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Larian Studios won't make Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, expansions, or Baldur's Gate 4
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Remedy's multiplayer Control spinoff ‘Condor’ won't be free to play – expect a 'lower initial price' followed by live service updates
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Baldur's Gate 3: Director Swen Vincke answers all our questions about foregoing DLC, AAA development, and more
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Overwatch 2 devs fear story missions have been canceled
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Is anyone else at GDC?
If so, how's it going for you? Go to any interesting talks or events? Meet anyone new?
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Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used modder's work without credit
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The small company at the center of ‘Gamergate 2.0’
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The Apex [Legends] team was hit with layoffs today
@Aaron: The Apex team was hit with layoffs today. It sucks seeing some of the people I've worked with for almost 3 years now get let go. Hopefully, they land on their feet sooner rather than later.
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Stellar Blade developer Shift Up to go public at projected valuation of $2.3 billion
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Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a ‘threat’ to the iOS ecosystem
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Inside Apple Arcade: axed games, declining payouts, disillusioned studios – and an uncertain future
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Remedy Entertainment has announced it's acquired the full rights to its Control series from publisher 505 Games for €17m
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Disco Elysium standalone expansion reportedly cancelled and quarter of staff facing redundancy at ZA/UM
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'I've never seen it this bad:' Game developers explain the huge layoffs hitting Riot, Epic, and more
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Frustrations with Cities Skylines 2 are starting to boil over among city builder fans and content creators alike
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Over 5,000 games industry workers have already lost their jobs in 2024
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Bungie will lose independence within Sony if Destiny 2 fails financial goals
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AAA studios sued for addictive games | Cold Take
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Half-Life: 25th anniversary documentary
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Why Cities: Skylines II performs poorly – the teeth are not the only problem
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Remedy Entertainment has revealed the full system requirements to run its highly-anticipated sequel, Alan Wake II, on PC
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How Alan Wake II, one of gaming's lost sequels, finally got made
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AI revival of deceased actors' voices should still involve people, company says
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Five former Ubisoft executives arrested after sexual harassment investigation
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Cities: Skylines II performance has not achieved the benchmark we targeted, Paradox admits ahead of launch
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Acclaimed roguelike studio behind Slay the Spire releases new deckbuilder after publicly abandoning Unity over fee debacle
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Microsoft closes deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard
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Game development caution
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Why games are too big
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The making of the Burger King games
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Fortnite developer Epic Games axing 16% of staff, laying off 830 employees, and sells Bandcamp
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Sega cancels Creative Assembly's Hyenas
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Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster
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Collective letter from game development companies concerning Unity's runtime fee
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Saints Row developer Volition permanently shuts down
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How Digital Eclipse set the standard for preserving video game classics with their first Gold Master Series title – The Making of Karateka
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Defunct studios discussion - Who remembers Black & White?
I just finished playing through the Fata Deum demo and you can really feel the B&W roots, even if it's minus your pet. While there's lots to be excited about off the back of Fata Deum, it does...
I just finished playing through the Fata Deum demo and you can really feel the B&W roots, even if it's minus your pet.
While there's lots to be excited about off the back of Fata Deum, it does kill me that this IP was left for dead considering how innovative the gameplay was at the time and how much potential it had.
Does anyone have fond memories of other hits from now defunct studios?
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Making Doom and building the FPS industry at 100 miles per hour | John Romero interview
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Rockstar Games acquires modding team that it previously banned
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Embracer Group has shut down Campfire Cabal as the company begins closing down some of its development studios
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The offbeat, wonderful Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari
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The team behind Super Smash Bros. Brawl
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Hasbro wants old Transformers games to return, but Activision lost them
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Tencent to become majority shareholder of Techland
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The Digital Antiquarian: Diablo
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Game companies are allergic to making fashionable merch — so fans stepped in
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Bungie wins landmark lawsuit against player who harassed Destiny staff
https://www.polygon.com/23793493/bungie-destiny-2-harassment-lawsuit Win empowers employers to protect employees from online harm Bungie has won almost $500,000 in damages from a Destiny 2 player...
https://www.polygon.com/23793493/bungie-destiny-2-harassment-lawsuit
Win empowers employers to protect employees from online harm
Bungie has won almost $500,000 in damages from a Destiny 2 player who harassed one of its community managers and his wife with abusive, racist, and distressing calls and messages, and sent an unsolicited pizza order to their home in a manner designed to intimidate and frighten the couple.
According to members of Bungie’s legal team, the judgment from a Washington state court sets important precedents that will empower employers to go after anyone who harasses their employees online, and strengthen the enforcement of laws against online trolling and harassment. “This one is special,” Bungie’s attorney Dylan Schmeyer tweeted.
As laid out in the court’s judgment, the defendant, Jesse James Comer, was “incensed” when the community manager — whom both Bungie and the court declined to name, to protect them from further harassment — spotlighted some fan art by a Black community member. Using anonymous phone numbers, Comer left a string of “hideous, bigoted” voicemails on the community manager’s personal phone, some asking that Bungie create options in Destiny 2 “in which only persons of color would be killed,” before proceeding to threaten the community manager’s wife with more racist voicemails and texts. Then he ordered a pizza to be delivered to their home, leaving instructions for the driver to knock at least five times, loudly, to make the intrusion as frightening as possible.
The court ruled that Comer was liable to pay over $489,000 in damages, fees, and expenses it had accrued in protecting and supporting its employees, investigating Comer, and prosecuting the case against him.
As laid out in a Twitter thread by Kathryn Tewson, a crusading paralegal who worked on the case, the judgment is significant because it recognizes that patterns of harassment escalate from online trolling to real-world violence; establishes that harassment of an employee for doing their job damages the employer as well, which can then use its resources to go after the culprit; and recognized a new tort — a legal term for a form of injury or harm for which courts can impose liability — around cyber and telephone harassment.
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Microsoft wins US FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard
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Daedalic Entertainment ending internal development, work on new Lord of the Rings game halted
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