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Concluding trials that began last month, a French court has convicted three former Ubisoft executives based on accusations of systemic racism, bullying, and sexual misconduct that emerged in 2020 (via Courthouse News Service). Serge Hascoët, Tommy François, and Guillaume Patrux—all of whom had either resigned or been dismissed following the 2020 reports—have been found guilty…
No matter how great a game is, there’s always room for improvement. Launch day is no longer the finish line for games, it’s just the start of a looooong process of bug fixes, tweaks, and patches. After years of skimming patch notes to see if the devs have fixed that one little issue that’s been…
Matt Firor, president of ZeniMax Online Studios and game director of The Elder Scrolls Online, has announced that he is leaving the company. “After more than 18 years leading ZeniMax Online Studios, I’ll be stepping away later this month,” says a message attributed to Firor on the official TESO X account. “The studio and The…
With the humour of Rick and Morty and the darkness of, well, Rick and Morty, High on Life arrived on the FPS scene within just a few months of its announcement back in 2022. It was a hit, even if we didn’t we didn’t particularly care for the shooting or the blabbing. Three years later,…
The layoffs sweeping across Microsoft today have claimed the anticipated Perfect Dark reboot that was announced in 2020, which a Variety report says has now been cancelled. The Initiative, the studio making the game, has also been closed. “We have made the decision to stop development of Perfect Dark and Everwild as well as wind…
Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs has seemingly resulted in the cancellation of a new MMO that was in the works at Elder Scrolls Online developer ZeniMax Online Studios. The cancellation of the game, codenamed Blackbird, was first reported by Jason Schreier of Bloomberg, who said on Bluesky that the unannounced MMO—an entirely original project—had been…
Mecha Break launched in the wee hours this morning for those of us in the US, attracting more than 50,000 players in its first 10 minutes through the undeniable allure of cool robots. At time of writing, it’s ranked number 12 on Steam’s concurrent player charts. But not all that launch day attention has been…
Rare’s Everwild, an original game that had apparently been in development for around a decade, has been cancelled. The news was broken by VGC, before being corroborated by IGN sources. Team members were told at the same time as Rare’s parent company Microsoft announced another absolutely enormous wave of layoffs: despite it being in rude…
Rejoice, you giant bags of mostly water, for Amazon has deployed its one millionth bot (via TechCrunch). And by some estimates, that means it is on track to have more robots than human employees. Wait, Amazon has over a million employees? Actually, according to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon has a 1.56 million-strong throng of…
On June 30, US president Donald Trump was in a conference call “with faith leaders from all over the country” when it failed. He promptly took to Truth Social to blame AT&T. AT&T disagrees with his assessment. Following up — Our initial analysis indicates the disruption was caused by an issue with the conference call…