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In its latest quarterly financial report, the video game publisher Embrancer Group confirmed it has so far laid off 1,387 of its employees since its restructuring began in mid-2023.

Former members of the now shut-down Volition game studio have formed a new team called Shapeshifter Games. The studio is currently assisting with the development of an unnamed Xbox Games Studios title

Volition was formed in 1993 as Parallax Software and it made the first two Descent games and went on to make a ton of great game titles and franchises like Freespace, Red Faction, and Saints Row.

After a 30-year run in the games industry, the game development studio behind major franchises like Saints Row and Red Faction, Volition, has been shut down by parent company Embracer Group.

Another giveaway has landed from the Epic Games Store, this time offering copies of Saints Row IV Re-Elected and Wildcat Gun Machine for all PC gamers. The freebies are available for a week.

Volition has just released Saints Row: Boss Factory, a standalone character creator that lets players customize the main character of the upcoming Saints Row reboot before the game even releases.

Deep Silver and Volition have announced a delay to Saints Row, the upcoming reboot of the open-world action franchise. The extra time is being used by the studio to polish up the experience.

Today, Deep Silver Volition discussed the need to reboot the franchise with a fresh take and gave us a better look at the characters you'll encounter throughout the campaign of its upcoming game.

Celebrating the new Saints Row reboot, Epic Games Store has begun a special giveaway for Saints Row: The Third Remastered from last year. The package includes the base game, expansions, and all DLC.

Deep Silver and Volition announced a reboot to Saints Row today, giving players an origin story to play through for the first time. The open-world action title will feature cooperative play.

Nvidia may have spilled the beans on an upcoming Red Faction game announcement, as the company's Ansel page currently lists a certain 'Red Faction Evolution' as a supported title.

The seven-year-old open-world title is heading to Nintendo's hybrid console sometime next year. There's currently no word on whether the latest iteration of the franchise will be ported over too.

Saints Row, Red Faction, and the new Agents of Mayhem developer, Volition, has had some cutbacks according to sources. The layoffs occurred supposedly due to lackluster Agents of Mayhem sales.

THQ has announced it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it enters an agreement with Clearlake Capital Group to acquire its assets, although other competing bids can be filed.

THQ continues to cancel game projects, announcing this week that it has shut down production of Volition's horror-themed game InSane, which the company announced in 2011.

THQ has announced it has cancelled plans to release the stand alone expansion Saints Row: The Third - Enter the Dominatrix. The content in that expansion will be used in the next full Saints Row game.

THQ has announced plans to release Saints Row: The Third - Enter the Dominatrix, a stand alone continuation of the 2011 open world action game that's due for release in late 2012.

If you want to play the PC demo for the upcoming sci-fi third person shooter Red Faction Armageddon, there will be only one way to do that, at least for the next several days. OnLive...

Fans of the Red Faction sci-fi shooter game series not only have a new game, Red Faction Armageddon, to look forward to in a few weeks, but there is also a TV movie coming that's...