Nintendo is cracking down on the growing worldwide issue of harassment of its customer service staff regarding repairs and notes this in its revised terms and condition page. The Kyoto-based company says that if customers go beyond engaging in behaviour that surpasses socially accepted norms they have the right to refuse repair or replace the ...
photo: SOPA images (Getty Images) “Is there anything you want to pre-order?” Almost nobody goes in and out of a GameStop without hearing those words. Employees are measured by how many pre-orders they can collect, while GameStop collects the money months before a game’s actual release. But recently, a systems overhaul has sabotaged the strategy, ...
Amber La Macchia was primed to deal with crunch before she even got into the video game industry — something she heard over and over again five years ago while studying game design in college. The practice of the crunch — a word used by gaming industry workers to describe brutal overtime hours — is ...
According to studio boss Hidetaka Miyazaki, FromSoftware’s next game is already in the final stages of development. In an interview with Japanese media 4Gamer, FromSoftware has not only completed the development of an unannounced game, but also has multiple games in development. How many are not shared. FromSoftware’s upcoming game could be the next entry ...
Apparently things are not going well at Hangar 13, the developers of Mafia III (and allegedly also Mafia IV). Again, a lot of staff was cut and one of the studio bosses is gone too. Since the release of Mafia III, Hangar 13 seems to have been stuck in the hustle and bustle. As has ...
Download personnel files from old IO servers is one of the week 9 resistance challenges in Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 2. This is the second resistance challenge in Fortnite for week 9, and to unlock it you must first complete all of the resistance challenges from the last few weeks, as well as fishing Agent ...
Here’s a chilling fact: Sega has been out of the console business longer than they have been. And while it was the Dreamcast that finally took down the struggling giant, it certainly left a legacy from hell for a platform that’s only been around a few years. You’d think a console that “failed” in 2001 ...
The layoff of a number of QA employees at Activision Blizzard caused riots and strikes at the company last year and even stimulated the formation of a union. Now Activision Blizzard has given in in favor of the employees. Activision Blizzard had a lot of flings in the past year, including a lawsuit from California’s ...
On Netflix’s raunchy animated series Big mouth First premiered, one aspect of the show’s world-building drew critical acclaim: The hormone monsters. They were hailed as “Show the most hilarious innovation,” the subject of rankings and quizspeculated who could see what among the pubescent teenagers from Big mouth suddenly blessed by her presence. So, five seasons ...
Heavy rain creators Quantic Dream recently announced a promising new Star Wars adventure, Star Wars Eclipse, but according to a new report, we may have to wait a lot longer than we think for this one. Quantic Dream officially presented Star Wars Eclipse at The Game Awards 2021 in December and made fans’ hearts beat ...
