picture: Blizzard/Kotaku Blizzard is facing a planned class action lawsuit over card packs sold to minors Hearthstoneit’s popular World of WarcraftThemed trading card game. A parent in Arizona claims his child bought hundreds of dollars worth of cards, not realizing how rare it is to get good cards out of packs. And the purchases were ...
picture: Mediatonic / Epic Games It was a big day for Jelly Bean Battle Royale fall guys. Mediatonic announced the pandemic-era hit would be free to play and would land on Xbox and Switch next month start its seasonal calendar over again. It works effectively rocket league route, but three years earlier than planned. Here ...
picture: Activision Blizzard Today, Activision Blizzard fulfilled its daily oopsie quota by blogging about what the publisher’s subsidiaries are like apparently used a special tool to help develop more “diverse” characters. Apparently it believes it can achieve this without, I don’t know, actually talking to or hiring marginalized developers. Why rely on annoying, fallible people ...
picture: activity That call of Duty Machine can never stop. It must go on endlessly, through lawsuits, controversies and layoffs. Quitting would mean…well, we don’t know because it never did. And to keep the machine running, Activision now has over 3,000 human souls working tirelessly on the publisher’s largest and most successful video game franchise. ...
picture: Square Enix According to a recent deployment report from the developer studio People Can Fly, the online loot shooter pioneer has not made a profit until the end of 2021. Continue reading: Millions of players later, Outriders developers are still waiting for money As originally reported by TweakTownthat report stated that publisher Square Enix ...
photo: John Phillips (Getty Images) Microtransactions in games like Grand Theft Auto Online have become big business for video game publishers. And it’s likely that’s not going to change anytime soon. New details unearthed in a recent contract extension for Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two, explain that the CEO will earn a big bonus as ...
In 2009, THQ pulled off a publicity stunt plating a Nintendo Wii in 24k gold and attempting to deliver it to Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty never really got his hands on the console, but now, after over a year of auction hijinx, maybe you can. I actually wrote about this last yearwhen the console ...
picture: Bandai Namco Last year, Japanese publisher Bandai Namco announced that it was ditching its logo, which it had used since the two formerly separate companies merged in 2006. “Our current logo expresses the merger of Bandai and Namco that resulted from the integration of the two companies,” it said in a statement back in ...
screenshot: splash damage Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was released 19 years ago and is one of the greatest multiplayer shooters to come to PC. Unfortunately some younger readers may never have had the pleasure of playing it as it was never released on Steam. Til today! Note that the game has been available elsewhere all along ...
picture: Ubisoft Private equity firms could start circling Ubisoft, Bloomberg reported Friday. The talks are early but include interest from the likes of Blackstone Inc. and KKR & Co. albeit non-private equity, senior current and former Ubisoft developers my box has spoken to for the past few months, believing that the company will eventually sell ...
