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Gearbox And Former Lawyer Agree To End Their Bitter Legal Battle

The messy legal battle in which Gearbox Software and its CEO Randy Pitchford have been embroiled with the company’s former lawyer Wade Callender for almost a year has come to an end, with both sides agreeing to apologize, drop the matter, and never speak of it again. In a court document first shared by Insider,…

Rick Fox Files Lawsuit Against Business Partners Alleging Fraud, Drug Use, Racism

A civil complaint filed by Echo Fox co-owner Rick Fox on Monday details new allegations of fraud, deceptive business practices and racism against Echo Fox business partners that, he believes, merit over $10,000,000 in damages. Lawyers representing the complaint’s defendants claim that it contains numerous falsities and unsupported accusations. The complaint is the latest burst…

Coming next year from Kabam, the makers of Marvel: Contest of Champions, Marvel: Realm of Champions is a free-to-play mobile RPG for iOS and Android that has superheroes fighting for control over the territory of Battleworld.It’s a whole “Secret War” thing. The characters look cool. I bet we will be able to collect them.

Crafting In Games Feels Less Like A Chore Now

For many players, video games are a chance to escape from work. You hop into a game, sliding into a fantasy role as a dragon slayer or superhero, setting aside the mundanities of day-to-day labor.But as I hop from monster hunting to military sneaking missions, I’ve found that my personal play time is filling up…

Union Accuses Game Studio Of “Union-Busting”; Studio Denies Employee Was Disciplined For Activism

The UK’s Independent Workers Union accused Monument Valley and Assemble With Care studio Ustwo Games of “union-busting” in a statement today. Threatening legal action, the report alleges that senior Ustwo programmer Austin Kelmore—also the branch chair and founding member of the union’s Game Workers Unite branch—suffered “victimization” and “unfair dismissal” because of his union actions.…

Apex Legends Challenge Rewards Players For Thanking Others

Apex Legends Season 3 brings a new slate of daily and weekly challenges. Among the dictates to get headshots or play as certain characters, there’s a daily challenge that honors any gamer’s most important quality: politeness. A new daily challenge rewards players for thanking three teammates. A player on Redditnoticed the challenge shortly after Season…

Do Not Underestimate The Power Of The PlayStation Lunch Box

In Japan, there is an official PlayStation 1 lunch box. It’s a crane game prize and comes in packaging that looks like the cardboard box for the first PlayStation. How cool is it? Very cool! While you might think here’s a difference in nuance between “lunch box” and “bento box,” the packaging reads ランチボックス (ranchi…

Return of the Obra Dinn will be out on PS4, Xbox One and Switch on October 18.

Actual Space Mission Picks Sonic The Hedgehog As An Official Mascot

In June 2022, a rocket will launch carrying the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, a spacecraft made by the European Space Agency and Airbus. And as it hurtles through the cosmos on its mission to study Jupiter’s moons, it will carry with it the blessing of…Sonic the Hedgehog. One of the instruments onboard was developed in…

Blizzard Really Wants Overwatch Characters In Smash

With Overwatch due out on the Switch next week, it’s obviously time for fans to start incessantly calling for characters like Pharah and Mercy to make an appearance in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The loudest voice among them, though, will belong to Blizzard themselves. In an interview with IGN, Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan was asked which…

Players Are Recreating Famous Album Covers In Fallout 76

Aside from playing, some Fallout 76 players have spent the last few days working on a project where they recreate famous album covers using the game’s photo mode. And they’ve done a pretty good job! Originally starting on the @ArtF76 twitter account, it’s since moved over to the hashtag #F76AlbumCovers. Here are some of the…

A Secret Boss Was Hidden In The Division 2 For Months, Until The Developers Teased It

Game developer Trick Dempsey recently started Googling to see if anyone had found a secret boss encounter in The Division 2, the giant Ubisoft game he helps make. “I was just like: I don’t [see] a video guide for finding this dude,” he said on today’s State of the Game developer stream. “There’s just nothing.”…

You Can Fight Ghost Recon Breakpoint‘s Main Villain Right Away, If You’re Foolish Enough

I’ll be blunt: Playing Ghost Recon Breakpoint has been a drag. My initial ambivalence has given way to outright frustration as I trudge through generic military gameplay and the tangled web of pointless microtransactions. But Breakpoint has a twist that also offers a unique challenge. If you want, you can search and find the location…

Ruin Friendships In A Kaizo Mario Maker Level Built For Two

No longer content terrorizing just one player at a time, Super Mario Maker 2 “kaizo” level creator PangaeaPanga has created an intense, co-op level that asks two players to perform some of the hardest tricks I’ve seen in a Mario Maker course. The course, “Hit Me Up,” is so hard, in fact, that it took…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s ‘Final’ Update Will Be Released This Month

It’s been clear for a while that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is just about done in terms of game updates. The game’s free and paid add-ons are complete. Its store has been filled with extra gear to buy. Today, Ubisoft confirmed that October’s update will be the game’s last. The game’s October update will include the…

It’s Nice To Play Apex Legends‘ New Brighter Map

Apex Legends season 3 brings a new map, a new character, and a lot of small changes. Trying out a new map and a new character alongside everyone else harkens back to the game’s earliest days, when the spirit of exploration felt stronger than the thirst for victory. Currently, new map World’s Edge has completely…

Ghost Recon Breakpoint’s Microtransactions Explained

Ghost Recon Breakpoint is in early access before its full launch on Friday. It offers a somewhat generic but capable military shooter to hardcore fans. Looming over everything has been the specter of microtransactions. The game offers lots of them. So far, we’ve seen that you can easily ignore them. First thing first: none of…

We have updated our article about Gearbox’s decision not to sign a union contract to bring back Troy Baker as Rhys in Borderlands 3 Readers had questions about why other union actors are voicing Borderlands 3 characters and whether Gearbox’s excuse valid, which Baker’s union, SAG-AFTRA, responded to.

The Destiny 2 Patch Changes A Lot Of The Game’s Most Familiar Menus

Destiny 2‘s big New Light overhaul today boosts all existing players to power level 750. It also may slightly adjust your progression. Here are some things that stood out at first glance when I logged into the game with my character today. First, there’s the character screen, now complete with Sparrow vehicle and Ghost along…

Season 3 for Apex Legends just dropped so I am most definitely playing it LIVE on our Twitch right now! Come join me in the chat.