image: BAYC While some publishers like Ubisoft push right ahead with NFTsregardless of how their own workers feel about it, and others like EA are prepared to half-ass their way through the fadone video game marketplace has come out and issued one of the most welcome statements I’m yet to see from within the industry. ...
Screenshot: Activision Activision Blizzard, a publisher under a government investigation revolving around sexual harassment at the company, allegedly stopped a Call of Duty personality from leading her own team within a tournament held by her own organization. The reason? She’s claiming that the publisher was uncomfortable with her “oversexual tweets.” Kalei Renay is a member ...
image: Ubisoft Ubisoft’s ongoing NFT odyssey continues to bewilder and demoralize not just longtime fans but so its own developers. The company recently held another workshop aimed specifically at addressing the concerns of skeptical employees, yet also started giving out special NFTs to some members of the Ghost Recon team to “celebrate” the series’ 20th ...
image: The Wandering Band When the Nintendo switch launched in 2017, it promised to marry console-quality games with the convenient portability of a handheld device. For the most part that promise has borne out, changing how we play games in ways both big and small. It’s certainly made air travel less tedious. Look, before we ...
For the last few years, a Guitar Hero player called Schmooey was widely believed to be the best in the world, having racked up achievements and displayed feats that other players thought impossible. A discovery made last yearhowever, shows there was a very good reason for that. In a detailed 27-minute report, Karl Jobst explains ...
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 ...
After 56 years, Sega’s arcade history is coming to a close. In fall 2020, Sega sold off 85 percent of its arcade business to Tokyo-based Genda. Now, the company has sold off its remaining stock, and Genda is removing the Sega name from arcades. In its place, Genda will use the “Gigo” name, which Sega ...
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 ...
Screenshot: 343 Industries This is not a drill: Halo Infinite will soon let you play your way into earning credits for its in-game shop. 343 Industries senior community manager John Junyszek confirmed as much in a post on the Halo Waypoint forums tonight in what’s known in the American PR business as a “White House ...
