It’s been one year to date since the gaming community was rocked by news that Activision Blizzard, one of the biggest companies in the video game industry, was being sued by the state of California. The massive lawsuit was filed by the state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing for alleged sexual harassment and gender discrimination within the company, exposing [...]
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As more and more video game companies and studios jump aboard the blockchain train, Minecraft developer Mojang has taken a stand against anything related to blockchain technology, including NFTs. According to the studio, they’re now in the process of updating the Minecraft Usage Guidelines to provide more specific rules on the use of new technologies and will not be supporting [...]
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Discord is coming to consoles, or at least to Xbox anyway, as one of the most popular chat app starts testing its voice chat feature on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. Members of the Xbox Insiders program can now start chatting up their PC and Xbox buddies on Discord, but it won’t be as simple as clicking a [...]
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John Romero, co-founder of id Software, best known for the Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein franchises, is working on a new first-person shooter together with his new studio, Romero Games. Romero calls the game “a new dawn” for the studio and has partnered with an unnamed major publisher to develop the game that’s based on a brand new IP. Exciting news! [...]
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Bungie is entering the legal arena once again as it files yet another lawsuit, this time against a Destiny 2 player for copyright infringement, fraud, and harassment. According to the lawsuit, Leone has allegedly dodged account bans by repeatedly creating new accounts, which Bungie claims can be considered as serial fraud. The defendant, Luca Leone, is a known serial cheater [...]
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In an interview last week, Unity CEO John Riccitiello dropped a statement criticizing developers who don’t include monetization features in their games, calling them, and I quote, “fucking idiots.” Naturally, this drew the ire of the entire gaming community and video game companies, which Riccitiello responded to by labeling the websites who reported on it, even those that published the [...]
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Lootboxes in video games have come under intense government scrutiny by various countries over the past few years due to their randomized nature. Some of these countries have deemed them as a form of gambling and have implemented stricter measures to control their sales and purchase, with a few countries banning them altogether. In a recent statement, the United Kingdom’s [...]
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Netflix’ popular South Korean zombie horror series Kingdom is getting a video game adaptation titled Kingdom: The Blood. South Korean developer Action Square describes the upcoming game as a brutal yet precise hack-and-slash game and promises that it will treat Korean culture “with the utmost care.” The show that the game is based on is set in 16th century Korea [...]
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For a battle royale game, Apex Legends characters have a remarkable depth to them which makes for a good foundation for a separate story-driven spinoff or even an MMO. Respawn Entertainment is apparently more keen on the former as its now begun hiring developers to work a new single-player first-person shooter adventure set in the Apex Legends universe called the [...]
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Relic Entertainment is gearing up for a big game announcement today in a Twitch livestream scheduled just four hours from now based on the live countdown the the studio kicked off yesterday. The studio is best known as the developer behind the Company of Heroes franchise, Age of Empires IV, and several Warhammer 40,000 titles. Information about the game is [...]
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