The Federal Trade Commission has accepted an agreement whereby Facebook will have to pay USD 5 billion. The record amount did not deter investors, and the company's stock prices increased by almost 2%.
Tech
Paul Wozniak
July 15, 2019
Apple is trying to figure out what could have caused the iPhone 6 to explode in the hands of an 11-year-old girl. So far, the cause of the malfunction is unknown.
Tech
Paul Wozniak
July 15, 2019
The Coalition has announced that no cigars will appear in Gears 5 in order not to encourage players to smoke. In addition, a 25-minute gameplay from the multiplayer mode of the game was released on the web.
video games
Adrian Werner
July 14, 2019
G2A again addressed the controversy surrounding the sale of game keys. The platform proposes to devs to create a special tool that would allow automatic blocking of codes obtained by „unethical” methods.
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Jacob Blazewicz
July 12, 2019
Due to a bug in Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege spamming emots in chat will freeze the game. The company has just introduced the necessary changes, and the second stage of repairs is a ban campaign. You don't have to wait until December 6 to get the coal.
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Julia Dragovic
July 10, 2019
Another affair has broken out over G2A. An e-mail from an employee of the company got leaked, in which the employee encourages a journalist to publish a G2A's article without labelling it as sponsored. The platform has dissociated itself from these allegedly unauthorized activities.
video games
Jacob Blazewicz
July 8, 2019
In the statement, G2A promised developers a 10-fold refund as soon as they prove that the inactive keys they had to give players their money for were from illegal sources.
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Julia Dragovic
July 6, 2019
After a considerable purge of staff, Blizzard started recruiting Community Managers for Hearthstone. It would not be surprising if it were not for the fact that six months ago, for financial reasons, the company fired all of them. Former employees are not particularly satisfied with this fact, to put it mildly. Some of them are still unemployed.
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Julia Dragovic
July 5, 2019
Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox, has decided to defend the Swedish company's policy of issuing DLC. He called it „a fair and balanced way to publish content” on Twitter, although not without its flaws.
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Milosz Szubert
July 5, 2019
After „unfortunate” statements by its developers about the toxicity of the players and the option of „disabling” women and non-Caucasian characters, Triternion, the developer of Mordhau, issued an official statement explaining any misunderstandings.
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Julia Dragovic
July 3, 2019
Studio Ys Net and publisher Deep Silver have changed their decision. Players who are not satisfied with the option of getting an Epic Games Store key as a reward for the money they pledged to the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter campaign will be able to request a refund. Returns will be funded by Epic Games.
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Bart Swiatek
July 3, 2019
PCGamer reports that the online action game Mordhau has a serious problem with the toxicity of its community. Developers at Triternion say they're trying to improve the situation, but they don't want to censor players - instead they prefer to put control in their hands. However, some of their ideas are highly controversial.
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Bart Swiatek
July 2, 2019
Fredrick Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive, believes that the traditional 70/30 distribution of profits between developers and owners of digital distribution platforms is scandalous and outdated. He believes that Epic Games Store is having a very positive impact on the industry. This opinion was shared by several other devs.
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Bart Swiatek
July 2, 2019
Developers have just given us a written conscent. Download our games from the torrents instead of buying G2A keys - this is what Mike Rose from No More Robots and Rami Ismail from Vlambeer want the players to do.
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Julia Dragovic
July 2, 2019
According to King's senior vice president, more than 9 million players spend between three and six hours a day playing free-to-play title Candy Crush Saga. However, the studio representative assures that the production does not have addictive properties.
video games
July 1, 2019
US President Donald Trump decided to delay the trade ban on Huawei. This means that American companies will be able to do business with the Chinese giant almost as they have done up to now.
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Bart Swiatek
July 1, 2019
Halo: Reach PC beta has been leaked to the Internet. By downloading or playing a copy of the trial version, you are risking a ban to all of the developer's games - including those that have not yet been created.
video games
Julia Dragovic
July 1, 2019
According to the CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, the lack of keys distribution via Steam is the fault of Valve. Their policy doesn't allow this in the case of games that have their release outside of their service.
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Paul Wozniak
June 29, 2019
According to the Interfax press agency, Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Andrey Kartapolov said before the State Duma that the Metal Gear series published by Konami is in fact a camouflaged project of the American secret service.
video games
June 29, 2019
Thanks to Kotaku we learned about the terrible working conditions at Treyarch, the studio known from the Call of Duty: Black Ops series. Testers were the ones who had it worst.
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Adrian Werner
June 27, 2019