Google Stadia is giving its users one final game to play for free as a parting gift before the streaming service officially shuts down this week. Before you get too excited, know that it’s not a AAA game or any of the popular games available right now but a game that the developers used for network nesting prior to the [...]
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NetEase has laid off nearly a hundred employees of its affiliate Shanghai EaseNet Network Technology following disagreements with Blizzard Entertainment that led to the end of its publishing partnership with the American video game company in the country. According to The South China Morning Post (via Kotaku), the Chinese tech giant recently disbanded the team handling Blizzard games at the [...]
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Tens of millions of users logged-in to Steam over the past weekend, peaking at just over 33 million concurrent users early Sunday morning. The popular video game platform also logged over 10 million in-game users at its peak, according to data from SteamDB. This weekend’s numbers shattered both Steam’s previous 24-hour concurrency record of 30 million users back in March [...]
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CD Projekt Red might have managed to turn things around for Cyberpunk 2077 but that’s not enough to pacify investors who filed a class action lawsuit against the studio after the game’s disastrous launch two years ago. The lawsuit sought to recover damages caused by the game’s abysmal performance on consoles last-gen consoles and allegedly misleading statements about the state [...]
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Bungie is reportedly working on several unannounced projects thanks to the additional support from Sony following the latter’s acquisition of the Destiny 2 developer last year. The news comes by way of a series of tweets from Senior Design Lead Tom Farnsworth inviting developers to join their team to work on the said projects. “And with the support of Sony [...]
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The who’s who of the tech world has gotten together in Las Vegas this week to showcase their wares at CES 2023. Among them is GPU manufacturer Nvidia who showed off new gameplay footage of several highly awaited MMOs and multiplayer games as part of the company’s tech presentation yesterday. Among those showcased during Nvidia’s presentation was NCSoft’s upcoming Lineage [...]
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A few weeks ago, the QA analysts of ZeniMax Media, including ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda Softworks, announced their plans to form a union under the Communication Workers of America. As of today, the ZeniMax Workers United has been formally recognized as Microsoft’s first worker union and is the largest union in the video games industry to date in the [...]
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The Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft has taken its first steps forward with yesterday’s first pre-trial hearing. As we previously reported, the FTC is looking to block the multi-billion dollar merger between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard on grounds that it will stifle competition and will give the former the means to pull popular games from other video game [...]
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As you may well know, the United States Army isn’t above using video games to help recruit new soldiers into its ranks with its first-person shooter series America’s Army getting multiple sequels since it first launched in 2002. The US Armed Forces branch was also apparently looking to take advantage of the Call of Duty franchise’s popularity to bolster its [...]
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Apple TV+ has announced its plans to produce an eight-episode spinoff of Charlie Days’ 2020 sitcom Mythic Quest called Mere Mortals. For those who aren’t familiar with the series, it revolves around the lives of the employees and top brass of a fictional development studio that released a popular MMORPG and is currently on its third season on the streaming [...]
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