Back in 2022Epic Games agreed to pay $245 million as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over “dark patterns” that may have enticed players to spend in-game money on cosmetics, dance emotes and other items that They don't actually want to spend. Two years later, the first payments are finally made ...
Picture: Image: Valve / Kotaku / Jag_cz (Shutterstock) You should not pre-order gamesbut people still do it all the time. More and more people have gotten into the habit of pre-ordering DLC and paying in advance for content that won't be delivered for months or even years, if at all. Valve is now cracking down ...
It’s over and done with. With the closure of Arkane Austin, Redfall is no longer going ahead and the planned DLC will not be released. But at least there is apparently money back. It’s so bitter. Not only did Redfall have a really bad start and fell far short of expectations for an Arkane title, ...
Redfall’s developer is shutting down, meaning there will be no more updates or heroes for the game. Today, Microsoft internally announced the closure of Arkane Austin and other Xbox game studios. You can read more about it here. With the closure, future updates and DLCs for Redfall will also be canceled. Accordingly, the two characters ...
Cities: Skylines II is heavily criticized in the fan community. Paradox has now issued a detailed statement, apologizing for the current state of the game and granting refunds for DLC buyers. The launch of Cities: Skylines II was met with great expectations; after all, the first part of the city-building simulation had many fans. However, ...
In case you forgot: controversial YouTuber Logan Paul promised to repay millions of dollars to people who fell victim to his NFT “game” CryptoZoo. The game – so to speak Pokémon– such as where you collect, sell and trade exotic animals on the blockchain – but never really existed, leaving the embattled content creator behind ...
Creative Assembly has had to put up with a lot of shitstorm over the last few days, mainly due to the value for money of the Warhammer DLCs and Total War: Pharaoh. Now the developers have commented on this. If players don’t get enough value for their money, things can get uncomfortable. Developer Creative Assembly ...
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Nintendo is offering refunds to players who don’t want to transfer their Wii U and/or 3DS eShop credit to the Switch, following their closure at the end of March. This has only been announced for Japan so far. OatmealDome shared and translated Notice from Nintendo’s official Japanese Twitter account, ...
news Hearthstone: How To Get Legendary Hero Pack Refunds When Disappointed? Published on 12/27/2022 at 8:45 p.m A few days ago, several packs, each containing a legendary hero model, appeared in the Hearthstone store. Except that these packs pissed off players due to an erroneous description. So Blizzard just allowed them to be refunded. Why ...
Pokemon scarlet and violetGame Freak’s new monster-collecting RPGs, since their release on March 18, have been objectively terrible technical performance that is only outshined by the Incredible number of disruptions. (At least one mistake is good: Es makes it easier for you to hunt Shiny Pokémon). Clearly, those two games weren’t ready for prime time, ...
