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Bungie’s attempt to dismiss the Destiny 2 copyright case using YouTube videos describing ‘vaulted’ elements of the game has been shut down by a judge who is not going to sit through a 10-hour lore explainer

In October of 2024 science-fiction writer Matthew Kelsey Martineau accused Bungie of lifting ideas for its first Destiny 2 campaign from a story published on his blog under the pseudonym Caspar Cole. While some of the ideas in question are fairly generic sci-fi elements, like consciousness transfer and the use of emergency failsafes to prevent…

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The young Gabe Newell thought he’d be a doctor until he ended up visiting his brother at Microsoft, where ‘Steve Ballmer got mad and said ‘If you’re going to be hanging out here, why don’t you do something useful?”

Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has given a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). It’s a wide-ranging chat that covers everything from Newell’s earliest jobs to his current daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving“), and it turns out that the young Newell loved programming, but had no thoughts…

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Steam’s store now lets you search for games by accessibility features like ‘narrated game menus’ and ‘adjustable difficulty’, and more than 5,000 games have already added their accessibility details to the database

Back in April, Valve announced the Steam store would start highlighting accessibility features on games’ store pages. And now, it has. Not only can you see them in the sidebar beneath the controller support section for selected games, you can also search the store by individual accessibility features. “This update comes after gathering valuable feedback…

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Bobby Kotick reckons the Warcraft film was ‘a terrible idea’ for Blizzard, and in the end ‘was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen’

Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard, made a recent appearance on the Girt podcast discussing his career in videogames and various elements of the publisher’s history. Kotick at one point discusses Blizzard, and specifically what he felt were some of the developer’s biggest issues with World of Warcraft: Making a movie, burning out…

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