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@ethangach

4 months

Wild how every media company just happened to be overstaffed by exactly 8-12%

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@maxwelltani

4 months

In an internal email this morning, Business Insider CEO Barbara Peng announced that the company is laying off 8% of its staff

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They were insane for this. Other games would kill for this level of unhinged swag.

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Adam Sessler, former host of the G4 show X-Play, appears to have deleted his Twitter account after posting this

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1 year

LAPD confirms to Kotaku that no arrest was ever made.

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The individual who interrupted our Game of the Year moment has been arrested.

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When you're at the Game Awards but you're getting sued by the FTC

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BREAKING: Video game voice actors and motion capture performers voted overwhelming to authorize a strike. They resume bargaining with Activision, EA, Warner Bros et al tomorrow, but could call a strike at any time now if negotiations don't progress.

SAG-AFTRA NEWS

@sagaftranews

8 months

SAG-AFTRA Members Approve Video Game Strike Authorization Vote With 98.32% Yes Vote

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2 months

Incredible how many good cartoons there used to be with collaborators creatively pushing the boundaries of whatever dumb license they were given, I guess because toy companies could afford to piss away tons of money on anything that would marginally increase sales

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@ethangach

3 months

EA's laying off 670 employees. At the cost of $100,000 per person per year it could have kept each one on for five more years at the cost of last quarter's $325 million stock buyback.

Wario64

@Wario64

3 months

EA laying off around 670 employees. "We are also sunsetting games and moving away from development of future licensed IP that we do not believe will be successful in our changing industry. This greater focus allows us to drive creativity, accelerate innovation, and double down…

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7 months

BREAKING: Epic Games lays off roughly 50% of Bandcamp amidst its sale to Songtradr. The Fortnite maker purchased the music platform just last year but is now spinning it off amid massive cost cutting.

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@bandcampunited

7 months

We are ever humbled and thankful for your support. Solidarity forever ✊

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4 years

Kotaku reached out to a bunch of gaming companies who jumped on the Black Lives Matter hashtag to offer support for specifics about what they're doing publicly and internally. Nearly all of them declined to comment.

Game Companies Say They’re Supporting Black Lives Matter, But Few Are Offering Specifics

As protests over the killing of George Floyd by police spread throughout the country last weekend, some of the gaming industry’s biggest companies put out statements in support of the Black Lives...

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Sega of America workers just secured the first collective bargaining agreement of any major video game company in the U.S. The contract includes raises, just cause protections, and several other concessions that can help push working conditions forward at other shops as well

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2 years

NEW: Sources tell Kotaku a Nintendo of America contractor was fired shortly after asking a question about unions in a meeting. Current and former employees speak up about working conditions and an exploitative contractor system. From @six6jiang and I:

The Nintendo of America Contractors Who Feel Like Second Class Workers

'Associates' at the famed Japanese publisher complain about bad pay and an inability to voice dissent

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@ethangach

7 months

Bandcamp employees say they've been locked out of critical systems and unable to do their jobs since Epic announced it was selling. This will hurt Bandcamp Fridays where 100% of the profits go to artists. They're bargaining over layoffs and severance. It's an epic mess.

Bandcamp United

@bandcampunited

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We are so grateful to have a union.

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@ethangach

5 years

just realized Brooklyn 99 is just Teen Titans for adults

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2 months

We don't talk enough about Zelda: TOTK's excellent life bar twist

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5 months

Incredible how quickly Musk transformed Twitter from a very online public square to a nearly abandoned mall where the anchor stores have all gone out of business and the Auntie Anne's have all be replaced by smartphone cover kiosks and aggressive mid-level marketing schemes

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2 months

Yellow paint is lazy, ugly and completely shatters any sense of immersion. And without it I wasted 5 minutes running around in circles:

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6 months

This is incredibly brazen stuff. Making up fake AI authors. Claiming they are real. Then deleting them when asked and offering no formal comment, editorial note, or other response. And not even a random SEO mill but under the Sports Illustrated name.

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@ethangach

1 year

My boss explaining on a Zoom from their private jet why grandma needs to go into assisted living so I can complete my Excel files from the office

Jason Koebler

@jason_koebler

1 year

One of the wildest all-hands meetings I have ever seen. Clearview CEO celebrates a worker who said they sold their family dog after he said they needed to return to office, discusses whether it is 'fair' for a mother to keep a full time job

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Seven of the 50 BioWare employees who were laid off in August are sueing the Dragon Age maker for better severance. "We are struggling to understand why BioWare is shortchanging us in this challenging time."

