Category: Industry News – Page 94
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Activision And Blizzard Entertainment CFOs Depart; Netflix Picks Up Fired CFO
The headline is kind of confusing but it's a slightly confusing story. So both the Activision Blizzard and the Blizzard Entertainment chief financial officers a
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Blizzard Bans Thousands Of South Korean Overwatch Accounts
Kicking off the new year, Blizzard decided to sanction 1,916 accounts for the South Korean version of Overwatch, listing the user names as a shame tactic for pl
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U.K. Army Ads Aim For Inclusivity By Recruiting Gamers, Snowflakes, And Millennials
Every kind of person you wouldn't want on the frontline defending your country, armed to the teeth in the latest in military technology, is exactly who the U.K.
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FCC Requires Games Developed After January 1st, 2019 To Include Accessibility Options For Disabled
[Update:] According to accessibility specialist, Ian Hamilton, he states that the way the FCC interprets "advanced communications" only applies to audio/visual/
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Fortnite Store Accepts Monero Cryptocurrency
It's understandable that people would be fearful of handing over their personal information to the Epic Games Store after they read over the terms of service, a
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Japan Makes Console Modding, Saved Data Modification Illegal
The Unfair Competition Prevention Law has been updated with a very vague amendment that makes it illegal to circumvent technical restriction or safeguard measur
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Slightly Mad Studios’ CEO Reportedly Wants To Make A New High-End Console In The Next 3 Years
In all honesty, I almost thought this "news" was a joke when it surfaced, and that Ian Bell — CEO of Slightly Mad Studios — wanted to join the fold of crazy
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Insomniac Games Dev Calls Female Artist “Transphobic” Because She Didn’t Like Lady’s Design From Devil May Cry 5
[Update 2/20/2019:] Two of the tweets were removed from the image compilation at the request of their friend, who claims that they were not part of the harassme
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The Last Night For Xbox, PC Needs Funds But AAA Dev Activists Are Trying To Stop It
The real life scenario involving the development of Tim Soret's The Last Night, a hybrid pixelated 3D cyberpunk game themed around a dystopia brought about by u
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Video Game Tracking Sites Reportedly Estimate Battlefield V’s Sales At 3.3 Million
There's no doubt that Electronic Arts and DICE's Battlefield V isn't doing well in the sales department, but there's no real numeral evidence or spreadsheet sho
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Death Metal Label Shuts Down After Paypal, Credit Processors Pull Out Due To DOJ, FDIC Initiative
A wide-sweeping initiative from the United States Department of Justice back in 2013 called Operation Choke Point was initially designed to curb payment process
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PayPal Perma-Bans The Hacker News Account
Another business has been permanently banned from using PayPal, this time it's an account associated with The Hacker News. On December 29th, 2018 the cybersecur
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Star Control: Origins Pulled From Steam Due To DMCA From Paul Reiche III, Fred Ford
Stardock Entertainment CEO, Brad Wardell, had to give fans some rather unfortunate news: Star Control: Origins has been pulled from Steam after a DMCA claim was