Amazon has laid off another 9,000 workers, including 400 Twitch employees, in addition to the 18,000 that the company let go earlier this year. The news comes just a few days after Twitch CEO Emmet Shear resigned from his post after 16 years to reportedly spend more time with his family, whether the layoffs and his resignation are connected is [...]
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Ukrainian development studio GSC Game World, best known as the studio behind the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series of games, has been hacked by a pro-Russian group who managed to gain access to assets that will be used in the next game in the horror shooter franchise, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. The hackers were able to gain access to concept art and [...]
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If you’re a long-time MMORPG player that’s been fairly active in guilds, then you’ve probably heard about the community gaming website called Enjin, a platform that allowed guilds to create their own websites and forums. The name will probably also be familiar to cryptocurrency enthusiasts following the creation of the Enjin Coin in 2017. Unfortunately, the company has announced that [...]
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It’s no secret that Sony has been completely against Microsoft’s acquisitions of Activision Blizzard since the merger was first announced last year, and with good reason. The $69 billion deal between the two video game industry giants has sparked concerns over possibly antitrust violations and monopoly and is also being contested by several regulatory bodies including the U.S. Federal Trade [...]
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Another group of video game industry veterans has decided to form a new AAA studio as former Riot Games executives announce The Believer Company, a.k.a Believer Entertainment. The studio is headed by former Riot Vice President and Executive Producer Michael Chow as its CEO and Riot Co-Founder Steven Snow as its CPO. The new studio is being bankrolled by Lightspeed [...]
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, will be divided into three parts when it returns as an in-person event this June, the first of which will be dedicated to a series of digital showcases as ReedPop revealed in a recent press release. The event will then open exclusively for video game industry professionals, influencers, and the press, and finally to [...]
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Electronic Arts laid off its entire Baton Rouge studio earlier this week, a studio that housed over 200 quality assurance testers for Apex Legends. EA reportedly broke the unfortunate news to the studio’s staff over Zoom at the end of their shifts and handed out 60 days of severance pay as compensation. EA says that the layoffs were part of [...]
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Late last month, Studio Fntastic’s upcoming zombie survival MMO The Day Before was pulled from Steam and its videos were taken down from YouTube due to a copyright complaint from a Korean developer with a calendar app of the same name. The studio, however, refused to let go of the title and said that it was going to fight the [...]
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Ubisoft has brought its mighty banhammer down on thousands of accounts for abusing an unrevealed exploit involving multiple titles. The studio is tight-lipped about the nature of the exploit but nearly 19,000 accounts have reportedly been caught in the massive banwave. “Recently we have identified accounts making use of a fraudulent exploit within our titles,” tweeted Ubisoft. “Ubisoft has a [...]
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Microsoft is really working to assure everyone that they won’t be hogging Call of Duty and other Activision Blizzard titles, at least for the next decade anyway. After signing a 10-year licensing deal with Nintendo, the company has also partnered with NVIDIA to bring the popular shooter franchise to the latter’s cloud gaming service, GeForce NOW. “Microsoft and NVIDIA announced [...]
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