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1 year

BBREAKING: Gaming gets its first union at Microsoft. 300 QA devs at Zenimax will have their union voluntarily recognized after the tech giant laid out its principles of labor organizing neutrality earlier this year.

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1 year

News of FFXVI being a PS5 exclusive has reached the senate

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2 months

Sources: Gearbox is close to a sale. Embracer will unload the Borderlands maker in a deal to close next month. It comes after a year of uncertainty for devs at the studio amid budget cuts, shelved projects and shakeups on the next Borderlands games

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@ethangach

7 months

BioWare tried to guilt trip laid off devs into not fighting for full severance, according to the lawyer representing the seven who are currently suing. It was implied that the costs could further burden Dragon Age Dreadwolf's development.

Ex-Dragon Age Devs Sue BioWare Over Denying Full Severance

The former employees say EA refuses to pay them what they’re owed

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@ethangach

5 months

This month marks the 10-year anniversary of Bethesda's blacklist of Kotaku, ostensibly over reporting that Fallout 4 would take place in Boston. Since 2013, Bethesda hasn't sent review codes, press releases, or even acknowledged requests for comment. (1/3) 🧵

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NEW: 300 QA across Bethesda/Zenimax studios voted "overwhelmingly" to unionize and Microsoft will voluntarily recognize the group, creating the biggest bargaining unit yet in the game's industry

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@ethangach

9 months

Embracer is shutting down @DSVolition . The 30-year old studio most recently put out the Saints Row reboot which is the PS Plus game for September. The company used the Starfield embargo to try and bury the news.

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@ethangach

5 months

Looks like a trailer Ubisoft would show for a Rainbow Six game before immediately saying it wasn't political.

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@DiscussingFilm

5 months

The first trailer for Alex Garland’s ‘CIVIL WAR’, starring Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny and Jesse Plemons. In theaters on April 26.

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@ethangach

2 months

Funko popification of a once great sci-fi world

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@GameOverGreggy

2 months

To whomever at Sony made this deal to get Ghostbusters into Destiny: Don't stop. I don't even play this game anymore, but I bought this stuff. I will do this for all games you crossover with. Have you heard of @helldivers2 ?

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@ethangach

4 years

Bleak out here

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2 years

Source just leaked March 2023's release calendar: God of War Ragnarök - 3/10 Starfield - 3/10 Breath of the Wild 2 - 3/10

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2 years

The Pokémon Company did almost nothing to promote today's livestream which ended up containing huge news. Some thought it might have even been cancelled or Japan-only. A PR spokesperson now confirms it didn't hype the event out of respect for the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

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@ethangach

5 months

It looks like The Game Awards deleted an old tweet from last year's show that referenced the war in Ukraine (spotted by @Taleboules ). It's unclear when the post was removed. 2023's show was silent on the crisis in Gaza despite calls for a statement by Future Class members.

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@ethangach

1 year

However, it does appear he may have been transported to a police station for questioning. Unclear if by LAPD hired for the event, or a separate patrol vehicle. The LAPD would only say there was "one radio call that was created" for the purposes of transporting him.

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@ethangach

2 years

Ubisoft VP of innovation a "bit frustrated" that players just don't get what's so great about reselling game NFTs

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@ethangach

5 months

SAG-AFTRA video game performers will be passing out leaflets about their negotiations with the big game companies at The Game Awards tomorrow

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2 years

It took just two months to go from Phil Spencer being "disturbed and deeply troubled" by a report about Bobby Kotick's Activision Blizzard to Microsoft's CEO praising Kotick's leadership and "commitment to real change."

Head Of Microsoft Says He’s ‘Grateful’ For Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick's 'Commitment to...

Microsoft won't confirm whether it will keep the Activision Blizzard CEO once the nearly $70 billion deal goes through

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After a terrible 2022, Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot tells staff the next year is crucial, telling them in an email that "the ball is in your court" to deliver ontime/onbudget. "Today more than ever, I need your full energy and commitment to ensure we get back on the path to success"

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GameSpot and Giant Bomb hit by layoffs shortly after being acquired by Fandom. Fandom is owned by a private equity fund TPG whose CEO Jon Winkelried earned over $80 million last year.

Layoffs Hit GameSpot, Giant Bomb Just Months After Fandom Buys Them

The company that owns Wookiepedia acquired GameSpot, Giant Bomb, Metacritic and more last fall

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6 months

The game industry was not shy last year about condemning Russian's invasion of Ukraine but has been relatively silent about even acknowledging the mounting Palestinian death toll in Gaza, and in the case of the Golden Joysticks forbid mention of it.

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7 months

NEW: Naughty Dog is laying off contract developers. Sources tell Kotaku over 25 people have been cut early. No severance and they're being asked to keep it quiet.

