image: Yacht Club Games / Kotaku Yacht Club Games is working on a new project which, for the first time in the indie studio’s history, has nothing to do with Shovel Knight. It’s called Mina the Hollower, it’s a retro homage to Game Boy classics like Link’s Awakening, and in a weird twist, Yacht Club ...
image: Activision Quality assurance testers at Call of Duty: Warzone studio Raven Software gave management until today, January 25, to voluntarily recognize their newly formed union, Game Workers Alliance. Instead, embattled publisher Activision Blizzard announced tonight it would be forcing a vote with the National Labor Review Board, and called on that vote to include ...
image: activity That was just a few days ago 34 quality assurance testers at Raven, one of the studios working exclusively on the call of Duty series, formed the first union ever among Activision Blizzard employees. Today, management has responded to their success with some changes. As igamesnewss Nicole Carpenter reportsRaven studio head Brian Raffel ...
image: Roblox Controversial YouTuber Benjamin “Ruben Sim” Simon has been banned from the gaming platform Roblox after allegedly leading an in-game “cybermob” to harass its mostly younger player base with racial and homophobic slurs and some sexual harassment as well. According to the Oakland, CA court that issued the year-long executive order, Simon constituted a ...
Foxhole logisticians keep the frontline troops equippedscreenshot: foxhole foxhole is A top-down shooter where players can take on different roles in massive battles, one of those roles is logistics, which involves crafting the weapons used in combat. A group of those players are currently on strike, saying, “We believe Foxhole shouldn’t have a gaming experience ...
A snap of me, the second of April rolls around.Screenshot: Nintendo For a while it seemed so February would be the busiest month for games in 2022, with marquees like Sifu, elden ring, and Horizon forbidden west fill the calendar. But in the past few days, March has officially taken the crown as the best ...
image: Roblox Game-making platform and young metaverse Roblox made the news yesterday at the center of a New York Times Report of a tax cut from the 1990s that got out of hand. The Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) was originally created to encourage small business investments. I would say it seemed like a good ...
I cry because our history will be erased before we know if we don’t act.Screenshot: Naughty dog There is an arcade in The Last of Us Part II in which Ellie fights a bloated man. It is a tense encounter, with the rowdy avenger who fights the zombie all by himself. The setting for the ...
image: Zomboid project I remember playing Zomboid project–a game we covered for the first time 2011– almost a decade ago and really like it. A slow zombie survival simulation that gave players the chance to sneak around a city to stay alive in search of food and supplies while zombies tried to eat your face ...
image: Fate 2 A week after a big report from IGN Detailing worrying allegations Workplace culture, crunch, and hiring practices at Bungie, the HR manager of the studio has resigned from her position. In a company-wide email seen by IGN and on air today, Gayle d’Hondt – who has been in the studio since 2007 ...
