screenshot: EA The endlessly silly debacle between Microsoft and Sony over the attempted purchase of Activision Blizzard King offers a new lowlight every day. Yesterday we had Microsoft states that it has rubbish exclusives compared to Sonyand today, Sony just noisy dissed EAs battlefield Franchise to prove how much better call of Duty leads. It’s ...
picture: OnlyPhoto (Getty Images) Politically are reporting that the Federal Trade Commission “is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video game giant Activision Blizzard,” according to three people with knowledge of the matter. the FTC, emboldened by their recent success in preventing the merger of book publishers Penguin ...
AfterClimate, a research and advisory firm “with a mission to decarbonize the gaming industry,” have this week published the results their Game Industry Net Zero 2022 Snapshot.” It is a report that takes an in-depth look at how most of the world’s largest video game companies are responding to the impending climate crisis. The good ...
photo: CFOTO / Future Publishing (Getty Images) NetEase, the service provider over watch Developers Blizzard has used to bring its games to China over the past 14 years are terminating several licenses with the developer. surveillance 2, Diablo III, World of Warcraft, star ship, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm will no longer be served in ...
Rep. Mike Garcia on the campaign trailphoto: Myung J Chun (Getty Images) While it’s normal for prominent businessmen to donate on both sides of the political aisle, so that whoever wins an election, they can call in some favors, as the Republican Party continues to slide to the right Some of the supported candidates deserve ...
picture: Microsoft/Kotaku Microsoft is making big strides and game pass is just one piece of the puzzle. The subscription service has kept the Xbox Series X/S relevant despite the lack of new conversation-stealing first-party exclusives, but the company seems to be targeting mobile for its next big gaming push. While PS5 console warriors to fight ...
screenshot: Activision/Burger King/Kotaku Property of Burger King Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Operator skin, a man with a beautiful mustache and Burger City t shirtis sold on eBay for about half the retail price of the $69.99 full version. I will repeat that for your benefit. Burger King, home of the whopperpartnered with Modern ...
picture: The Warner Bros. / Devolver Digital / Bandai Namco / Innersloth / Kotaku / Mia Stendal / Bibadash (Shutterstock) On an average day, my friends might ask me how my work is going. I smile, tell them “It’s going great,” and then start a story about one of the shittiest things they’ve ever heard. ...
picture: Activity | igamesnews For the second time this year, publisher Activision Blizzard—Subject of historic allegations of sexual harassment and gender discrimination– tried to drop the case against it. And for the second time it failed. Earlier this year, in an attempt to stop the California Department of Civil Rights (formerly known as the California ...
picture: blizzard Already in July A group of 21 quality assurance staff at Activision’s Albany studio – formerly known as Vicarious Visions – announced their intention to unionise. Today the National Labor Relations Board confirmed that their vote can go ahead. The verdict came about because –and interrupt me if you’ve heard this before– Publisher ...