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@ethangach

9 months

One of the people laid off today at BioWare has been a writer on the Dragon Age games since Origins. Just incredibly discouraging news out of that studio, and from a publisher that can afford not to treat people like excel spreadsheet formulas.

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2 years

Nibel is an institution and I'll miss him around these parts. He's exactly the type of account other social media platforms would normally try to compensate for the value they bring. Weirdly, Twitter's plan is to start charging them!

Nibel, a source for breaking gaming news across the industry, announces he's done

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2 years

Sony paid $3.5 million to make ARK: Survival Evolved a March PS Plus game. Microsoft paid $2.5 million to keep it on Game Pass for the first half of this year, and $2.3 million to bring ARK 2 to the service when it launches. Via September SEC filing.

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1 year

While some Blizzard devs are fuming about the company's mandatory return to office, they're also seeing studios like Bungie and Respawn gloat about the incredible games they've launched while fostering remote work.

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5 months

"If Bungie falls short of its revenue goals by too great an amount, Sony is allowed to dissolve the existing board and take full control of the company."

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2 years

Current and former devs at State of Decay 3 studio Undead say the transition to Xbox first-party these last few years was a messy and painful one due to sexism and lack of direction. Some say it's finally turned a corner, but for others it's too late.

Allegations Of Sexism, Bullying, And Burnout: Inside The Microsoft Studio Behind State Of Decay 3

Staff say Undead Labs' transition to Xbox studio was hampered by toxic workplace conditions and lack of direction

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@ethangach

2 months

People will be like "games media is dead/YouTube is the future" and then 90% of YouTube is just a quote tweet turned into a 15 minute video

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@ethangach

2 years

BREAKING: 15-20 @G4TV staff have been laid off so far today, and more could follow, two sources confirm to Kotaku. One says NBCUniversal HR is going person by person. The cuts are coming as a surprise to staff who thought there was more financial runway.

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@ethangach

2 years

Sounds like layoffs at G4. Not sure how widespread but at least three confirmed. Heart goes out to every affected. The channel has been back for less than a year and last I knew was managed by Comcast CEO's son. My DMs are open if anyone wants to share their story.

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2 years

Baker has always responded so well to reasonable criticism in the past

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3 months

Update: entire Helldivers Discord (over 120,000 members) is on lockdown after every channel was overrun with Fs in the chat.

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@ethangach

3 months

Helldivers Discord mod pinged the entire server to tell people that repeatedly spamming "F" in the chat would get them banned. Now everyone is spamming "F" in the chat. "Now this is managed democracy"

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2 years

If I worked in PR I would simply not call it the "Predator Gaming After Party"

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7 months

It changed colors during the hearing

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gamer lawyer brought the 2070ti asus laptop with the blue underglow to the court hearing

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3 years

Survey says: correct. I've verified this and the abusive gamergate scold took a $32,500 "handout" from the PPP small business program because everything any of these assholes has ever said has been a load of shit.

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Records appear to show this person's company got a federal PPP pandemic loan for $32,500 for just one employee. Interesting.

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2 years

NYT finally cracked the case

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4 years

@mattyglesias I think it would be psychologically healthier for centrist media people who prefer neoliberalism to the prospect of a socialist state to actually say so, rather than doing months of weird concern-trolling about what can get passed.

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@ethangach

2 years

Nearly an hour long earnings call with Ubisoft. Not a single mention of NFTs.

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@ethangach

2 years

If only there was someone, an entire classes of people, in fact, whose entire job was to get to the bottom of what really happened. What if some of them had subpoena power? What if others had national cable networks?

Brian Stelter

@brianstelter

2 years

The confusion about the Ulvade attack timeline will make it even harder to find any common ground. Some people will stick with the original "facts," others will believe the new info, others will tune it out, others will disbelieve it all

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@ethangach

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Cant overstate how much everything online sucks. All the apps. All the platforms. All the web pages. All the products. Right now Im paying Adobe $22 a month to rent Photoshop which is stuck in a license login loop that probably requires wasting hours chatting with a bot to fix.

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1 month

Ash has been giving these people the patience and good faith generosity of a saint and they can't deal because their entire edifice of outrage is built on tilting at windmills and feigning victimhood and the second someone tries to have a normal conversation with them they flee

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@adashtra

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i do not begrudge anyone their blocks on here, but this is interesting. i didn't make for an interesting/entertaining target to antagonize because I simply asked him 'hey can we talk about this like adults'. I didn't play his game and its no fun when you're playing by yourself.

