There’s been a serious security breach over at Kakao Games involving the leak of confidential Black Desert Online user account data. The studio reported in a recent forum post that a number of users have had their unencrypted passwords, emails, and Kakao Cash history posted on various public websites and platforms forcing them to lock the said accounts and reset [...]
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While the gaming community was engrossed with the announcements, reveals, and fanfare over at E3 earlier this week, Amazon Game Studios took the opportunity to quietly lay off dozens of employees and reportedly cancel a number of unannounced projects. According to Kotaku, Amazon gave the affected employees 60 days to look for a new job within Amazon. Severance packages await [...]
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MMOs take a lot of time to develop, we’re talking about months, if not years, of development before they’re even worthy of playtesting. Then along comes Coherence to challenge the norms of video game development. Coherence is an ambitious new open cloud platform from Unity co-founder David Helgason and Playdead co-founder Dino Patti. Coherence aims to help studios of any [...]
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Honour of Kings has been one of Tencent’s top grossing and most successful games since it was released in China in 2017. The game’s western port Arena of Valor, however, didn’t quite do as well as they’d hoped, currently averaging just 150,000 daily active users in North America. According to Reuter’s sources, Tencent has effectively given up on the mobile [...]
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Last week, Epic Games Store took a page out of Steam’s book and kicked off its first-ever Mega Sale. Naturally, people took advantage of the crazy low prices and went on buying sprees. Unfortunately, this was a good way to get your account locked and flagged as fraudulent as one customer pointed out on Twitter. So I can confirm that [...]
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After eight years and eight seasons, HBO’s Game of Thrones has finally come to an end, an anticlimactic end, but an end nonetheless. The popular TV series was adapted from a Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, who hopefully, is now getting around to finally finishing the books. A recent blog post by Martin, however, reveals that [...]
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Superdata Research released their April 2019 Worldwide Digital Games Market report today. Check it out below: Most interestingly, Apex Legends fell off the list on both PC and Console, earning a 'mere' $24 million in April, down from $100m from its launch month of February. The decline from launch isn't too surprising, as the hype back then was through the [...]
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The Epic Games Store has just kicked off its own version of a Steam Sale with their first-ever “Mega Sale”. Epic is offering up to 75% discounts on their catalog of games plus $10 off for every game purchased that’s worth $14.99 and up from now until June 13th. Sounds good right? Well, everything was going great until two highly-awaited [...]
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Abusive and racist remarks have absolutely no place in the League of Legends eSports scene. Echo Fox learns this the hard way when Amit Raizada, one of the team’s shareholders, was accused of using threatening and racist remarks in an email dispute with former Echo Fox CEO Jace Hall. According to Polygon, the allegations prompted League of Legends Champion Series [...]
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While we still don't know who's going to end up buying Nexon, the company reported their Q1 2019 earnings report today and numbers were impressive across the board; the company reported revenues of $848M for the quarter, up 3$ year over year with net income (profit) coming in at $487M. Revenues came in strong thanks to the continued strong performance [...]
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