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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2022’s big crypto crash and the subsequent demise of several blockchain and NFT games apparently isn’t enough to deter Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda’s ambitions to break into the blockchain market. In his New Year’s Letter from the President, Matsuda asserts that blockchain technology is the future of games and that it remains an untapped market. He also insists that [...]
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Another ABK-owned studio is currently in the process of forming a union, and this time it’s the whole studio and not just the QA department. Proletariat joins the QA workers of Raven Software and Blizzard Albany in unionizing under the Communication Workers Alliance banner. The studio is best known for its fantasy battle royale game Spellbreak and was acquired by [...]
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The US Federal Trade Commission and the UK Competition Markets Authority apparently aren’t the only ones looking to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. A group of 10 gamers has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit to stop the merger over the same gaming monopoly concerns as the government regulatory agencies. The antitrust lawsuit argues that the $68.7 billion merger violates [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment is now coming to the end of a very eventful year with the announcement of Microsoft’s plans to acquire Activision Blizzard and the highly awaited launches of Diablo Immortal, Wrath of the Lich King Classic, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, and Overwatch 2. Blizzard President Mike Ybarra also says that roughly 50 million new players joined the Blizzard community [...]
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Gamigo has undergone its second round of layoffs this year which seems to have affected everyone from its executives to its rank-and-file employees, including RIFT’s last remaining community manager. The company has also announced that it will be shutting down its Aeria Games Portal and will be transferring publishing responsibilities for Aura Kingdom, Grand Fantasia, Last Chaos, and Shaiya to [...]
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Activision Blizzard President and COO Daniel Alegre is stepping down from his position after just two years with the company. According to a recent SEC filing, Alegre, who took up the COO mantle when he moved from Google in March 2020, will be ending his tenure with the controversial company on March 31, 2023 for another opportunity. That “other opportunity” [...]
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The US Federal Trade Commission has ruled against Epic Games following allegations that the Fortnite developer violated player privacy under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and that it used “dark patterns” to trick players into buying items from the cash shop. The company is now being forced to pay a whopping $520 million in refunds and penalties in two [...]
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Back in August, Riot Games entered into a sponsorship deal with cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX in what the League of Legends studio announced as the largest sponsorship deal that its ever secured. The deal was supposed to last for seven years with FTX branding to be prominently displayed during League of Legends Championship Series events for boatloads of cash. Back [...]
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