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Call Of Duty Is So Old It's Bridging Generations Of NBA Players
14.2.2023
The age difference between the NBA’s oldest and youngest players is so vast that someone who grew up playing the Super Nintendo can find themselves on the court alongside someone who grew up playing Fortnite.Read more
Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Origins Director Latest To Leave Ubisoft
9.2.2023
Veteran Assassins’ Creed developer Jean Guesdon announced he’s leaving Ubisoft after 17 years on Thursday. A creative director on some of the most beloved entries in the franchise including Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, his is the latest high-profile departure at a publisher currently struggling...
Epic Kills Battle Royale Game Less Than Six Months After Release
1.2.2023
In August 2022, Epic Games—developers of Fortnite, custodians of the Epic Games Store, creators of the Unreal Engine, rich as God—published a melee-based battle royale game called Rumbleverse. It is now January 2023 (February already for me here in Australia), and the game is already being killed...
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...
New League Of Legends Trailer Is So Bad Riot Had To Answer For It
11.1.2023
A new year means a new League of Legends season. And for the past few years, this has also meant a big, cinematic trailer to announce the new season. However, this time the trailer for League of Legends’ next season was pretty dang boring and underwhelming, especially when compared to last year’s....
Fortnite Fined $520 Million For Invading Kids’ Privacy And Tricking Players
19.12.2022
Epic Games will pay a whopping $520 million combined settlement after an Federal Trade Commission investigation found it invaded children’s privacy and tricked some players into buying stuff in Fortnite that they didn’t want. The FTC announced on Monday that it’s the largest penalty ever assessed...
Chinese Zhejiang Province Aims to Build a $28.7 Billion Metaverse Industry by 2025
19.12.2022
Zhejiang, a coastal province of China, has presented a metaverse development plan that seeks to build a metaverse hub in its territory. The plan aims to entice the creation of a $28.7 billion metaverse industry and construct an ecosystem of several companies integrating this tech as part of...
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
IGN Lays Off Some Staffers Right Before The Game Awards
8.12.2022
IGN, the biggest gaming news outlet in the world, laid off multiple staff members today, according to tweets from current and former staffers. Read more
Microsoft Announces Bizarre Pledge To Bring Call of Duty To Nintendo Consoles
7.12.2022
Call of Duty might be one of the most popular series on the planet, but it’s not exactly the kind of game you think of when you picture the Nintendo Switch. So in one way it’s very strange to see Microsoft come out tonight and announce a “10-year commitment” to release CoD games on Nintendo...
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...
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...