Unions call for strikes at Ubisoft studios in France to protest wages: ‘We cannot tolerate being treated as expendable to mitigate their bad decisions’

After final negotiations “hit a wall,” labor unions in France are calling for a one-day strike by Ubisoft employees in the country over what they say are lowball wage increase offers aimed at offsetting management failures.  Le Syndicat des Travailleurs et Travailleuses du Jeu Vidéo (Videogame Workers Union) said in a message posted on February…

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World of Warcraft’s subscription is about to get almost 3,000% more expensive in Argentina—and it’ll ‘only get worse with inflation’

Last month, Argentinian World of Warcraft players found a nasty surprise in their inbox—an email from Blizzard announcing two separate price hikes to their World of Warcraft subscriptions, making the game prohibitively expensive. Firstly, though, some context is in order.  Last November, fellow PC Gamer writer Joshua Wolens covered the explosive increase of Steam prices…

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Steelseries Alias Pro review

To some, audio quality matters little, beyond something that isn’t objectively awful to listen to. If all you want is something that sounds good enough to pass without comment in your next Discord chat or remote meeting, there are plenty of microphones that’ll do the job just fine. When you’re looking to take things to…

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EA reportedly invested $125 million making a new singleplayer IP with zero microtransactions, no grind, a shorter running time, and guess what: ‘No one bought it’

A new report by IGN into the wider topic of industry layoffs, which are worse than they’ve ever been, contains a fascinating insight about one of last year’s less-successful AAA titles. Immortals of Aveum was the debut title from Ascendant Studios, released on Steam and consoles in August 2022, came out to mixed reviews and…

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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s forgettable enemies, empty missions, and incongruous gun obsession prove why superheroes and live service do not mix

This time last year, we got our first proper in-depth look at Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and I was pretty concerned. Now that I’ve gotten to play the final release for myself, my fears have unfortunately been confirmed. It’s a game that proves now what I said then: superheroes and live service is…

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How to get Medals in Helldivers 2

Grabbing as many Medals as you can in Helldivers 2 is a key aspect of progression, as you spend them in the Warbond store to unlock new weapons, armour sets, and Boosters to help tackle higher difficulties. If you also have the premium Warbond, you might have noticed that it requires an astronomical sum in…

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Logitech Wave Keys review

Hands up if you remember PCs from the late 1990s or early 2000s? They all had a very distinctive feel to them, as chassis design was generally derivative, and everything computer-related had to be curved in some way. Logitech, it would seems, has decided that the time is ripe to revisit this era and produced…

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The majority of non-LGBTQ+ gamers don’t care if a main character is trans, according to GLAAD Gaming’s debut report

To accompany the official launch of GLAAD Gaming, the organisation has released its first report on the state of LGBTQ+ gamers in the industry—and it could banish some common assumptions made by the public at-large. Founded in 1985 during the AIDS epidemic, GLAAD targeted defamatory coverage and was able to shift the editorial policy of…

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