Rainbow Six Siege X director says free currency gain has been ‘buffed’ after complaints: ‘The goal wasn’t to make it a harder grind for players’

Rainbow Six Siege X’s Renown currency is getting a boost following complaints about slower gains since the Siege X transition. Longtime players noticed the smaller Renown rewards soon after Siege X launched earlier this month, with payouts for lost matches taking a particularly huge hit. The squeeze on Renown, a non-premium currency used to unlock…

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Riot decides that allowing sports betting sponsorships in top-tier League of Legends and Valorant esports is a good idea

Riot Games believes that “building the future of esports means investing in a sustainable ecosystem, not just for today, but for the long run,” Riot’s president of publishing and esports John Needham said today, and that’s why the studio has decided to open the door to “betting sponsorship opportunities” for Tier 1 League of Legends…

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Dune director Denis Villeneuve will direct the next Bond film for Amazon MGM, despite already being attached to four other upcoming films, including Cleopatra

Frank Herbert’s Dune and Ian Fleming’s James Bond have been big news for PC gamers this month, thanks to the launch of Funcom’s survival MMO Dune: Awakening and the first trailer for IO Interactive’s James Bond game 007 First Light, both of which arrived in June. That gives me the thinnest of excuses to report…

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IO Interactive CEO estimates that Hitman 3 only cost a fifth of Hitman 2016’s budget because the studio was brave enough to stop making new bathrooms for every game: ‘I swore never to do more new toilets’

After buying its independence from Square Enix in 2017, Hitman developer IO Interactive has managed to survive in an industry of escalating budgets and general turmoil as the premier self-published purveyor of bald-headed assassins. In an interview with The Game Business, CEO Hakan Abrak explained that IO’s survival in the triple-A development tier is thanks…

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