World of Warcraft’s most recent patch soars with fun additions that last just long enough

World of Warcraft‘s latest patch has delivered on its promise of a compact, polished piece of mid-expansion gameplay—and has done a good job of keeping players entertained until new versions of timewalking rewards and Plunderstorm’s battle royale sail in as early as Tuesday. Released in mid-December, Content Update 11.0.7 delivers a solid, iterative improvement on…

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Lords of the Fallen studio embraces the DEI bugbear, says it will not include ‘any social or political agendas’ in its games

Lords of the Fallen studio CI Games says it will not integrate “any social or political agendas” into its games because doing so, it claims, incurs a “high risk” of commercial failure. The statement was made during a recent investors chat (via Strefa Inwestorów), during which CI Games was asked about its “stance on DEI…

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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are ‘pretending to be Republicans’ to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately ‘rip off consumers and crush competitors’

Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had some biting words on Friday for tech executives who are fawning over US president-elect Donald Trump, accusing them of playing nice to push anti-competitive policy to the detriment of the rest of us. “After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to…

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Square Enix launches new anti-harassment policy to protect its employees and partners from abusive fans

Square Enix has announced a new “group customer harassment policy” aimed at protecting its employees and partners from harmful behavior and actions taken by its followers and fans. “Square Enix believes that the feedback, comments and requests received from our customers are essential to the advancement of our group’s products and services,” the new policy…

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