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Tattoo Artist Wins Lawsuit Over Her Art Appearing On Randy Orton In WWE 2K
3.10.2022
For any bystander looking at the worlds of professional wrestling and video games from the outside, what’s happening inside can look like a veritable circus. In 2022, each has had more than its fair share of ongoing legal litigation and backstage drama. Now, however, a new lawsuit has seen the...
Big Minecraft YouTuber Dream Reveals Face After Three Years, Gets Bullied For It
3.10.2022
The 23-year-old Minecraft streamer and YouTuber with over 30 million subscribers, Dream, has only ever appeared to the public wearing a smooth, egg-colored smiley face mask. Other than some blowout cheating allegations that begrudgingly subsided after he admitted wrongdoing, Dream’s three-year-old...
Rumored Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster Reports Have Bloodborne Fans Fuming
3.10.2022
Rumors of a PlayStation 5 remaster for Horizon Zero Dawn percolating online quickly became yet another thorn in the side of Bloodborne players who’ve been desperately wondering when it’s going to be their turn for Papa Sony to acknowledge their favorite game.Read more
Bush-Era Torture Apologist Steps Down From Call Of Duty Publisher
1.10.2022
In a past life, Frances Townsend defended the legal basis for the torture method called waterboarding during George W. Bush’s war on terror. In a more recent one, she helped lead Activision Blizzard’s initially tone-deaf response to a major sexual harassment lawsuit by the state of California....
Why There May Be More Dragons In Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
30.9.2022
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Overwatch 2 Pre-reviews Think It's Worth A Sequel, But Say The Grind Is A Major Bummer
30.9.2022
Overwatch 2 is almost here, arriving as a free-to-play game on October 4 that will totally supplant the OG hero shooter. While it isn’t playable to the general public yet, a handful of gaming outlets got early access to Blizzard’s upcoming sequel, publishing prereviews just in time for launch day....
Square Enix Is Drowning 2022 With New RPGs, And We're Here For It
30.9.2022
2022 is a great year to be an RPG fan, particularly of Japanese games. The holiday season is usually crowded with new game releases, but this year Square Enix appears to be releasing games like it’s Christmas all year round. With so many out already, and so many more to come, are SE’s profligate...
Game Devs And Stadia Employees Alike Were Blindsided By The Sudden Shutdown
30.9.2022
Few thought Google’s troubled streaming service, Stadia, might ever become a dominant player in the gaming industry, but almost no one expected it to shut down so abruptly, including the company’s own employees. Stadia VP Phil Harrison, fast becoming the grim reaper of new gaming initiatives...
Obsidian's Big Survival Game Turns The Smallest Things Into Your Biggest Terrors
29.9.2022
It’s dark out, and I’m scared. I’m hiding behind a small chest and a rock. Around me are a few flimsy walls made of leaves. Outside those walls, I can hear it: a giant, angry spider. I can’t spot it directly, but I can see the massive leaves and tall blades of grass surrounding my tiny shelter...
Lewd Card Game Gets Shut Down By Kirby Studio
28.9.2022
Haven’t you always wanted to play a card game featuring Kirby’s Chef Kawasaki wearing a series of microscopic bikinis? Me neither, but for a brief shining window this month, you theoretically could thanks to a Japanese fan creating an M-rated card game that delivered exactly that. But that’s all...
Far Cry 6 May Be Getting A GOTY Edition Despite Getting Almost No Awards
28.9.2022
An image found on the backend of the Xbox online store seems to reveal that Ubisoft is gearing up to launch a “Game Of The Year Upgrade Pass” for Far Cry 6. That’s…fine, I guess, but it raises the question: Which site out there thought it was the best game of 2021 and awarded it such an accolade?...
Sources: Ubisoft’s Big 2022 Pirate Blockbuster Delayed Yet Again
28.9.2022
Ubisoft faces another massive delay. Earlier this year it was Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Now it’s Skull and Bones, the Assassin’s Creed publisher’s only major fall blockbuster. Previously set to come out in November, two sources familiar with the game’s development now tell Kotaku it’s been...
One Of The Biggest Reasons To Play Destiny 2 Right Now Is Bugged
28.9.2022
There have been a fair number of complaints about Destiny 2’s Season of Plunder, but for the most part I’ve been having a blast. So it’s a major bummer that one of the main reasons to play right now appears bugged for the second week in a row. An upgrade that’s key to overcoming Destiny’s terrible...
I Played 1,167 Hours Of Dragon Age: Origins And Lived
28.9.2022
Dragon Age is an immensely popular fantasy roleplaying series that has spawned several main entries, spin-off games, novels, comics books, a tabletop game, an animated film, and a web series. Yet the first entry in the series was relatively modest: Origins is a single-player game with a main story...
Take-Two Ditches Outriders Developer's Latest Action-Adventure Game
27.9.2022
Developer People Can Fly has just received another blow of bad news. After learning earlier this year that the studio didn’t see a penny of profit from Outriders during 2021, it’s now been revealed that Rockstar and 2K Games parent company Take-Two has made clear its intent to abandon publishing...
Ubisoft Boss Clarifies His Controversial Remarks About Toxicity
26.9.2022
In a new interview with La Presse, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot appeared to say that toxicity in the games industry comes from necessary “friction” in the creative process. The implication was that it was almost inescapable. Two years into a workplace reckoning over sexual harassment, misconduct,...
Walmart Is Joining The Metaverse, Targets ‘Younger Audiences’
26.9.2022
It’s 2022, which means that at least one company is announcing some new thing that is connected to NFTs or the metaverse in an attempt to stay relevant in our rapidly collapsing capitalist hellscape. Today’s wheel spins landed on Walmart, Roblox, and “The Metaverse.”Read more
E3 2023 Is Happening In Los Angeles And Will Be Open To Fans
26.9.2022
Despite the cancellations of prior years and the general uncertainty about its future, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) just announced that the E3 games expo will be returning to the Los Angeles Convention Center as a live event next year. So if you want to brave crowds of sweaty gamers...
Naughty Dog Releases New Meme Gifs To Celebrate The Last Of Us Day 2022
26.9.2022
Today, September 26, is the awkwardly titled “The Last Of Us Day.” As part of this annual international day of celebration, developer Naughty Dog has released 10 new animated gifs featuring characters from the game, like Joel and Ellie. Read more
Report: 17-Year-Old Arrested On Suspicion Of Being Hacker Behind GTA VI Leak
24.9.2022
Today, London City Police announced they had arrested a 17-year-old from Oxfordshire Thursday evening. While the police have yet to confirm why, it’s been reported that the teen was arrested in connection with the recent Uber and Grand Theft Auto VI leaks. The suspect remains in City Police custody...