Category: Industry News – Page 44
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Russian Law Goes Into Effect That Could Greatly Affect Russian Internet Censorship
The “Law on the Sovereign Internet” was signed by President Vladimir Putin back on May 1st, 2019, but it didn't go into effect until November 1st, 2019. Th
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Angry Birds Developer Announces Restructuring Following 48.1% Drop in Profits
Rovio Entertainment recently has taken to playing the investor story manipulation game. A fun exercise undertaken by companies where they twist the truth throug
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Blizzard Issues Another Bogus Apology
BlizzCon 2019 kicked off today by attempting to mitigate their human rights violation with an apology from J. Allen Brack, president of Blizzard Entertainment.
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Report Says EA To Release New Star Wars Game Before Fiscal Year 2022 Ends
Do you want more Star Wars? Well, if you do or if you don't, there seems to be more endless Star Wars coming to you in the near future. A new report cites anot
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Blizzard Loses Mitsubishi Sponsor After Sanctioning Hearthstone Champ For Supporting Hong Kong
Blizzard has lost a major advertiser according to recent reports, with Mitsubishi Motors Taiwan pulling out just ahead of BlizzCon following Blizzard’s actions
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Orders Zenimax to Refund Fallout 76
There’s a common joke now that each week brings new controversy for Fallout 76. A game that simply cannot or will not catch a break has provided an endless st
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Twitter Bans All Political Advertising
Twitter has completely banned all political ads from all political candidates and sitting incumbents. The news came via a tweet from Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, o
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Kotaku Reels As G/O Media Forces Politics Out Of Deadspin And Staff Resigns
G/O Media recently instituted a “no politics” policy at Deadspin, which resulted in some of the staff rebelling against their new owners and going ahead and
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Alberta Axes Video Game Tax Credit That Rewarded Diversity Hiring
Word broke a few days ago that Alberta, in Canada, was axing a 25% tax credit that covered salaries and bonuses for video game development companies. Other Prov
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Electronic Arts And DICE Are To Ship The Next Battlefield In Fiscal Year 2022
DICE and Electronic Arts will ship the next Battlefield game for PS5, PC and the new Xbox starting in 2022. Details on the game are slim.
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PlayStation Vue Shutting Down January 30th, 2020
Sony announced over on the PlayStation Blog on October 29th, 2019 that PlayStation Vue was shutting down on January 30th, 2020. SIE deputy president, John Koder
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YouTube Uses Hidden P-Scores To Rank, Demonetize, And Throttle Content
A rather lengthy video from YouTuber Optimus basically confirms everything most of everyone already knew about YouTube who refuse to go through life with blinde
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Gabe Newell And Andrew Wilson Comment On EA Coming Back To Steam
Battlefield V, The Sims 4, and Apex Legends are all heading to Steam, along with Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order. EA Access is also coming to Steam.