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Xbox's Matt Booty Dreams About Using AI To Do QA Testing
5.9.2022
Head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty, has once more, so very appropriately, stuck his foot in his ass. This weekend at PAX, he proudly declared to a live audience how much he’d like to see QA work performed by AI.Read more
Silver Supply Crunch Predictions, FDIC Issues Cease and Desist Order to FTX US, and More — Bitcoin.com News Week in Review
28.8.2022
Morgan Report founder David Morgan foresees a supply crunch for silver, and says that in ten years’ time, it will be one of the best investments of the decade. One analyst, however, says if the precious metal falls below $18, it’s “very possible that we could see silver...
Analyst Says if Silver Dips Below $18, Precious Metal Could ‘Get Absolutely Smoked’ — Morgan Report Founder Expects a Supply Crunch
21.8.2022
While gold’s been teetering along at just under $1,750 per ounce, the price of silver has dropped considerably, sliding 2.33% in value against the U.S. dollar during the last 24 hours. Silver has lost more than 28% against the dollar during the last 165 days or since March 8, 2022. Despite...
Digital Euro Needs Curbs to Halt Lending Crunch, ECB Study Finds
28.7.2022
The economic evidence appears to support calls to cap how much central bank digital currency people can hold, to stop them fleeing banks all together
Report: GTA VI Will Star Series' First Playable Woman, Will Be More Culturally Sensitive
27.7.2022
Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto VI is one of the most anticipated games ever. Despite the hype, the studio has been incredibly tightlipped for almost a decade now. But a new report by Bloomberg offers big new details including that the game will feature the series first-ever playable woman...
The Credit Crunch Is Not the End of Crypto Lending
20.7.2022
It is a mistake to view Bitcoin’s success as a trade-off against the creation of credit. Its future depends on it, says our columnist, a partner at Castle Island Ventures
Xbox Head Defends Bethesda In Wake Of Crunch Allegations
28.6.2022
At an all-hands meeting on Thursday, Xbox addressed the growing employee concerns about labor conditions at Bethesda Game Studios and its parent company, ZeniMax. Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, said he was “confident” that the studio was not crunching, and that it was “unfair” to attribute...
Sonic Origins Dev Goes Off On State Of The Game
24.6.2022
Software developer Simon “Stealth” Thomley of Headcannon—the studio behind Sonic Mania—popped off on the state of the remastered Sonic Origins bundle, on which the team also worked. In a series of tweets, he said Headcannon had to put in “major time crunch” and was barred from implementing “major...
Crypto Exchanges Backing Away from Sports Spending as Crunch Continues
21.6.2022
Crypto firms are reportedly scaling back their spending on sports-related advertising and sponsorship as winter continues to bite in the markets.
Many crypto companies – including Crypto.com and Coinbase – have responded to a sharp drop in crypto prices and trading volumes by announcing they...
Cuphead Director Didn’t Care About Delays, Only Staff’s Well-Being
18.6.2022
Maja Moldenhauer, the director at the studio behind Cuphead and its DLC, recently talked about how the company’s number one priority is making sure its employees are healthy and treated well. In fact, Moldenhauer explained that she didn’t even care about delays. Read more
The Story Of 2022's Biggest Video Game*
15.6.2022
In 2015 mega-publisher Electronic Soft released the blockbuster game BloodDeath: DeathBlood, a sequel to 2009's wildly successful BloodDeath. It would mark the end of both the series and its development studio, but it is not the end of their story.Read more
The Human Toll Of Fallout 76’s Disastrous Launch
8.6.2022
“No one wanted to be on that project because it ate people. It destroyed people,” one former developer on Fallout 76 told Kotaku. “The amount of people who would go to that project, and then they would quit [Bethesda] was quite high.” Read more
Staked Ether Discount After Terra Collapse a Sign of Liquidity Crunch in Crypto
2.6.2022
The price gap between the locked-up ether (stETH) and spot ether (ETH) might be a sign of traders demanding compensation for Ethereum’s "Merge" risks, a FundStrat analyst said
Gaming Gets Its First Union At A Major U.S. Studio
23.5.2022
Despite months of negative talking points by Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard, quality assurance staff at its Raven Software studio voted to unionize Monday, becoming the first union at a big studio in the U.S. The successful vote comes with talk of labor organizing picking up across...
Even The Studio Behind Pokémon Is Getting In On The 4-Day Work Week
26.4.2022
The studio behind Pokémon is moving to an optional four-day work week. Game Freak announced the new “progressive” work policy on Tuesday, citing a desire to give employees more flexibility. The move comes as other studios are implementing similar policies, and is at odds with fans’ perceptions of...
Crypto Privacy Positions Harden Ahead of Crunch EU Vote
28.3.2022
Lawmakers don’t appear swayed by crypto industry claims as they consider applying anti-laundering identification rules to the sector, but some argue their plans are unworkable or unlawful
New Witcher Game Director Promises No Crunch Despite Studio History Of Crunch
22.3.2022
Yesterday CD Projekt Red announced a “new saga in The Witcher franchise.” As part of a new multi-year collaboration with Epic Games focused on open-world design, the game will be made in Unreal Engine 5 rather than the studio’s own REDengine. It won’t be The Witcher 4, but that’s what people...
Plenty of Money and No One to Pay: Crypto Teams at ETHDenver Face Hiring Crunch
24.2.2022
Recruiters at ETHDenver say a shortage of developer talent is inflating salaries and brewing up competition in the industry building Web 3
Horizon Forbidden West byl odložen, aby se tvůrci vyhnuli přesčasům
21.2.2022
Kotaku’s 3-Episode Anime Test: My Dress Up Darling
14.2.2022
Welcome to another edition of Kotaku’s Anime Revolution, presented by Acura, a weekly show where the otaku of Kotaku look at the hottest shows of the winter season and put them through the three-episode test to see whether they’re worth your time. This week, we’ll be taking a look at My Dress-Up...