FPGA Developer Wizzo Leaves MARS Team

Hideo Kojima relatably says job-hunting made him ‘feel like I was a Showa-era detective trying to solve a murder,’ and he almost became a no-name pharma guy but for some kind words from a HR person

Job hunting is miserable. In fact, perhaps the only thing keeping the motor of modern capitalism chugging is that it’s marginally more miserable than working, and even games industry paragons have had to undergo the humiliating ritual of sifting through stacks of rejection letters from jobs they didn’t really want in the first place. Like…

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Painter’s Regret treasure map solution in Avowed

Emerald Stair’s treasure maps are oddly easier to pin down than those in Avowed’s starting region of Dawnshore, though its layered and dangerous environment more than makes up for it. The Painter’s Regret treasure map is no different, sending you to a calm, scenic spot outside Fior mes Iverno–right next to a band of Steel…

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Ubisoft Reportedly Cancels Star Wars Outlaws Sequel

Star Wars Outlaws releases on Switch 2 this September. Ubisoft’s CEO Yves Guillemot mentioned recently how he was hopeful the Switch 2 port of Star Wars Outlaws could potentially revive the game. While there’s always a chance, beyond this adventure, the future doesn’t sound very promising for Kay Vess and Nix. According to a new…

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Activision Blizzard settles historic sexual harassment suit for $54 million, sets aside another $47 million for impacted employees

First reported by the New York Times, a major chapter in Activision Blizzard’s reckoning over an alleged internal culture of misogyny and harassment has ended. The California Civil Rights Department (formerly the Department of Fair Employment and Housing) has settled with Activision Blizzard for $54 million, dropping its sexual harassment suit. In addition to the…

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‘I don’t particularly think the game will be very good’: The fans trying to get a never-released Chinese Borderlands MMO working are doing something so absurd that I love them for it

Back in 2014, an established Chinese game development studio called Shanda Interactive Entertainment started work on Borderlands Online, a Chinese-market-only MMO version of the two-games-deep Borderlands series. Gearbox was trying to get a jump on the growing Chinese PC gaming market, clearly, but the game didn’t happen: It was cancelled in 2015 when Shanda left…

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