College football players urged to boycott EA’s next game (www.polygon.com)
Now Diablo 4 Is Out in the Wild, the True Horror of Its Costly Microtransactions Has Revealed Itself - IGN (www.ign.com)
GameStop fires its CEO (www.theverge.com)
Twitch walks back controversial ad rules policy (www.theverge.com)
I didn’t know whether to put this in here or tech, sorry lol.
Junji Ito-inspired horror game World of Horror has mysteries and horrors (www.techradar.com)
World of Horror’s release date is confirmed for October 19, 2023, and will be available on PC, PS5, PS4, and Nintendo Switch
Apple Acquires AR Headset Startup Responsible For Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge (www.nintendolife.com)
Nintendo's claim that emulation 'stifles innovation' isn't just absurd—it's hypocritical (www.pcgamer.com)
Star Wars: The Old Republic Going Third-Party as BioWare Focuses on Mass Effect and Dragon Age (www.ign.com)
Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg Shares Details on What You Can Expect from Xbox Game Showcase (techraptor.net)
“None of our first party games in the show are full CG trailers. Everything is either in-game footage, in-engine footage, or in-game footage with some cinematics. Each of our trailers will be labeled so it is hopefully clear for our fans.”
Why EA Sports and Nike think gaming NFTs can really work this time (arstechnica.com)
Veloren is an open-source multi-player voxel role-playing game that can be self-hosted (and has more adventure and fun than Minecraft) (veloren.net)
It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft....
Blizzard Fires WoW Game Designer for Corporate Greed Jokes (gizmodo.com)
Yikes
Anyone remember Lord of the Rings, Battle for Middle-Earth? Here's an open source Launcher + Downloader for the original game! (github.com)
Inside the making of Redfall, Xbox's latest misfire - BNN Bloomberg (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Worried about your kids' video gaming? Explore their online worlds yourself (www.npr.org)
No Man’s Sky just launched on Mac with cross-play support (www.theverge.com)
Activision Blizzard substantiated more than two dozen misconduct incidents by employees last year (www.axios.com)
Game developers defend Lord of the Rings Gollum's poor reviews: "No one wants to ship a bad game" (www.gamesradar.com)
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is the worst reviewed game of 2023 (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Sony’s new Q handheld is official: 8-inch screen, streams PS5 games (www.theverge.com)
Let's Play Factorio E08 - no talk - more iron and copper (diode.zone)
We’re finally approaching some harder sciences and we have robots building stuff!!
Sony confirms more PC ports are coming, because it's making a ton of money (www.pcgamer.com)
Sell popular games on more platforms...
UK CMA blocks the Microsoft takeover of Activision (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Konami Employee Tried to Murder His Former Boss (www.siliconera.com)
Konami’s return into AAA gaming seems to go well, especially work culture has evolved after Hideo Kojima’s departure :D
Nintendo wants to subpoena Discord to find out who leaked its Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom art book (www.videogameschronicle.com)
