Tag: Industry News – Page 143
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THQ Nordic Reviving Nickelodeon Titles Such As Avatar, Rugrats, SpongeBob
A bunch of licensed property games are going to be making a return soon thanks to THQ Nordic, a publisher who has been on an acquisition spree lately. The compa
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Atari Renames AtariBox To Atari VCS, Pre-Order Date Coming In April, 2018
Atari announced that prototypes of the new Atari VCS will be available at this year's Game Developers Conference, with demonstrations of the new system being pu
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Media Outlets Pressure Valve To Shutdown Anti-Feminist Steam Groups, Nationalist Groups
Various reports have surfaced indicating that Valve is “silently” cracking down on Steam groups that contain nationalist themes, Nazi imagery, and what the
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Ubisoft And Tencent Partner Up; Vivendi Abandons Ubisoft Takeover
For the last several years there have been constant ongoing stories about Vivendi looking to get back into the AAA publishing game by taking over the French out
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Gamers Call Out CityNews Toronto For Video Game Addiction Segment
CityNews Toronto's Nitish Bissonauth ran a two and a half minute piece about video game addiction and the recent World Health Organization's attempt to have vid
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Vice Media Replaces CEO With Nancy Dubuc, Following Era Of Sexual Harassment Culture
Vice Media, under the helm of CEO Shane smith, was supposed to usher in a feminist-friendly atmosphere; a culture themed around progressivism and Liberal-leanin
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Venezuelan Gamer Warns Americans About Dangers Of Banning Games
A Venezuelan gamer sent an e-mail to game developer Troy Leavitt from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Leavitt has a YouTube channel that he uses to info
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Black Panther Has Moderate Opening In China, But Many Chinese Call It Boring
Marvel's Black Panther has been over-promoted in an attempt to reach $1 billion at the box office internationally. The film had a slow start in China, with the
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U.K’s Digital ID Verification Mandate For 18+ Sites Pushed Back To Late 2018
U.K., Parliament announced last year that the Digital Economy Act was supposed to go into effect in April of 2018. The act would see all 18+ sites, all adult th
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Blizzard Fines Overwatch League Players For Posting Memes On Social Media, Using Emotes
Overwatch game director, Jeff Kaplan, had announced in one of the developer updates that the studio would be monitoring out-of-game behavior and cracking down o
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President Trump Acknowledges Correlation Between Video Game Violence And Real Violence
Following the White House summit on March 8th, 2018 where anti-gaming activists and some of the CEOs from the AAA game publishing studios met to discuss the rol
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Heather Antos Leaves Marvel Comics, Takes Gig At E-Sports Betting Site
Activist editor, Heather Antos – a member of the league of comic book pros who tried to take down YouTuber Diversity & Comics – is out of Marvel Comics.
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Republicans Would Prefer To Play Games With Betty White, Donald Trump; Democrats Prefer Snoop Dogg, Obama
There are some fairly significant divides in how Republicans and Democrats view video games. In a commissioned survey by Minkonet, consisting of 514 online part