photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) Activision Blizzard has been the focus of criticism for several years due to its widely criticized “boys’ club” corporate culture sleazy games. And now, late Friday evening, just before the holiday season really begins, The Wall Street Journal reports that the embattled gaming company will pay $50 million to settle ...
Picture: Microsoft / Bethesda / Kotaku Microsoft has agreed to hire the 77 temporary game testers it recently created Quality Assurance Union at ZeniMax Studios. In a groundbreaking moment for the industry’s growing labor movement, 23 of the workers will become full-time employees, while all will receive raises and free copies Starfieldthe open-world role-playing game ...
image: Rockstar Games Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive (the parent company of Rockstar Games) listed some of the publisher’s most popular and successful franchises in an investor call today. And during that meeting, Take-Two and Rockstar Games apparently remembered that the Midnight bar franchise exists. It has been over a decade since the last ...
People play in Beijing in September 2021. photo: Andrea Verdelli (Getty Images) China’s video game license freeze continues. South china morning post notes that the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) has not published a list of newly approved titles since July 2021. Because of this, the state newspaper Securities daily Reports, Approximately 14,000 small ...
On January 1, Yosuke Matsuda, CEO of Square Enix (pictured) decided to call the new year with the company’s plans for things like blockchain and NFTs. You may have read what people thought of the Square Enix announcement on the English language internet, but now let’s take a look at what people thought on the ...
Screenshot: Humongous Entertainment / Steam / Kotaku Happy New Year! I hope you had a safe and having fun on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Eve and I hope 2022 will be a better year for all of us than 2021. I mean, it couldn’t be worse Right…? If you’re looking for a slew ...
image: Mediatonic / Housemarque / Turtle Rock / Money photo by Ozan Kose (Getty Images) The video game industry went on a shopping spree in 2021. During the year, a handful of larger companies consistently bought up a shipload of smaller companies at a rate that announced a new acquisition every few weeks. All of ...
Screenshot: Gog / CD Project / Kotaku For most gamers looking for the best prices on games they missed out on over the year, video game offerings have become a vacation tradition. And Gog.com has a few of them Kotaku‘s favorites from 2021, and past years, on sale until the new year. Gog has over ...
For out some pixelated wine Per Final Fantasy XIV Endwalkerpurple grapes. The latest update – Patch 6.01 – smoothed out their angular edges and made them far less blocky. in the Notes on patch 6.01, Under Resolved Issues, Square Enix found the following:“: An issue where the igamesnews count of the grapes in Labyrinthos was ...
Man With Gun Representing Shooty Game Developer. Screenshot: action call of Duty Studio Treyarch has just released the latest in a long line of gritty apologies from Activision-owned studios regarding the ongoing investigation company-wide sexism, harassment, discrimination and bullying. In one Tweet published today, just over a month after Wall Street Journal reported on Studio ...
