Riot says it has reached a settlement with two women who filed a gender discrimination lawsuit late last year. At the time, the women, one current and one former employee, accused Riot of gender-based discrimination and a “men-first” environment that impacted their pay and career advancement. Today, however, Riot sent out a press release announcing…

Black Desert, the pretty online role-playing game with the ridiculous character creator, is now live on the PlayStation 4. As the Xbox One version, it launches with only a handful of character classes, with plans to add new adventuring professions and content at regular intervals. Oh, and Megan Fox is involved for some reason. Woo.

Just like last week, this week I (Tim Rogers) am teaching Jason Schreier (and you!) Japanese over on our Twitch channel. My teaching method involves forcing him to read every text box out loud. You, too, can do something out loud—in our chat!

Gamesindustry.biz has followed up their summer investigation into console manufacturer’s sourcing of conflict minerals with information from Nintendo. The company has improved its sourcing by a disappointing 3%, reporting that 79% of said minerals come from whitelisted smelters and refiners. CORRECTION: This post originally misstated this year’s percentage increase of whitelisted sources as 2%, for…

Koei Tecmo wants players to submit ideas for which Monster Rancher creatures should be linked up with what music when the game’s remaster gets ported to Switch and smartphones next year. The original game spawned creatures from CDs inserted into the PS1 but the new game will use a different system.