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The real problem with this genre is the fact that humans play it. Here’s some of the worst stuff they’ve done.

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‘Professional fraudsters’ admit the 189GB hack of Epic Games was a hoax supposedly used to get $85K

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Last week news broke of a supposed hack of Epic Games in which a hacker gang called Mogilevich claimed to have gotten away with...

Former Bungie composer announces he doesn’t want to enter politics but is running for Congress anyway

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Most people nowadays can only dream of being able to retire in general comfort and security, but it looks as if former Destiny and...
Like this, but airborne.

Rockstar developers push back against corporate demand to return to physical offices in April

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Apparently, Rockstar Games believes that the only way it can get its next big release out the door is by mandating employees to work...

Epic Games rebuts ransomware gang’s 189GB data hack claim

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This story looks to be a case of not everything posted on the internet is true: A ransomware gang made a bold claim on...

Star Citizen’s CIG admits to rumored layoffs, blaming restructuring and relocation

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Over the past couple of weeks we've been reporting on an apparent wave of layoffs at Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games, starting first...

EA lays off nearly 700 workers to ‘deliver the entertainment players want’ and ‘optimize its global real estate footprint’

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If your friends decided to jump off a bridge lay off hundreds of the very workers who made their products, would you do it...

Sony is laying off nearly a thousand workers – 8% of its global workforce

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We're starting to suspect that companies choose these layoffs chunks of 900 people to stop headlines from saying "a thousand," but it's bad no...
Yeah, that makes sense.

Old School RuneScape elevates its fight against botting, hits back against fake Varlamore leaks

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Bots continue to be a constant source of conversation and presumption among the players of Old School RuneScape, particularly as Jagex made changes to...

Axie Infinity co-founder’s personal Ethereum wallets are caught in $9.5M crypto theft

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It's time yet again for another bit of bad news to come out of Axie Infinity, the pay-to-earn crypto-grinder MMO that's most famous for...
great work, guy!

Xbox’s Phil Spencer insists Microsoft’s mass-layoffs position it for future growth, somehow

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Everyone just loves Phil Spencer these days, right? Oh, right, all the layoffs. Probably not, then. But according to a recent interview with Game...
Among all the many, many ways you are terrible.

Microsoft’s layoffs will result in over 800 cut Activision-Blizzard jobs in March

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As Microsoft workers reel from news of impending mass-layoffs of 1900 employees, we've received more clarity on which specific Activision-Blizzard teams are being slashed...
The fanboy mines are harder to work all the time.

Argentinian World of Warcraft players say the game is ‘dead’ after January pricing changes

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Argentinian fans of World of Warcraft are sounding the alarm over Blizzard's decision to change both the cost of subscription to the MMORPG and...
big storm

Blizzard is laying off over 126 people from its support center in Ireland

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The massive culling of 1,900 workers by Microsoft looks to have had a significant global impact, as Ireland's minister for foreign affairs Michéal Martin...

Embracer confirms layoffs of nearly 1400 people were part of efforts to ‘always maximize shareholder value’

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It's only mid-February but already we have a lead contender for most vile CEO quote of 2024: Embracer Group's third quarter fiscal report is...

Diablo IV releases its uber unique crafting system, tries selling portal effects for $30

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How much would you pay to get some differently colored portal effects in Diablo IV? Evidently Blizzard believes that fans will shell out $30...

Magic to Master goes crypto, ties down a publisher, and eyes a nebulous February early access release window

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With all of the loud goose honking that came out of the gaming industry in 2023, it would be understandably easy to have forgotten...

Genshin Impact takes cheat makers to court for copyright infringement

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You have to be a special sort of sad to want to cheat in a game like Genshin Impact, let alone one who would...
It's all the money we don't have!

Microsoft insists Activision-Blizzard was planning on mass layoffs before the merger

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As we've been covering, earlier this week the FTC filed a complaint to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, alleging that Microsoft misrepresented itself...
so much better

Former Overwatch 2 lead vfx artist calls out Blizzard for deceptive promotion and pay behavior

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Workers and former workers at the various substudios at Activision-Blizzard have been calling it out as an unpleasant workplace for a while now since...
Hmm. Appears I'm still alive.

Korean Court rules man isn’t a conscientious objector because he likes PUBG

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We admit that the headline for this story is pretty wild, so allow us a few moments to lay some contextual groundwork: South Korea...

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