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Bungie files a lawsuit against 10 people allegedly responsible for recent DMCA video strikes

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Last week there were reports that fans of Destiny and even developer Bungie itself were on the receiving end of DMCA-led video takedowns. At...
One one one.

Minecraft Dungeons developer collaborates with Bethesda on Fallout 76

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Everyone likes a good team-up, especially if it results in even more quality and content for their favorite games. Fallout 76 players should at...

GDC 2022: Learning from the seven game stressors in Destiny 2

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GDC 2022 coverage has a bit slow this year thanks to virtual tickets being kind of a misnomer (if the panel isn't live and...
Rimshot.

Alganon’s Twitter account posts that Alganon is coming back

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If you've forgotten about Alganon, well, we don't entirely blame you. The game has been having a bit of a lie-down for a while now;...

Sony officially announces its new three-tier PlayStation Plus subscriptions coming in June

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Last week, anonymous insiders spilled all sorts of beans on an upcoming subscription service for the PlayStation console that would, among other things, merge...

Apple seeks to throw out Epic’s appeal of anti-trust lawsuit, and the case may not be heard until next year

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Oh you thought this story was over? Oh, my sweet summer child; you don't have two kaiju-sized corporations have the legal equivalent of a...

Gamigo has suffered yet another round of layoffs, including some RIFT and Trove staff

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We've got more bad news for fans of RIFT and Gamigo's other MMOs: RIFT's community manager, CM Vilya, announced on Discord Friday that she...
We won this one.

Insiders unveil PlayStation’s plans for a Game Pass-like subscription service

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There's plenty of folks - 25 million of them, in fact - who love Microsoft's Game Pass service, a subscription plan that lets players...
Bad plans.

Amazon Games’ Mike Frazzini has stepped down following multiple rocky MMO launches

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The head of Amazon Games, Mike Frazzini, has apparently stepped down from his role, announcing the move internally in a Friday announcement, as first...

Grand Theft Auto Online launches $6 monthly subscription program on console

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What if I told you that there was an easy way to turn six bucks into a half-million dollars with the click of a...
I demand to pay more for this.

Betawatch: Dual Universe talks up Athena as its last pre-launch patch

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Athena, you've gotta see her. Or at least what the update bearing her name means for Dual Universe, which is promising that this is the...

Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan steps down after three years in the role

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The head of one of the largest crowdfunding platforms in the world is stepping down. Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan announced that after three years...

Another worker lodges a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit against Activision-Blizzard

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The lawsuits continue to pile up around Activision-Blizzard. Readers will recall that back in December, an Activision-Blizzard worker identified as Christine held a press...

Blizzard launches digital trading cards celebrating 30 years and a games engineering program

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For 30 years, Blizzard has been making a variety of games, and the studio is commemorating the different titles and the characters that have...
I hate so much about the ways you choose to be.

Fortnite’s profit donation efforts have already raised $50M for Ukrainian aid

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A couple of days ago we reported on some philanthropic efforts on the part of Epic Games, which announced that it's committing all profits...

Gamigo-published Fractured wants players to volunteer to work as unpaid game masters

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Hey, do you want a games industry job? How about one that doesn't actually pay money? Dynamight Studios' Fractured Online, which is currently under...

Teen hackers plunder software giants like Microsoft and Ubisoft

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If I was ever granted three wishes by a genie, I can assure you that one of those wishes would be spent on a...
Glorbo?

GDC 2022: Blockchain, NFTs, and play-to-earn scams go mainstream

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It's GDC again, guys, and it's... woof, a rough-looking year. While we had some really interesting panels during COVID, the first in-person event (which...
We have Thanos at home.

Activision-Blizzard shareholders will vote on whether to allow Microsoft’s buyout April 28

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We all had to know that the process of Microsoft buying out Activision-Blizzard wasn't going to happen quickly or elegantly, and that's not even...

New World is apparently blocking players in Russia and Belarus

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Overnight, gamers on Amazon's official New World forums posted the news that players from Russia and Belarus are being blocked from playing on the...