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Nearly 200 Overwatch developers at Activision Blizzard have formed a new union under the Communications Workers of America called The Overwatch Gamemakers Guild—CWA, "a wall-to-wall unit that includes game developers across all disciplines, including design, production, engineering, art, sound, and quality assurance."The announcement of the new union followed confirmation from a neutral arbitrator that an "overwhelming majority" of employees had either signed a union authorization card or indicated support for...
It should speak to an already stacked year for games that we're just over a month away from Death Stranding 2, and yet it feels like this major PlayStation (timed) exclusive is flying under the radar. Maybe that has more to do with the divisive response to Kojima's first apocalyptic mailman simulator—Death Stranding was the sort of game you either kinda hated or totally clicked with (and gave a Game...
Good news for lovers and sand, spice, and/or worms: Dune: Awakening's beta weekend, which started today and will run until May 12, is now open to anyone who preordered the survival MMO.It's also mildly perplexing news because, y'know... why weren't players who preordered the $50 game on Steam automatically included in the beta weekend in the first place?"Everyone who has pre-ordered Dune: Awakening can now also access the Beta Weekend!"...
In a surprise appearance alongside UK indie band and Disco Elysium composers Sea Power, voice actor and musician Mikee W. Goodman donned the green jacket and flared trousers of Disco Elysium protagonist Harry Du Bois to belt out a rendition of "The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns." The melancholy song is the subject of Disco's memorable and much-loved karaoke sidequest.An audience video shared by Goodman on TikTok captured the beginning of...
Good news, Goggins-heads: It looks like work is proceeding apace on Fallout season 2. In an Instagram post uploaded yesterday, Ella Purnell uploaded a celebratory selfie with costar and fictional dad Kyle MacLachlan to commemorate the end of filming for Fallout's second season.If you're wondering, yes: Walton Goggins made his own announcement, by which I mean he tore his face off in slow motion on video. His ghoul face, I...
As Fortnite slowly grinds its way back to iOS devices in the US, Epic Games is offering players a deal: Make purchases in Fortnite—or Rocket League or Fall Guys—using Epic's payment system and you'll get back 20% of what you spend in Epic Rewards.That's a big boost over the usual 5% offering on Epic Games Store purchases, and it's simple math, as Epic demonstrated with this handy-dandy image: When, for...
Pope Leo XIV has managed to achieve a monumental first, being the first American Pope, but he's also arguably the first gamer Pope, with a love for Wordle and Words With Friends, so I'll let you decide which one you think is more impressive.In an interview with NBC, Pope Leo XIV's brother, John Prevost, discussed talking with his brother before he went into the Conclave, and what kind of activities...
A couple of weeks ago I reported the surprising news that Intel's elderly and bug-infested 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs are still selling in numbers. Now it turns out Intel is also still working at completely fixing all the problems those chips have had since launch. The results are a new microcode update which comes over six months since the last patch was released in September.To say this...
I had the pleasure of attending a Netflix event around the WoW documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin last year—one that was attended by folks from Muscular Dystrophy UK, a charity that helps fund research into the kinds of muscle-wasting conditions that impact not just Ibelin's late player, Mats Steen, but many disabled gamers the world over.Steen's journey, as told through the documentary, has already helped raise $2 million in...
If you are anything like me, there's a good chance that your TikTok is currently exploding with clips, tips, and guides in the wake of the launch of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. Perhaps my favourite little digital nugget to come out of my scrolling is one account dedicated to showing off new games through the retro screen of a CRT TV.User, CRT Dream, posted their "Oblivion on a...