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BlizzCon 2019 With Hong Kong Affair Protests in the Background
BlizzCon 2019 is in full swing, but not everyone is celebrating together with Blizzard. A group of people demonstrating their support for the protests in Hong Kong and their dissatisfaction with the recent actions of the American publisher gathered at the entrance to the building where the event is taking place.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
November 2, 2019
Twitter Will Soon Block Paid Political Ads; Facebook Won't
Twitter will soon block the possibility of publishing paid political ads. According to the company, they enable manipulation of public opinion. Facebook has recently taken a diametrically different stance on the issue.
hardware & software
Bart Swiatek
October 31, 2019
Mitsubishi Resignes From Sponsoring Blizzard
Punishing a player for supporting protests in Hong Kong turned out to be a blow not only to the image but also to the financial position of Blizzard. Two days after the event, Mitsubishi Motors resigned from sponsoring the Hearthstone tournament.
video games
October 30, 2019
BlizzCon 2019 Will Take Place in Shadow of Hong Kong Affair Protest
Dayton Young, the organizer of the protest organized in connection with the ban placed on player Hearthstone Chung „blitzchung” Ng Wai, announced that the demonstration will take place as planned, despite the fact that Blizzard Entertainment has relaxed its position.
video games
Bart Swiatek
October 30, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's Controversial Depiction of Highway of Death
Despite the good reception from the critics, Modern Warfare has failed to win the gaming crowd, as shown by the low average rating on Metacritic. Mainly due to the creators falsifiying the true history of the so-called „highway of death”.
video games
Darius Matusiak
October 29, 2019
Valve Bans Trading and Reselling of CS:GO Keys
Valve has decided to ban the resale of keys used to open the boxes acquired while playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. All because of the fact that there were used in scams.
video games
Milosz Szubert
October 29, 2019
Fallout 76 - Fights Break Out Between Fallout 1st Subscribers and Other Players
Fallout 1st subscription divided Fallout 76 community. According to reports published on Reddit, there are clashes on servers, fought between subscription holders and people who have not decided to invest additional money in the title.
video games
Agnes Adamus
October 28, 2019
Censorship in The Outer Worlds - From Religion to Polish Vulgarisms
Fans of The Outer Worlds have discovered that the game has a collection of almost 500 forbidden words that you can't use when naming your character. Among them were both vulgarisms and words such as „gay” and „transexual”.
video games
Adrian Werner
October 28, 2019
Brutal Depiction of Russian Occupation Causes Problems for Modern Warfare?
There is no longer any doubt as to why the Russian branch of Sony has banned the sale of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in Russia. The story campaign shows the local army in the role of brutal torturers.
video games
Darius Matusiak
October 27, 2019
Epic Games Sue Person Responsible for Fortnite Leaks
Epic Games is suing a player who used Twitter to inform fans about what new season of Fortnite will bring. It turned out that he took part in the testing of the new content in September and, by revealing what he learned, broke the confidentiality agreement.
video games
Paul Wozniak
October 27, 2019
Ubisoft Sues MizuSoft - Cheat Makers for Rainbow Six Siege
Ubisoft has brough out the big guns against the owners of MizuSoft, a company that sells Rainbow Six Siege cheats. The publisher demands that they cease their activities and pay a large compensation.
video games
Christian Pieniazek
October 24, 2019
Fallout 76 - Paid Scrapbox Deletes Items of First Fallout 1st Buyers
Scrapbox is one of the elements of the paid subscription to Fallout 76, called Fallout 1st. Its first buyers report that it causes problems with disappearing objects; some of the players lost all their pieces of equipment.
video games
Christian Pieniazek
October 24, 2019
Community Reaction to Fallout 1st Subscription - Rage and Mockery First
The Fallout 1st subscription announced yesterday was met with a very negative reception by the players of Fallout 76. Most fans are angry and one of them even bought the Falloutfirst.com domain just to mock Bethesda's offer in very indiscriminate words.
video games
Adrian Werner
October 24, 2019
Oxford University: Obsessive Playing is Not Illness
Research by the Oxford Internet Institute has shown that there is currently no evidence that excessive gambling is a illness. Instead, they argue that it is merely a symptom of wider problems unrelated to video games.
video games
Christian Pieniazek
October 22, 2019
PewDiePie Banned in China for Xi Jinping Meme
The popular youtuber PewDiePie was banned in China for showing in his film the (in)famous meme comparing secretary Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh.
other
Julia Dragovic
October 22, 2019
Satisfactory Devs: Epic Games' Opponents are a „Loud Minority”
Nathalie Verweij from Coffee Stain spoke on Epic Games Store's policy. The designer, currently part of the team responsible for Satisfactory, said that the platform helps the devs, and the voices of criticism on the Internet are only a „loud minority”.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
October 21, 2019
US Congress Representatives Send a Letter to Activision Blizzard CEO
Several US congressmen and senators have drawn up an official letter warning Blizzard of the consequences of its recent actions, favouring China's political line and punishing those who support democratic protests in Hong Kong.
video games
Michael Kulakowski
October 19, 2019
The Devs of Control Withdraw DRM and Admit to Mistake
It turned out that yesterday's update to Control was flawed and had already been withdrawn. Thus the game works again without an internet connection and Steam Controller pad is compatible again.
video games
Paul Wozniak
October 19, 2019
Control Patch 1.04 Adds DRM and Removes Offline Mode - Fans are Pissed
Patch 1.04 brought a lot of unpleasant surprises to the PC version of Control. It added a DRM system that forces online mode through the Epic Games Store client. It also broke compatibility with Steam Controller.
video games
Adrian Werner
October 18, 2019
Hong Kong Protests: Blizzard Bans Further Hearthstone Players
After the AU Hearthstone team supported Hong Kong protests in an official stream stream, Blizzard decided to impose a six-month suspension penalty on the players.
video games
Julia Dragovic
October 17, 2019