the country's distrust of Facebook. Many developers have also cried foul, but is it