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Swedish video game maker wants industry to stop chasing money
Swedish video game maker wants industry to stop chasing money
Economy
by  AFP

Swedish-Lebanese filmmaker-turned-game-developer Josef Fares is on a mission to put storytelling first in video games, slamming money-driven designs for stifling creativity. "From a creative perspective, if you involve money too much, then it will affect it," Fares, whose 2021 game "It Takes Two" was a critical and commercial success, told AFP in Stockholm.

Japan's Honda and Nissan scrap merger talks
Japan's Honda and Nissan scrap merger talks
Economy
by  AFP

Japanese auto giants Honda and Nissan confirmed on Thursday they had scrapped merger talks that would have created the world's third-largest automaker by unit sales. The cancellation of the merger talks would have no impact on the earnings of both automakers, it said.