Mike Morhaime announced this week that he would be stepping down as CEO of Blizzard, the company he helped found. Mike Morhaime has been a fixture in the gaming industry since 1991, when Blizzard was founded as Silicon & Synapse, Inc. Mike Morhaime will be succeeded by J Allen Brack, former executive producer and senior vice
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Despite the recent closure of the originally planned developer, Telltale Games, Netflix still wants to move ahead with making a game about their popular horror franchise, Stranger Things. Last week when the news hit that Telltale was reducing their staff from 250 to just 25, a lot of people were shocked. Apparently Telltale was doing
After a report earlier today that Telltale Games was shedding its workforce for a skeleton crew of 25 people, the studio has formally announced that a full closure is indeed in progress. The company has also confirmed that they will be working to fulfill current obligations as best as possible, and that more news about
Update: Citing a report from USGamer, Telltale has effectively canceled the upcoming Stranger Things project in addition to The Wolf Among Us 2. Kevin Bruner, the former co-founder of Telltale Games, has posted a personal statement on his blog titled “Telltale closure”, calling the future of the studio further into question. No official word has been given from
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Dutch outlets including Metro and Nieuwsblad reported earlier today that the Belgian Gaming Commission may be pursuing legal action against some game companies over their refusal to follow the law.
The Austria-based developer THQ Nordic has been making lots of moves lately, picking up another in a string of acquisitions. The latest pickup for the company is the underlying rights to Kingdom of Amalur. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was an ambitious project which sought to bring the traditional gameplay elements of an MMORPG into a
Eve Online developer CCP Games has been acquired by Pearl Abyss, and internet spaceship nerds are freaking out about it. According to VentureBeat, the deal was worth $425 million and will close sometime in early October. The terms of the deal do disclose that CCP must meet certain financial goals in terms of revenue, but
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It looks like Overkill’s The Walking Dead has hit even more issues. The Ps4 and Xbox One versions of the game will miss their November 6, 2018 launch in North America and November 8, 2018 release in Europe, due to issues with polish and a dispute with the console rights holder. This revelation comes from
Earlier today, Valve quietly rolled out a new streaming service, Steam.TV. The service was billed as a competitor to streaming giants like Twitch and YouTube Gaming. But just as quickly as it appeared and was reported by various sites, it disappeared. This meant that details for how the service would operate are extremely scarce. For
Anyone who wasn’t around EVE Online in 2016 might not remember this, but there was a major kerfuffle in the game’s community over a popular gambling website that used the in-game currency, ISK, and it eventually got way out of control. The problem eventually got so impossible to ignore within the community, that the assumed
In a short development manifesto released earlier today, Grinding Gear Games announced plans to bring the core mechanics of Incursion League to the core game in Path of Exile, thus adding the Temple of Atzoatl to Standard League, and future leagues. Although there’s a slight catch. Incursion League was pretty popular with players, especially in
Amid an ongoing crackdown against game piracy and back ups, another casualty has been caused. One of the most popular sites for downloading ROMs, ISOs and emulators for retro consoles, EmuParadise, has deleted all of their game copy files per a new announcement. The founder of 18 year-old site has announced that the site will
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Forza Motorsport 7 is removing their version of loot boxes in a few months, and Forza Horizon 4 will drop paid tokens. Prior to these incoming changes, these games used a premium currency called CR, or Credits, that they could earn through playing the game, and then spend the CR on loot crates that held
A lot of PC gamers are excited about the first true Monster Hunter title on the platform with Monster Hunter World, but there seem to be some issues with the port that people are starting to pick up on. One thing that most PC gamers are very much expecting from any game is the combination
DRM maker Denuvo has launched an offensive against cracking groups in response to repeated cracks made for games in which its DRM is included. The latest casualty comes from Bulgaria, where an infamous member of cracking group REVOLT is based. Voksi, as many in the scene know him, has been hit with a legal case
Middle-earth: Shadow of War is removing all traces of microtransactions in today’s latest title update. The 1.18 feature update also adds a variety of new features and bug fixes to the RPG. The market section of the game will be replaced with a new Garrison menu that stores all the Orcs you’ve unlocked via gameplay
Blizzard has been putting in a huge amount of effort to combat the ever-present toxicity in their games. Overwatch has become infamous for the levels of hostile and belittling behavior permeated throughout the game community. They’ve done a commendable job so far, but their latest efforts seem to have been stunningly successful at combating unwanted
The German government is infamous for heavy censorship laws and crackdowns on certain business practices, and this week that trend continues with new legislation concerning pre-order offers on video games. he ruling came from the Higher Regional Court in Munich following a court case surrounding the pre-order sales of smartphones. This was brought to light
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