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: Game Workers Australia Game Workers Unite Australia, an organization that was previously a counseling and support organization, announced today that it will transition to a full union early next year. In its previous form, GWUA had “supported and empowered workers to build a better games industry” by providing information and guidance to anyone wishing ...
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 ...
photo: Eric Thomas (Getty Images) A new open letter signed by nearly 500 current and former Ubisoft employees expresses solidarity with the workers at Activision Blizzard, calls for movement from their own leadership, and calls for systemic change across the video game industry. Axios Reports. “Last week, the gaming industry was shaken again by revelations ...
photo: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE (Getty Images) The indie bundle for Palestinian aid, a collection of games, tools, and other software put together to raise money for the United Nations Relief Agency (provide vital emergency aid to the Palestinian people), opened last week with an aim to raise $ 500,000. It has already exceeded that number and ...
Itch.io – not Epics – area for adult games.picture:: Itch.io Is there any porn on the Epic Games Store? Seems like a pretty simple yes or no question. Today, however, the current increasingly controversial The Epic v Apple court case showed us that it is indeed possible to have a nearly 10-minute argument about it. ...
Screenshot:: Mihoyo Kotaku EastThe East is your piece of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Turn on every morning from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. According to ChinaOne of the largest news portals in China, a man was recently arrested at Mihoyo headquarters in Shanghai. It ...
picture:: Epic Games / Itch.io / Kotaku Epic announced today that there are a number of new non-gaming apps available now available on the Epic Games Store. The most interesting new app that has been added is the indie games storefront Itch.io, which may have thousands of smaller games you Save a huge new audience ...
