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Stormgate's Ex-Blizzard Devs Want Players To Invest In The Company

19.2.2024
As 2024's big bad—Late Stage Capitalism—continues its grim rampage, some developers are looking to more innovative approaches to avoid the publishing industry’s self-sabotaging need for impossibly endless growth. Stormgate creator Frost Giant—a studio created by former StarCraft 2 devs—is following...

Elden Ring Mobile Version In Development, Reports Say

6.2.2024
With games like the Resident Evil 4 remake and Death Stranding becoming playable on iPhones, it seems like just about anything can be a mobile game these days. Even Elden Ring, developer FromSoftware’s 2022 open-world RPG, could be coming to phones. At least that’s according to a recent report from...

Activision Sure Knows How To Bury A Story On A Friday Night

16.12.2023
Activision Blizzard has been the subject of scrutiny for several years now, due to its widely criticized “Boys’ Club” corporate culture of sleazy shenanigans. And now, late on a Friday evening just before the holiday season begins in earnest, The Wall Street Journal reports the embattled gaming...

Epic Games Wins Shocking Upset In Google Monopoly Trial

12.12.2023
Epic Games sued Google over anti-competitive practices and won. A jury in the in the Epic v. Google case delivered a swift verdict, concluding that the giant tech firm was operating an illegal monopoly on Android devices in the form of the Google Play storefront. Read more

How K-Pop Made League of Legends Immortal

6.12.2023
The longevity of League of Legends is astounding. Across the industry, developers are trying to grab a share of the lucrative live-service games pie. Since 2009, the enduring popularity of this multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game has made it a golden goose: often imitated, but never...

Amazon Games Lays Off 180 Employees

13.11.2023
Another day, another round of video game industry layoffs. This time Amazon is laying off roughly 180 employees from its gaming division, as confirmed in an internal email from Christoph Hartmann, VP of Amazon Games.Read more

EA Lays Off Half The Staff Behind Magical FPS Game After Low Sales

14.9.2023
On August 22, Immortals of Aveum was released on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC. Three and a half weeks later, around half of the staff who worked on the game have reportedly been laid off after it failed to sell enough copies to satisfy its publisher. It’s yet another round of layoffs to hit the game...

Ben Affleck Sounds Incredibly Bummed About Valorant Nerfs

29.8.2023
Riot Games’ free-to-play tactical hero shooter Valorant nerfed a bunch of characters in its latest update, and actor Ben Affleck doesn’t sound too happy about the tweaks made to one of the game’s most goated characters.Read more

The Next Big Wave Of Video Game Layoffs Is Here [Update]

24.8.2023
Despite a booming job market overall, 2023 kicked off with the biggest tech companies laying off thousands of employees. Cuts at Microsoft hit Halo Infinite devs at 343 Industries and other game teams across the company, including at Bethesda. Months later, layoffs are continuing across other...

Destiny 2 'Assault' By Cheaters Is Ending, Bungie Says In Lawsuit

4.8.2023
A new Destiny 2 cheat maker is ruining its competitive multiplayer, and Bungie is banking on its string of recent legal victories to crush it. The Sony-owned studio filed a lawsuit against the group behind the Ring-1 software as it claims the days of players “feeling free to engage in a wholesale...

Far Cry's Source Code Has Leaked All Over The Internet

7.7.2023
The source code for Ubisoft’s 2004 open-world first-person shooter Far Cry has leaked online. Since source codes for video games seem to leak all the time, tell me, y’all, who could’ve seen this leak coming?Read more

League of Legends Source Code Hacked, Riot Refuses To Pay Blackmail

24.1.2023
On Tuesday, Riot Games announced that the source code for both League of Legends and Team Fight Tactics was stolen, and that it would not be paying the ransom demanded by hackers to get it back. It’s the latest in a spree of data breaches at big game companies, and means both games could...

Riot Games Trying To Get Out Of Terrible Crypto Sponsorship Deal

19.12.2022
Back in August 2021, Riot Games—the developers of League of Legends—signed a sponsorship deal worth tens of millions of dollars with cryptocurrency exchange FTX. You know, the exchange that is now bankrupt, with its founder arrested and facing serious fraud and money laundering charges.Read more

Valorant Didn’t Just Break My PC, It Broke Me

16.8.2022
I love shooters about as much as I love taquitos from 7/11, which is to say on far too many occasions I am walking out of such a store at 3 a.m. with…multiples of them…and a can of Monster energy, on my way home to play Halo or Siege or one of my shooter go-tos. Well, about a week ago, I decided...

Everything Shown At Xbox’s Big 2022 Press Conference

12.6.2022
E3 might have taken 2022 off, but the show(s) must go on. Today’s big one is the annual Xbox showcase, which shares title billing with the one first-party studio that’s only released games on PS5 since getting acquired by Microsoft for the price of a presidential election.Read more

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