Fighting game developer previously accused of sexual harassment confirmed to be working on Avatar Legends a week before release

In 2023, I reported that the development team of then-upcoming fighting game Diesel Legacy included Mike Zaimont, previously a developer on Skullgirls and Indivisible who had been accused of sexual misconduct at Lab Zero, the indie studio behind those games. Diesel Legacy released to little fanfare more than a year later, but the next fighting…

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Steve Buscemi joins the Far Cry TV series cast and now we’re all wondering: will he be a weird, helpful NPC, or a weirdly charismatic villain?

Have you ever thought to yourself, I bet Steve Buscemi would make a good Far Cry villain? I think he would. He’s charismatic, superficially good-natured, kind of odd looking, extremely high-strung, and prone to sudden, sometimes random outbursts of extreme violence. And I’m not the only one who thinks so—the people making the live-action Far…

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Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen’s new region and dungeons sound great, but I’m more excited to finally high-five my Pawn on command

Dragon’s Dogma 2’s upcoming Dark Arisen expansion is shaping up to be a proper feast for those of us who’ve been waiting for an excuse to subject ourselves to more doomed oxcart rides. The last 24 hours have brought a number of fresh interviews with the developers of the DD2 expansion, and from the sounds…

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Hollywood still has time to avoid the gaming industry’s disastrous consolidation endgame

21st Century Fox, Columbia, Tristar, Pixar, MGM, Turner, New Line, Lucasfilm, DreamWorks, Miramax, RKO—these were all, at some point, movie studios or production companies that weren’t owned by a multibillion dollar empire like Disney, Sony, NBC Universal or Amazon. After decades of mergers, acquisitions, and tech companies horning their way into the TV and movie…

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