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FTC files a complaint against Microsoft following Activision Blizzard layoffs

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When Microsoft outlined its plans for what would happen following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, one of the things that the company stated was...

ESA claims it is ‘currently having conversations’ about E3 in 2024 and 2025

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With E3 officially dead for this year, many are likely assuming that the Entertainment Software Association's marquee show is completely dead. This presumption was...

Ubisoft Paris is accused of developer crunch and poor project management by French game workers union

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Solidaires Informatique, the French game workers union that has been working with employees at Ubisoft Paris since the developer's widespread sexual harassment claims came...
fscking bnuuy

Square-Enix is relocating its Japanese offices to Shibuya in late 2024

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In Neo: The World Ends With You, released in 2021, the plot centered around a neverending metaphysical competition in Tokyo's Shibuya district in the...
Punch drunk.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio has the most credibility?

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Some MMO studios love to treat credibility in much the same way that you treat a tissue during a head cold, there to be...
Curse you.

Germany’s games ratings board creates new labels with warnings about lootboxes, MTX, and online chat

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The physical and digital packaging of video games in Germany is going to have a lot more granular detail thanks to updates being applied...
You want to live here, huh?

The Daily Grind: When has an MMO surprised you with its success?

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I was right there for the whole thing - the initial launch, the change in management, the relaunch - but I never really expected...
oh nooooooo

The FTC is moving to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard

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Some things are just not surprising, and the FTC deciding that it wants to block the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft is one such...
Not worth cheering over.

Activision-Blizzard releases its year-to-date diversity statistics showing an increase in underrepresented groups

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Activision-Blizzard's general issues with diversity and representation have prompted a number of changes within its corporate structure, and one of those is the company's...
Ah...huh.

TwitchCon will have no mask or vaccination requirements despite the ongoing pandemic

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So let's just do a quick recap, shall we? This year's PAX East had vaccination and masking, and people still reported cases of COVID-19...
Good plan!

Square-Enix’s president is still bullish on the prospect of NFTs and blockchain in gaming

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Have you forgotten about president Yosuke Matsuda's buzzword-laden blockchain pitch from the start of the year? It's entirely possible you have, since in the...
Your approval fills me with shame.

Don’t worry, Apple, Roblox likes you instead of Epic in the appeals process

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So back when Epic appealed against the ruling in the Epic vs. Apple case - you know, the case that you thought was over...
Thanks, I hate it.

Sony boss stresses that Bungie acquisition is about multiplatform live service games

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If you were worried about the future of Destiny 2 on your platform of choice, the latest interview with Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan...
This is going great.

Court denies the California DFEH intervention in the Activision-Blizzard EEOC settlement

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You know that things are not going great for a company when multiple state and federal agencies are all descending on you for various...
Unified.

Activision-Blizzard is walking out again, Australia’s game industry unionizes

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Activision-Blizzard's workers are continuing to mobilize: Following the mass-layoffs at Activision's RavenQA over the weekend, Raven workers staged a walkout yesterday, and now they're...
No screenshots yet, obviously.

Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds studio raises an additional $10 million in funding

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We still know nothing about what the first project out of Raph Koster's new studio, Playable Worlds, will actually look like. But we do...
We never like these things.

PEGI adds lockbox warnings to rating labels

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That sure didn't take long. Earlier this week, we found out that the ESRB would be adding a specific content warning to games in...
lol, no

E3 won’t be happening in a digital format this year

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The cancellation of E3 2020 was significant; even if the trade show has been generally diminished in importance over the past several years, it's...

Google Stadia apparently has offered insufficient incentives for devs on the platform

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So why exactly is Stadia - a major platform launched pushed by Google of all the companies in the world - floundering so badly? The...
Well, bye...

ESA responds to Sony’s skipping of E3 2020, saying the show will be ‘high-energy’

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So if you missed the news due to it generally being shrug-worthy, it turns out that Sony has decided to skip out on E3...

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