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picture: blizzard A story continued Bloomberg earlier today with the headline “Blizzard exec quits in protest at employee ranking system”. It sounds very businesslike, maybe something that would end up in an HR manager’s Linkedin newsfeed, but the stuff it describes is important because it sounds absolutely dystopian. Here is how this “employee ranking system” ...
picture: Mojang/Nintendo/Kotaku The controversial end of Mojang Studios Minecraft sparked a lot of conversations over the years. After players defeat the Ender Dragon for a whopping nine minutes, a poem will play on screen. Quotes from the “End Poem,” as the swan song is titled, were painted onto fan skins and turned into merch. But ...
photo: Zed Jameson/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Today, Microsoft filed a revised response to the United States Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit aimed at stopping the tech giant from acquiring it call of Duty Publishers Activision. the First login contained several arguments claiming that the FTC itself and its court system were unconstitutional. But now Microsoft has ripped ...
photo: Kevin Winters (Getty Images) Last month, the legendary Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator was arrested for allegedly buying shares in one Development studio before its participation in a dragon quest game was announced. A month later, he was arrested a second time for reportedly buying shares in a Company working on a final fantasy spin ...
picture: Activision Blizzard / Kotaku / Yevgenij_D (Shutterstock) Developer of the Boston based Game Studio Proletariat announced plans to unionize on Tuesday. If successful, around 60 employees will continue to work there World of Warcraftis new dragonflight extension would join the growing ranks of organized labor through parent company Activision Blizzard and beyond. The group, ...
A game that is not included orright List of the most important 2022 Games that died this year was the kart racer from Square Enix, Chocobo GP. There is a reason for that, because it will remain playable for the foreseeable future. However, as Square Enix announced on December 21st, the game is now effectively ...
picture: Blizzard/Kotaku Blizzard is now taking pre-orders for a big special worth nearly $100 DiabloIV Collector’s box containing many things. But it doesn’t include the game. And while Blizzard isn’t trying to trick people into accidentally buying this game-free box, it still seems very odd that there isn’t even an option to get the game ...
picture: Guerrilla Games / Sony during a horizon Multiplayer play seemed far from inevitable, and Guerrilla Games finally made the news official with a new job posting on Friday. The Sony studio behind it Open world RPG series wants to bring post-apocalyptic robot combat online with an upcoming project featuring new characters and a different ...
picture: Activity | Kotaku (Zack) call of Duty may be one of the most popular series in the world, but it’s not exactly the kind of game you think of when you picture the Nintendo Switch. So in a way it’s very strange to see Microsoft coming out tonight and announcing a “10-year commitment” to ...
picture: EA/Kotaku Making video games is very difficult. It can take years of work to ship even a small game. One aspect that can be particularly time-consuming and resource-consuming is building a custom engine, which is why many developers use Unreal, Unity, or another engine they already have to speed up development. It’s very common, ...
