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Newzoo's Ben Porter to Speak at PGC Shanghai

Newzoo's director of consulting Ben Porter will deliver a keynote at Pocket Gamer Connects Summit Shanghai on July 29. Porter, who leads Newzoo’s consulting team that turns market data into commercial strategy, works with major publishers and developers including Sony, Take-Two, Capcom, Krafton and Roblox. His Shanghai session, titled 'How Chinese PC gaming ecosystems are reshaping global publishing', will examine how Chinese PC platforms, audiences and business models are influencing global publishing strategy. The one-day bilingual summit serves as a business-focused event ahead of ChinaJoy, bringing local, regional and global publishers, investors and developers together for networking and deal-making in the Chinese games market.

Prompt Injection Is Here to Stay, Says Jason Haddix

In an interview summarized on DEV, security researcher Jason Haddix argues prompt injection is an inherent architectural issue in current transformer/attention‑based large language models (LLMs). Haddix, who runs Arcanum Information Security and has held senior offensive-security roles, says there is no true separation between instructions and data in these models, so full elimination of prompt injection is unlikely; optimistic industry voices expect mitigation (e.g., ~98%) rather than eradication. He describes the evolution of jailbreaks, notes frontier models are harder to exploit out-of-the-box, and frames defense as layered: start with safety‑tuned foundation models and add additional controls. He warns the same vulnerability applies to agentic systems that ingest untrusted text and recommends treating prompt‑injection resistance like other imperfect but necessary security controls.

Ubisoft Barcelona Staff Strike over Proposed Layoffs

Staff at Ubisoft Barcelona have begun a strike in protest of proposed layoffs that could affect 51 employees. The industrial action, organised by Spanish union La Confederación General del Trabajo, is scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from June 30 through July 17 and will run until July 17. Workers demand a binding agreement to retain all 51 jobs, five years of protection against future mass layoffs at the studio, implementation of previously agreed promotions, and a review of the studio's salary improvement plan. The layoffs were announced earlier this year alongside the closure of Ubisoft’s Winnipeg and Belgrade studios as part of a wider company restructuring around new 'creative houses' following a $1.25bn investment from Tencent into Ubisoft’s Vantage Studios.