After over a year of motions, counter-claims, and posturing, the Epic Games vs. Apple antitrust lawsuit has finally come to an end as Judge Yvonne Gonzales-Rogers rules in favor of Apple in 9 counts out of 10, but essentially gave Epic Games and other developers what they’ve been fighting for all along – the ability to put alternative payment methods [...]
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The Chronicles of Elyria legal drama continues to play out after the class-action suit was divided into two separate complaints back in July. For those following the proceedings, you’ll remember that the Xsolla part of the lawsuit was moved to non-class arbitration in California per the company’s Terms of Service, while Soulbound Studios’ part was moved to the studio’s home [...]
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When the PlayStation 5 came out in 2020, Sony Interactive Entertainment promised free upgrade paths for some of their exclusively-published cross-gen games, including Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Horizon: Forbidden West. “The PS5 versions of those games are built from the ground up to take advantage of the PS5 feature set, and we have an upgrade path for PS4 users to [...]
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ArtCraft Entertainment has laid off several members of the Crowfall team just two months after the Kickstarted “Throne War Simulator” officially launched on PC. Valerie Massey, the former ArtCraft Community Director and now Senior Community Manager for Dual Universe, broke the unfortunate news on Twitter over the weekend. Gutted and gobsmacked to hear about the @ArtCraftEnt layoffs today. Having worked [...]
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A handful of gaming conventions are planning to return to traditional in-person events this year with the COVID-19 pandemic presumably under control despite the increasing threat of the new delta variant. This week’s PAX West 2021 is one of the first to return to a physical location, with tens of thousands of gaming fans expected to attend the four-day event [...]
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When Aliens: Fireteam Elite came out last week, most of us were surprised to find out that Cold Iron Studios, the game’s developer and co-publisher, was in fact a subsidiary of Daybreak Games. The press release announcing Daybreak’s acquisition of the still back in August 2020, however, suddenly vanished a few days ago around the same time that Daybreak CEO [...]
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Great news for gamers in London or those who can travel to the city this November. EVE London will be returning to an in-person event this fall with a live viewing party of the upcoming EVE Online Alliance Tournament 10vs10 PvP event. EVE London will be one of the first gaming events to return to traditional face-to-face encounters after nearly [...]
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The Chinese government is at it again. A few weeks ago Tencent began implementing facial recognition software into their games to ensure kids don't bypass their daily gaming allotment by using their parent's phones. This week the government announced new restrictions on gaming for minors and unlike previous restrictions these are strict. Anyone under 18 years old will only be [...]
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Apple has made several concessions to its App Store payment policies in order to settle a class-action lawsuit filed against the company by small US-based developers back in 2019. Note that this is a different lawsuit than the one filed by Epic Games last year but is presided over by the same judge, Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers. One of these [...]
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Earlier this week, Blizzard Entertainment announced that they were renaming the Overwatch character McCree after the employee that the character was named after, Jesse McCree, was fired from the company as part of Activision Blizzard’s efforts to clean house amid the sexual harassment and discrimination scandal that’s gripping the company. In addition to requiring extra man hours to roll out [...]
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