Epic Games, in partnership with Microsoft and the Fortnite community, has raised over $100 million which will go towards humanitarian relief efforts in war-torn Ukraine. The funds were raised from all the proceeds from the PC, Xbox, and mobile versions of the popular battle royale shooter since March 20th. “Epic is committing all its Fortnite proceeds from March 20, 2022 [...]
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Last week, Bungie and Destiny videos were hit by a series of DMCA takedowns on YouTube that appeared to be caused by some issue with Google’s algorithm. It turns out that the copyright reports weren’t due to faulty code but were perpetrated by 10 individuals for some reason or other. According to MMO Fallout, Bungie filed a lawsuit against those [...]
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Sony Interactive Entertainment has officially unveiled their version of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass which combines PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now into the all-new PlayStation Plus. The announcement comes just days after anonymous sources leaked information about the new subscription service. The new PlayStation Plus subscription will offer three membership tiers: PlayStation Plus Essential ($9.99/month), PlayStation Plus Extra ($14.99/month), and PlayStation [...]
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With the immense popularity of Microsoft’s Game Pass service, some other company is bound to want to break off a piece of the pie. Around 25 million Game Pass subscribers are currently enjoying a rotating lineup of free games from various video game developers on PC and Xbox and Sony wants in on the action. In fact, Sony is planning [...]
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Amazon Game Studios head Mike Frazzini has stepped down from his position and will be leaving after almost 18 years with the company. According to Bloomberg, Frazzini made the announcement internally last Friday, saying that he was taking time off to focus on his family. “It’s always been in my head to take time off in the middle of my [...]
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At the top of the week, Epic Games announced that they will be donating all Fortnite profits from March 20th to April 3rd to aid humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine. As of today, the studio reports that they’ve already raised over $50 million with more than a week left in the campaign. That’s as much as some entire countries have [...]
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Krafton has joined the parade of video game companies that have started to embrace blockchain technology for their games. The PUBG: Battlegrounds and TERA developer has signed a deal with Solana Labs to jointly develop, design, and market blockchain games and services. “Through this agreement, KRAFTON and Solana Labs are poised to build a long-term cooperative relationship for the development [...]
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Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard might just be the lifeboat that saves the company from drowning in controversies and scandals. But, that’s assuming that the deal goes through at all. ABK’s shareholders will still need to vote on the deal before both parties can proceed with the acquisition. According to the Board of Directors, the merger has been unanimously deemed [...]
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CD Projekt Red has just announced that they’re working on a brand new game in The Witcher franchise. There’s really not much to go on except that the game is in development, but what we do know is that the game is being built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 instead of the in-house REDengine. The Polish developer announced a [...]
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Chinese mega media corporation Tencent continues its mission to lodge itself into every nook and cranny of the video game industry as it secures minority ownership in Studio MayDay. The New Zealand-based studio has rebranded themselves as Riffraff Games after receiving a “significant investment” from Tencent, reports GameIndustry.biz. They’ve also hired former ReedPop PAX Global Content Director Guy Blomberg as [...]
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