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Artist Turns Down $3,000 Fortnite Job Offer, Calls It 'Hilarious'
6.12.2022
While Epic Games continues to position itself as a pro-game developer company, the same can’t be said for how it treats artists and their copyrights. The Fortnite developer recently offered $3,000 to an artist for an illustration and the copyright—which meant that they wouldn’t be able to sell...
2022 Was The Year The Video Game Industry Ate Itself
6.12.2022
The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. Epic Games bought Mediatonic (Fall Guys), Sony bought Housemarque (Returnal), and Embracer bought Gearbox (Borderlands). It seemed like things might slow down in 2022, but instead they ramped up even more into an acquisition free-for-all....
Sony Dumps On EA From A Great Height In Latest Court Docs
24.11.2022
The endlessly silly debacle between Microsoft and Sony, regarding the former’s attempt to buy Activision Blizzard King, offers as a new lowlight every day. Yesterday we had Microsoft declaring that it has rubbish exclusive titles compared to Sony, and today Sony has just loudly dissed...
Activision Bans Top Call of Duty Twitch Streamer From $100,000 Tourney Over Marriage Prank
18.10.2022
Activision hosted a Call of Duty tournament this weekend, and the top competitive player was noticeably absent from the lineup. In a now-deleted tweet, Doug “Censor” Martin revealed that the publisher had banned him for competing in Fortune’s Keep, citing that he had “harassed [Nadia Amine].”...
Fake Zelda Netflix Posters Blow Up, Make People Think Tom Holland Will Play Link
11.10.2022
Convincing fakes have been a menace since at least the advent of photography, so what’s shocking about a set of AI-generated Zelda posters that are making the rounds on social media is the number of people who’ve decided that they are real. As of writing, these fake images of a supposed...
Web3 Metaverse Company Hadean Raises $30 Million in Series A Funding Round Backed by Epic Games and Tencent
26.9.2022
Hadean, a company using computing to scale virtual and metaverse worlds, has successfully closed its Series A funding round, raising $30 million. Among the companies that invested were gaming giant Epic Games and Chinese entertainment behemoth Tencent. Hadean aims to keep developing...
Xbox Boss Commits To Current Series S/X Console Prices, For Now
16.9.2022
Sony turned a few heads when it unexpectedly hiked prices on the PlayStation 5 in the second year of the current generation of consoles. Naturally, many wondered if the same complicated economic situations we all find ourselves in would see a spike in Xbox prices as well. In a recent interview with...
Tencent Guts Its Gaming News Site, Firing Staff Without Warning
15.9.2022
Today layoffs hit the respected video game and entertainment website Fanbyte, with the site’s editor-in-chief and head of media among the list of staff who are now out of work. According to Fanbyte employees, the layoffs were a total shock, with some reporting that they had just worked with some...
Um, Lil Nas X Is Now President Of League Of Legends
15.9.2022
Forgetting it’s not April Fool’s Day, Riot Games just announced that two-time Grammy award-winning artist Lil Nas X is the president of League of Legends.Read more
China’s Metaverse Gaming Market Might Explode to Over $100 Billion According to JPMorgan
14.9.2022
Analysts from JPMorgan believe that the metaverse gaming market could explode in China even with the current state of regulation, which presents certain difficulties for adoption. Companies like Tencent, Netease, and Bilibili are JPMorgan’s picks when it comes to taking advantage of this...
There's So Much Assassin's Creed Happening Now That It's Almost Hard To Keep Up
11.9.2022
I am sorry if the front page of Kotaku reads like an advertisement for Ubisoft right now, but do you want to know the wildest thing about it all? That’s not even everything that the French company announced recently in the world of Assassin’s Creed during its big Ubisoft Forward event. There was...
Assassin's Creed Infinity Announced, A Hub That Will Somehow Connect Games Together
10.9.2022
Assassin’s Creed is getting a whole lot bigger with Infinity, a new live-service project Ubisoft announced today during its Forward presentation. Infinity aims to connect several different games together while introducing ongoing content updates that will roll out even more settings and timelines...
After Years Of Anticipation, Assassin's Creed Is Finally Going To Japan
10.9.2022
It’s finally happening: Assassin’s Creed is going to Japan. After a series of earlier reports and leaks, Ubisoft finally made the news official during Saturday’s 2022 gaming showcase.Read more
PlayStation Boss Calls Out Microsoft Over 'Inadequate' Call Of Duty Deal
7.9.2022
The console war custody battle over Call of Duty has taken an unlikely turn. In an industry notorious for secrecy and backroom deals, two of the biggest executives in gaming are hashing it out in public. A week after Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said Activision’s hit shooter would remain...
Tencent Bets $297 Million On Assassin's Creed Machine
6.9.2022
Tencent has dumped another small fortune into one of gaming’s biggest companies. Ubisoft announced on Tuesday that the Chinese conglomerate would being increasing its investment in the Assassins’ Creed maker by nearly $300 million through an elaborate set of financial maneuvers.Read more
Report: Chinese Metaverse Industry Raises $780 Million in Funding
5.9.2022
The Chinese metaverse industry has reportedly raised about $780 million in funding and there are expectations this will grow to be a $5.8 trillion industry by 2030. So far there are 160,000 virtual human enterprises in China while 20 provinces or cities in the country are reportedly supporting...
Microsoft Lets Sony Have ‘Several More Years’ Of Call Of Duty, As A Treat
2.9.2022
Good news PlayStation Call of Duty players: Microsoft says you get to have “several more years” of playing the shoot-bang game on your Sony console. Read more
Pokémon Company Sues Six Chinese Companies, Wants Them To Apologize For Making Millions Off Similar Game
1.9.2022
The Pokémon Company has filed a lawsuit against six Chinese companies over a mobile game for “copyright infringement and unfair competition behavior.” It is claiming over $72 million in damages and demanding public apologies on major social media platforms, gaming websites, and app stores....
Tencent, Sony Throw Big Money At Elden Ring Maker FromSoftware
1.9.2022
Elden Ring wasn’t just a hit with fans of FromSoftware’s notoriously difficult action-RPGs. Today Tencent Holdings and Sony announced they’ve acquired 30% of the Souls-series developer’s shares, split in favor of Tencent. FromSoftware is expected to gain $260 million from the arrangement.Read more
Tencent receives patent for blockchain-based missing persons poster
22.8.2022
The simple patent idea took three years to be granted regulatory clearance