Immediately after announcing plans to take a slightly different direction over the next five years, Riot Games expanded its Queue Dodge buyout program — typically available to new hires in their first six months of employment — to include all employees. In other words, employees who choose to leave the company immediately – because they ...
image: Netflix / Oni Press / Kotaku And then it was time for Toronto to drown in the sweet grief of Clash At Demonhead again, but in the form of an anime. That’s right, Netflix is planning to develop a new adaptation of the cult classic comic and film Scott pilgrim against the world. According ...
image: Mediatonic / Housemarque / Turtle Rock / Money photo by Ozan Kose (Getty Images) The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. During the year, a handful of larger companies consistently bought up a shipload of smaller companies at a rate that announced a new acquisition every few weeks. All of ...
Last week in the Chinese city of Chongqing a senior League of Legends Player was presented to the public over the loudspeakers of an internet café. Among the people who passed his screen to check him out was a cop who … thought the player looked like a suspect. Like this story on Baijiahao Reports, ...
Screenshot: Respawn entertainment / EA Daniel Klein, a senior game designer at Apex legendsHe was recently fired from his job at Respawn Entertainment after Screenshots surfaced from old blog posts and public conversations showing the developer makes both sexist and racist comments. These pictures, what came to light last month, contain derogatory remarks about women ...
Batsarashkina competing with the 10 meter air pistol in Tokyophoto: TAUSEEF MUSTAFA (Getty Images) we wrote about Russian athletes and The witcher Super fan Vitalina Batsarashkina in 2016 when she won a silver medal over 10m Air pistol at the Rio Olympics. She’s right back at this year’s games Witcher Gang, only this time she ...
photo: Sumo digital The British company Sumo Group, whose various studios have worked on everything from Hitman to power to Disney infinity, was bought by Chinese giant Tencent for a whopping $ 1.3 billion. Reuters report. The purchase is merely the latest from Tencent, who have invested in or acquired other gambling companies in recent ...
CLG player Finn “Finn” Wiestål is watching the a League of Legends Championship series event.photo: Riot games Conventional wisdom says there isn’t too much transparency, but like most proverbs, this one comes with asterisks. Yesterday, the eSports organization CLG demonstrated this by posting a video showing the CEO of his League of Legends Team, Daniel ...
photo: TAG Heuer / Nintendo If you need more proof that gaming is now cool, look no further than the latest collaboration between a gaming company and a luxury brand. TAG Heuer, supplier of high-end watches famous worn by The coolest guy in history, and Nintendo, supplier of cheap plumbers with bad mustaches, have teamed ...
image:: Activision Blizzard / Kotaku Video games are expensive. They have been expensive for a long time and are getting more and more expensive. To a certain extent, it makes sense: game developers have to eat! But after a certain point it is being exaggerated. Loot boxes, gacha, and now NFTs are signs of this ...
