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At the start of the summer, as the world roiled from multiple crises, something unusual and essential happened in…
Aug 6
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A group of developers went public today with serious accusations of overwork and theft against their former…
Jun 17
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A growing number of games focus on turning monotonous work, like running a border checkpoint or renovating a home,…
May 29
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Capcom recently opened a special contest for Street Fighter V, asking fans to submit costume designs for possible…
Apr 15
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Last fall, nearly a year after the release of Red Dead Redemption 2, top Rockstar executive Jennifer Kolbe sent out…
Jan 21 2020
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Frostpunk’s The Last Autumn expansion, out today on PC, is the city-building game’s best update yet. It adds several…
Dec 6 2019
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Labor is a racket. You spend 40 hours a week, or more, making money for someone else, only to have to give a third…
Nov 12 2019
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FairTube, a group pushing for YouTubers to unionize that has backing from the largest trade union in the EU, has commented on YouTube’s controversial new terms of the service. The new terms give the company “sole discretion” to remove videos that are “no longer commercially viable,” which has led to renewed calls for…
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Nov 11 2019
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To say that YouTubers have an uneasy relationship with the company that hosts their videos would be a massive…
Nov 11 2019
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Humans do lots of inadvisable things in public for attention (see: hot dog eating contests, “the worm”). There is,…
Oct 22 2019
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The very first quest in The Outer Worlds, Obsidian’s highly anticipated first-person RPG out October 25, asked me to…
Jul 30 2019
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Brooke Holden had all but given up on breaking into the video game business.
Jul 22 2019
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At about this time next year, we’ll have a pretty good idea of what the next generation of video games will look…
Jul 15 2019
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Last week, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt announced on Twitter that his music production company, HitRecord, would once…
May 22 2019
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While Amazon’s efforts to get into video games haven’t panned out, there’s one arena where the company has managed…
May 8 2019
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Mortal Kombat 11 is a brutal game. That’s what you come for—sensational, over-the-top violence that’s inventive and…
May 7 2019
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On the heels of yesterday’s Riot Games walkout at the League of Legends publisher’s Los Angeles headquarters, Riot employees in Dublin are staging their own walkout today. Around 18 of the office’s employees stood by the street with several holding signs calling for the company to end forced arbitration.
May 6 2019
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Over 150 discontented Riot Games employees walked out of the League of Legends publisher’s offices in Los Angeles…
May 6 2019
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Los Angeles-based Riot Games employees are preparing for a walkout this afternoon in protest of the company’s stance…
Apr 29 2019
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In the wake of news that Riot Games is attempting to block two current employees from taking the company to court…