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@ethangach

2 years

My colleagues and I at @Kotaku and across our sister sites are ON STRIKE STARTING TODAY following management's refusals to budge on a number of issues including bad pay and anti-trans health benefits

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@gmgunion

2 years

As of March 1, GMG Union is officially on strike. We're asking people not to click on—or contribute content to— @Gizmodo , @Jalopnik , @Jezebel , @Kotaku , @Lifehacker , and @TheRoot . Learn more about our fight for a fair contract with @GOMediaInc :

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“I don’t think our readers care, to be totally honest,” VentureBeat’s editorial director said. “Tweet that out, if you want.”

Rachel Metz

@rachelmetz

1 year

This week I learned ⁦ @VentureBeat ⁩ is using AI to help write and edit articles, and has decided not to disclose this on stories to readers. It bothers me — not just bc I’m a journalist, but bc I’m a reader, too. Curious how others feel about this.

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The entire editorial staff at French gaming site Gamekult is resigning and blames it on the recent sale to Reworld Media, accused of outsourcing work for cheap. "More than ever you must continue to fight for the independence of the press, both specialized and general."

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Votre attention s'il vous plaît, La rédaction de Gamekult quitte Gamekult.

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It's preview day for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, a huge game I would love for Kotaku to be able to inform its millions of readers about first-hand. Unfortunately Nintendo still has it blacklisted from advanced coverage, a move I would argue is both unprofessional and coercive.

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2 years

See what could have been? RIP #PSVITA

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Paging all game developers

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

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BREAKING: The FTC just banned non-compete agreements. The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule making it illegal for bosses to make workers sign noncompetes in any scenario, and voiding nearly all existing noncompetes. This is a game changer for American workers.

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Very normal gamers who will just happen to send you death threats because they've convinced themselves they're on the front lines of a civilizational struggle to save Master Chief from getting sent to the woke re-education camp

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@turmoilntinfoil

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@alyssa_merc Gamers don't forgive.

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NEW: Ubisoft CEO apologizes for telling devs "the ball is in your court" after announcing new cuts and cancellations last week. Guillemot and his team faced difficult questions in a companywide Q&A about chasing trends, pay raises, and calls for a strike

Ubisoft Devs Grill Boss On Shifting Blame And Chasing Trends

CEO Yves Guillemot apologized for clumsy wording in a recent email meant to rally developers

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@ethangach

6 months

More BioWare news: laid off devs suing for severance say the company is going to court instead of negotiating a settlement and call the process anything but "empathetic, respectful." They call N7 day a reminder of "the importance of loyalty to your crew"

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2 years

Activision union vote passes 19-3. Raven Software QA becomes first union at a major gaming company in the country

Gaming Gets Its First Union At A Major U.S. Studio

QA at Call of Duty’s Raven Software voted to unionize today

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1 year

Nintendo nuked the Heroes of Hyrule DidYouKnowGaming documentary from YouTube. It as a video about a game Nintendo chose not to make nearly 20 years ago. That didn't stop it from launching its first copyright takedown in the channel's history.

Nintendo Nukes Documentary On Canceled Zelda Tactics Game From YouTube

DidYouKnowGaming’s original reporting has been removed from YouTube

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1 year

NEW: Managing director is out at the Ubisoft studio behind Beyond Good and Evil 2 as it faces a labor inspection for developer burnout. The beleaguered project is once again undergoing changes, including new game and creative directors

Beyond Good And Evil 2 Studio Head No Longer At Ubisoft

Ubisoft Montpellier loses its managing director as BG&E2 continues to struggle

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1 year

The first deadly swatting took place 5 years ago over a $1.50 Call of Duty bet. The policeman who shot the unarmed man was later promoted, despite telling superiors he wanted the family to "get over it." The family just won a $5 million settlement

Deadly Call Of Duty Police Killing Settles For $5 Million Years Later

A Call of Duty: WWII bet spiraled into police killing an unarmed man

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Xbox is finally having a huge cultural moment thanks to the Amazon adaptation of the Bethesda reboot of an Interplay franchise

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@ethangach

1 year

Game reviews are not sustainable and hurt freelancers the most who have to crunch to hit absurd embargoes while getting paid peanuts relative to the time required (at least for most AAA games).

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@patrickklepek

1 year

I wrote more about the experience of playing and reviewing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor more than my nuanced take on the game itself. Reviewing games that are coming in this hot leaves criticism in a very weird place.

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2 years

Public corruption in 4K at 60fps

Nancy Pelosi's husband buys millions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia stock ahead of vote on chip-manu...

Paul Pelosi bought as much $5 million worth of stock in software and computer chip company Nvidia in June.

