Nintendo Adds Multiple New Games To Its Switch Voucher Program (North America)

‘Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT’ says the developer of an Office alternative as their account is blocked, later filing an appeal ‘which they didn’t care to answer’

Despite building an alternative to Microsoft Office, LibreOffice developer Mike Kaganski still has to deal with Microsoft’s customer support since having his account locked. This led to a familiar tale of fighting a losing battle against customer support services that don’t quite understand what you’re saying. In a blog cheekily titled “Microsoft, anybody home?” (via…

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‘Roblox must do more to protect kids from sick and twisted freaks,’ Texas attorney general says as he sues Roblox ‘for putting pixel pedophiles and profits’ ahead of safety

The “let’s sue Roblox” bandwagon has grown a little bit bigger as Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has announced that he’s filed suit against the company “for flagrantly ignoring state and federal online safety laws while deceiving parents about the dangers of its platform.” Roblox has denied the claim, saying the Texas lawsuit is “based…

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Arrowhead’s CEO got a call from PlayStation when he said players could save their money and wait to buy Helldivers 2 until the servers were fixed: They ‘asked me what the f*** I’m smoking’

Helldivers 2 certainly had no trouble selling, torpedoing the series into one of the biggest co-op sensations around and an overnight hit for PlayStation as its fastest-selling game ever. Arrowhead had never made a game so monumental before, and any who were there for its anarchic first year remember the growing pains it felt along…

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