Canadian video game developer, Phoenix Labs, is mostly known as the studio behind the popular monster-slaying game, Dauntless. What we didn’t know is that the studio already has several new tiles in the works ranging from early research and development to actual production. The studio teased “close to 10 projects” spanning various themes and genres. “As we considered the options [...]
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Ubisoft has released its financial report for the full year of 2021-2022 which shows a big dip in revenue compared to the previous fiscal year. The past year’s total sales amounted to €2.13 billion (roughly $2.2 million), a 4.4% drop from last year’s €2.2 million ($2.28 million), although it’s fourth quarter earnings were significantly better year-over-year at €708 million ($735 [...]
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The Activision Blizzard and Microsoft merger apparently isn’t the only acquisition deal that’s under government scrutiny. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is currently looking into Sony’s acquisition of Destiny 2 developer Bungie, specifically on the possibility that Bungie’s games might become PlayStation-exclusive following the merger. According to PCGamer, the FTC started their investigation at the end of April and is [...]
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The ability to stream games from the cloud to your TV seems to be the next big thing in gaming, or at least Microsoft seems to think so. Insider sources told VentureBeat that the tech giant is planning to release a device that will allow users to stream games on their TVs to expand on their existing Xbox cloud gaming [...]
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Over the past two decades, Gravity has mostly turned a blind eye to the multitude of Ragnarok Online servers that continue to be available to players all across the globe. In an entirely unexpected move, the South Korean developer announced that it’s taking action against the so-called illegal private servers on the grounds of copyright infringement. “With the cooperation of [...]
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Digital Extremes is bringing back TennoCon in a purely-digital format this year even as other gaming conventions return to being traditional in-person affairs. The event will be streamed live on July 16th with exclusive news and reveals, developer panels, contests, giveaways, in-game activities, and more lined up for the online event. “TennoCon is Digital Extremes’ flagship Warframe conference and player [...]
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Dimensional Ink Games CEO and Cryptic Studios Co-founder Jack Emmert has taken the reins of a new NetEase Studio called Jackalope Games. The new studio is based in Austin, Texas and is NetEase’s first owned studio in the U.S. “Jackalope Games will be creating new and exciting PC and console games as a first party studio of NetEase Games. Jackalope [...]
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Activision Blizzard has been hit with another lawsuit with the Microsoft merger looming on the horizon. The New York City Employees’ Retirement System and pension funds filed the lawsuit (technically a 220 complaint) in Delaware last week to gain access to the company’s books and internal documents as one of ABK’s shareholders, as news site Axios reports. The city claims [...]
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AdventureQuest 3D developer Artix Entertainment is currently in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal that has potential lawsuit written all over it. Former Community Manager Taini Flaremist has accused a fellow developer of using private conversations to take advantage of her emotional vulnerability and making inappropriate and sexual comments towards her, as she recounted on Twitter. She also claimed [...]
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Last week’s COVID-19 outbreak at PAX East 2022 has unfortunately already claimed one victim. Dawn “Deestar” Wood, a PAX Enforcer, reportedly returned home sick after the convention and died a few days after on April 30th. Wood’s sister has setup a Gofundme campaign for the bereaved family. “We know that many others had also come home sick (myself included) and [...]
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