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Artist Accuses CD Projekt RED of Violating Copyrights in The Witcher 3
A Croatian musician claims CD Project RED infringed on his copyrights by including a certain song in the soundtrack to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Neither CDPR, nor the band Percival Schuttenbach offered a clarification so far.
video games
Bart Swiatek
April 9, 2019
The Digital Distribution Platform War Continues
Since its debut, the Epic Games Store has been making a lot of waves. Buying exclusive titles has caused many releases to miss Steam. A dispute arose between supporters and opponents of this practice, fueled by Richard Geldreich, a former Valve employee,
video games
Agnes Adamus
April 9, 2019
Gearbox CEO Responds to Review Bombing of Borderlands on Steam
Randy Pitchford, the CEO of Gearbox Software, has made it clear what he thinks about fans who started review bombing previous installments of the series on Steam in response to Borderlands 3' launch on Epic Games Store.
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Michael Kulakowski
April 7, 2019
Prince Harry Says Fortnite Should be Banned
Prince Harry provoked the ire of gamers by stating that Fortnite is created to addict and such games should be banned.
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Adrian Werner
April 6, 2019
Epic Games Will Keep Acquiring Exclusives Despite Steam Announcements
Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, admitted that no previous developer announcements about e.g. Steam will prevent his company from acquiring new exclusive titles. Sweeney's words contradict the earlier assurances that the Metro Exodus affair was the las
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Konrad Serafinski
April 4, 2019
Epic Games Representatives Keep Defending Exclusive Titles
David Stelzer and Sergey Galyonkin took part in a Q&A session organized by GamesIndustry.biz during PAX East 2019 and answered some questions related to Epic Games Store. As you may expect, the main topic was exclusive titles.
video games
March 29, 2019
Minecraft Update Takes it Down a Notch
One of the latest updates for Minecraft has removed most mentions of its creator - o Markus „Notch” Persson. It fact is most likely related to the controversial views of the Swedish billionaire.
video games
March 28, 2019
Facebook Stored Unencrypted User Passwords
Passwords of hundreds of millions of Facebook users were stored on company servers in unencrypted form since at least seven years, reports KrebsOnSecurity.
hardware & software
March 22, 2019
Epic Does Not Want Another Metro Exodus Controversy
Epic Games addressed the controversies surrounding the company's activities in the last weeks.
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Jacob Blazewicz
March 22, 2019
Valve Purges Steam of Homages to Christchurch Terrorist
Kotaku reports that Steam has been purged of over a hundred various material that approved of the Christchurch terrorist. Valve does not comment on the situation, but consequently removes all reported cases of rule abuse.
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Conrad Hazi
March 18, 2019
AMD CPUs Non-susceptible to Spoiler Exploit
AMD informed that its CPUs are resistant to the recently-discovered dangerous exploit known as Spoiler, which makes it possible to steal sensitive data from the CPU's cache.
hardware & software
Bart Swiatek
March 18, 2019
Red Dead Redemption 2 Patch May Downgrade Visuals
The players are sounding the alarm: it seems like on the occasion of the latest 1.06 patch for Red Dead Redemption 2 the developers from Rockstar have somewhat downgraded the visual, abandoning the ambient occlusion effects.
video games
Jakub Mirowski
March 17, 2019
Tim Sweeney Defends Epic Store Exclusives
Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, has taken the floor on Reddit and commented that securing exclusive titles for the Epic Games Store platform is not an anti-consumer, but rather a "procompetitive" action.
video games
Jakub Mirowski
March 17, 2019
Valve Will Examine Copying of Steam Data by Epic Games Store
Valve has answered the controversies related to Epic Games Store client, which allegedly downloads sensitive user data related to their Steam account.
video games
Michael Kulakowski
March 17, 2019
Steam Promises to Eliminate Review Bombing
Valve announced that it will battle the occasional waves of negative reviews on Steam, so-called review bombing, issued for reasons completely unrelated to the game and aimed only at lowering the score of a specific title.
video games
Michael Kulakowski
March 16, 2019
Epic Games Denies Accusations of Using Steam Data
Another day, another Epic Games Store controversy. The online community believes that the platform downloads sensitive user data from Steam files, including friend lists and stats on the games they have played. Epic Games denied the accusations.
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Jacob Blazewicz
March 15, 2019
Phoenix Point Backers Will Wait 1 Year for Their Steam/GOG Keys
Snapshot Games informed that people who supported Phoenix Point during its crowdfunding campaign on Fig.co will receive their Steam/GOG key only after the end of the 1-year period of exclusivity on Epic Games Store.
video games
March 13, 2019
Fortnite - Dance Lawsuits Withdrawn
Epic Games can rest easy. The four celebrities that filed cases against the company have withdrawn their lawsuits for copyright infringement and illegal use of their dance choreographies in Fortnite.
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Adrian Werner
March 11, 2019
Devil May Cry 5 Censored on PS4
US branch of Sony decided to protect the morality of American gamers. The western edition of Devil May Cry 5 for PS4 has received an update that censors one of the cut-scenes in the game, covering the indecent exposition of one of the female characters.
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Adrian Werner
March 11, 2019
The Division 2 Soon Available Only on Uplay and Epic Store
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 will only be available on Uplay and Epic Games Store beginning with the day of release. The info comes from the British website Gamesplanet, according to which Ubisoft will ban all independent digital stores from selling the
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Jacob Blazewicz
March 8, 2019