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1 year

Justin Roiland's Squanch Games was sued back in 2018 for sexual harassment, discrimination, and wrongful termination. The studio denied the allegations but the lawsuit was later settled.

Justin Roiland’s High On Life Studio Was Previously Sued For Sexual Harassment

Squanch Games was sued for sexual harassment back in 2018 and eventually settled

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8 months

Epic began selling the "share the wealth" emote in Fornite yesterday after announcing 860 people were getting laid off. A spokesperson said it was pre-scheduled and taken down within an hour after it realized its mistake.

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8 months

Phil Spencer lays out how third party publishers failed to adapt to digital storefronts and now subscription services, and are now trying to leverage giant risky investments in $200-$300 mil blockbusters to survive.

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@ethangach

2 months

Eat shit my guy

Its Alexx The Goon Gang Leader

@OhNoItsAlexx

2 months

Game Journalist Kotaku Should’ve kept this one in the drafts my guy

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@ethangach

4 months

Sucks that there's only like three male voice actors in gaming.

Andy Robinson

@Andy_VGC

4 months

There's your confirmation: @TroyBakerVA is Indy

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@ethangach

2 years

Truly a discourse breaker: *Bayonetta voice replaced *Says offered insultingly low pay *Calls for boycott over the lowballing *Beloved voice actress replacing her gets harassed *Reporting says original voice actress lied *Lowballed by general standards but not industry rates

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5 months

I was hired long after the ban was put in place. No one who worked at the site back then even remains at Kotaku today. Still, the blacklist has survived two new EICs and an acquisition by Microsoft, who continued to abide by the ban even during the launch of Starfield. (2/3)

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Activision is making its union QA literally pay for their seats at the contract bargaining table. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 just made $800 million last weekend.

Game Workers Alliance 💙#WeAreGWA

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1 year

Asked who the Snake Eater remake "Development Team" is, a spokesperson says it's a combination of Virtuos and "Konami's development team."

METAL GEAR OFFICIAL

@Metalgear

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Message From Development Team #MetalGearSolid #MG35th

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8 months

Epic used Fortnite money to go on an mini-Embracer binge with free-to-play, snatching up Psyonix and Mediatonic with delusions of metaverse granduer. Hard to watch good people pay the price for executive-level miscalculations.

Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce

The company behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine is also reported to be selling off Bandcamp

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2 years

Jim Ryan keeping up PlayStation's history of trying to one-up big Microsoft announcements. Xbox: Starfield delayed PlayStation: have you tried thinking about cats instead of the erasure of reproductive rights

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The Golden Joystick Awards did not respond to requests for comment about banning political comments during the ceremony, and The Game Awards did not respond to requests for comment about whether they would also be banned at its 2023 event next month.

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NEW: Unionized Sega workers accuse the Sonic publisher of threatening to lay off 40% of their unit--all temporary workers and roughly 80 people total. The union accuses Sega of bad faith bargaining and direct dealing and is filing a unfair labor practice against the company.

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@ethangach

5 months

The ban didn't stop Kotaku's coverage of Bethesda or its games. I can't think of a site who covered Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76's post-launch legacies more voraciously. Anyway, I here Pete Hines retired this year. Maybe 2024 will be the year Bethesda retires the blacklist.

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@ethangach

2 months

Happy 10 year anniversary of reactionary gamers manufacturing conspiracies

Alyssa Mercante

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I spoke to the team at Sweet Baby and infiltrated the Discord group rallying against them to try and paint a clearer picture of WTF is going on.

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GameStop employees decided to walkout of a Nebraska store and never return. They are tired of: *Hassling customers over warranties and subscriptions *Being pushed to do more with less for bad pay *A district manager accused of being verbally abusive

Overworked GameStop Employees Walk Out, Tell Gamers To Shop Elsewhere

GameStop faces employee walkouts even as meme stock soars

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@ethangach

4 years

"A place where all IP can live together" says the guy from the company in several legal battles over stealing other people's dances

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@ethangach

9 months

When the CEO says "we're all in this together"

UltimaShadow (2005)

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YOSHI IS KILLING ME, HE DOESN'T WANNA BE HERE

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Hacked files released online as part of a malicious ransomware attack offer a glimpse at the complex challenges Insomniac faces juggling teams, projects, and budgets to deliver top-tier games while contending with potential cost-cutting measures from Sony

What Hacked Files Tell Us About The Studio Behind Spider-Man 2

Internal documents show how a big PlayStation studio plans its future

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@ethangach

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The dunks will be on E3, which is deserved! But the show failed cause giant game companies decided it was stupid and not worth their time or money to demo products and answer questions when they could just stream commercials directly to your phone with a preorder button attached

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